Talk:George Chapman (murderer)

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I don't think that the section here is original research, most of this is taken from Sugden's book given as a reference. PatGallacher 20:27, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

Names confusion
It is unclear regarding when or why he changed his name to George Chapman.  momoricks   (make my day)  03:10, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Probably merely to anglicise his name, so people were more familiar with it.--Cymbelmineer (talk) 09:22, 2 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Did he legally change it? Jim Michael (talk) 13:51, 22 June 2018 (UTC)

Name Change
I think changing the name to Seweryn Klosowski, his real name, might be better than what was only an alias for him, which was George Chapman. What do ya think.--Cymbelmineer (talk) 16:36, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Seems to make sense; it's his birth name, as well as the name used in the opening sentence of the article.  Giftiger Wunsch   [TALK]  23:59, 3 September 2010 (UTC)

Well most accounts describe him as George Chapman, including Sugden's work. PatGallacher (talk) 00:06, 4 September 2010 (UTC)

Fair enough, I'll revert--Cymbelmineer (talk) 00:45, 4 September 2010 (UTC)


 * ✅--Cymbelmineer (talk) 00:49, 4 September 2010 (UTC)

Possible source
I've found R. Michael Gordon's The American Murders of Jack the Ripper and he has an interesting timeline on Chapman here on page 187. There is a good bit on Chapman preceding this section but this serves as a nice summary. Is this a possible source? I'm not familiar with the author and uncertain how much weight to give this. Anyone want to be bold and use this? ⋙–Berean–Hunter—► ((⊕)) 21:21, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

Poland?
Poland was non-existent in 1865. There was however ethnic Poles within the boundaries of the Russian, German/Prussian, and Austrian empires. So which empire was he born a citizen of?

He probably was born in the area now called Poland. (151.228.222.184 (talk) 20:19, 1 June 2015 (UTC))

As the article states, he came from Koło, Congress Poland, i.e. the Russian Zone. PatGallacher (talk) 21:28, 1 June 2015 (UTC)