The female publicly hanged 1800 - 1868.

Between January 1800 and April 1868 in the British Isles (including Southern Ireland and the Isle of Man), at least 207 women and girls were taken to places of public execution and there hanged by the neck until they were dead, in accordance with the sentence of the court.
Frances Kidder became the last to suffer this cruel and humiliating fate when she was executed by William Calcraft at
Maidstone on the 2nd of April 1868 (see below).
From
the 29th of May 1868, all executions were carried out inside prisons and a further 40 women were hanged in private in the British Isles (including Southern Ireland up to 1925). Twenty two of these hangings were carried out in the 19th century and 18 in the 20th century.

Date

Name

Age

Place of execution

Crime

1800 - 7 hanged

29/01/1800

Mary Connor

 

Cork (Gallows Green)

Murder

17/03/1800

Mary Thorpe

 

York (Knavesmire)

Murder of her bastard child.

12/04/1800

Sarah Bailey

25

York (Knavesmire) (hanged with 2 men)

Forgery

23/04/1800

Sarah Lloyd

 19

Bury St Edmunds

Stealing in a dwelling house.

31/07/1800

Ann Mead

 16

Hertford

Murder of Charles Proctor

23/08/1800

Elizabeth Johnson

 

York (Knavesmire)

Uttering forgery

18/10/1800

Mary Lloyd

 

Boughton (Cheshire)

Forgery

1801 - 7

01/04/1801

Hannah Palmer

 

Warwick (hanged with her brother John)

Murder of Mrs. Palmer (wife of John)

13/04/1801

Alice Clarke

 

Ruthin

Murder of baby daughter

17/04/1801

Elizabeth Burne

 

Naas (Ireland)

Murder

02/05/1801

Hannah Eastwood

 

Lancaster Castle

Forgery (hanged with 2 men)

23/07/1801

Susanna Mottershall

23

Lincoln Castle

Murder of Samuel Glem

03/08/1801

Ann Baker

 

Rutland
(hanged with 1 man)

Killing and stealing sheep

07/08/1801

Sarah Claridge

 

Warwick

Murder of her son age 4

1802 - 3

16/03/1802

Mary Voce

24

Nottingham

Murder of her baby

12/04/1802

Maria Davis and Charlotte Bobbett

 

Bristol

Murder her son Richard Davis

 

Aiding above murder

1803 - 3

15/04/1803

Mary Lappidge

 

Warwick

Uttering forgery

01/08/1803

Martha Chapple

19

York Castle

Murder of bastard child

11/08/1803

Sarah Jones

27

Shrewsbury

Murder of her female bastard

1804 - 4

08/02/1804

Ann Hurle

22

Newgate

Forgery (hanged with 1 man)

12/03/1804

Elizabeth Caesar (Carter)

 

Winchester
(hanged with 2 men)

Murder of her female bastard

19/03/1804

Elizabeth Laughan

 

Chelmsford

Murder of bastard child

05/07/1804

Providence Hansard

24

Newgate

Forgery (hanged with 2 men)

1805 - 6

18/03/1805

Ann Heywood

 

York Castle

Murder of her child

25/03/1805

Elizabeth Barber

53

Maidstone

Murder of John Daly

13/04/1805

Mary Morgan

17

Presteigne

Murder of bastard child

03/05/1805

Ann Davis (Gordon)

 

Horsham Common

Murder - child

12/08/1805

Betty Hulee (Rogers)

 

Exeter

Murder

13/11/1805

Mary Parnell

23

Newgate

Forgery (hanged with 2 men)

1806 - 2

08/04/1806

Sarah Herring

 

Horsemonger Lane Surrey

High Treason coining
(hanged with 3 men)

19/04/1806

Mary Jackson

 

Lancaster Castle

Stealing in dwelling house

1807 - 3

07/01/1807

Margaret Cunningham

 

Edinburgh

Murder of her husband

23/02/1807

Elizabeth Godfry or Godfrey

34

Newgate
(hanged with 2 men)

Murder of Richard Prince
(A large number of spectators were killed & injured at this execution)

31/07/1807

Martha Aldin

32

Norwich

Murder of her husband

1808 - 3

10/02/1808

Barbara Malcolm

 

Edinburgh

Murder - child

28/03/1808

Sarah Pugh

 

Hereford

Murder

09/04/1808

Mary Chandler

19

Lancaster Castle

Stealing in dwelling house

1809 - 3

22/02/1809

Mary Barrington (aka
Margaret Crimes)

31

Newgate
(hanged with 1 man)

Making a false oath to obtain property

20/03/1809

Mary Bateman

41

York Castle

Murder ("The Yorkshire Witch")

18/08/1809

Susan Grant

64

Warwick

High Treason coining

1810 - 7

12/03/1810

Rebecca Blundell

 

Winchester

Murder of her bastard child

24/03/1810

Jane Curran

 

Winchester

Forgery (hanged with 5 men)

07/04/1810

Francis Thompson

 

York Castle

Uttering (hanged with 4 men)

13/06/1810

Melinder Mapson

30

Newgate
(hanged with 1 man)

Robbery in a dwelling house

22/08/1810

Mary Costigan

 

Tipperary

Murder

13/08/1810

Betty Amphlett

21

Gloucester

Murder of her bastard child

17/09/1810

Eleanor Grant

 

Tipperary

Murder

1811- 2

12/08/1811

Jane Cox

31

Exeter

Murder of John Tremman (child)

30/03/1811

Eleanor Shiel

 

Tipperary

Child murder

1812 - 3

23/03/1812

Elizabeth Smith

 

Ipswich
(hanged with 2 men)

Murder of her daughter (husband John also hanged for this)

13/06/1812

Hannah Smith

 

Lancaster Castle

Riot (hanged with 3 men)

12/08/1812

Catherine Foster

36

Newgate
(hanged with 1 man)

Making false oath

1813 - 8

29/03/1813

Ann Arnold

 

Ipswich

Murder of her bastard child

31/03/1813

Catherine Geran

 

Limerick

Burglary

02/04/1813

Catherine Donovan

 

Cork (Gallows Green)

Murder

05/04/1813

Sarah Fletcher

19

Horsemonger Lane

Child murder

23/04/1813

Edith Morrey

35

Chester

Murder of her husband, George
(her co-defendant was hanged on
24/08/1812, but Edith was respited as she was pregnant)

06/08/1813

Azubah Fountain

 

Lincoln Castle

Murder of her husband
(hanged with 1 man)

06/09/1813

Elizabeth Osborne

20

Bodmin

Arson

29/12/1813

Christian Sinclair

60

Edinburgh

Murder - child

1814 - 3

28/03/1814

Mary Gibbs

 

Ipswich

Murder of her bastard child
(hanged with 1 man)

20/04/1814

Sarah Owens

 

Ilchester

Stealing in dwelling house
(hanged with 1 man)

01/08/1814

Mary Cook

 

Dorchester

Murder of her bastard child

1815 - 6

28/03/1815

Sarah White

 

Salisbury

Arson (hanged with 1 man)

03/04/1815

Sarah Woodward

 

Ipswich

Murder of her bastard child

19/07/1815

Jane Mulholland

 

Armagh

Murder of her husband

25/07/1815

Elizabeth Wollerton

 

Ipswich

Murder

26/07/1815

Elizabeth Fenning

21

Newgate

Attempted murder
(hanged with 2 men)

04/08/1815

Honora Houraghan

40

Cork (Gallows Green)

Murder of her husband

1816 - 3

11/03/1816

Sarah Cock

 

Hertford

Murder of her bastard child

07/09/1816

Dinah Riddiford

69

Gloucester

Burglary

16/09/1816

Susanna Holroyd

 

Lancaster Castle

Murder of her husband

1817 - 7

24/02/1817

Sarah Perry

33

Newgate

Murder of her child

05/03/1817

Elizabeth Fricker

30

Newgate

Burglary
(hanged with 6 men)

15/03/1817

Elizabeth Witing

 

Lincoln Castle

Murder of her child

21/03/1817

Ann Statham

28

Stafford

Murder of her bastard child

14/04/1817

Ann Hawlin

 

Warwick

Murder of her child
(hanged with 1 man)

26/07/1817

Elizabeth Warriner