Is Ripper Street historically accurate?

Is Ripper Street historically accurate?

The series loosely intertwines history with fiction, as there actually was an Inspector Edmund Reid who policed the streets of Whitechapel at the time, and even Joseph Merrick (aka The Elephant Man) features in a couple of episodes.

Who did Bennett Ripper Street marry?

Bennet Drake

Friends and Family
Spouse(s): Bella Drake, (deceased) Rose Erskine
Friends: Edmund Reid, Homer Jackson, Madoc Faulkner,
Enemies: Jedediah Shine, Theodore Swift,
Love interests: Bella Drake, Rose Erskine,

Was Edmund Reid a real person?

Detective Inspector Edmund John James Reid (21 March 1846 – 5 December 1917) was the head of the CID in the Metropolitan Police’s H Division at the time of the Whitechapel murders of Jack the Ripper in 1888. He was also an early aeronaut.

What happened to Reid’s wife on Ripper Street?

It is implied in the second series that, sometime between the first and second series, she learned of her husband’s infidelity with Deborah Goren and went insane in some highly public fashion. At some point in the time between series two and three Mrs Reid died.

What happens to Swift in Ripper Street?

The cops had locked Swift alive in a cellar as a form of natural justice, but the discovery of his body last series has now put Reid and Jackson in the frame.

What happened to Reid’s wife in Ripper Street?

Did Edmund Reid have a daughter?

Elizabeth ReidEdmund Reid / Daughter

Does Reid get his daughter back in Ripper Street?

As Ripper Street continues, Detective Inspector Edmund Reid is finally reunited with his daughter, Mathilda, who’s been missing, presumed dead, for six years.

What happened to the inspectors daughter in Ripper Street?

Mathilda is discovered by Capshaw to be still alive, although Reid is told by Susan that she has died since being rescued.

Is Matilda alive in Ripper Street?

The team reassemble and try to locate her, while Best’s investigation narrows in on Capshaw. The team reassemble and try to locate her, while Best’s investigation narrows in on Capshaw.As Mathilda roams the streets, Drake finds Reid and informs him that she is alive.

Does Reid find his daughter?

Anna Burnett as Mathilda Reid (series 3–5), Reid’s long lost daughter with whom he is reunited after she is discovered to have been held captive since her disappearance some six years previously in the SS Princess Alice disaster on the Thames.

What happens to long Susan in Ripper Street?

Long Susan (MyAnna Buring) was incarcerated when it was revealed that her attempts to have a legitimate business resulted in a train derailment and multiple deaths. She faced death by hanging but Jackson (Adam Rothenberg) was determined to save her so that she could raise their son Connor with him.

What happened to Matilda on Ripper Street?

But after she was discovered by Capshaw, Long Susan took her under her wing, but told Reid that although Mathilda had been found, she was too cruelly abused by the Buckleys and died from her injuries.

What happened to Reid’s child on Ripper Street?

Reid and his wife Emily (Amanda Hale) only have one daughter, Mathilda, who was lost and presumed deceased, some months before the series begins, in a river accident during the hunt for the Ripper.

What happened to Inspector Reid’s daughter?

With ‘Your Father, My Friend’ Ripper Street gives us the episode that we deserved last week. In the closing moments of ‘Ashes and Diamonds’ Drake discovers that Reid’s daughter, Mathilda, is still alive and that Susan lied about her demise to ruin Reid.

What happens to Connor in Ripper Street?

His brother was sentenced to hang, as was Long Susan (MyAnna Buring, The Descent), for her past crimes. Jackson departed for America with their son Connor, though it’s later revealed he died after helping save two girls from drowning.

What happened to Long Susan in Ripper Street?