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Frances Lydia Alice Knorr (10 December 1868 – 15 January 1894) was known as the Baby Farming Murderess. She was found guilty of strangling two infants and hanged on Monday 15 January 1894.Frances Knorr was born as Minnie Thwaites in London England in 1868 and emigrated to Sydney Australia in 1887. Initially she worked as a domestic servant and married Randolph Knorr a German immigrant. She later had an affair with one Edward Thompson and soon afterwards moved to Melbourne.