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I now have the picture of St. Jude's, Bethnal Green, and it does look like the same church. Certainly the architecture is similar and it's the right sort of stone. This is becoming something of a mystery, and any further information would be very welcome indeed, although I fear I've beld the internet dry without turning very much up at all.
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I had almost given up hope of getting any further with my search when I was sent this picture, which is surely of the same man?  The picture is a plate from a book on missionary work in the 1880's. Although I don't have a copy yet the text apparently identifies the church as in the East End of London, and was apparently taken in the summer of 1883 the day before he and others set off for the Far East. The photograph is almost certainly the same man, but he is clearly identified as the Rev Mr Thornton, and not Reverend Doctor Erasmus St Jude Croom, although the use of "St Jude" is suggestive if he was vicar or a curate in that parish. As far as I know there were only two St Jude's churches in the East End at that time, St Jude's, Whitechapel, which still exists but was run by the Reverend Samuel Barnett at the time. The other was St Jude's, Bethnal Green, which was badly damaged in the Blitz and demolished. Any further information would be very welcome. |
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From my profile you will have seen that the only evidence I possess of the existence of the Reverend Doctor Erasmus St. Jude Croom is a photograph found in my grandfather's copy of the Reverend J. G. Wood's "Natural History". Here is the photograph -
1 - The design of the window in the background suggests the end of the Victorian period or the beginning of the Edwardian. 3 - The chair is old, maybe even 18th c. |
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