Newgate executions 1837 - 1902

All of the executions listed here are for murder.
A total of 103 people were hanged in this period, comprising 95 men and 8 women.
The first 44 executions were carried out in public, in front of the Debtor's Door. Michael Barrett became the last
man to die in public. The subsequent 61 executions took place in the execution shed in one of the prison's yards in private.
Of these hangings, 9 were carried out in the 20th century. London executions were transferred to Pentonville on
the closure of Newgate, along with the gallows.

ate	Name	Age	Victim name(s)	Hangman
07/03/1837	John Pegsworth	35	John Ready	William Calcraft
02/05/1837	James Greenacre	52	Mrs. Brown	"
08/07/1839	William Marchant	18	Elizabeth Paynton	"
16/12/1839	William Lees		Wife	"
06/07/1840	Francis Courvoisier	23	Lord William Russell	"
15/11/1841	Robert Blakerley		Mr. Burdon	"
20/12/1841	Job John Ward		Timothy Easted, (infant)	"
23/05/1842	Daniel Good	50	Murder - victim unknown	"
04/07/1842	Thomas Cooper	22	Policeman	"
27/05/1844	William Crouch		Wife	"
24/03/1845	James Tapping		Emma Whiter	"
28/04/1845	Thomas Hooker	22	Mr. DeLa Rue	"
02/06/1845	Joseph Connor		Mary Brothers	"
05/01/1846	Martha Browning	23	Mrs. Mundell	"
30/03/1846	Thomas Wix		Murder - victim unknown	"
10/01/1848	Thomas Sale		Murder - victim unknown	"
21/02/1848	Harriet Parker	28	Step-daughter	"
24/07/1848	William Hewson	45	William Woodhouse	"
10/01/1853	Henry Horler		Wife	"
21/11/1853	Nathaniel Mobbs		Wife	"
22/01/1855	Emile Barthelmy		Mr. Moore	"
30/04/1855	Luigi Bunarelli		Joseph Lambert	"
31/03/1856	William Bousfield		Wife	"
15/12/1856	Joseph Jenkins		Richard Cope	"
16/11/1857	Thomas Davis		Wife	"
08/02/1858	Christian Sattler		Insp. Thain	"
26/04/1858	Giovanni Lani		Heloise Thaubin	"
04/07/1859	Samuel Adams	36	Martha Page	"
19/11/1860	James Mullins	58	Mrs. Emsley	"
14/10/1861	William Cogan		Wife	"
20/10/1862	Catherine Wilson	40	Mrs. Soames	"
17/11/1862	Robert Cooper		Victim unknown	"
27/04/1863	Joseph Brooks	23	PC Davy	"
22/02/1864	Francisco Blanco,	33	The "Flowery Land" pirates,	"
"	Ambrosio Durano,	25	Murder of George Smith at sea.	"
"	Miguel Lopez,	22		"
"	Marcus Vartos &	23		"
"	John Lyons			"
02/05/1864	John Devine		Joseph Duck	"
01/08/1864	Charles Bicknall		Jane Geary	"
14/11/1864	Franz Muller		Thomas Briggs (70)	"
09/10/1866	John Jeffrey		Son (aged 7)	"
15/10/1867	John Wiggins		Agnes Oakes	"
26/05/1868	Michael Barrett	27	7 in Clerkenwell explosion	"
08/09/1868	Alexander Mackay	19	Emma Goldsmith, his employer	Calcraft/Smith
13/12/1869	Frederick Hinson	32	Wife	William Calcraft
01/08/1870	Walter Miller	31	Rev. Elias Huelin	"
09/12/1872	August Elliott	31	Ellen Moore (prostitute)	"
25/05/1874	John Godwin	27	Wife	Calcraft/Evans
29/06/1874	Frances Stewart (f)	48	Grandson	William Marwood
04/01/1875	James Cranwell	59	Emma Bellamy	"
21/12/1875	Henry Wainwright	37	Harriet Lane (mistress)	"
23/05/1876	George Kadi		Murder & mutiny on the "Lennie"	Marwood/Incher
"	Pascaler Caladis			"
"	Matteo Corgalis			"
"	Giovanni Caccaris			"
29/08/1876	John Ebletrift		Wife	William Marwood
11/12/1876	Charles O'Donnell	57	Wife	"
15/10/1877	John Lynch	26	Wife	"
12/11/1877	Thomas Pratt		Elizabeth Rockington	"
24/03/1879	James Simms	43	Lucy Graham (prostitute)	"
25/08/1879	James Dilley	41	Bastard child	"
05/01/1880	Charles Surety	29	Child aged 2	"
22/03/1880	John Wingfield	34	Wife Murder	"
13/12/1880	William Herbert	44	Jane Messenger	"
13/12/1880	George Pavey	29	Ada Shepherd (10)	"
17/12/1883	Patrick O'Donnell	28	James Carey (informer)	Bartholomew Binns
06/10/1884	Thomas Henry Orrock	21	PC George Cole	James Berry
06/10/1884	Thomas Harris	48	Wife	"
13/07/1885	Henry Alt	31	Charles Howard	"
05/10/1885	Henry Norman	31	Wife Murder	"
07/12/1885	Daniel Minahan	28	Wife	"
21/03/1887	Joseph King	41	Annie Sutton + child	"
18/04/1887	Thomas Currell	31	Wife	"
22/08/1887	Israel Lipski	22	Miriam Angel	"
13/11/1888	Levi Richard Bartlett	66	Wife murder	"
26/03/1890	John Neal	64	Wife murder	"
27/08/1890	Francis Monteau	51	Francois De Grave	"
23/12/1890	Mary Wheeler	24	Phoebe Hogg & daughter	"
01/03/1892	James Muir		Wife murder	James Billington
29/03/1892	John Noble	46	Wife murder	"
16/08/1892	John Wenze	25	PC Joseph Joyce	"
"	James Taylor	60	Wife murder	"
15/12/1892	Thomas Cream	42	Ellen Donworth	"
25/07/1893	George Cooke	27	Maud Smith	"
14/08/1894	Paul Koczula	24	Mrs. Rasch	"
13/11/1895	Richard Wingrave	37	Jane Eagle	"
25/02/1896	Alfred Chipperfield	20	Wife murder	"
09/06/1896	Henry Fowler &	31	Henry Smith	"
"	Albert Milsom	33	Henry Smith	"
"	William Seaman	46	Jonathan Levy	"
10/06/1896	Amelia Dyer	57	Baby Farmer	"
15/11/1898	John Ryan	30	PC Joseph Baldwin	"
28/03/1899	George Robertson	45	Mary Knealey (4)	"
03/10/1899	Frederick Preston	22	Eliza Mears girlfriend	"
15/11/1899	Thomas Skeffington	20	Florence Wells	"
09/01/1900	Louisa Masset	33	Manfred Louis Masset (son)	"
08/03/1900	Ada Chard Williams	24	Selina Ellen Jones	"
22/05/1900	Henry Grove	26	Henry Smith	"
17/07/1900	Alfred Highfield	21	Edith Margaret Poole (girlfriend)	"
14/08/1900	William Irwin	59	Catherine Amelia Irwin (wife)	"
02/10/1900	John Parr	19	Sarah Willett (girlfriend)	"
19/02/1901	Samson Salmon	29	Lucy Smith (cousin)	"
19/11/1901	Marcel Fougeron	23	Hermann Francis Jung	"
06/05/1902	George Woolfe	21	Charlotte Cheeseman (girlfriend)	William Billington

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