✝️ Catherine Mylett, age 29 – December 20 1888, London, England, United Kingdom 🏴💔
Born Catherine Mylett on 8 December 1859, Catherine was (according to her mother) once married to an upholsterer who went by the name of Davis, but for some reason unknown they had split up by 1888. She had one daughter by him, named Florence, born 12 September 1880, who was attending school in Sutton at the time of her mother’s death.
Catherine had lived in various lodging houses over the years, ranging from the Limehouse/Poplar district and 18 George Street, to her mother’s lodgings in Pelham Street (north of Hanbury Street), Baker’s Row, Spitalfields. Because of her proclivity to drink, friends and acquaintances in Whitechapel and Spitalfields knew Catherine by the name of ‚Drunken Lizzie‘ Davis, as well as Millett or Mellett. In Poplar she was known as ‚Fair Alice‘ Downey.
Catherine was strangled to death with a rope. The marks were not apparent because the killer had then gone on to cut their throats and thus destroy the evidence of the strangulation. She was a possible victim of „Jack the Ripper“. She was wrongly named Rose by crime historians.