Rose Mylett timeline
1859 – Rose is born as Catherine at 13, Thomas Street, Whitechapel, London, to Henry and Margaret Mylett (December 8).
1880 – Catherine and her common law husband Thomas Davis become parents of daughter Florence “Flossie” or “Florrie” Beatrice at 6 Maidman Street, Mile End, East London (September 12).
1881 – Catherine and her daughter Florence live at 40 Lincoln Street, Mile End Old Town, with lodger Blanche Solmonde, a French needlewoman.
1882 – Catherine’s father Henry dies at his home at 46 Thomas Street (February).
1883 – Daughter Florence goes to live with Catherine’s mother Margaret in Thomas Street, Whitechapel.
1883 – Catherine gives birth to son Henry at the Whitechapel Union Infirmary (June 29).
1884 – Son Henry may have died.
Ca. 1886/87 – Daughter Florence attends a Sutton school for children whose parents were in the workhouse or Infirmary on a regular basis.
Before 1888 – Catherine and husband Thomas split.
1888 – Catherine is admitted at Bromley Infirmary because of an unspecified malady, she is registered under the name Rose (January 20 to March 14).
1888 – Rose lives at 18 George Street lodging house in Spitalfields with carman and ex-convict Benjamin Goodson.
1888 – Her daughter Florence is removed from Stepney Union to Mile End (August 3).
1888 – Rose is seen by Charles Ptolomey in Poplar High Street, East London, rejecting two sailors (December 19).
1888 – Alice Graves spots Mylett outside of The George public house in Commercial Road, East End, with two men (December 20).
1888 – Police Sergeant Robert Golding and Constable Thomas Costello come across Rose’s lifeless body in the yard between 184 and 186 Poplar High Street, Clarke’s Yard. She was 29 (December 20).
Your life was difficult and cut short. You were free at last… 🌼