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Neal Shelden
Detective Sergeant
Username: Neal
Post Number: 107
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, January 22, 2004 - 2:53 pm: | 
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William Crossingham's grave at Romford Cemetery, Crow Lane. His second wife Margaret was also buried there the same year 1907.  |
Neal Shelden
Detective Sergeant
Username: Neal
Post Number: 108
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, January 22, 2004 - 3:02 pm: |
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William Charles Crossingham was born in Romford in the mid-1840’s, the son of a coppersmith. He moved to London in his early years and married a widow Mary Robinson in 1866 at St Mary's Lambeth. He worked as a baker and lived at Princes Road. They then had a daughter Ann Susannah Crossingham.
By the 1871 census, the couple and their daughter lived at 20 Flower and Dean Street, Spitalfields, in the East End. Crossingham was a hawker by then, but the couple went on to run many common lodging houses in Dorset Street, Spitalfields. In 1881, they lived at 16 Dorset Street.
During the Jack the Ripper murders of 1888, the victim Annie Chapman was lodging at "Crossingham’s lodging house".
In 1890, William’s daughter, Ann Susannah Crossingham, married Daniel McCarthy the brother of another lodging house owner of Dorset Street, John McCarthy.
After his first wife died, William Crossingham met with another Dorset Street resident, Margaret Sullivan, and converted to Catholicism. They married on 17th August 1898 at St Ann’s RC Church, Whitechapel. They both lived at 20 Dorset Street.
By the 1901 census, William and his second wife had moved back to 64 Western Road, Romford. He was still a lodging house keeper. He died on 28th February 1907. His will described him as 'of 20 Dorset Street, Spitalfields, and of St Margaret’s, Junction Road, Romford.' Probate in London on 27th April was to his wife and originally read: Effects of £11,042 11s 3d, but then was followed by Resworn £7,521 3s 9d, and eventually down to £6,756 3s 9d.
William (Charles) Crossingham was buried at Romford Cemetery on 7th March 1907. The cemetery index calls him a gentleman, aged 60, from Junction Road, grave number 5090, type Roman Catholic, volume 03. His wife Margaret died the same year on the 25th June and was buried with him as a landowner of St Margaret’s, Junction Road.
On the picture, the words on the memorial read:
PRAY FOR
THE SOUL OF
WILLIAM CROSSINGHAM.
BORN IN ROMFORD AUG.1847.
DIED IN ROMFORD FEB.28.1907.
ON WHOSE SOUL SWEET JESUS HAVE MERCY
ALSO PRAY FOR THE SOUL OF
MARGARET CROSSINGHAM.
WIFE OF THE ABOVE.
WHO DIED JUNE 25TH 1907.
JESUS MERCY,-MARY PRAY
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Robert Charles Linford
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Robert
Post Number: 1908
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, January 22, 2004 - 7:50 pm: |
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Hi Neal
Very interesting information about William Crossingham.
I was just thinking that the grave looks to be in pretty good condition. Are there any descendants or other family members maintaining it?
Robert |
John Savage
Detective Sergeant
Username: Johnsavage
Post Number: 139
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Friday, January 23, 2004 - 7:04 am: |
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Hi Neal
Excellent post, very well researched,which I much enjoyed reading. It is this sort of information that makes Casebook so interesting and worthwhile.
Regards,
John Savage |
Monty
Chief Inspector
Username: Monty
Post Number: 688
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Friday, January 23, 2004 - 11:43 am: |
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Neal,
Again, top work mate.
Like John, I find you posts very interesting. Its nice to find out about the 'bit part' players so to speak.
Thanks for sharing.
Monty
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Neal Shelden
Detective Sergeant
Username: Neal
Post Number: 109
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Friday, January 23, 2004 - 3:07 pm: |
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Hi Robert,
I was thinking the same thing about the condition of the grave. After all, there was only Ann Susannah McCarthy their daughter, but as far as I know she didn't have any children with Daniel?
It could be the Crossingham relations?
Thanks to John and Monty too.
By the way, did anyone hear in the news in the last week that graves over 100 years old with be removed to make way for new ones. Bodies will be dug up and reburied or burnt?
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Robert Charles Linford
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Robert
Post Number: 1915
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Friday, January 23, 2004 - 5:00 pm: |
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Hi Neal
I remember one of the proposals was that, to save space, remains would be exhumed and then reburied at a lower level - with new burials going in on top. It was stressed at the time that this wouldn't be a compulsory thing (well, at least not yet!)
Strange the way we have the Romford connection with both Crossingham and Hutchinson.
Robert |
Scott Morrice
Unregistered guest
| | Posted on Thursday, October 06, 2005 - 8:35 pm: |
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With the digging up of bodies in mind, doi you think it would be a good time for the supposed vctims to be properly medically examined. I'm sure there would not be much left to look at but scatches and breaks of the bones would go along way to identifing which type(s) of sharp objects were used to mutilate the bodies. |
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