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The Willesden horror....1897 Emma Symonds
« on: Sunday 08 January 23 12:10 GMT (UK) »
A news snippet has appeared on the Facebook group "Willesden Local History Society" regarding an Emma Symonds who was in the Willesden Cottage Hospital after cutting the throats of her 4 children and then her own!  :o
The item says two of the children were making better progress than their mother, and some news reports say the two girls were killed.
I wonder what happened next, but haven't found much after a brief look around.....
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Re: The Willesden horror....1897 Emma Symonds
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 08 January 23 12:35 GMT (UK) »
If you have access to FindMyPast there are a huge number of newspaper reports about this incident.
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Re: The Willesden horror....1897 Emma Symonds
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Re: The Willesden horror....1897 Emma Symonds
« Reply #3 on: Sunday 08 January 23 12:50 GMT (UK) »
Holy Smoke!!
Many thanks.
BORCHARDT in Poland/Germany, BOSKOWITZ in Czechoslovakia, Hungary + Austria, BUSS in Baden, Germany + Switzerland, FEKETE in Hungary + Austria, GOTTHILF in Hammerstein + Berlin, GUBLER, GYSI, LABHARDT & RYCHNER in Switzerland, KONIG & KRONER in Germany, PLACZEK, WUNSCH & SILBERBERG in Poland.

Also: ROWSE in Brixham, Tenby, Hull & Ramsgate. Strongman, in Falmouth. Champion. Coke. Eame/s. Gibbons. Passmore. Pulsever. Sparkes in Brixham & Ramsgate. Toms in Cornwall. Waymoth. Wyatt.
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