Genealogy Chat

I think you need to trace your tree back one step at a time so you can be certain of exactly who you are talking about............ Do you know more detailed dates of your grandparent - Arthur's son or daughter?? We need to find your Arthur on the census, but there are a lot to choose from. Anything you can say about Arthur's son or daughter....When and where they were born, might make all the difference. If you don't know that yet, then we wpould need to begin with your parent - Arthur's grandchild, but that might take a lot more working out! Are you saying that this crime was never discovered? Or that they were found out eventually? Maybe you don't know? I have looked in The Times newspaper archive - there was a Sarah Jane Allott who was imprisioned for inadequately feeding her child (the child died) - that was in 1880 somewhere neer Leeds. Merry

I think it might have been in Shipley... but that isn't certain

where might arthur allott have lived? what were all these children called, when were they born

i just found out from a cousin of a distant relative through another relative (how convoluted is that?!?!) the reason why my great grandfather (who was a brick wall for me) didn't talk about his family. Evidently his parents were murderers. My great great grand parents (whose names i don't know) murdered 5 of their children and one of my G.G. grand parents cousins was a doctor who falsified the medical records.... he said that one child died of teething when really that child burned to death. I believe they all ended up in Armley Goal in Leeds. I'm not certain that they were hanged but i would expect so. My great grand father was called Arthur Allott and I think this all happened about 1880 ish give or take 20 years either way. I don't know if he changed his name to 'hide his shame' as it were. Where do i go from here? I'm stuck