Can anyone trace Adelaide Springett?

[Valiant92]

This is bizarre. I stumbled across this post on Reddit.

My mum’s side of the family are Springetts. I was born in Sidcup and they lived in North Cray, Sidcup.

[Lisa1055]

I'm posting this newspaper article here as I've not seen any mention of it. It's interesting to have a first-hand account of some of the events discussed on this forum. (I've just discovered that I'm distantly and indirectly related to Adelaide.)

[IONICUS]

Thanks for showing this cutting.
Could you please show it in it's entirety as it looks as if there's part of it cropped out and do you have a date for it?

[jbml]

Just picking up on a discrepancy noted several pages (and about 6 years back) between the names Margaret and Mary.

If Margaret was known as "Marge" (as she may well have been) and this was written in a poor hand, it could easily have been mis-transcribed as Mary. So maybe not as much of a discrepancy as it first appears.

[maddys52]

Thanks for showing this cutting.
Could you please show it in it's entirety as it looks as if there's part of it cropped out and do you have a date for it?

I don't have a subscription to findmypast or British Newspaper Archive, however I can see this article is from:
18 October 1907 - East End News and London Shipping Chronicle

From the snippets available:
" Mr. Baxter held an inquest at the Whitechapel Infirmary on Tuesday with reference to the death of Margaret Springett, aged 47 years, the wife of a hawker, who died from chronic alcoholism. A daughter of the deceased said they had been living at 31 Dorset street, which was called the "haunted house." The Coroner: Why? Witness: I don't know A juror: Perhaps a murder was committed there, Mr. Coroner. The Coroner: I should not be surprised to hear so. Witness added that they were turned out three weeks ago. Witness went to Gun street, a sister went to Flower and Dean street, and her father went to somewhere in Brick lane. Witness ' added that on Wednesday morning she found her mother surrounded by a crowd outside the 1 " haunted house. - She was removed to the Infirmary. William John Springett, the: husband, said they couldn't pay the rent, and were turned out of the "haunted house." He didn't know where his wife had lived since. She used to drink, and couldn't eat, but he didn't know where she got the money from to buy the drink. At times she seemed to be a bit " looney." After hearing further evidence, the Coroner remarked that it appeared to be " another illustration of life in Spitalfields," and a verdict of death from natural causes was returned "

[LizzieL]

Susannah being the oldest child was probably the witness and went to Gun street, and Adelaide, the sister,  going to Flower and Dean Street.

[LizzieL]

31 Dorset Street mentioned here in connection with Jack the Ripper murders

https://www.casebook.org/forum1998/messages/1/4460b14b.html?1036885943

maybe that is connected to how it became known as the haunted house

[maddys52]

What a fascinating thread, having just quickly read through all 17 pages!. Yes, Jack the Ripper was mentioned earlier in the thread, so I think that you are right in guessing why it was called the haunted house.

Thank you Annie for posting those amazing Horace Warner photos in the first instance. Haunting, all of them.

[Lisa1055]

Thanks for showing this cutting.
Could you please show it in it's entirety as it looks as if there's part of it cropped out and do you have a date for it?

It’s from the ‘East End News and London Shipping Chronicle’ 18 October 1907. I was careful to include the date header in my screen grab (and the whole article) so I’m not sure if it’s been cropped when it uploaded to Rootschat. Trying again.