British Executions - List Of Hangings In England

William Higgs
1774

Crime: murder

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Monday, 14 March 1774

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John Ferris
1774

Crime: highway robbery

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Wednesday, 16 March 1774 (Ipswich Journal - Saturday 26 March)

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John Pratt
1774

Crime: highway robbery

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Wednesday, 16 March 1774 (Ipswich Journal - Saturday 26 March)

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Joseph Seal
1774

Crime: highway robbery

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Wednesday, 16 March 1774 (Ipswich Journal - Saturday 26 March)

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William Sharpe
1774

Crime: highway robbery

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Wednesday, 16 March 1774 (Ipswich Journal - Saturday 26 March)

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Richard Darby
1774

Crime: highway robbery

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Wednesday, 16 March 1774 (Ipswich Journal - Saturday 26 March)

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John Hopkinson
1774

Crime: highway robbery

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Wednesday, 16 March 1774 (Ipswich Journal - Saturday 26 March)

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John Cliff
1774

Crime: sacrilege

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John Cliff for sacrilege (with Edward Glasrott but broke out of gaol, was recaptured and executed on his original sentence)

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Edward Goodhall
1774

Crime: burglary

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Edward Goodhall (otherwise Onions) guilty of a burglary in the dwelling house of John Morris in the parish of Naunton Beauchamp on 27th November 1773: stealing therefrom 2 gold guineas.

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William Hamilton
1774

Crime: burglary

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William Hamilton guilty of a burglary in the dwelling house of Thomas William Lutwyche in the parish of St Nicholas, Worcester on 26th November 1773: stealing therefrom 9 watches with silver cases (valued at £15), a…

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Richard Hoare
1774

Crime: Housebreaking

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Saturday, 26 March 1774 (Reading Mercury) Richard Hoare indicted for breaking into the dwelling house of Richard Roby in the parish of Ardington on 24th February 1774; and stealing therefrom a cloth great coat (valued…

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Thomas Owen
1774

Crime: murder

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Monday, 28 (or Tuesday, 29) March 1774

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Richard Wheatley
1774

Crime: robbery

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Richard Wheatley (36) for robbing the bleachground of Messrs Unwin & Soins at Sutton-in-Ashfield.

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Joseph Shaw
1774

Crime: burglary

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Joseph Shaw (22) for a burglary in the house of Mr Topott: stealing therefrom 265½ guineas, £7 in silver, a Bill for £70, about £10 in foreign gold coin and a gold watch.

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William Hood
1774

Crime: burglary

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William Hood guilty of a burglary in the dwelling house of Thomas Summerfield in the parish of Walsall on 6th October 1773: stealing therefrom 2 foreign gold 36/- pieces, 4 gold Moidores (each with a value of 27/-), 15…

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John Thomas
1774

Crime: horse stealing

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1774

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George Belt
1774

Crime: burglary

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George Belt guilty of a burglary in the dwelling house of Thomas Athorpe in the parish of Howden on 28th October 1773: stealing therefrom a silver watch (valued at £3), a steel watch chain (valued at 1/-), a cornelian…

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John Davies
1774

Crime: sacrilege

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John Davies (otherwise Ingram) guilty of sacrilege in burglariously entering the parish church of Meifod, Montgomeryshire on 28th November 1773; and stealing therefrom a silver chalice (valued at £10) and a linen…

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Samuel Wheatley
1774

Crime: burglary

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Samuel Wheatley guilty of a burglary in the dwelling house of Samuel Nixon in the parish of Stanton Lacy on 13th February 1774: stealing therefrom a pair of worsted stockings (valued at 5/-), 28 silk and muslin…

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Edward Milsomm
1774

Crime: highway robbery

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Wednesday, 6 April 1774 (St Mary’s Burial Register)

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James Perry
1774

Crime: burglary

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Friday, 8 April 1774 (Exeter Flying Post)

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William Edwards
1774

Crime: burglary

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Friday, 8 April 1774 (Exeter Flying Post)

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Henry Jex
1774

Crime: house breaking

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Saturday, 16 April 1774

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James Jex
1774

Crime: house breaking

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James Jex (otherwise Jacques) guilty of breaking into the dwelling house of John French at Costessey

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Walter Thatcher
1774

Crime: stealing

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Walter Thatcher guilty of stealing a wether (valued at 7/-), the property of John Ford

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Humphrey Scott
1774

Crime: house breaking

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Humphrey Scott guilty of breaking into the dwelling house of John Jones and Christopher Harper

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Isaac Barrett
1774

Crime: highway robbery

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Friday, 22 April 1774

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Robert Jones
1774

Crime: robbery

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Monday, 25 April 1774

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James Glover
1774

Crime: return from transportation

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Saturday, 25 April 1774 James Glover(27) for being found at large in the Kingdom while under sentence of transportation.

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Daniel Dibble
1774

Crime: highway robbery

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Daniel Dibble and John Briand found guilty on an indictment for the highway robbery of Elizabeth Appleton in the parish of Lambeth (sic) on 2nd September 1773: robbing her of 1 gold guinea and 3 copper half pennies.…

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John Briand
1774

Crime: highway robbery

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Daniel Dibble and John Briand found guilty on an indictment for the highway robbery of Elizabeth Appleton in the parish of Lambeth (sic) on 2nd September 1773: robbing her of 1 gold guinea and 3 copper half pennies.…

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Edward Clarke
1774

Crime: highway robbery

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Edward Clarke (otherwise Edward Clarey, otherwise Edward Madden) and Thomas Brandsell found guilty on an indictment for the highway robbery of William Watson in the parish of St Paul, Deptford on 24th February 1774:…

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Thomas Brandsell
1774

Crime: highway robbery

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Edward Clarke (otherwise Edward Clarey, otherwise Edward Madden) and Thomas Brandsell found guilty on an indictment for the highway robbery of William Watson in the parish of St Paul, Deptford on 24th February 1774:…

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Joseph Stone
1774

Crime: highway robbery

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Joseph Stone found guilty on an indictment for the highway robbery of Charles Burn in the parish of … on …….. : robbing him of goods and money numbered valued at 14/7d.

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Jane Cornforth
1774

Crime: murder

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Jane Cornforth was convicted of the murder of her male bastard child who she through down the privy at the house of a soap boiler in Cowcross where she had been a servant for about 2-3 months. Execution not confirmed.

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John Scott
1774

Crime: murder

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John Scott guilty of the murder of Hannah Stocks, by poisoning her, at Northowram, Halifax on 21st March 1774, so that she died on 22nd March.

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John Dickson
1774

Crime: murder

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Tuesday, 26 July 1774

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Abraham Jelly
1774

Crime: murder

Location: —

Murder of Jane Kennedy

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John Scott
1774

Crime: murder

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John Scott was convicted of the murderof Hannah Stocks.

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Richard Myott
1774

Crime: Burglary

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Saturday, 30 July 1774 (Bath Chronicle) Richard Myott indicted for a burglary in the dwelling house of Charles Maxey in the parish of St Mary, Wallingford on 22nd July 1773: stealing therefrom 12 pairs of Bristol…

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Richard Robotham
1774

Crime: highway robbery

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Richard Robotham found guilty on an indictment for the highway robbery of Samuel Percival in the parish of Lambeth (sic) on 30th March 1774: robbing him of 1 gold guinea, 30/- in money numbered and an iron key (valued…

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John Busby Lloyd
1774

Crime: highway robbery

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John Busby Lloyd (otherwise John Thompson) found guilty on an indictment for the highway robbery of Henry Harding in the parish of Lambeth (sic) on 10th May 1774: robbing him of 4/- in money numbered,

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George Stephen Hearsay
1774

Crime: burglary

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George Stephen Hearsay and James Burrell found guilty on an indictment for a burglary in the dwelling house of Christina Williamson in the parish of Wandsworth on 7th April 1774: stealing therefrom a pair of silver…

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James Burrell
1774

Crime: burglary

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George Stephen Hearsay and James Burrell found guilty on an indictment for a burglary in the dwelling house of Christina Williamson in the parish of Wandsworth on 7th April 1774: stealing therefrom a pair of silver…

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Henry Butcher
1774

Crime: house breaking

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Friday, 5 August 1774

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William Mason
1774

Crime: stealing

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Friday, 5 August 1774

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Matthew Maguire
1774

Crime: burglary

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Friday, 5 August 1774

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Jonathan Adams
1774

Crime: house breaking

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Friday, 5 August 1774

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Robert Thomas
1774

Crime: highway robbery

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Robert Thomas guilty of the highway robbery of Wiliam Dighton in the parish of Halifax on 9th November 1769: robbing him of 4 gold guineas. His body was hanged in chains on Beacon Hill Halifax.

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Samuel Silvers
1774

Crime: burglary

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Samuel Silvers guilty of a burglary in the dwelling house of William Smart in the parish of Rowley Regis on 19th April 1774: stealing therefrom a trunk covered with leather (valued at 2/-), a linen apron (valued at…

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Samuel Robins
1774

Crime: murder

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Monday, 8 August 1774 (Gloucester Journal)

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William Cranmore
1774

Crime: highway robbery

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William Cranmore for a highway robbery.

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John Winworth
1774

Crime: highway robbery

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Friday, 19 August 1774 (Exeter Flying Post)

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Thomas Jarrett
1774

Crime: horse stealing

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Thomas Jarrett found guilty on an indictment for stealing a black gelding (valued at £15), the property of Francis Gell, in the parish of Westham on 30th March 1774.

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George Davidson
1774

Crime: rape

Location: —

Saturday, 20 August 1774 - Morpeth (Newcastle Journal)

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Elizabeth Hine
1774

Crime: murder

Location: —

Monday, 29 August 1774 (ACC)

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Margaret Williams
1774

Crime: murder

Location: —

1774/1775

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Thomas Silitoe
1774

Crime: stealing

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Saturday, 10 September 1774 (ACC)

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John Rann
1774

Crime: highway robbery

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JOHN RANN Commonly called "Sixteen-String Jack." Executed at Tyburn, 30th of November, 1774, for Highway Robbery

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