Editing Mary Ann Nichols (section)

==Overview==
===Early Life===
Mary Ann Nichols was born 26 Aug 1845 on Shoe Lane off Fleet Street to Edward Walker, a blacksmith, and Caroline Webb.  She also had at least one other sibling, an older brother named Edward Walker.  Her parents had been married on 17 Feb 1840 at St. Mary's in Lambeth.  They listed their fathers as John Walker, "carman", and Edmund Webb, a sawyer.  They were married at the same time as another couple, William Burbidge and Maria Wavering - all of whom lived on Oakley Street.  Caroline died on 24 Nov 1852 while residing on Dean Street and was buried the 5 Dec at St. Andrews, Holborn.  In 1861 the father Edward was living along with his children Edward and Mary Ann at #19 Harpe Alley in St. Bride's.

===Marriage and Children===
On 16 Jan 1864, Mary Ann Walker, "daughter of Edward Walker, blacksmith" was married to William Nichols, "son of William Nichols, Herald Printer".  Both were noted as being of full age and residing in St. Bride's.  Seth Geroge Havell and Sarah Good witnessed the marriage.

They had the following children: 

# William Edward Walker Nichols (1864-1866)
# Edward John Nichols (1866-?)
# Percy George Nichols (1868-1948)
# Alice Esther Nichols (1870-?)
# Eliza Sarah Nichols (1877-?)
# Henry Alfred Nichols (1879-?)

By 1871 the young family had moved in with Mary Ann's widower father who lived at 131 Trafalger St.  Their last child, Henry Alfred Nichols, was born in 1879 but he wasn't baptized right away like the earlier children.  By 1881 Mary Ann is no longer listed with the family, now living at #6 of the D Block of the Peabody Buildings near Stamford St and Blackfriars Road in Lambeth.  The Peabody Buildings had been built at various locations around London as affordable housing for the working, but generally respectable, poor.  Next door to the Nichols family in the 1881 census was a woman named Rosetta Walls, a married charwoman aged 27 who is living with her aged mother, Sarah Vidler.  Also in the household is Rosetta's older brother, William Vidler, sho is noted as "Printer Porter", a similar occupation to William, and her two sisters - Jane Vidler and Sarah Louise Vidler - were occupied as book folders, also within the same industry.  Her husband is not listed with them, just as Mr. Nichols wife is not with them.

===Nichols Family After Mary Ann===

In 1883 William had a child with the neighbor, Rosetta, and he was named Arthur Walls Nichols.  Now living at Camberwell, Southwark, London - infant Arthur, and his half brother Henry Alfred Nichols, were baptized together at St. Mark's on 31 Jul 1883.  William and Rosetta were listed as the parents of both, but Rosetta was listed as "Rosetta Walls", as she and William were not yet married.  After Mary Ann's death on 31 Aug 1888, Mr. William Nichols and "Rosetta Walls" were married on 26 Nov 1888 at St. Stephens in Walworth, Surrey, London.  They had additional children Ethel (1890), and Winifred (1894)

===Mary Ann After 1881===
[Documentation is needed for this section, information comes from various modern sources] - 1881 is believed to be the last time she left her family, having previously left 4 to 6 times. In 1882 William discovered that his wife was living as a prostitute and discontinued support payment to her.  She may have been living with a man named Thomas Dew.

Mary Ann was then in and out of various workhouses: 

* 24 Apr 1882 to 18 Jan 1883: Lambeth Workhouse
* 18 Jan 1883 to 20 Jan 1883: Lambeth Infirmary
* 20 Jan 1883 to 24 Mar 1883: Lambeth Workhouse
* 24 Mar 1883 to 21 May 1883: With father in Camberwell - father would later testify she was "a dissolute character and drunkard whom he knew would come to a bad end."  They did not get along and she left on her own accord.
* 21 May 1883 to 2 Jun 1883: Lambeth Workhouse
* 2 Jun 1883 to 25 Oct 1887: Possibly living with Thomas Dew, a blacksmith, in Walworth.
* 25 Oct 1887: One day at St Giles Workhouse, Endell ST
* 26 Oct 1887 to 2 Dec 1887: Strand Workhouse, Edmonton
* 2 Dec 1887: [documentation needed] is noted as "sleeping rough" in Trafalgar Square, destitute, was sent to the Lambeth Workhouse
* 2 Dec 1887 to 29 Dec 1887: Lambeth Workhouse
* 29 Dec 1887 to 4 Jan 1888: unknown
* 4 Jan 1888 to 16 Apr 1888: Mitcham Workhouse, Holborn and Holborn Infirmary
* 16 Apr 1888 to 12 May 1888: Lambeth Workhouse
* 12 May 1888 to ?July: domestic at the home of Samuel & Sarah Cowdry, Rose Hill Road, Wandsworth.
* 1 Aug 1888 to 2 Aug 1888: Grays Inn Temporary Workhouse
* Aug 1888: Wilmott's Lodging House, 18 Thrawl St, Spitalfields.  Shares a room with 4 other women
* 24 Aug 1888: a room at White House, 56 Flower and Dean Street