British Executions - List Of Hangings In England

Crime: murder

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ELIZABETH MARSH A Fifteen-year-old Girl, executed for the Murder of her Grandfather, March, 1794

Crime: murder

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George Bentham, sailor, guilty of the murder by shooting of William Barnes, midshipman, who had been sent to persuade him to return to his ship after outstaying his shore leave.

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Edward Powell
1794

Crime: murder

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Edward Powell guilty of the murder by shooting of Robert Frampton, his father-in-law, on the Common Land at Portsea on 28th July 1793

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Elizabeth Marsh
1794

Crime: murder

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Monday, 17 March 1794 New drop, County Gaol (Western Flying Post)

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Benjamin Pearce
1794

Crime: stealing

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Friday, 21 March 1794

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Charles Talmage
1794

Crime: burglary

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Charles Talmage (aged 27) guilty of a burglary in the dwelling house of Elizabeth Imber, spinster, in the parish of St Thomas, Winchester on 4th August 1793: stealing therefrom a plated tea kettle and lamp and other…

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Samuel Rhoades
1794

Crime: highway robbery

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Saturday, 22 March 1794 (Derby Mercury)

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John Scott
1794

Crime: highway robbery

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Saturday, 22 March 1794 (Derby Mercury)

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Robert Perry
1794

Crime: highway robbery

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Robert Perry

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John Nichols
1794

Crime: murder

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John Nichols (aged 59) and Nathaniel Nichols, his son, (aged 19) guilty of the murder of his daughter, Sarah at Fakenham Magna on 14th September 1793: beating her with a dye stick and then strangling her. After his…

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Nathaniel Nichols
1794

Crime: murder

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John Nichols (aged 59) and Nathaniel Nichols, his son, (aged 19) guilty of the murder of his daughter, Sarah at Fakenham Magna on 14th September 1793: beating her with a dye stick and then strangling her. After his…

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Thomas Brown
1794

Crime: highway robbery

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Thomas Brown for a highway robbery.

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John Higgins
1794

Crime: horse stealing

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John Higgins for the theft of a horse

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William Matthews
1794

Crime: burglary

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Saturday, 29 March 1794 (Western Flying Post)

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Thomas Noble
1794

Crime: highway robbery

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Thomas Noble guilty of the highway robbery of Abraham Moore in the parish of Portsmouth on 23rd September 1793: robbing him of 6 gold guineas. Extorting money from him under threat of charging him with committing sodomy…

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Thomas Withys
1794

Crime: murder

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Thomas Withys, aged 28, guilty of the murder of his wife Mary by drowning her in a pond at Pilton near Shepton Mallet on 3rd November 1793.

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James Murray
1794

Crime: house breaking

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Friday, 4 April 1794

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Joan Stone
1794

Crime: arson

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Friday, 4 April 1794 (Exeter Flying Post)

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James Belfield
1794

Crime: horse stealing

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James Belfield, aged 40, guilty of stealing a black mare (valued at £10), the property of John Dain, in the parish of Eccleshall on 11th February 1792.

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William Waddington
1794

Crime: high treason

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William Waddington guilty of High treason in colouring base coins to resemble sixpences in the parish of St Lawrence in the City of York on 23rd January 1794. A city execution.

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John Lane
1794

Crime: highway robbery

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John Lane found guilty on an indictment for the highway robbery of Thomas Harrison in the parish of St Mary, Lambeth on 15th January 1794: robbing him of 3 gold guineas, 1 gold half guinea and 10/- in money numbered.

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Francis Jennison
1794

Crime: murder

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Francis Jennison and William Butterworth, convicts, guilty of the murder of John Groundwater, one of their overseers within the lines of Cumberland Fort at Portsea. They were taken from the County Gaol at 4.13 in the…

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William Butterworth
1794

Crime: murder

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Francis Jennison and William Butterworth, convicts, guilty of the murder of John Groundwater, one of their overseers within the lines of Cumberland Fort at Portsea. They were taken from the County Gaol at 4.13 in the…

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Ann Scalberd
1794

Crime: murder

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Ann Scalberd, wife of Moses Scalberd, guilty of the murder Mary Scalberd her husband’s mother, by poisoning her, in the parish of Batley on 19th June 1794.

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Thomas Pewtrees
1794

Crime: house breaking

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Thomas Pewtrees guilty of breaking into the dwelling house of Thomas Tuffley in the parish of Pendock on 26th May 1794; and stealing therefrom a homespun blue grey cloth coat (valued at 4/-), a blue grey mixed cloth…

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Patrick Quin
1794

Crime: burglary

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Patrick Quin and Patrick Coine guilty of a burglary in the dwelling house of Benjamin Catcut in the parish of Northwood on the Isle of Wight on 29th May 1794: with intent to commit murder. They were taken from the…

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Patrick Coine
1794

Crime: burglary

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Patrick Quin and Patrick Coine guilty of a burglary in the dwelling house of Benjamin Catcut in the parish of Northwood on the Isle of Wight on 29th May 1794: with intent to commit murder. They were taken from the…

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Benjamin Brett
1794

Crime: murder

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Benjamin Brett guilty of the murder of Thomas Baker (aged 3 years and 2 months), the bastard of his third wife, at Kedlington: striking him with a spade.

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James Hawkins
1794

Crime: highway robbery

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Monday, 18th August 1794 &nbsp…

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Jonas Townsend
1794

Crime: horse stealing

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Jonas Townsend

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Thomas Matthews
1794

Crime: burglary

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Thomas Matthews

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John Matthews
1794

Crime: burglary

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John Matthews

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Benjamin Morris
1794

Crime: burglary

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Benjamin Morris

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Thomas Osborne
1794

Crime: house breaking

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Thomas Osborne (aged 24) guilty of breaking into the dwelling house of General Mortlock Hundon: stealing therefrom 6 loaves of bread, a pot of honey, a tablecloth and 2/- in money numbered.

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John Dinney
1794

Crime: house breaking

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Friday, 29 August 1794

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Thomas Kirk
1794

Crime: rape

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Thomas Kirk guilty of the rape of Elizabeth Smithson in the parish of Raskelf on 18th July 1794.

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William Hurst
1794

Crime: highway robbery

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William Hurst found guilty on an indictment for the highway robbery of Thomas Cole in the parish of Croydon on 13th April 1794: robbing him of a gold cased watch (valued at £12), a cornelian stone seal set in gold…

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William Newman
1794

Crime: highway robbery

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William Newman and Thomas Stunnell (otherwise Thomas Stonell) found guilty on an indictment for the highway robbery of John Addison Newman in the parish of Kingston-upon-Thames on 28th March 1794: robbing him of a…

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Thomas Stunnell
1794

Crime: highway robbery

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William Newman and Thomas Stunnell (otherwise Thomas Stonell) found guilty on an indictment for the highway robbery of John Addison Newman in the parish of Kingston-upon-Thames on 28th March 1794: robbing him of a…

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Cook March
1794

Crime: highway robbery

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Saturday, 6 September 1794 Castle Ditches, a city execution.

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John Hall
1794

Crime: highway robbery

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Monday, 15 September 1794

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Richard Wiltshire
1794

Crime: highway robbery

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Monday, 15 September 1794

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James Stanley
1794

Crime: horse stealing

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James Stanley guilty of stealing a mare (valued at £12), the property of John Wallis, in the parish of Witham Friary on 17th July 1792.

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