Elizabeth Stride timeline
1843 – Elisabeth Gustafsdotter is born at Stora Stumlehed farm in Torslanda parish, north of Gothenburg, Sweden (November 27).
1843 – She is baptized in the Torslanda church in Gothenburg (December 5).
1859 – She is confirmed in the Torslanda church (August 14).
1860 – Elisabeth moves to the Gothenburg parish of Carl Johan to stay with her sister Anna Christin, who found work for Elisabeth as a domestic for Lars Frederick Olofsson (October 14).
1862 – Elisabeth moves to the Cathedral parish in Gothenburg, still working as a domestic servant.
1864 – Elisabeth's mother dies (August 25).
1865 – Because she is a pregnant single woman, she is registered by the Gothenburg police as “Female Prostitute #97” (March).
1865 – Elisabeth gives birth to a stillborn daughter result of her 7 month pregnancy (April 21).
1865 – She moves to Philgaten in Ostra Haga, a suburb of Gothenburg, and supports herself through prostitution (October).
1865 – Elisabeth is treated for venereal disease at the Kuuset hospital (October 17 to November 3).
1865 – She is registered healthy in the following visits at the hospital and doesn't have to report to the police after her last visit (November 7, 10 and 14).
1865 – Elisabeth works as a maid for Mrs Maria Wijsner in Husargatan, another suburb of Gothenburg (November 10, to July 1866).
1866 – She applies to move to London, England (February 7).
1866 – Elisabeth Gustafsdotter arrives to London to work as a domestic. She is 23 (July 10).
1869 – Elizabeth marries carpenter John Thomas Stride at St. Giles in the Fields, in the London Borough of Camden (March 7).
Ca. 1869 – Elizabeth and John keep a coffee shop at Chrisp Street, Poplar (Tower and Hamlets).
1870 – Elizabeth and John keep a coffee shop at Upper North Street, Poplar.
1871 – Elizabeth and John move themselves and the coffee shop at 178 Poplar High Street (April 2).
1875 – John Dale buys Elizabeth and John's coffee shop.
1877 – Elizabeth is admitted to the Poplar workhouse, suggesting that she and John may have separated (March).
1881 – Elizabeth and John had reunited by 1881, but separated permanently at the end of the year.
1881 – Elizabeth is treated at the Whitechapel Infirmary for bronchitis (December 28 to January 4, 1882).
1882 – She lodges on and of at the common lodging house at 32 Flower and Dean Street (January 4 to 1885).
1885 – Elizabeth lives on and of with waterside laborer Michael Kidney at Devonshire Street, Marylebone, City of Westminster.
1886 – She begs for money and food at the Swedish Church (May 20 and May 23).
1887 – Elizabeth is admitted to the Poplar workhouse suggesting that she and Michael may have split (March 21).
1887 – She accused him of assault, but failed to turn up at the hearing against him at Thames Magistrate’s Court (April 6).
1888 – Elizabeth Stride receives again financial assistance from the Swedish Church (September 15 and 20).
1888 – Elizabeth leaves Michael for the last time. She goes to stay in a lodging house after a quarrel with him (September 25).
1888 – Dr Michael Barnado, a leading social reformer, meets Elizabeth at the lodging house at 32 Flower and Dean Street (September 26).
1888 – Elizabeth still lodges at 32 Flower and Dean Street lodging house (September 27 and 28).
1888 – Elizabeth spends the evening cleaning 2 rooms at the lodging house and she is paid 6d for that (September 29).
1888 – She and Elizabeth Tanner have some drinks at the Queen's Head public house and go back to the lodging house together (September 29).
1888 – Elizabeth leaves the lodging house, but before she gives a piece of green velvet to fellow lodger Catherine Lane, and asks her to keep it until her return. Watchman Thomas Bates says she showed him the 6d she had earned before (September 29).
1888 – Liz is seen with a short young man by two labourers at Berner Street, later another labourer sees her with the man too (September 29).
1888 – Matthew Packer claims he has sold some grapes to Liz and the man (September 30).
1888 – PC William Smith sees Elizabeth and the man at Berner Street, opposite the International Working Men's Educational Club (September 30).
1888 – Israel Schwartz sees Elizabeth and two men having a fight (September 30).
1888 – Elizabeth is seen with a man (September 30).
1888 – Louis Diemschutz finds the murdered body of Elizabeth at Dutfield's yard. She was 44 (September 30).
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