Shropshire Routes to Roots

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Introduction

Here are the answers, with explanations, to the quiz on the Victorian crime and detection.

Answers

1. What sort of work did the men have to carry out at the Workhouse?
   • a) This is the wrong answer. Women did this sort of work in the workhouse and not the men.
   • b) Well done this is the correct answer. Men did jobs such as breaking stones for roads.
   • c) This is the wrong answer. The women did this sort of work in the workhouse, not the men.
2. What was the name of the judge who worked on the John Mapp trial?
   • a) This is the wrong answer. He was the coronor who examined Catherine Lewis's body.
   • b) This is the wrong answer. Mr Boughey worked on the trial as a member of the prosecution team.
   • c) Well done this is the correct answer. Fitzroy Kelly was also known as 'apple-pip' Kelly, because he once tried to claim someone had been poisoned naturally by eating too many apples!
3. What happened in May 1868?
   • a) This is the wrong answer. He attacked the old woman in the year of 1859.
   • b) Well done this is the correct answer. The last person to be hanged in public in Shropshire was John Mapp, in March 1868.
   • c) This is the wrong answer. John Mapp was hanged in 1868, but in the month of April not May.
4. Where was Catherine Lewis's post mortem done?
   • a) This is the wrong answer, although Catherine Lewis did attend a school in the village.
   • b) Well done this is the correct answer. Post-mortems and police inquiries were often held in inns and public houses.
   • c) This is the wrong answer. Mr Whitfield's Farm was the place where both Jane Richards and John Mapp worked.
5. Who found Catherine Lewis's bloodstained hat in a holly bush?
   • a) This is the wrong answer. She was the one who took the hat to Catherine's father but she did not actually find it.
   • b) Well done this is the correct answer. Aston was only 12 years old, and the experience must have been pretty traumatic for him.
   • c) This is the wrong answer. He was Catherine's father, and was the one who found Catherine's body.
6. How old was Elizabeth Davies when she got married?
   • a) Well done this is the correct answer. She would need permission from her parents to marry, as she was legally a minor.
   • b) This is the wrong answer. This was the age Elizabeth would have been indentured to, had she not got married before 21.
   • c) This is the wrong answer. This was the age of Mary when she was apprenticed in housewifery.
7. How many people occupied the 16 beds in the Man's Yard at Atcham Workhouse in 1848?
   • a) Well done this is the correct answer. There were two people for every one bed!
   • b) This is the wrong answer, although there were 22 beds in the male infirmary.
   • c) This is the wrong answer, although in the infirmiary there were 19 men occupying 22 beds.
8. In which year were the first Metropolitan Police Officers ('Peelers') appointed and patrolling the streets of London?
   • a) This is the wrong answer. This was the year Peel became Home Secretary.
   • b) Well done this is the correct answer. It took several years after this for regular police forces to be established across the rest of the country.
   • c) This is the wrong answer. This was the year the Municipal Corporations Act was passed, which forced counties to elect 'watch committees'.
9. What form of punishment was abolished in 1867?
   • a) Well done this is the correct answer. Transportation was abolished because it was impractical to organise so many ships and many transportees actually benefitted from the new opportunities abroad.
   • b) This is the wrong answer. This form of punishment remained in use until 1948.
   • c) This is the wrong answer. These Schools remained in operation until 1932 when they were replaced with "Approved Schools".
   • d) This is the wrong answer, although hanging in public was abolished the year after, in 1868.
10. When did the Crown Courts come into being?
    • a) This is the wrong answer. The two main courts in operation at this time were the Assizes and the Quarter Sessions.
    • b) Well done this is the correct answer. The Crown Court combined the role of the Quarter Sessions and Assizes Court.
    • c) This is the wrong answer. The two main courts in operation at this time were the Assizes and the Quarter Sessions.

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