British Executions

Margaret Middleton

Age: unknown

Sex: male

Crime: murder

Date Of Execution: 1 Aug 1763

Crime Location:

Execution Place: Durham

Method: hanging

Executioner: unknown

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

Monday, 1 August 1763 (Newcastle Journal)

Margaret Middleton (otherwise Margaret Coulson) guilty of the murder of a child, Lucy Elliott (otherwise Curry), by throwing her in a river or streamlet called the Browney, in the parish of St Oswald in the City of Durham on 4th June 1763