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Rainhill is a large village and civil parish within the Metropolitan Borough of St Helens on Merseyside, England. During the Victorian era it was the location of the infamous murderer, Frederick Bailey Deeming. In March 1892, the bodies of a woman and her four children were discovered buried under the concrete floor of Dinham Villa, Warrington Road. The series of events that led to this gruesome discovery began with a marriage in St. Ann's Church, Rainhill. Miss Emily Mather married Frederick Bailey Deeming, who called himself Albert Williams and posed as an officer in the Army. The couple emigrated to Melbourne, Australia, where Deeming murdered his wife and buried her under the floor of their kitchen. Victoria police contacted Scotland Yard, who, as a result of information passed onto them, made a search of Dinham Villa, home of Deeming's supposed sister and her four children. Marie Deeming, however, was his first wife. Her throat had been cut, as had the throats of three of the children. The fourth was strangled.Deeming was convicted of the murder of Emily Mather and hanged in Melbourne, Australia. Dinham Villa was demolished in April 1892 with the permission of its owner. This fact is reported in The Cheshire Observer of the 16th of April 1892 and several other newspapers of the time. Semi- detached houses are now in place of it. The Rainhill victims were interred in the graveyard of St. Ann's Church. The headstone marking their grave was stolen and the grave has since remained unmarked.