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{{Infobox bio | name = Annie Chapman | image = | aka1 = Anne Eliza Smith | aka2 = Annie Sivvy (street name) | aka3 = | aka4 = | aka5 = | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | burial_date = | burial_place = | cause = | nationality = | occupation = | father = | mother = | spouse1 = John Chapman (1869) | spouse2 = | spouse3 = | spouse4 = | spouse5 = | spouse6 = | child1 = Emma Ruth (1870-1882) | child2 = Ellen Georgina (1872-1872) | child3 = Annie Georgina Jane (1873-1958) | child4 = Georgina (1876-1876) | child5 = George William Henry (1877-1878) | child6 = | child7 = | child8 = | child9 = | child10 = | child11 = | child12 = | child13 = | child14 = | child15 = | child16 = | child17 = | child18 = | child19 = | child20 = }} ==Gallery== * [[Annie Chapman Gallery]] == Overview == ===Early Life=== (coming soon) ===Married Life=== (coming soon) ==People== {| class="wikitable" ! !Name !(Born-Died) !Description |- |Victims |Chapman, Annie |?-1888 | |- | rowspan="2" |Family |Chapman, John |1842-1886 |huband of Annie Chapman |- |Smith, George | |father |- | rowspan="3" |Witnesses |Cadosch, Albert | |neighbor of 29 Hanbury St, may have heard the murder |- |Davies, John | |resident of 29 Hanbury St, discovered body |- |Richardson, Mrs. | |landlady and resident of 29 Hanbury St. |- |Officers & Investigators |Phillips, Dr. | |performed the initial examination |} ==Documentation== === Cemetery Records === * 1863: Burial register for father George Smith at Wrexham, Denbighshire, Wales. * [https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/67102:61801?tid=193423375&pid=372609498012&hid=1029497175147&_phsrc=QFx11452&_phstart=default 1872]: Burial register for West of London, for daughter Ellen Georgina Chapman, Brompton Cemetery 9 Mar 1872. Address given as 69 Summer Place Mews, Onslow Square, Brompton, aged 2 days. Ceremony performed by Rev. Liberty, a common grave. * [https://search.findmypast.com/record/browse?id=s2%2fgbor%2fmiscbmds%2f102797118%2f00629 1872]: Burial register * [https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/22110/annie-eliza-chapman 1888]: Find-a-Grave listing for Annie Eliza Chapman (1840-1888), Manor Park Cemetery & Crematorium, Forest Gate, Newham, London === Census Records: === * [https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/8368935:8767?tid=193423375&pid=372609496439&hid=1029497171284&_phsrc=QFx11552&_phstart=default 1861]: George and Ruth Smith with four of their children * [https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/1006148:7619?tid=193423375&pid=372609494711&hid=1029497138023&_phsrc=QFx11331&_phstart=default 1871]: Smith and Chapman families together at 29 Montpelier Place, Westminster, London. "Eliza A. Chapman" (29) and husband "John Chapman" (28), and their 9 monthy old daughter "Emily R. Chapman" is listed as visitors to Ruth Smith, widow, laundress (51), and her two daughters Georganna Smith (15), and Marian R. Smith (11). * [https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/424592:7572?tid=193423375&pid=372609496440&hid=1029497154599 1881]: "John Chapman" (39), coachman in domestic servant, living alone in apartments over the family of Josiah Weeks, farm bailiff - Clewer, Berkshire * [https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/13627322:7572?tid=193423375&pid=372609494711&hid=1029497138024&_phsrc=QFx11423&_phstart=default 1881]: "Annie Chapman" (40), with three children John (4 months), Annie (7), and Emily (10) - all listed as visitors to Ruth Smith, widow (62) at 29 Montpelier St. * [https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/10034898:6598?tid=&pid=&queryid=bb4e3637-7d83-49a9-bb28-355318d65309&_phsrc=QFx11860&_phstart=successSource 1891]: 29 Hanbury St - Richardson, Hardiman, and Davis families among others. * [https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/1387572:2352?tid=193423375&pid=372609498198&hid=1029497173166&_phsrc=QFx11712&_phstart=default 1911]: John Alfred Chapman, 30, "paralyzed from birth", living with his maiden aunts Georgina Smith, 55, laudress, and Miriam Ruth Smith, 52, dressmaker. * [https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/8854432:61596?tid=193423375&pid=372609498198&hid=1029497173165 1939 England Register]: John Chapman, "incapacitated" at Southern Grove, Stepney ===Newspaper Article=== * [https://www.newspapers.com/image/257634660/?match=1&terms=%22Annie%20Chapman%22 9 Sep 1888 - The Observer (London)]: East End Outrages, Another Brutal Murder. This article includes a detailed description of "Leather Apron" * [https://www.newspapers.com/image/409977942/?match=1&terms=%22Annie%20Chapman%22 10 Sep 1888 - Morning Post (London)]: Another Woman Murdered in Whitechapel - Mutilation of the Victim * [https://www.newspapers.com/image/392711568/?terms=%22Annie%20Chapman%22 10 Sep 1888 - Pall Mall Gazette (London)]: The Recent Murer In Whitechapel (with images) * [https://www.newspapers.com/image/33137975/?match=1&terms=%22Annie%20Chapman%22 10 Sep 1888 - The Times (London)]: Another Murder at East-End * [https://www.newspapers.com/image/409978058/?match=1&terms=%22Annie%20Chapman%22 11 Sep 1888 - The Morning Post (London)]: The Whitechapel Murder * [https://www.newspapers.com/image/33138526/?match=1&terms=%22Annie%20Chapman%22 11 Sep 1888 - The Times (London)]: The Whitechapel Murders * [https://www.newspapers.com/image/819302900/?match=1&terms=%22Annie%20Chapman%22 11 Sep 1888 - Daily Telegraph (London)]: The Whitechapel Murder (very detailed inquest transcription and diagram of murder sites) * [https://www.newspapers.com/image/819302915/?match=1&terms=%22Annie%20Chapman%22 12 Sep 1888 - Daily Telegraph (London)]: The Whitechapel Murder, Important Clue (primarily about John Piser, aka "Leather Apron") * [https://www.newspapers.com/image/392715508/?match=1&terms=%22Annie%20Chapman%22 12 Sep 1888 - Pall Mall Gazette (London)]: The Supposed Murderer Closely Watched === Vital Records === *[https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/62125/images/par_399-1-2-1_048?treeid=193423375&personid=372609845450&hintid=1029501417533&usePUB=true&_phsrc=QFx11505&_phstart=default&usePUBJs=true&pId=1197763 1833]: Baptism of mother Ruth Chapman at the age of 15, daughter of William & Isabella Chapman, at Herstmonceux, Sussex *[https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/6080659:1623?tid=193423375&pid=372609845450&hid=1029501417528&_phsrc=QFx11514&_phstart=default 1842]: Marriage of George Smith and Ruth Chapman at St James, Paddington. George is listed as "Private in the 2nd Life Guards", of Hanover Street, son of Thomas Smith, shoemaker. Ruth was listed as living on Market Street, the daughter of William Chapman, shoemaker. The marriage was witnessed by William Hogg and Jane Priestly, who left her mark. *[https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/153892117:1558?tid=193423375&pid=372609496439&hid=1029497171286&_phsrc=QFx11527&_phstart=default 1842]: Baptism of "Annie Eliza Smith", daughter of George and Ruth, address at Knightsbridge. Father is a "Trooper", at Chirst Church, Albany St, Camden. *[https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/3918607:1558?ssrc=pt&tid=184432385&pid=412406594867 1844]: Baptism of brother George William Thomas Smith at Christ Churct, Camden *[https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/90003199:61867?tid=193423375&pid=372609494711&hid=1029497138027&_phsrc=QFx11306&_phstart=default 1869]: Married of "Annie Eliza Smith" to "John Chapman" at All Saings, Ennismore Gardens, Knightbridge, London. Both give their address as 29 Montpelier Place. Annie gives her father as George Smith, deceased, a servant; and John gives his father as George Chapman, deceased, a brewer. *[https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/37084533:8912?tid=193423375&pid=372609498012&hid=1029497175145 1872]: Birth register of daughter Ellen Georgina Chapman in Kensington, London *[https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/67102:61801?ssrc=pt&tid=193423375&pid=372609498012 1872]: Death register of daughter Ellen Georgina Chapman in Kensington, London *[https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/22489:61866 1873]: Baptism of daughter Annie Georgina Jane Chapman at All Saints, Knightsbridge, London *[https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/17619145:9841 1881]: Baptism of John Alfred Chapman at Clewer, Berkshire *[https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/5992922:8914?tid=193423375&pid=372609494711&hid=1029497138022 1888]: Death registration of "Annie Chapman" === Workhouse Records === * [https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/60391/images/31436_189741-00388?treeid=193423375&personid=372609494711&hintid=1029497194791&usePUB=true&_phsrc=QFx11417&_phstart=default&usePUBJs=true&pId=4290577 1874, Dec 5]: "Eliza Chapman", born 1841, admitted to City Road Workhouse, Holborn. Transferred from Clerkenell and to Highgate (28 Dec) * [https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/60391/images/31436_189742-00606?usePUB=true&_phsrc=QFx11426&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true&pId=2988330 1879, Mar 15]: "Eliza Chapman", born 1840, admitted to City Road Workhosue, Holborn. Passed to St. Olaves on May 21, 1879 * [https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/7699304:60391?tid=&pid=&queryid=2b21a144-7418-4525-8948-54a74e7f5c1f&_phsrc=QFx11426&_phstart=successSource 1880, Oct 30]: "Eliza Chapman", born 1840, servant, next meal after admittion was supper.
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