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As there wasn't a public mortuary in Whitechapel the police sent Martha's body to the 'deadhouse' belonging to the workhouse infirmary in Old Montague Street.
== Early Life ==
Although having supposedly told her landlady, Mary Bousfield in 1888, that her real name was Staples or Stapleton, Martha was actually born Martha White. She was born at 17 Marshall Street, London Road, Southwark on 10th May 1849.
Martha was the daughter of Charles Samuel and Elisabeth (née Dowsett) White.
The family are recorded at the same address in the 1851 census. By then Charles Samuel, a warehouseman, had sired five children: Henry (aged 13), Esther (11), Stephen (9), Mary Ann (4) and Martha (1). Henry was an errand boy and Esther and Stephen were still at school.
== Married Life ==