1837 – 1868 Public executions.

From 1837 on, all but five of the executions listed are for murder. The five are for attempted murder which remained
a capital crime up to 1861.
A total of 350 people were hanged in public over this 32 year period, comprising 318 men and 32 women.
Ages where known should be considered as a guide as they are taken from court records and newspaper reports.
Spellings of names are taken from newspaper accounts and hand written court records.
If you are searching for a particular name try any likely spelling e.g. Simonds, Simmonds, Symonds etc.
Date hanged	Name of criminal	Age	County	Place	Crime/victim's details
1837 - 8 executions.
07/03/1837	John Pegsworth		London & Middlesex	Newgate	John Ready
23/03/1837	William Lightband	30	Worcestershire	Worcester	Joseph Hawkins
31/03/1837	Thomas Bates	23	Buckinghamshire	Aylesbury	Col. Hammer's gamekeeper
15/04/1837	Charles Bartlett	21	Gloucestershire	Gloucester	Mary Lewis, m-in-law
29/04/1837	George Timms	22	Norfolk	Norwich Castle (County Gaol)	Hannah Mansfield
29/04/1837	John Smith (Day)	26	Norfolk	Norwich Castle (County Gaol)	Hannah Mansfield
02/05/1837	James Greenacre	52	London & Middlesex	Newgate	Mrs Brown
12/08/1837	Thomas Williams	29	Yorkshire	York Castle	Thomas Froggatt
1838 - 6 executions.
14/03/1838	George Fletcher		Hertfordshire	Hertford	William Bennett
14/03/1838	William Roach		Hertfordshire	Hertford	William Bennett
21/04/1838	William Hill	27	Lancashire	Liverpool (Kirkdale)	Murder woman
05/05/1838	Ann Wycherly	28	Staffordshire	Stafford	Ann Wycherly (daughter)
24/08/1838	William Devey		Warwickshire	Warwick	Mr Davenport
06/09/1838	George Maskeleyne		Wiltshire	Devizes	Att. murder Brian Rumbold
1839 - 11 executions.
13/03/1839	Thomas Taylor	22	Hertfordshire	Hertford (last public)	William Bennett (as above)
22/03/1839	Abraham Hilliard		Essex	Chelmsford	Mrs Playl
28/03/1839	Samuel Seager	28	Kent	Maidstone	Hannah Giles
20/04/1839	William Davis	22	Gloucestershire	Gloucester	John Butt
27/04/1839	Charles Daines		Norfolk	Norwich Castle (County Gaol)	Att. murder wife Hannah
04/07/1839	George Willis	21	Kent	Maidstone	Sgt. major
08/07/1839	William Marchant	18	London & Middlesex	Newgate	Elizabeth Paynton
31/07/1839	John Driver	26	Nottinghamshire	Nottingham	Ann Hancock
16/08/1839	Jacob Ehlert	27	Durham	Durham	Capt John Fdk. Berkholtz
04/09/1839	Charles Wakely	39	Somerset	Ilchester (last)	Elizabeth Payne
16/12/1839	William Lees		London & Middlesex	Newgate	Wife
1840 - 9 executions.
23/03/1840	Charles Morley	34	Oxfordshire	Oxford	Fanny Phillips
11/04/1840	George Thomas &	29	Staffordshire	Stafford	Christina Collins
11/04/1840	James Owen	39	"	"	Christina Collins
11/04/1840	James Bradsley	28	Yorkshire	York Castle	Patricide
13/04/1840	William & James Lightfoot	36/23	Cornwall	Bodmin	Nevill Norway
18/04/1840	Edward Jones	47	Flintshire	Flint	John Wynne
06/07/1840	Francois Courvoisier	23	London & Middlesex	Newgate	Lord William Russell
22/08/1840	John Randalsome	40	Norfolk	Norwich Castle (County Gaol)	Wife
1841- 10 executions
16/03/1841	James Taylor		Wiltshire	Salisbury	Wife
03/04/1841	Josiah Misters	25	Shropshire	Shrewsbury	Att. murder of William Makreth
03/04/1841	Matthew Fowles	22	Staffordshire	Stafford	Martha Keeling
24/04/1841	Bartholomew Murray	18	Cheshire	Chester	Joseph & Mary Cooke
07/08/1841	John Burlinson +	24	Yorkshire	York Castle	Joseph Cocker
07/08/1841	Charles Gill & Henry Nutall	19/22	"	"	Joseph Cocker
14/08/1841	John Self	20	Norfolk	Norwich Castle (County Gaol)	Jemima Stimpson
15/11/1841	Robert Blakesley		London & Middlesex	Newgate	James Burdon
20/12/1841	Job John Ward		London & Middlesex	Newgate	Timothy Easted, (infant)
1842 - 9 executions.
23/03/1842	John Jones	24	Nottinghamshire	Nottingham	Mary Halkin
02/04/1842	John Williams	24	Shropshire	Shrewsbury	Emma Evans
02/04/1842	Joseph Wilkes	17	Staffordshire	Stafford	Matthew Adams
09/04/1842	Jonathan Taylor	60	Yorkshire	York Castle	Wife - Ellen
09/04/1842	Robert Nall	23	Yorkshire	York Castle	Wife - Mary
23/05/1842	Daniel Good		London & Middlesex	Newgate	Jane Jones (girlfriend)
04/07/1842	Thomas Cooper		London & Middlesex	Newgate	Policeman
23/07/1842	Richard Evans	28	Glamorgan	Cardiff	Matricide
03/09/1842	Francis Bradley	32	Lancashire	Liverpool (Kirkdale)	Wife
1843 - 10 executions.
17/03/1843	Thomas Johnson	28	Lincolnshire	Lincoln Castle	Elizabeth Evison
31/03/1843	John Hulme,	24	Derbyshire	Derby	Miss Martha Goddard
31/03/1843	Samuel Bonsell &	26	"	"	as above
31/03/1843	William Bland	39	"	"	as above
24/04/1843	Edward Rees		Monmouthshire	Monmouth	Mary Moxley
06/05/1843	Wilmot Buckley	22	Lancashire	Liverpool (Kirkdale)	Wife
06/05/1843	Betty Eccles	38	Lancashire	Liverpool (Kirkdale)	Stepson
05/08/1843	Sarah Dazeley	24	Bedfordshire	Bedford	Husband
26/08/1843	Charles Higginson	26	Staffordshire	Stafford	Son (5)
02/09/1843	James Jones	58	Cheshire	Chester	Wife - Elizabeth
1844 - 13 executions.
13/01/1844	Sarah Westwood	42	Staffordshire	Stafford	Husband
20/01/1844	Joseph Dobson	25	Yorkshire	York Castle	Patricide
20/01/1844	John Roberts	26	Lancashire	Liverpool (Kirkdale)	Richard Kenyon, gamekeeper
06/04/1844	John Lawrence		Sussex	Horsham (last)	Police Superintendent Solomon
27/05/1844	William Crouch		London & Middlesex	Newgate	Wife
02/08/1844	Eliza Joyce	31	Lincolnshire	Lincoln Castle	Stepson
07/08/1844	William Saville	29	Nottinghamshire	Nottingham	Wife & 3 children
12/08/1844	Matthew Weeks	22	Cornwall	Bodmin	Charlotte Dymond
17/08/1844	William Beards	35	Staffordshire	Stafford	Elizabeth Griffiths
23/08/1844	Mark Sherwood	35	Newcastle	Newcastle Town Moor (last)	Wife
04/09/1844	Joel Fisher	52	Somerset	Taunton	Wife
28/12/1844	William Kendrew	22	Yorkshire	York Castle	Mr Inchbold
28/12/1844	Mary Galop	20	Cheshire	Chester	Patricide
1845 - 16 executions.
04/01/1845	George Evans	20	Lancashire	Liverpool (Kirkdale)	Mrs Miller
04/01/1845	Thomas Stew	21	Lancashire	Liverpool (Kirkdale)	Ann Nolan
11/01/1845	Mary Sheming	51	Suffolk	Ipswich	Son
25/01/1845	Paul Downing & Charles Powys	19/17	Staffordshire	Stafford	William Cooper
25/01/1845	William Howell	28	Suffolk	Ipswich	James M'Fadden
22/03/1845	Thomas Jennings		Berkshire	Reading	Poisoned his child
24/03/1845	James Tapping		London & Middlesex	Newgate	Emma Whiter
28/03/1845	John Tawell	61	Buckinghamshire	Aylesbury	Sarah Hart
05/04/1845	John Brough	39	Staffordshire	Stafford	Thomas (brother)
10/04/1845	Thomas Thomas	24	Wales	Brecon	David Lewis
18/04/1845	James Crawley	31	Warwickshire	Warwick	William Tibley
23/04/1845	Sarah Freeman	28	Somerset	Taunton	Brother
28/04/1845	Thomas Hooker	22	London & Middlesex	Newgate	Mr. DeLa Rue
02/06/1845	Joseph Connor		London & Middlesex	Newgate	Mary Brothers
11/08/1845	Benjamin Ellison		Cornwall	Bodmin	Elizabeth Ruth Seaman
1846 - 8 executions.
05/01/1846	Martha Browning	23	London & Middlesex	Newgate	Mrs Mundell
05/01/1846	Samuel Quennel		Surrey	Horsemonger Lane	Daniel Fitzgerald
18/03/1846	Ralph Joicey	24	Northumberland	Morpeth	Patricide
20/03/1846	William Spicer		Berkshire	Reading	Wife
30/03/1846	Thomas Wix		London & Middlesex	Newgate	James Bostock (employer)
01/04/1846	William Hubbard	23	Leicestershire	Leicester	Wife
11/04/1846	Samuel Yarham		Norfolk	Norwich Castle (County Gaol)	Harriet Candler
08/08/1846	John Rodda	23	Yorkshire	York Castle	Daughter - Mary
1847 - 6 executions.
17/03/1847	James Walsh	22	Northumberland	Morpeth (last public)	Thomas Proud
17/03/1847	George Matthews	29	Northumberland	Morpeth (last public)	Daniel Hives
01/04/1847	John Platts	22	Derbyshire	Derby	George Collis
17/04/1847	Catherine Foster	18	Suffolk	Bury St Edmunds	Husband
21/08/1847	John Thompson	42	Cumberland	Carlisle	Wife
07/10/1847	John Hutchings	43	Kent	Maidstone	Wife
Mary Ann Milner hanged herself in her cell on the eve of her execution on the 30th of July at Lincoln Castle.
1848 - 12 executions.
08/01/1848	Patrick Reid	25	Yorkshire	York Castle	Caroline Ellis
10/01/1848	Thomas Sale		London & Middlesex	Newgate	Mr. Bellchambers
21/02/1848	Harriet Parker	28	London & Middlesex	Newgate	Step-daughter
25/03/1848	William Thompson	27	Durham	Durham	John Shirley
14/04/1848	Matthew Davis	42	Warwickshire	Warwick	Wife
22/04/1848	William Bates	30	Cheshire	Chester	William Wyatt
13/05/1848	Micheal Stokes		Yorkshire	York Castle	Mary Ann Garrad
24/07/1848	William Hewson	45	London & Middlesex	Newgate	William Woodhouse
02/08/1848	William Atter	24	Hampshire	Winchester	James O'Connor
14/08/1848	Mary May	38	Essex	Chelmsford	William Constable (half brother)
28/08/1848	Matthias Kelly	22	Monmouthshire	Monmouth	Agnes Hill
16/09/1848	William Adams	32	Lancashire	Liverpool (Kirkdale)	Wife
1849 - 17 executions.
06/01/1849	James Kelly	24	Lancashire	Liverpool (Kirkdale)	Murder sweetheart
06/01/1849	Thomas Malkin	17	Yorkshire	York Castle	Esther Hannan
26/03/1849	Robert Pulley	49	Worcestershire	Worcester	Mary Straight (15)
27/03/1849	John Smith	23	Wiltshire	Salisbury	Eleanor Lawrence
28/03/1849	George Millen	17	Kent	Maidstone	Mr Law (82)
31/03/1849	George Howe	32	Yorkshire	York Castle	Daughter
09/04/1849	James Landrick	33	Devonshire	Exeter	Mrs Grace Holman
11/04/1849	James Griffiths	18	Wales	Brecon	Thomas Edwards
20/04/1849	Sarah Thomas	18	Bristol	Bristol City (last)	Miss Jefferies
21/04/1849	James Bloomfield Rush	49	Norfolk	Norwich Castle (County Gaol)	Isaac Jermy
27/07/1849	John Ward	26	Lincolnshire	Lincoln Castle	Matricide
09/08/1849	Mary Ball	31	Coventry	Coventry City (last)	Husband
21/08/1849	Mary Ann Geering	49	Sussex	Lewes	Husband
23/08/1849	Rebecca Smith		Wiltshire	Devizes	Infant son
15/09/1849	John Wilson		Lancashire	Liverpool (Kirkdale)	Mrs Hinrickson
13/11/1849	Frederick & Maria Manning	28	Surrey	Horsemonger Lane	Patrick O'Connor
1850 - 6 executions.
13/04/1850	Mary Reeder & Elias Lucas	20/25	Cambridgeshire	Cambridge	Sister/wife -Susan Lucas
17/08/1850	William Ross	20	Yorkshire	York Castle	Wife
23/08/1850	Maurice Murphy &		Monmouthshire	Monmouth	Jane Lewis
23/08/1850	Patrick Sullivan		Monmouthshire	Monmouth	Jane Lewis
24/08/1850	Patrick Forbes	40	Northumberland	Newcastle	Wife
1851- 10 executions.
25/03/1851	Sarah Chesham	42	Essex	Chelmsford	Att. murder of husband
25/03/1851	Thomas Drory	23	Essex	Chelmsford	Jael Denny (girlfreind)
15/04/1851	Levi Harwood & James Burbage		Surrey	Horsemonger Lane	Rev. Mr Hollest
22/04/1851	George Carnt	23	Suffolk	Bury St Edmunds (last public)	Elizabeth Bainbridge
23/04/1851	John Wiles & John Smith	56/22	Somerset	Taunton	William Wilkins
26/04/1851	Patrick Lyons		Lancashire	Liverpool (Kirkdale)	Peggy Fahay
16/08/1851	Henry Groom	42	Norfolk	Norwich Castle (County Gaol)	John Ayton
19/08/1851	Mary Cage	40	Suffolk	Ipswich	Husband
1852 - 6 executions.
16/03/1852	Elizabeth Pinchard	51	Northamptonshire	Northampton (last)	Mother in law
22/03/1852	Guglielmo Haldbergo		Oxfordshire	Oxford	Uncle, John Haldbergo
26/03/1852	Anthony Turner	49	Derbyshire	Derby	Mrs. Phoebe Barnes
10/04/1852	Sarah French	27	Sussex	Lewes	Husband
13/04/1852	John Keen	20	Surrey	Horsemonger Lane	Charles Brown
16/04/1852	Abel Ovans	22	Monmouthshire	Monmouth	Bastard child
1853 - 11 executions.
08/01/1853	Alfred Waddington		Yorkshire	York Castle	Bastard child
10/01/1853	Henry Horler		London & Middlesex	Newgate	Wife
15/01/1853	James Barbour		Yorkshire	York Castle	Alexander Robinson
30/03/1853	Charles Saunders		Essex	Chelmsford	Thomas Stoller
01/04.1853	George Sparkes	26	Devonshire	Exeter	William Blackmore
09/04/1853	Henry Dobson	27	Yorkshire	York Castle	Catherine Sheridan (19)
09/04/1853	Charles Moore	36	Staffordshire	Stafford	Mr & Mrs Blackbourn
10/08/1853	John Roberts		Wales	Caernarfon (last)	Jesse Roberts
17/08/1853	William Flack	18	Suffolk	Ipswich	Maria Steggles
27/08/1853	Richard Pedder	50	Lancashire	Lancaster Castle	Wife
21/11/1853	Nathaniel Mobbs		London & Middlesex	Newgate	Wife
1854 - 5 executions.
24/03/1853	Moses Hatto		Buckinghamshire	Aylesbury	Miss Mary Ann Spurgeon
03/04/1854	James Holman	31	Cornwall	Bodmin	Wife
07/04/1854	John Lloyd	27	Shropshire	Shrewsbury	John Griffins
08/04/1854	William Thompson	21	Norfolk	Norwich Castle (County Gaol)	Lorenzi Beha
04/08/1854	Tulmage Harvey	31	Devonshire	Exeter	Mary Richards
1855 - 5 executions.
22/01/1855	Emmanuel Barthelemy	32	London & Middlesex	Newgate	Charles Collard & George Moore
13/03/1855	Thomas Munroe	18	Cumberland	Carlisle	Isaac Turner
27/03/1855	William Wright		Wiltshire	Salisbury (last)	Ann Collins
30/04/1855	Luigi Bunarelli		London & Middlesex	Newgate	Joseph Lambert
04/08/1855	Joseph Meadows		Worcestershire	Worcester	Mary Ann Mason
1856 - 17 executions.
05/01/1856	Jonathan Heywood		Lancashire	Liverpool (Kirkdale)	Margaret Jones
08/01/1856	Abraham Baker		Hampshire	Winchester	Naomi Kingswell
19/03/1856	John Fowkes	45	Leicestershire	Leicester	Nephew
22/03/1856	Thomas Jones		Hampshire	Winchester	Dr Hope
31/03/1856	William Bousfield		London & Middlesex	Newgate	Wife
14/06/1856	William Palmer	32	Staffordshire	Stafford	J P Cook
25/07/1856	William Brown	33	Leicestershire	Leicester (last)	Edward Woodcock
05/08/1856	John Murdoch	20	Sussex	Lewes	Murder gaoler
09/08/1856	William Dove	28	Yorkshire	York Castle	Wife - Harriet
09/08/1856	Elizabeth Brown	45	Dorset	Dorchester	Husband
11/08/1856	William Nevin	44	Cornwall	Bodmin	Sgt Major Robinson
15/12/1856	Joseph Jenkins		London & Middlesex	Newgate	Richard Cope
20/12/1856	William Jackson	35	Cheshire	Chester	Murder his 2 children
23/12/1856	Guissepe Lagava,		Hampshire	Winchester	2 officers on the
23/12/1856	Giovanni Barbalano &		Hampshire	Winchester	ship "Globe" in the
23/12/1856	Matteo Pettrici		Hampshire	Winchester	Black Sea
27/12/1856	John Hannah	27	Yorkshire	York Castle	Jane Banham
1857 - 14 executions.
01/01/1857	Dedea Redanies	25	Kent	Maidstone	Caroline Beck (18)
21/04/1857	Thomas Nation	22	Somerset	Taunton	John Alpin
04/06/1857	George Bave	27	Kent	Maidstone	Samuel Long
06/07/1857	Thomas Mansell	29	Kent	Maidstone	Cpl Alex McBurney
23/07/1857	Micheal Crawley	62	Essex	Chelmsford	Wife
25/07/1857	John Lewis		Glamorganshire	Cardiff (last)	Wife
29/07/1857	Charles Finch		Essex	Chelmsford	Girlfriend
08/08/1857	George Jackson	20	Staffordshire	Stafford	Mr Charlesworth
20/08/1857	Stephen Fox	23	Kent	Maidstone	Mary Ann Hadley (25)
20/08/1857	George Edwards	18	Kent	Maidstone	His brother, Thomas
28/08/1857	John Blagg	47	Cheshire	Chester	John Babbington
29/08/1857	Richard Hardman	38	Lancashire	Lancaster Castle	Wife
12/09/1857	Capt. Henry Rogers		Lancashire	Liverpool (Kirkdale)	Andrew Rose
16/11/1857	Thomas Davis		London & Middlesex	Newgate	Wife
1858 - 9 executions.
12/01/1858	John Beale	30	Somerset	Taunton	Charlotte Pugsley
08/02/1858	Christian Sattler		London & Middlesex	Newgate	Insp. Thain
20/03/1858	Panaotis Alepis &	23	Glamorgan	Swansea	Fellow sailor
20/03/1858	Maneoli Selaptane	28	"	"	"
03/04/1858	Joseph Shephard	22	Yorkshire	York Castle	Bethel Parkinson
26/04/1858	Giovanni Lani		London & Middlesex	Newgate	Heloise Thaubin
10/08/1858	James Seal	19	Dorset	Dorchester	Sarah Ann Griffey
17/08/1858	Ebenezer Cherrington	27	Suffolk	Ipswich	Susan Studd
24/08/1858	John Bucknall		Somerset	Taunton	Grandparents
1859 - 12 executions.
01/01/1859	Henry Reid	38	Lancashire	Liverpool (Kirkdale)	Wife
07/01/1859	William Burgess	43	Somerset	Taunton	Daughter
08/01/1859	John Whitworth	22	Yorkshire	York Castle	Sally Hare (18)
07/04/1859	Fred. Prentice	20	Kent	Maidstone	Emma Cappins (17)
04/07/1859	Samuel Adams	36	London & Middlesex	Newgate	Martha Page
05/08/1859	William Pickett & Henry Carey	20/24	Lincolnshire	Lincoln Castle (last public)	William Stevenson
06/08/1859	John Riley	36	Yorkshire	York Castle	Wife - Alice
11/08/1859	John Wilthew	51	Durham	Durham	Wife
23/08/1859	Matthew Francis	25	Monmouthshire	Monmouth (last)	Wife
30/12/1859	John Kington	22	Warwickshire	Warwick	Wife
31/12/1859	Charles Normington	17	Yorkshire	York Castle	Richard Broughton
1860 - 10 executions.
31/03/1860	Joseph Castle	24	Bedfordshire	Bedford	Wife
11/04/1860	Serafim Manzano		Wiltshire	Devises (last)	Anastasia Troubridge
01/08/1860	John Fenton	37	Nottinghamshire	Nottingham	Charles Spencer
20/08/1860	Francis Price	24	Warwickshire	Warwick	Sarah Pratt
21/08/1860	George Cass		Cumberland	Carlisle	Ann Sewell
04/09/1860	William Youngman	24	Surrey	Horsemonger Lane	Mary Streeter
08/09/1860	Thomas Gallagher	40	Lancashire	Liverpool (Kirkdale)	Wife
19/11/1860	James Mullins	58	London & Middlesex	Newgate	Mrs Emsley
27/12/1860	Milner Lockey	58	Durham	Durham	Thomas Harrison
27/12/1860	Thomas Smith	35	Durham	Durham	John Baty
1861 - 14 executions.
01/01/1861	James Johnson		Hampshire	Winchester	Cpl. Coler
05/01/1861	Samuel Twigg	35	Staffordshire	Stafford	Wife
30/03/1861	Robert Hackett		Devonshire	Exeter	Henry Jones
05/04/1861	Matthew & Charles Wedmore		Somerset	Taunton	Sarah Waterman
23/04/1861	William Williams		Wales	Brecon (last)	Aunt
10/08/1861	Augustus Hilton		Cambridgeshire	Cambridge	Wife
16/08/1861	George Smith	20	Derbyshire	Derby	Patricide
27/08/1861	Martin Doyle	26	Cheshire	Chester	Attempted murder (last)
19/09/1861	Peter Masterson	22	Kent	Maidstone	Sgt. Martin Murphy.
14/10/1861	William Cogan		London & Middlesex	Newgate	Wife
27/12/1861	Thomas Jackson		Hampshire	Winchester	Sgt. John Dickson
30/12/1861	John Thompson	42	Warwickshire	Warwick	Ann Walker
30/12/1861	William Beamish	35	Warwickshire	Warwick	Wife/child
	All executions are for murder from here on.
1862 - 16 executions.
04/01/1862	James Waller	31	Yorkshire	York Castle	William Smith
04/01/1862	David Brandrick	30	Staffordshire	Stafford	Mr. Bagot
11/01/1862	Patrick M'Caffery		Lancashire	Liverpool (Kirkdale)	Col. Crofton
14/03/1862	John Gould		Berkshire	Reading (last)	6 year old daughter, Hannah
15/03/1862	William Charlton	35	Cumberland	Carlisle (last)	Jane Emerson
04/04/1862	Richard Rowlands		Anglesey	Beaumaris (last)	Richard Williams (father-in-law)
11/04/1862	Richard Thorley		Derbyshire	Derby (last)	Eliza Morrow
04/08/1862	George Gilbert	30	Hampshire	Winchester	Mary Ann Hall (23)
18/08/1862	John Doidge	28	Cornwall	Bodmin (last)	Robert Drewe
25/08/1862	George Gardiner		Warwickshire	Warwick	Sarah Kirby
13/09/1862	William Taylor		Lancashire	Liverpool (Kirkdale)	Mr. Mellor
13/09/1862	John Ward		Lancashire	Liverpool (Kirkdale)	William Jump
20/10/1862	Catherine Wilson	40	London & Middlesex	Newgate	Mrs Soames
17/11/1862	Robert Cooper		London & Middlesex	Newgate	Ann Barnham
23/12/1862	John Cox	25	Durham	Durham	Ann Halliday
30/12/1862	Ferdinando Petrina		Hampshire	Winchester	Murder on the high seas
1863 - 21 executions.
02/01/1863	William Ockold	70	Worcestershire	Worcester (last)	Wife, Sophie
03/01/1863	Thomas Edwards	30	Lancashire	Liverpool (Kirkdale)	Isabella Tonge
14/03/1863	George Vass	19	Northumberland	Newcastle (last)	Margaret Docherty
24/03/1863	Noah Austin	26	Oxfordshire	Oxford (last)	James Allen
27/03/1863	Charles Fookes	49	Dorset	Dorchester	Joseph Stone
27/03/1863	Edwin Preedy	20	Dorset	Dorchester	Charles Evans
06/04/1863	Henry Carter		Warwickshire	Warwick (last)	Alice Hinkley
11/04/1863	Robert Burton	18	Kent	Maidstone	Thomas Houghton (8)
11/04/1863	Edward Cooper	30	Shropshire	Shrewsbury	Son
14/04/1863	John Ducker	63	Suffolk	Ipswich (last)	PC Ebenezer Tye
15/04/1863	William Hope	30	Herefordshire	Hereford	Mary Corbett
25/04/1863	Duncan MacPhaill &	40	Lancashire	Liverpool (Kirkdale)	Mrs Ann Walne (79)
25/04/1863	George Woods		Lancashire	Liverpool (Kirkdale)	Mrs Ann Walne (79)
27/04/1863	Joseph Brooks		London & Middlesex	Newgate	PC Davy
20/08/1863	Alfred Holden	25	Kent	Maidstone	Infant son Alfred James
20/08/1863	Alfred Eldridge	33	Kent	Maidstone	Richard Steed (55)
12/09/1863	Jose Alvarez	22	Lancashire	Liverpool (Kirkdale)	James Harrison
12/09/1863	John Hughes	51	Lancashire	Liverpool (Kirkdale)	Wife
12/09/1863	James O'Brien		Lancashire	Liverpool (Kirkdale)	Elizabeth Callaghan
12/09/1863	Benjamin Thomas		Lancashire	Liverpool (Kirkdale)	Mary Rowland
28/12/1863	Alice Holt	27	Cheshire	Chester	Mother
1864 - 21 executions.
02/01/1864	John Green		Cambridgeshire	Cambridge (last)	Elizabeth Brown
09/01/1864	Luke Charles	25	Lancashire	Liverpool (Kirkdale)	Wife
12/01/1864	Samuel Wright		Surrey	Horsemonger Lane	Maria Green
22/02/1864	Francisco Blanco,		London & Middlesex	Newgate	The Flowery Land pirates,
22/02/1864	Ambrosio Durano,		"	"	murder of George Smith at sea.
22/02/1864	Miguel Lopez,		"	"	"
22/02/1864	Marcus Vartos &		"	"	"
22/02/1864	John Lyons		"	"	"
05/04/1864	Thomas Watkins		Herefordshire	Hereford (last)	Wife
16/04/1864	James Clitheroe		Lancashire	Liverpool	Mary Woods
02/05/1864	John Devine	21	London & Middlesex	Newgate	Joseph Duck
01/08/1864	Charles Bricknell	23	London & Middlesex	Newgate	Jane Jeary
05/08/1864	William Stephens		Buckinghamshire	Aylesbury (last)	Ann Leeson
10/08/1864	Thomas Parker		Nottinghamshire	Nottingham (last)	Matricide
27/08/1864	Lewis Gough	55	Gloucestershire	Gloucester (last)	Mary Curtis
10/09/1864	James Sargisson	20	Yorkshire	Leeds	John Cooper
10/09/1864	Joseph Myers	43	Yorkshire	Leeds	Wife
14/11/1864	Franz Muller	23	London & Middlesex	Newgate	Thomas Briggs (70)
27/12/1864	Richard Hale	30	Staffordshire	Stafford	Bastard daughter
27/12/1864	Charles Brough	24	Staffordshire	Stafford	George Walker
28/12/1864	Francis Wane	48	Essex	Chelmsford	Amelia Blunt
1865 - 6 executions.
07/01/1865	Henry Brown	32	Lancashire	Liverpool	Thomas McCarthy
26/01/1865	Ferdinand Kohl		Essex	Chelmsford (last)	Theodore Furhop
16/03/1865	Matthew Atkinson	41	Durham	Durham (last)	Wife
25/03/1865	Stephen Burke	40	Lancashire	Lancaster (last)	Wife
04/08/1865	John Hughes		Hampshire	Winchester	Maria Clements
12/10/1865	John Currie	19	Kent	Maidstone	Major de Vere
1866 - 12 executions.
09/01/1866	Charles Robinson	18	Staffordshire	Stafford	Harriet Seager
11/01/1866	Stephen Forward	25	Kent	Maidstone	Wife & daughter
27/03/1866	George Bentley		Staffordshire	Stafford	John Poole
28/03/1866	Mary Ann Ashford	45	Devonshire	Exeter	Husband
10/04/1866	John Leigh		Sussex	Lewes (last)	Harriet Horton
12/04/1866	Robert Coe	18	Glamorgan	Swansea (last)	John Davies
23/04/1866	Samuel Griffiths	26	Cheshire	Chester (last)	Victim unknown
07/08/1866	William Collier	35	Staffordshire	Stafford (last)	Thomas Smith
15/08/1866	John Grant	36	Devonshire	Exeter (last)	Philip Boobier
25/08/1866	James Burrows		Lancashire	Salford	J Brennan
01/09/1866	Thomas Grime		Lancashire	Liverpool	James Barton
09/10/1866	John Jeffrey		London & Middlesex	Newgate	Son (aged 7)
1867 - 12 executions.
10/01/1867	Ann Lawrence	29	Kent	Maidstone	Infant son, Jeremiah
10/01/1867	James Fletcher	20	Kent	Maidstone	James Boyle, warder
16/04/1867	James Longhurst		Surrey	Horsemonger Lane	Harriet Sax (6)
26/08/1867	Hubbard Lingley	22	Norfolk	Norwich Castle (last)	Uncle - Ben Black
29/08/1867	George Britten	51	Somerset	Taunton (last)	Wife
14/09/1867	Henry Farrington		Lancashire	Liverpool (last)	Wife
15/10/1867	John Wiggins		London & Middlesex	Newgate	Agnes Oakes
15/10/1867	Louis Bordier		Surrey	Horsemonger Lane (last)	Mary Ann Snow
23/11/1867	William Allen &		Lancashire	Salford	Police Sgt. Charles Brett
23/11/1867	William Gould &		"	"	"
23/11/1867	Michael Larkin		"	"	"
24/12/1867	Frederick Baker	29	Hampshire	Winchester (last)	Fanny Adams (8)
1868 - 8 public executions.
31/03/1868	William Worsley		Bedfordshire	Bedford (last)	William Bradbury
02/04/1868	Frances Kidder	25	Kent	Maidstone (last female)	Step-daughter, Louisa (12)
04/04/1868	Miles Wetherill		Lancashire	Salford (last)	Mary Hammer
04/04/1868	Timothy Faherty		Lancashire	Salford (last)	Rev Mr Plow
04/04/1868	Frederick Parker		Yorkshire	York Castle (last)	Daniel Driscoll
09/04/1868	John Mapp	35	Shropshire	Shrewsbury (last)	Catherine Lewis
30/04/1868	Richard Bishop	21	Kent	Maidstone (last)	Alfred Cartwright (24)
26/05/1868	Micheal Barrett		London & Middlesex	Newgate (last)	7 in Clerkenwell explosion
	(last) above indicates last public hanging at that location.
	You may see references to Southamptonshire in old books - this is now called Hampshire.
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