Marriage and Early Life Edith was born Edith Coomer and married George Morrey, a farmer’s son, on Tuesday the 18th of April 1797 at St. Chad’s Church in Wybunbury in southern Cheshire. She was then about nineteen years old and the daughter of a well-to-do farmer. Initially, the marriage was happy and they settled in … Read more
The Household and the Incident Elizabeth Fenning (always known as Eliza) was an attractive and petite girl who worked as the cook in the household of Robert and Charlotte Turner in London’s Chancery Lane. Eliza’s age is variously given as 20, 21, and 22 years. Robert Turner was a law stationer and also employed a … Read more
Background 49-year-old Elizabeth Sarah Woolterton was a farmer’s widow with eight children who lived at Denton in Suffolk. She was tried at the Suffolk Summer Assizes at Bury St. Edmunds, before Sir Vicary Gibbs, on Saturday, the 22nd of July, 1815. The Incident Elizabeth’s daughter, Amy Woolterton, testified that she and her mother lived at … Read more
A Familiar Tale of Theft Once again, it is a story of a servant who stole from her employer with the help of others—although on this occasion, one of them was to hang with her. Elizabeth Fricker was a thirty-year-old widow who worked as a maidservant in the household of Mrs. Ann Ashworth, who lived … Read more
At 8:00 a.m. on Tuesday, 17th February 1818, to the incessant tolling of the bell of St Sepulchres’ Church, two women and two men emerged from the Debtor’s Door at Newgate and ascended the 10 steps up to the platform of the gallows. They were 20-year-old Mary Ann James, 33-year-old Charlotte Newman, William Hatchman, and … Read more
