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Fanny Adams (30 April 1859 – 24 August 1867) was an eight-year-old English girl who was murdered by a solicitor's clerk, Frederick Baker, in Alton, Hampshire, in 1867. Her murder was extraordinarily brutal and caused a national outcry in the United Kingdom.
Nov 23, 2023 · 'Sweet Fanny Adams' is used by the British to describe anything worthless. It is also the name of a beautiful young child who was brutally murdered in Victorian England. This is the story of Fanny Adams' death and how her name became a slang term.
Oct 23, 2023 · Fanny Adams was an eight-year-old girl who was brutally killed and dismembered by Frederick Baker in 1867. Learn about the gruesome crime, the suspect, and how her name became a slang term for poor quality or nothing.
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Oct 14, 2015 · Sweet Fanny Adams was a phrase used in Victorian England to mean nothing or very little, but it was based on a real murder case of a girl named Fanny Adams. Learn how Fanny was abducted, mutilated and killed by Frederick Baker in 1867, and how her name became associated with tinned mutton.
Everyone living in England at the time would have known the name of ‘sweet’ Fanny Adams. With typical grisly humour, sailors in the British Royal Navy came to use the expression to refer to unpleasant meat rations they were often served – likening them to the dead girl’s remains.
Feb 11, 2022 · The murder of Fanny Adams in 1867 was a shocking event, not just in her sleepy town of Alton, but throughout the United Kingdom and beyond.
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Learn about the horrific case of Fanny Adams, an 8-year-old girl who was decapitated and mutilated in Alton, Hampshire, in 1867. Find out how the murderer, Frederick Baker, was caught, tried and hanged, and explore the historical sites related to the crime.
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