Diary of a Resurrectionist Monday 17th February 1812

Monday 17th
Met & went to Wiegate. Got 8 large & 1 small. Took them to St. Thomas’s.

Indeed, following a day/night of looking out, a haul of nine subjects; 8 adults and 1 child from Wiegate. They were taken to St Thomas’s.

Diary of a Resurrectionist, Sunday 16th February 1812

Sunday 16th.
Went to Look out, at home all night.

Looking out is often followed by activity.

Diary of a Resurrectionist, Saturday 15th February 1812

Saturday 15th  
Met at Barthow At home all night.

Diary of a Resurrectionist Friday 14th February 1812

Friday 14th
Met by appointment, me & Jack went to Big Gate got 4, the rest went to St. Luke’s got 2, took them to Barthol’w

Six bodies raised, 4 at Big gates and 2 at St Lukes. They were taken to the usual store at St Bartholomew’s.

Valentine’s Day had existed as a day of romance from the middle ages, and at the start of the 1700s, it became fashionable to write love notes on Valentine’s day – one wonders whether or not Mrs Naples received anything today, written in the midst of the resurrecting…

Diary of a Resurrectionist Thursday 13th February 1812

Thursday 13th
Met at St. Thomas’s. At home all night.

The nature of the meeting is unspecified.

Diary of a Resurrectionist, Wednesday 12th February 1812

Wednesday 12th
Went to Look out, Met at night, went to St. Olives. Got 2 adults and 1 Do Bermondsey, Took them to St. Thomas’s.

3 bodies raised.

St Olives is St Olave’s on Tooley Street. The parish is very close to St Thomas’s and the two merged in the middle of the 19th century. It’s burial ground was positioned on the riverbank.

 

Diary of a Resurrectionist, Tuesday 11th February 1812

Tuesday 11th
Went to Bartho’w. Moved the things. At home all night.

It isn’t made clear where the things were moved to, but this doesn’t seem likely to be sales, as Naples has always been fairly explicit about sales.