I did the basic research for this blog series a couple of years ago. Then, as usual, flitted along to the next thing that caught my interest. Now I'm trying to flesh the cases out and present to you my justification for not being a fan of walking along the canal on dark and lonely nights...
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The South Wales Daily News for Friday August 12th 1904 reported on the discovery of a body in the canal on Thursday morning. The Western Mail of the same day also carried the story, along with the correct spelling of the woman's surname (Knipe).
"PONTYPOOL WOMAN DROWNED. Whilst on their way to work at Griffithstown on Thursday morning two masons discovered the dead body of Annie Knife (50), widow of the late Edward Knife, greengrocer, Pontypool, floating in the canal near Skew Bridge, Griffithstown. The body was removed by P.S. Hatterwell to the Workhouse Mortuary to await an inquest. Of late deceased had been occupying her late husband's lock-up shop near the market, but nothing is known of her movements for the past few weeks."
Anna was a native of Buckland St Mary in Somerset. She married Edward Trafford Knipe (b. 1853) some time after 1881. On the 1891 census they were living at Machine House, Lower Race, Panteg, along with their niece, Gertrude. The 1901 census found the couple living at the Three Cranes Hotel in Crane Street, Pontypool. Edward was working as a market gardener up until his death in early 1904.
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