British Executions - List Of Hangings In England

William Martinborough
1795

Crime: murder

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Friday, 20 March 1795 County Gaol, Exeter (Western Flying Post)

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Stephen Watson
1795

Crime: murder

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Wednesday, 25 March 1795 at Thetford

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Henry Bennington
1795

Crime: murder

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Henry Bennington (aged 28) guilty of Petit Treason: the murder of his master John Filbee. After execution his body was hanged in chains at West Dereham. The gibbet was still standing in June 1801.

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David Proctor
1795

Crime: rape

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Wednesday, 25 Mar 1795 (Leicester Journal)

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William Salmon
1795

Crime: stealing sheep

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Thomas Flack
1795

Crime: burglary

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Friday, 27 March 1795

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William Thorogood
1795

Crime: highway robbery

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Friday, 27 March 1795

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John Scadding
1795

Crime: burglary

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Saturday, 28 March 1795 (Western Flying Post)

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Charles Elliott
1795

Crime: murder

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Charles Elliott guilty of the murder of John Mead in the parish of Huddersfield on 6th March 1795.

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James Frederick
1795

Crime: highway robbery

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Thursday, 9 April 1795 Bodmin.

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Thomas Nevill
1795

Crime: highway robbery

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Friday, 10 April 1795

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John Reynolds
1795

Crime: forgery

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Saturday, 11 April 1795 (Manchester Magazine)

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Erasmus Hinley
1795

Crime: forgery

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Saturday, 11 April 1795 (Manchester Magazine)

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Thomas Jones
1795

Crime: horse stealing

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Thomas Jones, (otherwise Thomas Yates), aged 55, guilty of stealing a brown bay mare (valued at £20), the property of Joseph Turner, in the township of Curborough and Elmhurst in the parish of St Chad (otherwise Stowe)…

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Joseph Foster
1795

Crime: horse stealing

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Joseph Foster, aged 42, and William Neild, aged 38 guilty of stealing a chestnut mare (valued at £10), the property of Benjamin Dobell, in the parish of Sheriffhales on 13th September 1794.

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William Neild
1795

Crime: horse stealing

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Joseph Foster, aged 42, and William Neild, aged 38 guilty of stealing a chestnut mare (valued at £10), the property of Benjamin Dobell, in the parish of Sheriffhales on 13th September 1794.

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Benjamin Smith
1795

Crime: forgery

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Friday, 24 April 1795

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Thomas Mann
1795

Crime: burglary

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Thomas Mann and William Britain guilty of a burglary in the dwelling house of Mary Thornton, spinster, in the parish of Calverley on 31st December 794: stealing therefrom a silver coffee pot (valued at 40/-), 4 silver…

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William Britain
1795

Crime: burglary

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Thomas Mann and William Britain guilty of a burglary in the dwelling house of Mary Thornton, spinster, in the parish of Calverley on 31st December 794: stealing therefrom a silver coffee pot (valued at 40/-), 4 silver…

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William Branham
1795

Crime: burglary

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William Branham guilty of a burglary in the dwelling house of William Shillitoe in the parish of Adwick-le-Street on 24th September 1794: stealing therefrom a feather bed (valued at 40/-), 5 feather pillows with linen…

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George Fawcett
1795

Crime: stealing sheep

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George Fawcett the elder, aged 77, guilty of stealing 2 ewes (valued at 16/-) and 2 gimmers (valued at 10/-), the property of Thomas Atkinson, in the parish of Masham on 17th November 1794.

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William Jackson
1795

Crime: stealing sheep

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William Jackson, aged 25, guilty of stealing 10 wethers (valued at £5), and 2 ewes (valued at 20/-), the property of Samuel Stubbing and Eustace Roper, in the extra-parochial area of Sunk Island on 16th January 1795.

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John Hugh
1795

Crime: stealing sheep

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Saturday, 25 April 1795

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Dennis Ryan
1795

Crime: high treason

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Dennis Ryan and Joshua Stephenson found guilty on an indictment for High Treason in counterfeiting shillings in the parish of St George the Martyr, Southwark on 2nd October 1794. They were ordered to be drawn to the…

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Joshua Stephenson
1795

Crime: high treason

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Dennis Ryan and Joshua Stephenson found guilty on an indictment for High Treason in counterfeiting shillings in the parish of St George the Martyr, Southwark on 2nd October 1794. They were ordered to be drawn to the…

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William Sykes
1795

Crime: stealing

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William (or James) Sykes for rioting at Bishopstone on 17th April: stealing 10 hempen sacks and 50 bushels of wheat flour, the property of Thomas Barton and Edmund Catt (valued at more than £13)

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William Sanson
1795

Crime: rioting

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William Sanson for rioting at Bishopstone on 17th April: stealing 3 bottles of rum (valued at 6/6) in the dwelling house of Thomas Barton as well as hempen sacks and wheat flour (valued at £10) the property of Thomas…

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William Morris
1795

Crime: burglary

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William Morris guilty of a burglary in the dwelling house of Henry Nash in the parish of Tardebigge on 12th June 1795: stealing therefrom 6 pairs of leather shoes (valued at 25/-) and a pair of plated shoe buckles…

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James Barnes
1795

Crime: Housebreaking

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First execution on the New Drop outside Reading Gaol. Saturday, 1 August 1795 New drop, County Gaol, Reading (Reading Mercury) James Barnes indicted for breaking into the dwelling house of Benjamin Randall in the parish…

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Sarah King
1795

Crime: murder

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Sarah King, widow, found guilty on an indictment for the murder of her new born male bastard child, by strangling him with a linen handkerchief, in the parish of Nutfield on 16th June 1795.

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John Little
1795

Crime: murder

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John Little found guilty on an indictment for the murder of James McEvoy, by beating him on the head with a stone in the parish of Richmond on 23rd June 1795. He was also charged with the murder of Sarah King (wife of…

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Jeremiah Abershaw
1795

Crime: murder

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Jeremiah Abershaw (otherwise Haversham) found guilty on an indictment for shooting at Barnaby Windsor in the dwelling house of John Churcher in the Liberty of the Clink within the parish of St Saviour, Southwark on 12th…

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Lewis Jeremiah Avershaw
1795

Crime: murder

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LEWIS JEREMIAH AVERSHAW Executed on Kennington Common, 3rd of August, 1795, for shooting a Peace Offcer in the act of apprehending him

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William Brown
1795

Crime: burglary

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Friday, 4 August 1795 (St Mary’s Burial Register)

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Henry Richardson
1795

Crime: rape

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Friday, 4 August 1795 (St Mary’s Burial Register)

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Thomas Campion
1795

Crime: rioting

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Thursday, 6 August 1795 at Bovey Heath (Bovey Tracey) (Exeter Flying Post)

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William Midwinter
1795

Crime: highway robbery

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William Midwinter, aged 27, found guilty on an indictment for the highway robbery of Alexander Trotter in the parish of Mooching (otherwise Newhaven) on 17th April 1795: robbing him of 50 hempen sacks (valued at £5) and…

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Thomas Nicholson
1795

Crime: murder

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Saturday, 8 August 1795 - Town Moor, Newcastle (Newcastle Chronicle)

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William White
1795

Crime: murder

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William White (otherwise Jones) guilty of the murder of Maria Bailey.

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James Price
1795

Crime: coining

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James Price and John Lappidge for High Treason: counterfeiting coin

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John Lappidge
1795

Crime: coining

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James Price and John Lappidge for High Treason: counterfeiting coin

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Richard Orton
1795

Crime: forgery

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Richard Orton for a forgery

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Margaret Boulker
1795

Crime: rioting

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Margaret Boulker and John Ward for rioting

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John Ward
1795

Crime: rioting

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Margaret Boulker and John Ward for rioting

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James Lee
1795

Crime: highway robbery

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Friday, 14 August 1795 County Gaol, Exeter (Exeter Flying Post)

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William McGregor
1795

Crime: highway robbery

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Friday, 14 August 1795 County Gaol, Exeter (Exeter Flying Post)

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George Rapson
1795

Crime: stealing

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Friday, 14 August 1795 County Gaol, Exeter (Exeter Flying Post)

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Charles Blyth
1795

Crime: horse stealing

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Charles Blyth (aged 40) guilty of stealing a horse

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James Dosser
1795

Crime: burglary

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James Dosser (aged 33) guilty of a burglary

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John Smith
1795

Crime: stealing

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John Smith, aged 25, guilty of stealing 10 cotton handkerchiefs in the shop of John Miner in the parish of Whitchurch on 27th March 1795.

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Joel Lunn
1795

Crime: house breaking

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Joel Lunn, aged 29, guilty of breaking into the dwelling house of William Mitton in the parish of Tettenhall on 18th May 1795; and stealing therefrom a cloth coat (valued at 12/-), a velveret waistcoat (valued at 5/-),…

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Joseph Williams
1795

Crime: stealing sheep

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Thursday, 27 August 1795 Bodmin.

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Thomas Case
1795

Crime: high treason

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Saturday, 12 September 1795 (Chester Courant)

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James Cully
1795

Crime: murder

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James Cully, Michael Quin, Thomas Quin and Thomas Markin convicted for the murder of William Marriott.

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Michael Quin
1795

Crime: murder

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James Cully, Michael Quin, Thomas Quin and Thomas Markin convicted for the murder of William Marriott.

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Thomas Quin
1795

Crime: murder

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James Cully, Michael Quin, Thomas Quin and Thomas Markin convicted for the murder of William Marriott.

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Thomas Markin
1795

Crime: murder

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James Cully, Michael Quin, Thomas Quin and Thomas Markin convicted for the murder of William Marriott.

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