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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
From
|
Date |
Name |
Age |
Place
of execution |
Crime |
|
1800 -
7 hanged |
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|
|
Mary
Connor |
|
Cork
(Gallows Green) |
Murder |
|
|
Mary
Thorpe |
|
York (Knavesmire) |
Murder
of her bastard child. |
|
|
Sarah
Bailey |
25 |
York (Knavesmire) (hanged with 2 men) |
Forgery |
|
|
Sarah
Lloyd |
19 |
Bury St
Edmunds |
Stealing
in a dwelling house. |
|
|
Ann
Mead |
16 |
Hertford |
Murder
of Charles Proctor |
|
|
Elizabeth
Johnson |
|
York (Knavesmire) |
Uttering
forgery |
|
|
Mary
Lloyd |
|
Boughton ( |
Forgery |
|
1801 -
7 |
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|
|
Hannah
Palmer |
|
|
Murder
of Mrs. Palmer (wife of John) |
|
|
Alice
Clarke |
|
Ruthin |
Murder
of baby daughter |
|
|
Elizabeth
Burne |
|
Naas ( |
Murder |
|
|
Hannah
Eastwood |
|
|
Forgery
(hanged with 2 men) |
|
|
Susanna
Mottershall |
23 |
|
Murder
of Samuel Glem |
|
|
Ann
Baker |
|
|
Killing
and stealing sheep |
|
|
Sarah Claridge |
|
|
Murder
of her son age 4 |
|
1802 -
3 |
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|
|
Mary
Voce |
24 |
|
Murder
of her baby |
|
|
Maria
Davis and Charlotte Bobbett |
|
|
Murder
her son Richard Davis |
|
|
Aiding above
murder |
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|
1803 -
3 |
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|
|
Mary Lappidge |
|
|
Uttering
forgery |
|
|
Martha Chapple |
19 |
|
Murder
of bastard child |
|
|
Sarah
Jones |
27 |
|
Murder
of her female bastard |
|
1804 -
4 |
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|
|
Ann Hurle |
22 |
Newgate |
Forgery
(hanged with 1 man) |
|
|
Elizabeth
Caesar (Carter) |
|
|
Murder
of her female bastard |
|
|
Elizabeth
Laughan |
|
|
Murder of
bastard child |
|
|
|
24 |
Newgate |
Forgery
(hanged with 2 men) |
|
1805 -
6 |
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|
|
Ann
Heywood |
|
|
Murder
of her child |
|
|
Elizabeth
Barber |
53 |
|
Murder
of John Daly |
|
|
Mary
Morgan |
17 |
Presteigne |
Murder
of bastard child |
|
|
Ann
Davis (Gordon) |
|
Horsham
Common |
Murder
- child |
|
|
Betty Hulee ( |
|
|
Murder |
|
|
Mary
Parnell |
23 |
Newgate |
Forgery
(hanged with 2 men) |
|
1806 -
2 |
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|
|
Sarah
Herring |
|
Horsemonger
Lane Surrey |
High
Treason coining |
|
|
Mary
Jackson |
|
|
Stealing
in dwelling house |
|
1807 -
3 |
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|
|
Margaret
Cunningham |
|
|
Murder
of her husband |
|
|
Elizabeth
Godfry or Godfrey |
34 |
Newgate |
Murder
of Richard Prince |
|
|
Martha Aldin |
32 |
|
Murder
of her husband |
|
1808 -
3 |
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|
|
Barbara
Malcolm |
|
|
Murder
- child |
|
|
Sarah
Pugh |
|
|
Murder |
|
|
Mary
Chandler |
19 |
|
Stealing
in dwelling house |
|
1809 -
3 |
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|
|
Mary
Barrington (aka |
31 |
Newgate |
Making
a false oath to obtain property |
|
|
Mary
Bateman |
41 |
|
Murder
("The |
|
|
Susan
Grant |
64 |
|
High
Treason coining |
|
1810 -
7 |
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|
|
Rebecca
Blundell |
|
|
Murder
of her bastard child |
|
|
Jane
Curran |
|
|
Forgery
(hanged with 5 men) |
|
|
Francis
Thompson |
|
|
Uttering
(hanged with 4 men) |
|
|
Melinder Mapson |
30 |
Newgate |
Robbery
in a dwelling house |
|
|
Mary Costigan |
|
|
Murder |
|
|
Betty Amphlett |
21 |
|
Murder
of her bastard child |
|
|
Eleanor
Grant |
|
|
Murder |
|
1811- 2 |
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|
|
Jane
Cox |
31 |
|
Murder
of John Tremman (child) |
|
|
Eleanor
Shiel |
|
|
Child
murder |
|
1812 -
3 |
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|
|
Elizabeth
Smith |
|
|
Murder
of her daughter (husband John also hanged for this) |
|
|
Hannah
Smith |
|
|
Riot
(hanged with 3 men) |
|
|
Catherine
Foster |
36 |
Newgate |
Making
false oath |
|
1813 -
8 |
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|
|
Ann
Arnold |
|
|
Murder
of her bastard child |
|
|
Catherine
Geran |
|
|
Burglary |
|
|
Catherine
Donovan |
|
Cork
(Gallows Green) |
Murder |
|
|
Sarah
Fletcher |
19 |
|
Child
murder |
|
|
Edith Morrey |
35 |
|
Murder
of her husband, George |
|
|
Azubah Fountain |
|
|
Murder
of her husband |
|
|
Elizabeth
Osborne |
20 |
Bodmin |
Arson |
|
|
Christian
Sinclair |
60 |
|
Murder
- child |
|
1814 -
3 |
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|
|
Mary Gibbs |
|
|
Murder
of her bastard child |
|
|
Sarah
Owens |
|
Ilchester |
Stealing
in dwelling house |
|
|
Mary
Cook |
|
|
Murder
of her bastard child |
|
1815 -
6 |
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|
|
Sarah
White |
|
|
Arson
(hanged with 1 man) |
|
|
Sarah
Woodward |
|
|
Murder
of her bastard child |
|
|
Jane Mulholland |
|
|
Murder
of her husband |
|
|
Elizabeth
Wollerton |
|
|
Murder |
|
|
Elizabeth
Fenning |
21 |
Newgate |
Attempted
murder |
|
|
Honora Houraghan |
40 |
Cork
(Gallows Green) |
Murder
of her husband |
|
1816 -
3 |
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|
|
Sarah
Cock |
|
Hertford |
Murder
of her bastard child |
|
|
Dinah Riddiford |
69 |
|
Burglary |
|
|
Susanna
Holroyd |
|
|
Murder
of her husband |
|
1817 -
7 |
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|
|
Sarah
Perry |
33 |
Newgate |
Murder
of her child |
|
|
Elizabeth
Fricker |
30 |
Newgate |
Burglary |
|
|
Elizabeth
Witing |
|
|
Murder
of her child |
|
|
Ann
Statham |
28 |
|
Murder
of her bastard child |
|
|
Ann Hawlin |
|
|
Murder
of her child |
|
|
Elizabeth
Warriner |
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