Fanny Adams Headstone

Found via a Find a Grave search. One of the most notorious Victorian child murders, and the origin of the British phrase 'sweet Fanny Adams'/'sweet FA'. On 24 August 1867, eight-year-old Fanny Adams was abducted from Flood Meadow, Alton, Hampshire, by Frederick Baker, a 29-year-old solicitor's clerk known to the local children, who took her into an adjoining hop garden and killed and dismembered her; some remains were never recovered. Baker was arrested within hours, convicted, and hanged. The case caused a national outcry and is well documented (Wikipedia gives a full, carefully sourced account). Her gravestone was erected by public subscription in 1874 and has since been renovated; several sources place it in Alton Cemetery on the Old Odiham Road, though at least one photo caption instead names St Lawrence Church, Alton - not resolved here, so treat the exact location as needing confirmation before anyone visits. NOTE ON THE PHRASE: within a year or two of the murder, sailors in the Royal Navy began using 'Fanny Adams' as black-humoured slang for the tinned mutton newly introduced to their rations, and from there 'sweet FA' passed into general British slang, now usually understood (inaccurately) as simply meaning 'nothing at all' - a grim origin behind an everyday phrase, not detailed further here out of respect for the case, but documented on Wikipedia for anyone who wants it.