David O'Flaherty
@doflaherty.bsky.social
Transcribing English inquest records with some annotations, 1888-89 North East Middlesex coroner's district. Pals with Emma and Molly. Learning astrophotography for the peace and quiet of it. Views are my own.
That's sort of like my backyard, which has lots of frog statues that the previous owner left behind. Real frogs pass through on their way to the next pond (I suppose). No penal code that I'm aware of but maybe I should look closer.
July 10, 2025 at 5:30 PM
That's sort of like my backyard, which has lots of frog statues that the previous owner left behind. Real frogs pass through on their way to the next pond (I suppose). No penal code that I'm aware of but maybe I should look closer.
A reviewer bagged on Eco for looking pretentious on this cover, but his pipe is a corncob, not very grandiose imo.
July 8, 2025 at 12:28 PM
A reviewer bagged on Eco for looking pretentious on this cover, but his pipe is a corncob, not very grandiose imo.
New book by my favorite novelist and new pipe!
May 31, 2025 at 3:18 PM
New book by my favorite novelist and new pipe!
Bought this book at an exhibition at The Art Institute back in the 90s. I don't think I've seen it since until today. I like Marie Spartali here from 1870 as she looks lost in thought.
May 16, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Bought this book at an exhibition at The Art Institute back in the 90s. I don't think I've seen it since until today. I like Marie Spartali here from 1870 as she looks lost in thought.
The only other and first object I've imaged and processed in PixInsight, NGC 2175, the Monkey's Head Nebula about 6,500 light years away. It's a stellar nursery.
April 10, 2025 at 4:39 PM
The only other and first object I've imaged and processed in PixInsight, NGC 2175, the Monkey's Head Nebula about 6,500 light years away. It's a stellar nursery.
M51 (31 million light years) with about an hour and a half of imaging and before any processing other than what's in my Seestar telescope. I'm going to image some more and then take it to PixInsight.
April 10, 2025 at 4:23 PM
M51 (31 million light years) with about an hour and a half of imaging and before any processing other than what's in my Seestar telescope. I'm going to image some more and then take it to PixInsight.
Emma, surveying the backyard.
February 5, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Emma, surveying the backyard.
Emma's first birthday is tomorrow. And there's her present.
February 2, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Emma's first birthday is tomorrow. And there's her present.
I feel like AI Weather Report needs better adjectives?
January 22, 2025 at 1:11 PM
I feel like AI Weather Report needs better adjectives?
She's grumping because the pillows are messed up. Yet trying to fix them for her is bang out of order.
January 21, 2025 at 11:21 PM
She's grumping because the pillows are messed up. Yet trying to fix them for her is bang out of order.
1) Hackney inquest 16/06/1888, some jurors coming from Eleanor rd. Inquest was at Royal Oak tavern in Wilton rd, not far from the home of the deceased in Pigwell Path. One of them, Arthur James Samworth, turned up in the death index for Q2 1888, giving him at most only abt 2 more weeks of life.
December 19, 2024 at 1:28 PM
1) Hackney inquest 16/06/1888, some jurors coming from Eleanor rd. Inquest was at Royal Oak tavern in Wilton rd, not far from the home of the deceased in Pigwell Path. One of them, Arthur James Samworth, turned up in the death index for Q2 1888, giving him at most only abt 2 more weeks of life.
2 of 2) L.J. Abington owned the Mermaid; here he is in the expenses for an inquest. Also as a juror, repeatedly! Under usual circumstances, e only would've been liable to serve once a year but I found him at 8 inquests across 3 days. I bet he was glad for the trade inquest brought in.
December 18, 2024 at 8:49 PM
2 of 2) L.J. Abington owned the Mermaid; here he is in the expenses for an inquest. Also as a juror, repeatedly! Under usual circumstances, e only would've been liable to serve once a year but I found him at 8 inquests across 3 days. I bet he was glad for the trade inquest brought in.
1 of 2) The Mermaid tavern at 364 Mare st saw repeated use for Hackney, on account of its close proximity to the mortuary in St. Augustine's Tower in 1888. Not sure, but I think it's the same building today as some of Mermaid Yard's outline survives.. Formerly Mermaid Fabrics, which I see has moved.
December 18, 2024 at 8:42 PM
1 of 2) The Mermaid tavern at 364 Mare st saw repeated use for Hackney, on account of its close proximity to the mortuary in St. Augustine's Tower in 1888. Not sure, but I think it's the same building today as some of Mermaid Yard's outline survives.. Formerly Mermaid Fabrics, which I see has moved.
Thanks for suggesting London Gazette, that's helpful. Yes, it looks as if that part of Wilton Way east of Casterton Street was where the terrace was (specifically No. 3 in 1888), though I couldn't say anything about the structures that are there today. I missed the ghost signs on Google st view.
December 18, 2024 at 1:01 PM
Thanks for suggesting London Gazette, that's helpful. Yes, it looks as if that part of Wilton Way east of Casterton Street was where the terrace was (specifically No. 3 in 1888), though I couldn't say anything about the structures that are there today. I missed the ghost signs on Google st view.
Related to inquest June 1888. Terraced housing
on the map is a challenge. I only found Casterton terrace, the address of the deceased, because the coroner's officer mentioned "Casterton Terrace, Pigwell Path." I'd be grateful for tips, reading. Starred is inquest location, Royal Oak tavern.
on the map is a challenge. I only found Casterton terrace, the address of the deceased, because the coroner's officer mentioned "Casterton Terrace, Pigwell Path." I'd be grateful for tips, reading. Starred is inquest location, Royal Oak tavern.
December 15, 2024 at 5:22 PM
Related to inquest June 1888. Terraced housing
on the map is a challenge. I only found Casterton terrace, the address of the deceased, because the coroner's officer mentioned "Casterton Terrace, Pigwell Path." I'd be grateful for tips, reading. Starred is inquest location, Royal Oak tavern.
on the map is a challenge. I only found Casterton terrace, the address of the deceased, because the coroner's officer mentioned "Casterton Terrace, Pigwell Path." I'd be grateful for tips, reading. Starred is inquest location, Royal Oak tavern.
Jurors at the second inquest got some firsthand experience with antimony, one in particular. I wonder that he didn't get sick. Times of London, 15 July 1876.
December 12, 2024 at 3:33 PM
Jurors at the second inquest got some firsthand experience with antimony, one in particular. I wonder that he didn't get sick. Times of London, 15 July 1876.
I bought this for a friend's birthday and got a second copy for myself, too.
December 11, 2024 at 12:28 PM
I bought this for a friend's birthday and got a second copy for myself, too.
Part of a deposition from Feb 1889 inquest, Bethnal Green. The coroner Dr. Macdonald has inserted a note to himself within the testimony of the medical witness, Sir Wilfred Greenfell, house surgeon at London Hospital. "Read original notes from London Hospital."
December 4, 2024 at 1:27 PM
Part of a deposition from Feb 1889 inquest, Bethnal Green. The coroner Dr. Macdonald has inserted a note to himself within the testimony of the medical witness, Sir Wilfred Greenfell, house surgeon at London Hospital. "Read original notes from London Hospital."
A Napoleon of crime, stealing things and parading about with them unless I give her a treat. That's extortion.
November 26, 2024 at 12:45 AM
A Napoleon of crime, stealing things and parading about with them unless I give her a treat. That's extortion.
Latest book haul from the garage. I moved last May and am a slacker.
November 25, 2024 at 7:03 PM
Latest book haul from the garage. I moved last May and am a slacker.
Yes, although I'm using Godfrey versions. Please let me know if I'm not understanding your question.
November 24, 2024 at 9:35 PM
Yes, although I'm using Godfrey versions. Please let me know if I'm not understanding your question.
Fellow named Colin Roberts pointed out to me that the boundary between Shoreditch and Bethnal Green ran right through the mortuary behind St. Leonard's. The blank area is where the Old Nichol was and the Boundary Estate would be.
November 24, 2024 at 5:16 PM
Fellow named Colin Roberts pointed out to me that the boundary between Shoreditch and Bethnal Green ran right through the mortuary behind St. Leonard's. The blank area is where the Old Nichol was and the Boundary Estate would be.
1) Mary Jane Kelly inquest jurors mapped in yellow (the ones I've found), Nov 1888. Body in mortuary in red, inquest at Shoreditch Town Hall, green. Summonses served down the High street, crossing into Norton Folgate while still remaining in the NE Middlesex coroner's district.
November 24, 2024 at 4:51 PM
1) Mary Jane Kelly inquest jurors mapped in yellow (the ones I've found), Nov 1888. Body in mortuary in red, inquest at Shoreditch Town Hall, green. Summonses served down the High street, crossing into Norton Folgate while still remaining in the NE Middlesex coroner's district.
I read some Select Committee evidence from 1889 by coroner Athelstan Braxton Hicks (the son of Sir John),where he mentioned having written this. I was lucky to find a copy of the 2nd edition.
November 23, 2024 at 7:28 PM
I read some Select Committee evidence from 1889 by coroner Athelstan Braxton Hicks (the son of Sir John),where he mentioned having written this. I was lucky to find a copy of the 2nd edition.
A livid Justice Hawkins in The York Herald 4 Aug 1888 alongside Dr. Macdonald's handwriting. The Walker depositions are lost, sample is from case papers for Abraham Wrigley June 1888 held @ London Archives. My empathy is with the coroner but I'm confident that I know exactly what Hawkins meant.
November 22, 2024 at 1:08 PM
A livid Justice Hawkins in The York Herald 4 Aug 1888 alongside Dr. Macdonald's handwriting. The Walker depositions are lost, sample is from case papers for Abraham Wrigley June 1888 held @ London Archives. My empathy is with the coroner but I'm confident that I know exactly what Hawkins meant.