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Eliza
Tharme the Maid-servant - and her illegitimate son 1855:
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Gossip or fact?
Eliza
Tharme was a pretty looking eighteen year old live-in maid-servant at Dr.
Palmer's house. She was the youngest of ten children of James and Mary
Tharme from Colton. It is not known if they had a relationship before Palmer's
wife died but there is little doubt that she became his mistress after
Ann's death.
Palmer's
own diary records that on June 26th 1855, nine months after Annie his wife
died, Eliza gave birth to an illegitimate son in the Palmer House. Note:-
The birth certificate gave the date of birth as June 27th 1855.
Eliza's
child was sent to be cared for by a 'nurse' at Armitage some two or three
miles from Rugeley. It was claimed that Palmer sent for the young child
saying that he wished to see that the child was well. The Illustrated
Life and Career of William Palmer of Rugeley published in 1856 added:-
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.....The reader will guess the result, the child was seized with convulsions
while going home and died shortly after, or as some say on its journey
back." |
The
boy died on November 17th 1855 in the same year as he was born and just
four days before John Parsons Cook died.
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Birth
Certificate details:-
| No |
When
and where born |
Name,
if any |
Sex |
Name
and surname of father |
Name,
surname and
maiden surname
of mother |
Signature,
description & residence of informant
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When
registered |
Signature
of registrar
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| 480 |
Twenty
seventh
June
1855
Market Street
Rugeley |
Alfred
Thame |
Boy |
? |
Eliza
Tharme |
Benjn
Thirlby
present at the birth
Lower Brook
Street
Rugeley |
Thirtieth
June
1855 |
Frederick
Crabb
Registrar
John P Dyall
Superintendent Registrar |
Death
Certificate details:-
| No |
When
and
where died |
Name
and surname |
Sex |
Age |
Occupation
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Cause
of death |
Signature,
description & residence of informant |
When
registered
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Signature
of registrar |
| 480 |
Seventeenth
November
1855
Armitage |
Alfred
Thame |
Male |
5
months |
Son
of
Eliza
Tharme |
Erysipelas
5 days
Certified |
Benjn
Thirlby
In attendance
Lower Brook Street
Rugeley |
Nineteenth
November
1855 |
Frederick
Crabb
Registrar |
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In
the Rugeley Edition of the Illustrated Times February 2nd 1856 (who
spelt Tharme without an 'e') we read:-
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next hear of William Palmer in Stafford gaol. Before, however, he is
conveyed there, he took a farewell leave of Eliza Tharm, his maid-servant,
throwing his arms round her neck, and requiting her illicit love with
a £50 Bank of England note. |
Gossips
hinted that Palmer "might" have poisoned his illegitimate son.
Was this the case? Or, was it a case of 'giving a dog a bad name'?
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Introduction
