Capital punishment in the 18th & 19th centuries.
18th century.
Executions at London's Tyburn 1695 -1783 – full list		English & Welsh executions by circuit 1735 - 1799
Being hanged at Tyburn		The female executed 1735 - 1799
Overview of executions at Tyburn		Sarah Malcolm - triple murder
Burning at the stake		Jenny Diver - highway robbery
Catherine Hayes - burnt for Petty Treason		Elizabeth Jeffries - murder of her uncle
Ann Bedingfield & Richard Ringe - Petty Treason		Mary Blandy - patricide
Phoebe Harris - burnt for coining		Elizabeth Brownrig - horrible murder of her servant
Hanged at Execution Dock		Earl of Ferrers - first use of "New Drop" gallows
Newgate executions 1783 – 1799
Introduction to the Bloody Code		Elizabeth Taylor - hanged for burglary
Charlotte Gardiner & Mary Jones - rioters		Mary Jones - hanged for shoplifting
Sarah Lloyd - hanged for robbery		Elizabeth Sedgwick – hanged for arson
19th century.
Newgate prison history	English & Welsh executions 1800 – 1827
Being hanged at Newgate	English & Welsh executions 1828 – 1836
Newgate executions 1800 - 1836	English & Welsh executions 1837 – 1868
Newgate executions 1837 - 1902	English & Welsh executions 1868 - 1899
Horsemonger Lane Gaol in Surrey	Scottish executions 1800 - 1899
John Thurtell - murder at Ware	Bel M’Menemy & Thomas Connor - robbery
The female publicly hanged 1800 - 1868	Helen Blackwood – married on the gallows
Ann Hurle - hanged for forgery	Sarah Dazley – hanged for poisoning her husband
Melinda Mapson - hanged for housebreaking	Murderesses hanged in private 1869 – 1955
Eliza Fenning - hanged for attempted murder	Kate Webster
Elizabeth Fricker - hanged for burglary	Mary Eleanor Wheeler (Pearcey)
Jane Scott – hanged for parricide	Louisa Masset
Maria & Frederick Manning - murder for gain	Baby farmers
Elizabeth Martha Browne - husband murder
Ann Lawrence - child murder
Frances Kidder - the last female public hanging
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