British Executions

John Wilson

Age: unknown

Sex: male

Crime: murder

Date Of Execution: 4 Sep 1739

Crime Location:

Execution Place: unknown

Method: hanging

Executioner: unknown

Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/northumbria.html

John Wilson, a travelling tinker, guilty of the murder of Barbara Tremble between six and seven o’clock in the evening of 23rd July 1739 at Donchwood by hitting her about the head with a stick.