Rebecca Howard

Age: unknown

Sex: male

Crime: murder

Date Of Execution: 9 Aug 1797

Crime Location:

Execution Place: Norfolk

Method: hanging

Executioner: unknown

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

Wednesday 9 August 1797

Rebecca Howard (aged 27) guilty of the murder of her bastard male child, to whom she gave birth on 1^st August 1796 in the parish of St Martin at Oak, Norwich, and whom she drowned in the River Wensom in the parish of St James on 4^th August 1796. She was ordered to be executed and afterwards her body to be dissected and anatomised.