Believed to be the fourth victim of the unidentified serial killer known as Jack the Ripper. Born in Graisley Green, Wolverhampton. Her family moved to London, but by 1857, both her parents had died and she was living in a workhouse in Bermondsey. She had two so-called 'common law' husbands, but after taking to drinking she left her first partner and children in 1880, and her life went into decline. On the evening of Saturday 29 September, 1888, she was found lying drunk in the road. She was taken into custody until she was sober enough to leave and discharged at 1am the following morning. She was last seen alive at 1:35am by three witnesses, and at 1:45am her mutilated body was found in the south-west corner of Mitre Square. This was about an hour after the body of Elizabeth Stride was discovered.
has been erected for her in Wolverhampton.
Text from an information panel installed in Mitre Square:
"In the early hours of 30 September 1888, the body of Catherine Eddowes - victim of the notorious Whitechapel Murders {sic}, more commonly known as 'jack the Ripper' - was discovered in Mitre Square.
"In the Summer of 1888, Eddowes had been casually employed hop-picking in Kent. Back in London, on the night before her death, she is recorded as staying in a workhouse. the following day she was arrested for drunkenness in Aldgate High Street, giving her name as "nothing". Within an hour of her release, she was found murdered."
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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