#Alice McKenzie Clay Pipe

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Alice McKenzie timeline

1845 – Alice Pitts is born in the Precincts of Peterborough Minster, Cathedral, in Cambridgeshire, England (March 8) .

1860 – Aged 15, Alice works for Mrs Strickland in her refreshment rooms in St. John Street, Peterborough.

1861 – Aged 17, she no longer lives with her family, but in the household of a master brazier named Edward Miller in High Cross Street, Leicester where she is employed as a house servant.

1863 – Alice marries chair and cabinet maker Joseph Kinsey or McKenzie at All Saints Church, Leicester, Leicestershire, East Midlands (October 11).

1866 – Alice and Joseph are parents of Joseph James, born at Freeman’s Common, St Mary, Leicester (July 21).

1866 – Baby Joseph James dies of ‘marasmus’ (a form of malnutrition) at 4 Joseph Street, St. Mary, Leicester (October 12).

1867 – Joseph Kinsey dies aged 25 of tuberculosis(February 18).

1873 – 27 year-old laundress Alice is convicted of ’D & R’ at Southwark police court, central London. She is fined 10s and sentenced to 7 days imprisonment with hard labour, which she serves in Wandsworth Prison, South West London (October 31 to November 6).

1875 – She is admitted to the Whitechapel Infirmary from Leman Street police station because she was ‘Ill and destitute’ (August 13 to 20).

1877 – She is admitted to the Whitechapel Infirmary due to an ulcer (June 14 to 23).

1877 –  Alice is admitted to the St George Workhouse, Mint Street, Southwark having been charged with being drunk, but is discharged the same day (August 1).

1878 – Her father dies aged 74 in Peterborough (March).

1878 – Alice is convicted at Southwark police court of being ‘drunk in a thoro'fare’. She is fined 5s and sentenced to 7 days imprisonment with hard labour, which she serves in Wandsworth Prison (June 26 to July 2).

1883 – Alice lives, on and off, with Irish porter John McCormark or Bryant at various East End common lodging and doss-houses.

1883 – She is admitted to the Whitechapel Infirmary due to an ulcer (August 11 to 24).

1883 – Alice is admitted to the workhouse infirmary by a policeman who found her drunk in Dorset Street (November 5 to 16).

1883 – Alice is admitted to the Whitechapel Infirmary for alcoholism and fits (December 20 to 23).

1885 – Her mother Martha dies in Peterborough aged 74 (December).

1889 – Alice is arrested for causing a disturbance in a butcher’s shop in Long Causeway, Peterborough (January).

1889 – Alice resides with John McCormack mainly at Mr. Tenpenny’s common lodging house, 52 Gun Street, Spitalfields while working for her Jewish neighbours as a washerwoman and charwoman (April).

1889 – Alice spends the day at the common lodging house but the evening possibly at the Cambridge Music Hall with a blind boy (July 16).

1889 – Alice chats with three women, Margaret Franklin, Catherine Hughes and Sarah Marney in Flower and Dean Street, and then leaves alone toward Whitechapel (July 16).

1889 – P.C. Walter Andrews discovers the murdered body of Alice at Castle Alley, a dark and dismal snickleway that led off Whitechapel High Street. She was 44 (July 17).

Your life was difficult and cut short. You were free at last… 🌼

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Alice McKenzie's clothes and possessions

At the time of her murder, Alice was wearing:

- A black coat.

- A brown/black staff skirt.

- A red staff bodice.

- A linsey petticoat.

- Black stockings.

- Buttoned boots.

- A Paisley shawl.

She also had:

A clay pipe.

Gone but not forgotten. May she rest in peace. 🌺

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Coincidences...

This is a clay pipe.

Today I was working in an archaeological site and we found a clay pipe (not this one, photo from wikipedia). In the area I was with two other people, one of them found it.

It is a medieval site in Ireland, but the clay pipe is modern. 20th century said the boss.

Today we found a clay pipe.

130 years ago today, it was the last day Alice "Clay Pipe" McKenzie was last seen alive. She smoked clay pipes.

Coincidences...

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🔵CHAPTER 201: ALICE🔵🔞 On Wednesday 17th July 1889 it starts to rain at 12:45 am. PC Andrews is making his round and everything has been very quiet. Until now. He discovers the body of a woman lying on the pavement with her only posessions of a clay pipe and a copper farthing. 25 minutes before she wasn't there. The Whitechapel fiend was still on the loose... RIP Alice McKenzie... 🔹🔹 Era el miercoles 17 de julio de 1889, a las 12:45 de la noche empezó a llover. PC Andrews estaba haciendo su ronda y todo había estado muy tranquilo. Hasta ahora. En aquel momento descubrió el cuerpo de una mujer tendido al suelo con sus únicas pertenencias: una pipa de arcilla y una moneda de cobre. 25 minutos antes ella no estsba allí. El demonio de Whitechapel seguia suelto... DEP Alice McKenzie... 🔹🔹 #victorian_playmo #AliceMcKenzie #AliceClayPipe #AliceClayPipeMcKenzie #OTD #130yearsagotoday #itwas130yearsagotoday #victoriantimes #victorianeastenders #PCAndrews #asambleaplaymobil #victorianwhitechapel #whitechapel1889 (at Whitechapel) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0ArZI9CE5p/?igshid=1z8eh0npao3a