The notorious 'Brixton Baby Farmer' of 1870.

[editor]

This looks interesting. Anyone know any more about this case?The harshest decisions were certainly those meted out to the professional baby farmer found guilty of infanticide. One of the first and most sensational trials was that of Margaret Waters35, the so-called “Brixton Baby Farmer” in 1870, who was found guilty of conspiracy to obtain money by fraud and the murder of a baby.

She was executed, amid extensive popular agitation and press coverage. In a sense the pattern had been set and when, in 1879, Annie Took was similarly found guilty of smothering and dismembering an illegitimate physically handicapped child she had been paid £12 to look after, she too was executed. http://revel.unice.fr/cycnos/document.html?id=763

[Minnie_the_Minx]

This looks interesting. Anyone know any more about this case?


didn't you post this up the other week or was that something similar? :confused:

[editor]

didn't you post this up the other week or was that something similar? :confused:You might be confusing it with Murder in Brixton, 1900. (http://www.urban75.org/brixton/features/murder-in-brixton-1900.html)

[Minnie_the_Minx]

ah well, at least she wasn't a local. Looks like she was a Canadian living in Camberwell, although she could have been a Brit who moved back to England from Canada

[Minnie_the_Minx]

You might be confusing it with Murder in Brixton, 1900. (http://www.urban75.org/brixton/features/murder-in-brixton-1900.html)


yeah, that's probably it

[lang rabbie]

Seen this?

http://uk.geocities.com/becky62655@btinternet.com/babyfarm.html

[Pip]

I think it took place either on or opposite the site of my old after-school. Unfortunately I can't remember what my after-school was called or what road it was on, but it was off Minet Road near the park with blue railings. If you walk along Minet Road from the junction end of Loughborough Road and turn right at Marcus Lipton as if you were walking to the Wickwood, it's on the bit that used to be a wasteground with loads of slabs of marble before the bridge. Sorry I don't have more information, but I was a small child the last time I went there. Also, I remember this information coming from a reliable source (respected teacher or mother) rather than another kid.

[Pip]

BRAINWAVE: It might have been on Gordon Grove, although I could be entirely wrong as that sounds a bit like a made up kid's town name.

[Minnie_the_Minx]

She lived in Addington Square in Camberwell at one stage and then Bournemouth Terrace in Peckham

[Mrs Magpie]

A local historian told me about this, and if he's right, Enid Launromat is right. He told me in relation to adoption and fostering law which was changed as a result of this case. A lot of street names have changed and streets have disappeared entirely since then which makes the exact location harder to pinpoint.

[Mrs Magpie]

I posted about it on your other Brixton murder thread...
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