1837 – 1868 Public executions.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

From 1837 on, all but five of the executions listed are for murder.  The five are for attempted murder which remained

 

 

 

a capital crime up to 1861.

 

 

 

 

A total of 350 people were hanged in public over this 32 year period, comprising 318 men and 32 women.

 

 

 

Ages where known should be considered as a guide as they are taken from court records and newspaper reports.

 

 

Spellings of names are taken from newspaper accounts and hand written court records. 

 

 

 

If you are searching for a particular name try any likely spelling e.g. Simonds, Simmonds, Symonds etc.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Date hanged

Name of criminal

Age

County

Place

Crime/victim's details

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1837 - 8 executions.

 

 

 

 

07/03/1837

John Pegsworth

 

London & Middlesex

Newgate

John Ready

 

 

23/03/1837

William Lightband

30

Worcestershire

Worcester

Joseph Hawkins

 

 

31/03/1837

Thomas Bates

23

Buckinghamshire

Aylesbury

Col. Hammer's gamekeeper

 

 

15/04/1837

Charles Bartlett

21

Gloucestershire

Gloucester

Mary Lewis, m-in-law

 

 

29/04/1837

George Timms

22

Norfolk

Norwich Castle (County Gaol)

Hannah Mansfield

 

 

29/04/1837

John Smith (Day)

26

Norfolk

Norwich Castle (County Gaol)

Hannah Mansfield

 

 

02/05/1837

James Greenacre

52

London & Middlesex

Newgate

Mrs Brown

 

 

12/08/1837

Thomas Williams

29

Yorkshire

York Castle

Thomas Froggatt

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1838 - 6 executions.

 

 

 

 

14/03/1838

George Fletcher

 

Hertfordshire

Hertford

William Bennett

 

 

14/03/1838

William Roach

 

Hertfordshire

Hertford

William Bennett

 

 

21/04/1838

William Hill

27

Lancashire

Liverpool (Kirkdale)

Murder woman

 

 

05/05/1838

Ann Wycherly

28

Staffordshire

Stafford

Ann Wycherly (daughter)

 

 

24/08/1838

William Devey

 

Warwickshire

Warwick

Mr Davenport

 

 

06/09/1838

George Maskeleyne

 

Wiltshire

Devizes

Att. murder Brian Rumbold

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1839 - 11 executions.

 

 

 

 

13/03/1839

Thomas Taylor

22

Hertfordshire

Hertford (last public)

William Bennett (as above)

 

 

22/03/1839

Abraham Hilliard

 

Essex

Chelmsford

Mrs Playl

 

 

28/03/1839

Samuel Seager

28

Kent

Maidstone

Hannah Giles

 

 

20/04/1839

William Davis

22

Gloucestershire

Gloucester

John Butt

 

 

27/04/1839

Charles Daines

 

Norfolk

Norwich Castle (County Gaol)

Att. murder wife Hannah

 

 

04/07/1839

George Willis

21

Kent

Maidstone

Sgt. major

 

 

08/07/1839

William Marchant

18

London & Middlesex

Newgate

Elizabeth Paynton

 

 

31/07/1839

John Driver

26

Nottinghamshire

Nottingham

Ann Hancock

 

 

16/08/1839

Jacob Ehlert

27

Durham

Durham

Capt John Fdk. Berkholtz

 

 

04/09/1839

Charles Wakely

39

Somerset

Ilchester (last)

Elizabeth Payne

 

 

16/12/1839

William Lees

 

London & Middlesex

Newgate

Wife

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1840 - 9 executions.

 

 

 

 

23/03/1840

Charles Morley

34

Oxfordshire

Oxford

Fanny Phillips

 

 

11/04/1840

George Thomas &

29

Staffordshire

Stafford

Christina Collins

 

 

11/04/1840

James Owen

39

"

"

Christina Collins

 

 

11/04/1840

James Bradsley

28

Yorkshire

York Castle

Patricide

 

 

13/04/1840

William & James Lightfoot

36/23

Cornwall

Bodmin

Nevill Norway

 

 

18/04/1840

Edward Jones

47

Flintshire

Flint

John Wynne

 

 

06/07/1840

Francois Courvoisier

23

London & Middlesex

Newgate

Lord William Russell

 

 

22/08/1840

John Randalsome

40

Norfolk

Norwich Castle (County Gaol)

Wife

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1841- 10 executions

 

 

 

 

16/03/1841

James Taylor

 

Wiltshire

Salisbury

Wife

 

 

03/04/1841

Josiah Misters

25

Shropshire

Shrewsbury

Att. murder of William Makreth

 

 

03/04/1841

Matthew Fowles

22

Staffordshire

Stafford

Martha Keeling

 

 

24/04/1841

Bartholomew Murray

18

Cheshire

Chester

Joseph & Mary Cooke

 

 

07/08/1841

John Burlinson +

24

Yorkshire

York Castle

Joseph Cocker

 

 

07/08/1841

Charles Gill & Henry Nutall

19/22

"

"

Joseph Cocker

 

 

14/08/1841

John Self

20

Norfolk

Norwich Castle (County Gaol)

Jemima Stimpson

 

 

15/11/1841

Robert Blakerley

 

London & Middlesex

Newgate

Mr Burdon

 

 

20/12/1841

Job John Ward

 

London & Middlesex

Newgate

Timothy Easted, (infant)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1842 - 9 executions.

 

 

 

 

23/03/1842

John Jones

24

Nottinghamshire

Nottingham

Mary Halkin

 

 

02/04/1842

John Williams

24

Shropshire

Shrewsbury

Emma Evans

 

 

02/04/1842

Joseph Wilkes

17

Staffordshire

Stafford

Matthew Adams

 

 

09/04/1842

Jonathan Taylor

60

Yorkshire

York Castle

Wife - Ellen

 

 

09/04/1842

Robert Nall

23

Yorkshire

York Castle

Wife - Mary

 

 

23/05/1842

Daniel Good

 

London & Middlesex

Newgate

Jane Jones (girlfriend)

 

 

04/07/1842

Thomas Cooper

 

London & Middlesex

Newgate

Policeman

 

 

23/07/1842

Richard Evans

28

Glamorgan

Cardiff

Matricide

 

 

03/09/1842

Francis Bradley

32

Lancashire

Liverpool (Kirkdale)

Wife

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1843 - 10 executions.

 

 

 

 

17/03/1843

Thomas Johnson

28

Lincolnshire

Lincoln Castle

Elizabeth Evison

 

 

31/03/1843

John Hulme, 

24

Derbyshire

Derby

Miss Martha Goddard

 

 

31/03/1843

Samuel Bonsell &

26

"

"

as above

 

 

31/03/1843

William Bland

39

"

"

as above

 

 

24/04/1843

Edward Rees

 

Monmouthshire

Monmouth

Mary Moxley

 

 

06/05/1843

Wilmot Buckley

22

Lancashire

Liverpool (Kirkdale)

Wife

 

 

06/05/1843

Betty Eccles

38

Lancashire

Liverpool (Kirkdale)

Stepson

 

 

05/08/1843

Sarah Dazeley

24

Bedfordshire

Bedford

Husband

 

 

26/08/1843

Charles Higginson

26

Staffordshire

Stafford

Son (5)

 

 

02/09/1843

James Jones

58

Cheshire

Chester

Wife - Elizabeth

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1844 - 13 executions.

 

 

 

 

13/01/1844

Sarah Westwood

42

Staffordshire

Stafford

Husband

 

 

20/01/1844

Joseph Dobson

25

Yorkshire

York Castle

Patricide

 

 

20/01/1844

John Roberts

26

Lancashire

Liverpool (Kirkdale)

Richard Kenyon, gamekeeper

 

 

06/04/1844

John Lawrence

 

Sussex

Horsham (last)

Police Superintendent Solomon

 

 

27/05/1844

William Crouch

 

London & Middlesex

Newgate

Wife

 

 

02/08/1844

Eliza Joyce

31

Lincolnshire

Lincoln Castle

Stepson

 

 

07/08/1844

William Saville

29

Nottinghamshire

Nottingham

Wife & 3 children

 

 

12/08/1844

Matthew Weeks

22

Cornwall

Bodmin

Charlotte Dymond

 

 

17/08/1844

William Beards

35

Staffordshire

Stafford

Elizabeth Griffiths

 

 

23/08/1844

Mark Sherwood

35

Newcastle

Newcastle Town Moor (last)

Wife

 

 

04/09/1844

Joel Fisher

52

Somerset

Taunton

Wife

 

 

28/12/1844

William Kendrew

22

Yorkshire

York Castle

Mr Inchbold

 

 

28/12/1844

Mary Galop

20

Cheshire

Chester

Patricide

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1845 - 16 executions.

 

 

 

 

04/01/1845

George Evans

20

Lancashire

Liverpool (Kirkdale)

Mrs Miller

 

 

04/01/1845

Thomas Stew

21

Lancashire

Liverpool (Kirkdale)

Ann Nolan

 

 

11/01/1845

Mary Sheming

51

Suffolk

Ipswich

Son

 

 

25/01/1845

Paul Downing & Charles Powys

19/17

Staffordshire

Stafford

William Cooper

 

 

25/01/1845

William Howell

28

Suffolk

Ipswich

James M'Fadden

 

 

22/03/1845

Thomas Jennings

 

Berkshire

Reading

Poisoned his child

 

 

24/03/1845

James Tapping

 

London & Middlesex

Newgate

Emma Whiter

 

 

28/03/1845

John Tawell

61

Buckinghamshire

Aylesbury

Sarah Hart

 

 

05/04/1845

John Brough

39

Staffordshire

Stafford

Thomas (brother)

 

 

10/04/1845

Thomas Thomas

24

Wales

Brecon

David Lewis

 

 

18/04/1845

James Crawley

31

Warwickshire

Warwick

William Tibley

 

 

23/04/1845

Sarah Freeman

28

Somerset

Taunton

Brother

 

 

28/04/1845

Thomas Hooker

22

London & Middlesex

Newgate

Mr. DeLa Rue

 

 

02/06/1845

Joseph Connor

 

London & Middlesex

Newgate

Mary Brothers

 

 

11/08/1845

Benjamin Ellison

 

Cornwall

Bodmin

Elizabeth Ruth Seaman

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1846 - 8 executions.

 

 

 

 

05/01/1846

Martha Browning

23

London & Middlesex

Newgate

Mrs Mundell

 

 

05/01/1846

Samuel Quennel

 

Surrey

Horsemonger Lane

Daniel Fitzgerald

 

 

18/03/1846

Ralph Joicey

24

Northumberland

Morpeth

Patricide

 

 

20/03/1846

William Spicer

 

Berkshire

Reading

Wife

 

 

30/03/1846

Thomas Wix

 

London & Middlesex

Newgate

James Bostock (employer)

 

 

01/04/1846

William Hubbard

23

Leicestershire

Leicester

Wife

 

 

11/04/1846

Samuel Yarham

 

Norfolk

Norwich Castle (County Gaol)

Harriet Candler

 

 

08/08/1846

John Rodda

23

Yorkshire

York Castle

Daughter - Mary

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1847 - 6 executions.

 

 

 

 

17/03/1847

James Walsh

22

Northumberland

Morpeth (last public)

Thomas Proud

 

 

17/03/1847

George Matthews

29

Northumberland

Morpeth (last public)

Daniel Hives

 

 

01/04/1847

John Platts

22

Derbyshire

Derby

George Collis

 

 

17/04/1847

Catherine Foster

18

Suffolk

Bury St Edmunds

Husband

 

 

21/08/1847

John Thompson

42

Cumberland

Carlisle

Wife

 

 

07/10/1847

John Hutchings

43

Kent

Maidstone

Wife

 

 

Mary Ann Milner hanged herself in her cell on the eve of her execution on the 30th of July at Lincoln Castle.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1848 - 12 executions.

 

 

 

 

08/01/1848

Patrick Reid

25

Yorkshire

York Castle

Caroline Ellis

 

 

10/01/1848

Thomas Sale

 

London & Middlesex

Newgate

Mr. Bellchambers

 

 

21/02/1848

Harriet Parker

28

London & Middlesex

Newgate

Step-daughter

 

 

25/03/1848

William Thompson

27

Durham

Durham

John Shirley

 

 

14/04/1848

Matthew Davis

42

Warwickshire

Warwick

Wife

 

 

22/04/1848

William Bates

30

Cheshire

Chester

William Wyatt

 

 

13/05/1848

Micheal Stokes

 

Yorkshire

York Castle

Mary Ann Garrad

 

 

24/07/1848

William Hewson

45

London & Middlesex

Newgate

William Woodhouse

 

 

02/08/1848

William Atter

24

Hampshire

Winchester

James O'Connor

 

 

14/08/1848

Mary May

38

Essex

Chelmsford

William Constable (half brother)

 

 

28/08/1848

Matthias Kelly

22

Monmouthshire

Monmouth

Agnes Hill

 

 

16/09/1848

William Adams

32

Lancashire

Liverpool (Kirkdale)

Wife

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1849 - 17 executions.

 

 

 

 

06/01/1849

James Kelly

24

Lancashire

Liverpool (Kirkdale)

Murder sweetheart

 

 

06/01/1849

Thomas Malkin

17

Yorkshire

York Castle

Esther Hannan

 

 

26/03/1849

Robert Pulley

49

Worcestershire

Worcester

Mary Straight (15)

 

 

27/03/1849

John Smith

23

Wiltshire

Salisbury

Eleanor Lawrence

 

 

28/03/1849

George Millen

17

Kent

Maidstone

Mr Law (82)

 

 

31/03/1849

George Howe

32

Yorkshire

York Castle

Daughter

 

 

09/04/1849

James Landrick

33

Devonshire

Exeter

Mrs Grace Holman

 

 

11/04/1849

James Griffiths

18

Wales

Brecon

Thomas Edwards

 

 

20/04/1849

Sarah Thomas

18

Bristol

Bristol City (last)

Miss Jefferies

 

 

21/04/1849

James Bloomfield Rush

49

Norfolk

Norwich Castle (County Gaol)

Isaac Jermy

 

 

27/07/1849

John Ward

26

Lincolnshire

Lincoln Castle

Matricide

 

 

09/08/1849

Mary Ball

31

Coventry

Coventry City (last)

Husband

 

 

21/08/1849

Mary Ann Geering

49

Sussex

Lewes

Husband

 

 

23/08/1849

Rebecca Smith

 

Wiltshire

Devizes

Infant son

 

 

15/09/1849

John Wilson

 

Lancashire

Liverpool (Kirkdale)

Mrs Hinrickson

 

 

13/11/1849

Frederick & Maria Manning

28

Surrey

Horsemonger Lane

Patrick O'Connor

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1850 - 6 executions.

 

 

 

 

13/04/1850

Mary Reeder & Elias Lucas

20/25

Cambridgeshire

Cambridge

Sister/wife -Susan Lucas

 

 

 

17/08/1850

William Ross

20

Yorkshire

York Castle

Wife

 

 

23/08/1850

Maurice Murphy  &

 

Monmouthshire

Monmouth

Jane Lewis

 

 

23/08/1850

Patrick Sullivan

 

Monmouthshire

Monmouth

Jane Lewis

 

 

24/08/1850

Patrick Forbes

40

Northumberland

Newcastle

Wife

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1851- 10 executions.

 

 

 

 

25/03/1851

Sarah Chesham

42

Essex

Chelmsford

Att. murder of husband

 

 

25/03/1851

Thomas Drory

23

Essex

Chelmsford

Jael Denny (girlfreind)

 

 

15/04/1851

Levi Harwood & James Burbage

 

Surrey

Horsemonger Lane

Rev. Mr Hollest

 

 

22/04/1851

George Carnt

23

Suffolk

Bury St Edmunds (last public)

Elizabeth Bainbridge

 

 

23/04/1851

John Wiles & John Smith

56/22

Somerset

Taunton

William Wilkins

 

 

26/04/1851

Patrick Lyons

 

Lancashire

Liverpool (Kirkdale)

Peggy Fahay

 

 

16/08/1851

Henry Groom

42

Norfolk

Norwich Castle (County Gaol)

John Ayton

 

 

19/08/1851

Mary Cage

40

Suffolk

Ipswich

Husband

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1852 - 6 executions.

 

 

 

 

16/03/1852

Elizabeth Pinchard

51

Northamptonshire

Northampton (last)

Mother in law

 

 

22/03/1852

Guglielmo Haldbergo

 

Oxfordshire

Oxford

Uncle, John Haldbergo

 

 

26/03/1852

Anthony Turner

49

Derbyshire

Derby

Mrs. Phoebe Barnes

 

 

10/04/1852

Sarah French

27

Sussex

Lewes

Husband

 

 

13/04/1852

John Keen

20

Surrey

Horsemonger Lane

Charles Brown

 

 

16/04/1852

Abel Ovans

22

Monmouthshire

Monmouth

Bastard child

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1853 - 11 executions.

 

 

 

 

08/01/1853

Alfred Waddington

 

Yorkshire

York Castle

Bastard child

 

 

10/01/1853

Henry Horler

 

London & Middlesex

Newgate

Wife

 

 

15/01/1853

James Barbour

 

Yorkshire

York Castle

Alexander Robinson

 

 

30/03/1853

Charles Saunders

 

Essex

Chelmsford

Thomas Stoller

 

 

01/04.1853

George Sparkes

26

Devonshire

Exeter

William Blackmore

 

 

09/04/1853

Henry Dobson

27

Yorkshire

York Castle

Catherine Sheridan (19)

 

 

09/04/1853

Charles Moore

36

Staffordshire

Stafford

Mr & Mrs Blackbourn

 

 

10/08/1853

John Roberts

 

Wales

Caernarfon (last)

Jesse Roberts

 

 

17/08/1853

William Flack

18

Suffolk

Ipswich

Maria Steggles

 

 

27/08/1853

Richard Pedder

50

Lancashire

Lancaster Castle

Wife

 

 

21/11/1853

Nathaniel Mobbs

 

London & Middlesex

Newgate

Wife

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1854 - 5 executions.

 

 

 

 

24/03/1853

Moses Hatto

 

Buckinghamshire

Aylesbury

Miss Mary Ann Spurgeon

 

 

03/04/1854

James Holman

31

Cornwall

Bodmin

Wife

 

 

07/04/1854

John Lloyd

27

Shropshire

Shrewsbury

John Griffins

 

 

08/04/1854

William Thompson

21

Norfolk

Norwich Castle (County Gaol)

Lorenzi Beha

 

 

04/08/1854

Tulmage Harvey

31

Devonshire

Exeter

Mary Richards

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1855 - 5 executions.

 

 

 

 

22/01/1855

Emmanuel Barthelemy

32

London & Middlesex

Newgate

Charles Collard & George Moore

 

 

13/03/1855

Thomas Munroe

18

Cumberland

Carlisle

Isaac Turner

 

 

27/03/1855

William Wright

 

Wiltshire

Salisbury (last)

Ann Collins

 

 

30/04/1855

Luigi Bunarelli

 

London & Middlesex

Newgate

Joseph Lambert

 

 

04/08/1855

Joseph Meadows

 

Worcestershire

Worcester

Mary Ann Mason

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1856 - 17 executions.

 

 

 

 

05/01/1856

Jonathan Heywood

 

Lancashire

Liverpool (Kirkdale)

Margaret Jones

 

 

08/01/1856

Abraham Baker

 

Hampshire

Winchester

Naomi Kingswell

 

 

19/03/1856

John Fowkes

45

Leicestershire

Leicester

Nephew

 

 

22/03/1856

Thomas Jones

 

Hampshire

Winchester

Dr Hope

 

 

31/03/1856

William Bousfield

 

London & Middlesex

Newgate

Wife

 

 

14/06/1856

William Palmer

32

Staffordshire

Stafford

J P Cook

 

 

25/07/1856

William Brown

33

Leicestershire

Leicester (last)

Edward Woodcock

 

 

05/08/1856

John Murdoch

20

Sussex

Lewes

Murder gaoler

 

 

09/08/1856

William Dove

28

Yorkshire

York Castle

Wife - Harriet

 

 

09/08/1856

Elizabeth Brown

45

Dorset

Dorchester

Husband

 

 

11/08/1856

William Nevin

44

Cornwall

Bodmin

Sgt Major Robinson

 

 

15/12/1856

Joseph Jenkins

 

London & Middlesex

Newgate

Richard Cope

 

 

20/12/1856

William Jackson

35

Cheshire

Chester

Murder his 2 children

 

 

23/12/1856

Guissepe Lagava,

 

Hampshire

Winchester

2 officers on the

 

 

23/12/1856

Giovanni Barbalano &

 

Hampshire

Winchester

ship "Globe" in the

 

 

23/12/1856

Matteo Pettrici

 

Hampshire

Winchester

Black Sea

 

 

27/12/1856

John Hannah

27

Yorkshire

York Castle

Jane Banham

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1857 - 14 executions.

 

 

 

 

01/01/1857

Dedea Redanies

25

Kent

Maidstone

Caroline Beck (18)

 

 

21/04/1857

Thomas Nation

22

Somerset

Taunton

John Alpin

 

 

04/06/1857

George Bave

27

Kent

Maidstone

Samuel Long

 

 

06/07/1857

Thomas Mansell

29

Kent

Maidstone

Cpl Alex McBurney

 

 

23/07/1857

Micheal Crawley

62

Essex

Chelmsford

Wife

 

 

25/07/1857

John Lewis

 

Glamorganshire

Cardiff (last)

Wife

 

 

29/07/1857

Charles Finch

 

Essex

Chelmsford

Girlfriend

 

 

08/08/1857

George Jackson

20

Staffordshire

Stafford

Mr Charlesworth

 

 

20/08/1857

Stephen Fox

23

Kent

Maidstone

Mary Ann Hadley (25)

 

 

20/08/1857

George Edwards

18

Kent

Maidstone

His brother, Thomas

 

 

28/08/1857

John Blagg

47

Cheshire

Chester

John Babbington

 

 

29/08/1857

Richard Hardman

38

Lancashire

Lancaster Castle

Wife

 

 

12/09/1857

Capt. Henry Rogers

 

Lancashire

Liverpool (Kirkdale)

Andrew Rose

 

 

16/11/1857

Thomas Davis

 

London & Middlesex

Newgate

Wife

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1858 - 9 executions.

 

 

 

 

12/01/1858

John Beale

30

Somerset

Taunton

Charlotte Pugsley

 

 

08/02/1858

Christian Sattler

 

London & Middlesex

Newgate

Insp. Thain

 

 

20/03/1858

Panaotis Alepis &

23

Glamorgan

Swansea

Fellow sailor

 

 

20/03/1858

Maneoli Selaptane

28

"

"

"

 

 

03/04/1858

Joseph Shephard

22

Yorkshire

York Castle

Bethel Parkinson

 

 

26/04/1858

Giovanni Lani

 

London & Middlesex

Newgate

Heloise Thaubin

 

 

10/08/1858

James Seal

19

Dorset

Dorchester

Sarah Ann Griffey

 

 

17/08/1858

Ebenezer Cherrington

27

Suffolk

Ipswich

Susan Studd

 

 

24/08/1858

John Bucknall

 

Somerset

Taunton

Grandparents

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1859 - 12 executions.

 

 

 

 

01/01/1859

Henry Reid

38

Lancashire

Liverpool (Kirkdale)

Wife

 

 

07/01/1859

William Burgess

43

Somerset

Taunton

Daughter

 

 

08/01/1859

John Whitworth

22

Yorkshire

York Castle

Sally Hare (18)

 

 

07/04/1859

Fred. Prentice

20

Kent

Maidstone

Emma Cappins (17)

 

 

04/07/1859

Samuel Adams

36

London & Middlesex

Newgate

Martha Page

 

 

05/08/1859

William Pickett & Henry Carey

20/24

Lincolnshire

Lincoln Castle (last public)

William Stevenson

 

 

06/08/1859

John Riley

36

Yorkshire

York Castle

Wife - Alice

 

 

11/08/1859

John Wilthew

51

Durham

Durham

Wife

 

 

23/08/1859

Matthew Francis

25

Monmouthshire

Monmouth (last)

Wife

 

 

30/12/1859

John Kington

22

Warwickshire

Warwick

Wife

 

 

31/12/1859

Charles Normington

17

Yorkshire

York Castle

Richard Broughton

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1860 - 10 executions.

 

 

 

 

31/03/1860

Joseph Castle

24

Bedfordshire

Bedford

Wife

 

 

11/04/1860

Serafim Manzano

 

Wiltshire

Devises (last)

Anastasia Troubridge

 

 

01/08/1860

John Fenton

37

Nottinghamshire

Nottingham

Charles Spencer

 

 

20/08/1860

Francis Price

24

Warwickshire

Warwick

Sarah Pratt

 

 

21/08/1860

George Cass

 

Cumberland

Carlisle

Ann Sewell

 

 

04/09/1860

William Youngman

24

Surrey

Horsemonger Lane

Mary Streeter

 

 

08/09/1860

Thomas Gallagher

40

Lancashire

Liverpool (Kirkdale)

Wife

 

 

19/11/1860

James Mullins

58

London & Middlesex

Newgate

Mrs Emsley

 

 

27/12/1860

Milner Lockey

58

Durham

Durham

Thomas Harrison 

 

 

27/12/1860

Thomas Smith

35

Durham

Durham

John Baty

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1861 - 14 executions.

 

 

 

 

01/01/1861

James Johnson

 

Hampshire

Winchester

Cpl. Coler

 

 

05/01/1861

Samuel Twigg

35

Staffordshire

Stafford

Wife

 

 

30/03/1861

Robert Hackett

 

Devonshire

Exeter

Henry Jones

 

 

05/04/1861

Matthew & Charles Wedmore

 

Somerset

Taunton

Sarah Waterman

 

 

23/04/1861

William Williams

 

Wales

Brecon  (last)

Aunt

 

 

10/08/1861

Augustus Hilton

 

Cambridgeshire

Cambridge

Wife

 

 

16/08/1861

George Smith

20

Derbyshire

Derby

Patricide

 

 

27/08/1861

Martin Doyle

26

Cheshire

Chester

Attempted murder (last)

 

 

19/09/1861

Peter Masterson

22

Kent

Maidstone

Sgt. Martin Murphy.

 

 

14/10/1861

William Cogan

 

London & Middlesex

Newgate

Wife

 

 

27/12/1861

Thomas Jackson

 

Hampshire

Winchester

Sgt. John Dickson

 

 

30/12/1861

John Thompson

42

Warwickshire

Warwick

Ann Walker

 

 

30/12/1861

William Beamish

35

Warwickshire

Warwick

Wife/child

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

All executions are for murder from here on.

 

 

 

 

1862 - 16 executions.

 

 

 

 

04/01/1862

James Waller

31

Yorkshire

York Castle

William Smith

 

 

04/01/1862

David Brandrick

30

Staffordshire

Stafford

Mr. Bagot

 

 

11/01/1862

Patrick M'Caffery

 

Lancashire

Liverpool (Kirkdale)

Col. Crofton

 

 

14/03/1862

John Gould

 

Berkshire

Reading (last)

6 year old daughter, Hannah

 

 

15/03/1862

William Charlton

35

Cumberland

Carlisle (last)

Jane Emerson

 

 

04/04/1862

Richard Rowlands

 

Anglesey

Beaumaris (last)

Richard Williams (father-in-law)

 

 

11/04/1862

Richard Thorley

 

Derbyshire

Derby (last)

Eliza Morrow

 

 

04/08/1862

George Gilbert

30

Hampshire

Winchester

Mary Ann Hall (23)

 

 

18/08/1862

John Doidge

28

Cornwall

Bodmin (last)

Robert Drewe

 

 

25/08/1862

George Gardiner

 

Warwickshire

Warwick

Sarah Kirby

 

 

13/09/1862

William Taylor

 

Lancashire

Liverpool (Kirkdale)

Mr. Mellor

 

 

13/09/1862

John Ward

 

Lancashire

Liverpool (Kirkdale)

William Jump

 

 

20/10/1862

Catherine Wilson

40

London & Middlesex

Newgate

Mrs Soames

 

 

17/11/1862

Robert Cooper

 

London & Middlesex

Newgate

Ann Barnham

 

 

23/12/1862

John Cox

25

Durham

Durham

Ann Halliday

 

 

30/12/1862

Ferdinando Petrina

 

Hampshire

Winchester

Murder on the high seas

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1863 - 21 executions.

 

 

 

 

02/01/1863

William Ockold

70

Worcestershire

Worcester (last)

Wife, Sophie

 

 

03/01/1863

Thomas Edwards

30

Lancashire

Liverpool (Kirkdale)

Isabella Tonge

 

 

14/03/1863

George Vass

19

Northumberland

Newcastle (last)

Margaret Docherty

 

 

24/03/1863

Noah Austin

26

Oxfordshire

Oxford (last)

James Allen

 

 

27/03/1863

Charles Fookes

49

Dorset

Dorchester

Joseph Stone

 

 

27/03/1863

Edwin Preedy

20

Dorset

Dorchester

Charles Evans

 

 

06/04/1863

Henry Carter

 

Warwickshire

Warwick (last)

Alice Hinkley

 

 

11/04/1863

Robert Burton

18

Kent

Maidstone

Thomas Houghton (8)

 

 

11/04/1863

Edward Cooper

30

Shropshire

Shrewsbury

Son

 

 

14/04/1863

John Ducker

63

Suffolk

Ipswich (last)

PC Ebenezer Tye

 

 

15/04/1863

William Hope

30

Herefordshire

Hereford

Mary Corbett

 

 

25/04/1863

Duncan MacPhaill &

40

Lancashire

Liverpool (Kirkdale)

Mrs Ann Walne (79)

 

 

25/04/1863

George Woods

 

Lancashire

Liverpool (Kirkdale)

Mrs Ann Walne (79)

 

 

27/04/1863

Joseph Brooks

 

London & Middlesex

Newgate

PC Davy

 

 

20/08/1863

Alfred Holden

25

Kent

Maidstone

Infant son Alfred James

 

 

20/08/1863

Alfred Eldridge

33

Kent

Maidstone

Richard Steed (55)

 

 

12/09/1863

Jose Alvarez

22

Lancashire

Liverpool (Kirkdale)

James Harrison

 

 

12/09/1863

John Hughes

51

Lancashire

Liverpool (Kirkdale)

Wife

 

 

12/09/1863

James O'Brien

 

Lancashire

Liverpool (Kirkdale)

Elizabeth Callaghan

 

 

12/09/1863

Benjamin Thomas

 

Lancashire

Liverpool (Kirkdale)

Mary Rowland

 

 

28/12/1863

Alice Holt

27

Cheshire

Chester

Mother

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1864 - 21 executions.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

02/01/1864

John Green

 

Cambridgeshire

Cambridge (last)

Elizabeth Brown

 

 

09/01/1864

Luke Charles

25

Lancashire

Liverpool (Kirkdale)

Wife

 

 

12/01/1864

Samuel Wright

 

Surrey

Horsemonger Lane

Maria Green

 

 

22/02/1864

Francisco Blanco, 

 

London & Middlesex

Newgate

The Flowery Land pirates,

 

 

22/02/1864

Ambrosio Durano,

 

"

"

murder of George Smith at sea.

 

 

22/02/1864

Miguel Lopez,

 

"

"

"

 

 

22/02/1864

Marcus Vartos &

 

"

"

"

 

 

22/02/1864

John Lyons

 

"

"

"

 

 

05/04/1864

Thomas Watkins

 

Herefordshire

Hereford (last)

Wife

 

 

16/04/1864

James Clitheroe

 

Lancashire

Liverpool

Mary Woods

 

 

02/05/1864

John Devine

21

London & Middlesex

Newgate

Joseph Duck

 

 

01/08/1864

Charles Bricknell

23

London & Middlesex

Newgate

Jane Jeary

 

 

05/08/1864

William Stephens

 

Buckinghamshire

Aylesbury (last)

Ann Leeson

 

 

10/08/1864

Thomas Parker

 

Nottinghamshire

Nottingham (last)

Matricide

 

 

27/08/1864

Lewis Gough

55

Gloucestershire

Gloucester (last)

Mary Curtis

 

 

10/09/1864

James Sargisson

20

Yorkshire

Leeds

John Cooper

 

 

10/09/1864

Joseph Myers

43

Yorkshire

Leeds

Wife

 

 

14/11/1864

Franz Muller

23

London & Middlesex

Newgate

Thomas Briggs (70)

 

 

27/12/1864

Richard Hale

30

Staffordshire

Stafford

Bastard daughter

 

 

27/12/1864

Charles Brough

24

Staffordshire

Stafford

George Walker

 

 

28/12/1864

Francis Wane

48

Essex

Chelmsford

Amelia Blunt

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1865 - 6 executions.

 

 

 

 

07/01/1865

Henry Brown

32

Lancashire

Liverpool

Thomas McCarthy

 

 

26/01/1865

Ferdinand Kohl

 

Essex

Chelmsford (last)

Theodore Furhop

 

 

16/03/1865

Matthew Atkinson

41

Durham

Durham (last)

Wife

 

 

25/03/1865

Stephen Burke

40

Lancashire

Lancaster (last)

Wife

 

 

04/08/1865

John Hughes

 

Hampshire

Winchester

Maria Clements

 

 

12/10/1865

John Currie

19

Kent

Maidstone

Major de Vere

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1866 - 12 executions.

 

 

 

 

09/01/1866

Charles Robinson

18

Staffordshire

Stafford

Harriet Seager

 

 

11/01/1866

Stephen Forward

25

Kent

Maidstone

Wife & daughter

 

 

27/03/1866

George Bentley

 

Staffordshire

Stafford

John Poole

 

 

28/03/1866

Mary Ann Ashford

45

Devonshire

Exeter

Husband

 

 

10/04/1866

John Leigh

 

Sussex

Lewes  (last)

Harriet Horton

 

 

12/04/1866

Robert Coe

18

Glamorgan

Swansea (last)

John Davies

 

 

23/04/1866

Samuel Griffiths

26

Cheshire

Chester (last)

Victim unknown

 

 

07/08/1866

William Collier

35

Staffordshire

Stafford (last)

Thomas Smith

 

 

15/08/1866

John Grant

36

Devonshire

Exeter (last)

Philip Boobier

 

 

25/08/1866

James Burrows

 

Lancashire

Salford

J Brennan

 

 

01/09/1866

Thomas Grime

 

Lancashire

Liverpool

James Barton

 

 

09/10/1866

John Jeffrey

 

London & Middlesex

Newgate

Son (aged 7)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1867 - 12 executions.

 

 

 

 

10/01/1867

Ann Lawrence

29

Kent

Maidstone

Infant son, Jeremiah

 

 

10/01/1867

James Fletcher

20

Kent

Maidstone

James Boyle, warder

 

 

16/04/1867

James Longhurst

 

Surrey

Horsemonger Lane

Harriet Sax (6)

 

 

26/08/1867

Hubbard Lingley

22

Norfolk

Norwich Castle (last)

Uncle - Ben Black

 

 

29/08/1867

George Britten

51

Somerset

Taunton (last)

Wife

 

 

14/09/1867

Henry Farrington

 

Lancashire

Liverpool (last)

Wife

 

 

15/10/1867

John Wiggins

 

London & Middlesex

Newgate

Agnes Oakes

 

 

15/10/1867

Louis Bordier

 

Surrey

Horsemonger Lane (last)

Mary Ann Snow

 

 

23/11/1867

William Allen &

 

Lancashire

Salford

Police Sgt. Charles Brett

 

 

23/11/1867

William Gould &

 

"

"

"

 

 

23/11/1867

Michael Larkin

 

"

"

"

 

 

24/12/1867

Frederick Baker

29

Hampshire

Winchester (last)

Fanny Adams (8)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1868 - 8 public executions.

 

 

 

 

31/03/1868

William Worsley

 

Bedfordshire

Bedford (last)

William Bradbury

 

 

02/04/1868

Frances Kidder

25

Kent

Maidstone (last female)

Step-daughter, Louisa (12)

 

 

04/04/1868

Miles Wetherill

 

Lancashire

Salford (last)

Mary Hammer

 

 

04/04/1868

Timothy Faherty

 

Lancashire

Salford (last)

Rev Mr Plow

 

 

04/04/1868

Frederick Parker

 

Yorkshire

York Castle (last)

Daniel Driscoll

 

 

09/04/1868

John Mapp

35

Shropshire

Shrewsbury (last)

Catherine Lewis

 

 

30/04/1868

Richard Bishop

21

Kent

Maidstone (last)

Alfred Cartwright (24)

 

 

26/05/1868

Micheal Barrett

 

London & Middlesex

Newgate (last)

7 in Clerkenwell explosion

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(last) above indicates last public hanging at that location.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You may see references to Southamptonshire in old books - this is now called Hampshire.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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