Female Executions 1735–1799

With special thanks to Mr. Dave Mossop for allowing me to publish the results of his years of painstaking research that has enabled this unique insight into 18th century female crime and punishment.

Over this 65 year period, around 1,600 women and girls were sentenced to death in England and Wales.  Of these, a minimum of 355 can be confirmed as having been executed, 323 by hanging and 32 by burning at the stake.  At least 1,230 were reprieved, giving an overall reprieve rate in the order of 78%.  A few died in prison prior to execution/reprieve and in around 50 cases, it is not possible to be certain what the final outcome of their case was, although some of them may well have been executed.  Prior to 1760, those not listed as definitely reprieved were usually hanged, after that date the reverse is true.

Period	1735 – 44	1745 – 54	1755 – 64	1765 – 74	1775 – 84	1785 – 94	1795 – 99	Totals
Sentenced to death	258	186	155	202	319	325	150	1596
Reprieved	190	132	98	164	253	276	129	1243
% reprieved	74%	71%	63%	81%	79%	85%	86%	78%
Hanged	60	49	53	33	59	46	21	323
Burned	8	5	5	5	6	3	0	32
Total executed	68	54	57	38	65	49	21	355

187 of the confirmed executions were for murder, representing 52.7% of the total. Eighty of these were hanged for the crime of murder of their bastard. They were typically young mothers who had got pregnant outside wedlock and killed their new born babies to avoid the stigma of single parenthood that was completely unacceptable at the time and/or the problems of bringing up a baby without any financial support whatsoever.  It wasn’t until the Infanticide Act of 1922 that the killing of a newborn baby by its mother was no longer classed as a capital crime. Sadly, it is quite possible that some of these children may have been stillborn or died of natural causes in the hours immediately after birth. 
Seventy six women were to be executed for other murders and 31 for the crime of Petty Treason (noted as P/T below), which was the murder by a woman of her husband or mistress (her superiors in law), and carried a mandatory sentence of burning at the stake up to 1789.  Twenty seven of these women were burned and four hanged.
The law decreed that women convicted of coining or otherwise counterfeiting money or possessing the equipment with which to do so, were guilty of High Treason (noted as H/T below) and were also to be burnt at the stake. (Men were hanged in the normal way for both crimes.)  Both men and women convicted of these crimes were drawn to the place of execution on a hurdle or sledge. Eight women suffered this fate either at Tyburn or Newgate up to 1798. From 1790, both High Treason and Petty Treason committed by women became punishable by normal hanging, although the drawing to the gallows on a sledge still persisted.

Age was no bar to execution and teenage girls were regularly put to death. Eighteen year old Mary Stracey was hanged at Tyburn for highway robbery on the 15th of March 1745 and 15 year old Elizabeth Morton suffered at Nottingham on Wednesday, the 6th of April 1763, for the murder of her master’s two year old daughter. On the 16th of October 1771, Mary Jones (aged 18) was hanged at Tyburn for stealing four pieces of muslin valued at £5. 10s (quite a substantial sum at the time). Eighteen year old Sarah Shenston went to the gallows in Shrewsbury on Thursday, the 22nd of March 1792, for the murder of her bastard child.  Susannah Minton, aged 17, was hanged at Hereford for arson on Saturday, the 16th of September 1786.  At Dorchester Assizes in March 1794, 15 year old Elizabeth Marsh was convicted of the murder of her grandfather, for which she was to hang on Monday, the 17th of March.
At least three teenage girls were burned for Petty Treason. Mary Grote, aged 16, suffered at Winchester for the murder of her mistress on the 18th of March 1738 and two 19 year olds, Mary Fawson and Susannah Bruford, were burned for the murder of their husbands.

Crimes against property were also dealt with severely. Privately stealing (picking pockets), highway robbery (also picking pockets, in most cases, but committed on the King’s highway), burglary, stealing or robbing in a dwelling house, housebreaking, stealing from a shop and theft of horses and sheep all carried a mandatory death sentence.  Some 125 women were to hang for these offences (35% of the total). However, it should be noted that the vast number of reprieves granted were also for offences against property.  There are a few instances of reprieves for the more serious offences of arson, coining and even murder, but these are quite rare.
Where people were reprieved, they were typically sentenced to transportation for a period of not less than four years, up to a maximum of life.  They were sent to either America (up to the Civil War there) or later to Australia.  Returning from transportation before the completion of one’s sentence or being on the run having broken out of jail constituted the capital crime of being at large in the Kingdom, and three women were executed for this.

Arson was a capital crime, as the destruction of property and the attendant risk to life and limb made it a very serious offence. Sixteen women were to go to the gallows for this.
The anti-Catholic Gordon Riots of 1780 led to a large number of executions for those convicted of assisting in the destruction of property (including Newgate prison). At least 25 people, including six women were hanged for offences committed during these riots. One of these was Charlotte Gardiner, a 19 year old black girl. Most of the Gordon Rioters were young people.

Forgery, uttering forged bank notes, wills, Letters of Attorney, etc. and personating (impersonating another person to gain pecuniary advantage) almost always resulted in execution and seven women were to die for these crimes.

Crime	Total
Murder bastard child	80
Murder	76
Highway robbery	42
Robbery in dwelling house	35
Petty Treason  (murder of  husband/master/mistress)	31
Burglary	25
Arson	16
Housebreaking	9
High Treason Coining	8
Forgery/Uttering/Personating	7
Riot/destroying property	6
Stealing in a shop	6
Horse/sheep theft	5
Pick pocket	5
Returning from transportation	3
Sacrilege	1
Totals	355

Prior to 1789, the place of execution would be typically a convenient open space outside the town to which the condemned would be taken in a procession consisting of the Sheriff or Under Sheriff, a minister, the hangman and a troop of Javelin men to guard them.  From 1789 to around 1820, there was a steady migration of executions away from these open spaces to places either directly in front of or on the roof of County gaols.
All of the women listed as hanged prior to 1783, would have been either “turned off” from a ladder or the back of a cart thus subjecting them to a short drop and therefore painful execution.  It was not until 1783 that the “New Drop” gallows, with a falling trap, was erected outside Newgate which may have led to a slightly easier death, although the drop given was still only 12–18 inches.  Prior to 1752, women who had been hanged were able to have their bodies reclaimed by family and friends and given a decent burial.  After this, women executed for murder had their bodies dissected after death and not returned to their families.
Those listed as burned would typically have been strangled with a “halter” before the fire was lit although this did not always happen.  Later they were, in effect, hanged at the stake prior to the fire being lit, as happened with the last three executions at Newgate.

The Murder Act of July 1752 required that murderers be hanged within two days of sentence, or the next “working day” if the second day was a Sunday, which was a “dies non” or non hanging day.  After this date, murderers were often hanged alone to comply with requirements of the Act.  As part of their punishment, they were only allowed bread and water between sentence and execution.

Women convicted of other crimes at the Old Bailey in London were usually executed several weeks after sentence when the Recorder had submitted his report indicating which prisoners sentenced to death should be reprieved and which were to be “left for execution” and were typically hanged alongside men, who had been sentenced to death at the same Sessions.  This was frequently the case at Tyburn and later at Newgate where quite large batches of prisoners were executed together.
Those sentenced to die at County Assizes had a report on their case forwarded by the trial judge to the Secretary of State for consideration for reprieve, containing his recommendation.  Many Assize towns in the Shire counties carried out executions on market day to ensure the biggest crowd, who were supposed to be deterred by the spectacle of the execution.

Where women were to be burned at the stake, their execution would usually take place a few minutes after the other condemned prisoners had been hanged, and they would be led to the stake past the hanging bodies of the other prisoners.

When a woman was convicted of a capital crime, she would be asked if there was any reason why sentence of death should not be passed upon her.  She could at this point “plead her belly,” i.e. that she was pregnant.  She was often not sentenced to death at this point but kept in prison and examined by matrons to see if she really was pregnant.  Many of the claims of pregnancy were entirely baseless.  If she was found to be “quick with child,” her execution was delayed until after she had given birth or her sentence was commuted to transportation. If not, she was returned to court to be formally sentenced to death and then included in the next batch of executions.  Anecdotal evidence suggests that women prisoners would sometimes try to get pregnant whilst in prison to save themselves from the gallows.  They would offer sex to their jailers or to visitors for this purpose, as the law did not permit the execution of a pregnant women.

By the mid 1700’s, newspapers were being widely produced, particularly in London and crimes, trials and executions were well reported.  Additionally, execution broadsides were sold, purporting to give the confessions and last dying speeches of some of these women.  Some of these still survive, but having read them one wonders how much of their content is pure fiction, especially as they were written several days before the execution.  In some cases, the prisoners were reprieved and in some cases there is no record of them having even existed!

Predictably, London and Middlesex had the most female executions with 72 at Tyburn between 1735 and 1783 and a further 19 outside Newgate between 1783 and 1799 (16 hanged and 3 burned).  The counties of Kent, Essex and Surrey also had large numbers of executions as crime moved out of the city of London into what are now the suburbs, but which at this time, were within the boundaries of these counties. It will be seen that there is a distinct North-South divide in favour of Northern women in the early years.

Below are the details of each of the confirmed executions from 1735–1799. In the early part of the period, it is sometimes difficult to ascertain whether prisoners who were sentenced to death were actually executed, as the records for some court circuits are very sketchy, so only the names of those whose executions can be verified are included.

1735 29 or 30 females sentenced to death, 13 confirmed executions – 11 hanged and 2 burned. There may have been one other woman sentenced to death in Nottingham.
Date	Name	Place	Method	Crime
Monday 10th March	Elizabeth Ambrook	Tyburn	Hanged with 10 men	Murder of her male bastard
	Jane Heybourn			Burglary
	Elizabeth Stevens			Highway robbery
Friday 8th May	Mary Warren	Exeter	Hanged	Murder of her male bastard
August – date unclear	Margaret Jones	Manafon Montgomery	Hanged with her husband	Murder of John Rea (Both may have been hanged in chains after execution)
Saturday 2nd August	Ann Virgin	Bedford	Hanged with her boyfriend	Murder of their bastard child. He was her late sister’s husband
Friday 1st or 8th August	Jane Hornblower	Worcester with 1 man	Hanged	Murder of her female bastard Hanged on a new gallows that cost £5 to construct.
Friday 8th August	Mary Fawson (20)	Northampton	Burned	P/T murder of her husband (poison)
	Elizabeth Wilkinson		Hanged	Picking pockets
Friday 8th August	Margaret Onion	Chelmsford 4 men hanged	Burned	P/T murder of her husband, Samuel (poison)
Friday 22nd August	Sarah Baylis	Over (Gloucester )	Hanged with 3 men	Murder of her male bastard
Friday 29th August	Mary Dulen	Exeter	Hanged	Murder of her male bastard
Monday 10th November	Elizabeth Armstrong	Tyburn with 1 man	Hanged	Murder of Patrick Darling

1736 20 females sentenced to death, 4 hanged and none burned.
Date	Name	Place	Method	Crime
Wednesday 9th June	Elizabeth Thompson	Gt. Yarmouth	Hanged	Murder of unnamed Dutchman
Friday 20th August	Mary Haddon	Northampton	Hanged	Murder of her mother
Thursday 26th August	Elizabeth Gillian	Kingston Surrey	Hanged with 1 man	Privately stealing (pickpocket)
Saturday 4th or 11th Sept.	Martha Colston	Cambridge	Hanged	Arson

1737 26 females sentenced to death, 2 hanged and 2 burned.
Date	Name	Place	Method	Crime
Thursday 3rd March	Mary Shrewsbury	Tyburn with 11 men	Hanged	Murder of her male bastard
Wednesday 29th June	Ann Mudd	Tyburn with 6 men	Burned	P/T murder husband, Thomas (stabbing)
Friday 1st July	Mary Bird	Ely	Burned	P/T murder husband, John (poison)
Thursday 18th August	Margaret Wickes or Wicker	Maidstone	Hanged with 5 men	Murder of Lydia Faggs (18 months old)

1738 15-17 females sentenced to death, 5 hanged and 2 burned. Possibly two other women hanged at Oxford and Shrewsbury but not confirmed and additionally 2 women sentenced to death in Pembrokeshire for murder but outcome of sentence not known.
Date	Name	Place	Method	Crime
Wednesday 18th January	Sarah Allen	Tyburn (sentenced in 1737)	Hanged with 9 men	Murder of her male bastard
	Elizabeth Adams			Robbery in dwelling house
	Elizabeth Osborne & Ann Clark			Burglary
Saturday 18th March	Mary Grote (aged 16)	Winchester with 2 men	Burned	P/T murder mistress, Justin Turner (poison)
Wednesday 12th April	Ann Goodson	Guildford with 6 men	Burned	P/T murder of husband, Thomas (stabbing)
Friday 22nd December	Constancia Jones	Tyburn	Hanged with 2 men	Pickpocket

1739 24 females sentenced to death, 6 hanged and 1 burned. Probably one other woman, Mary Wilkins,  hanged at Oxford for murder of her male bastard, but not confirmed.
Date	Name	Place	Method	Crime
Saturday 17th or 24th  March	Sarah Farmer	Winchester	Hanged with 1 man	Murder of her female bastard
Friday 13th April	Mary Brittain	Warwick	Hanged with 2 men	Murder of her bastard child
Saturday 26th May	Elinor Hadley	Carmarthen	Hanged	Murder of her bastard child
Friday 14th September	Eleanor Spencer	Kennington Common Surrey	Hanged with 4 men	Robbery in a dwelling house
	Johanna Rashford
Friday 21st December	Susanna Broom (or Brown)	Tyburnwith 8 men	Burned	P/T murder of her husband, John (stabbing)
	Elizabeth Harrard		Hanged	Murder of her male bastard

1740 33 females sentenced to death, 10 hanged and none burned. Probably one other woman, Margaret Sherley was hanged at Worcester for stealing in a dwelling house, but not confirmed.
Date	Name	Place	Method	Crime
Wednesday 6th February	Elizabeth Winchley	Peterborough	Hanged	Murder – poisoned her maidservant
Friday 11th April	Johanna Bryant	Exeter with 6 men	Hanged	Murder of their bastard children
	Dinah Turner
	Ann Cummins
Saturday 3rd May	Elizabeth Branch & Betty Branch	Ilchester Somerset	Hanged	Mother and daughter who murdered their maidservant, Jane Butterworth, aged 13
Thursday 21st August	Mary Cooper	Kingston Surrey	Hanged	Burglary
Friday 29th August	Martha Allen	Exeter (Heavitree)	Hanged with 2 men	Horse theft
Monday 24th November	Margaret Stanton	Tyburn	Hanged with 3 men	Robbery in a dwelling house
	Eleanor Mumpman			Housebreaking

16 year old William Duell who was hanged with Margaret Stanton & Eleanor Mumpman, survived his execution.
His death sentence was commuted and he was transported.

1741 38 females sentenced to death, 7 hanged and none burned. Probably one other woman, Sarah Holcombe, hanged at Ilchester for murdering her male bastard, but not confirmed.
Date	Name	Place	Method	Crime
Wednesday 18th March	Elizabeth Fox & Priscilla Mahon	Tyburn	Hanged with 16 men	Robbery in a dwelling house (brothel)
	Mary Young (Jenny Diver)			Highway robbery
	Dorothy Middleton			Burglary
Friday 17th April	Jane Williams	Bristol Hotwells	Hanged with 3 men	Murder of her bastard child
Friday 31st July	Catherine Lineham	Tyburn	Hanged with 1 man	Robbery in a dwelling house
Wed. 16th September	Mary Harris (or Murphy)	Tyburn	Hanged with 3 men	Highway robbery

1742 32 females sentenced to death, 3 hanged and none burned. Possibly five other women hanged in Oxfordshire, Staffordshire, Cornwall and Devonshire, but not confirmed.
Date	Name	Place	Method	Crime
Thursday 14th January	Mary Dutton	Tyburn	Hanged with 10 men	Highway robbery
	Margaret Watson			Pick pocket
Wednesday 14th April	Ann Elliot	Guildford with 5 men	Hanged	Burglary

1743 18 females sentenced to death, 6 hanged and none burned.
Date	Name	Place	Method	Crime
Friday 15th April	Alice Stribling	Exeter	Hanged with 2 men	Murder of her apprentice, Elizabeth Tossle
Friday 13th May	Sarah Barrett (or Dodd)	Bristol Hotwells	Hanged	Stealing in a dwelling house
Wednesday 18th May	Sarah Wilmshurst	Tyburn	Hanged with 2 men	Murder of her infant daughter
	Elizabeth Cannon			Stealing in a dwelling house
	Ann Ellard
Thursday 25th August	Ann Hazard	Kennington Common	Hanged with 5 men	Murder of Simon Petell (hanged with co- defendant James Day)

1744 22 females sentenced to death, 6 hanged and 1 burned. Possibly 2 other women hanged and 1 burned.
Date	Name	Place	Method	Crime
Friday 6th April	Elizabeth Haines	Red Hill Worcester	Hanged with 4 men	Murder of daughter, Anne
Friday 10th August	Elizabeth Moreton (aged about 22)	Evesham Worcs.	Burned	P/T murder of husband (poison)
Friday 5th October	Sarah Cox	Tyburn	Hanged with 5 men	Highway robbery
Wednesday 7th November	Ann Gwynn	Tyburn	Hanged with 5 men	Robbery in a dwelling house
	Ann Duck			Highway robbery
	Ann Wells
Monday 24th December	Hannah Moses	Tyburn with 17 men	Hanged	Stealing in a shop

1745 22 females sentenced to death, 5 hanged and none burned.
Date	Name	Place	Method	Crime
Friday 15th March	Mary Stracy (or Martha Tracey)	Tyburn	Hanged with 1 man	Highway robbery
Friday 7th June	Mary “Cut & come again” White	Tyburn	Hanged with 6 men	Highway robbery
	Lettuce Lyon			Housebreaking
Thursday 9th July	Margaret Greenaway &Ann Rush	Tyburn	Hanged	Highway robbery

1746 22 females sentenced to death, 3 hanged and none burned. Probably 3 other women hanged for murders in Oxfordshire, Monmouthshire and Cornwall, but not confirmed. Possibly one in Durham.
Date	Name	Place	Method	Crime
Saturday 29th March	Mary Brewer	Chelmsford	Hanged	Murder of her male bastard
Friday 4th April	Judith Tilly	Tyburn	Hanged with 7 men	Highway robbery
	Catherine Howell			Stealing in a dwelling house

1747 16 females sentenced to death, 5 hanged and 1 burned.
Date	Name	Place	Method	Crime
Tuesday 14th April	Elizabeth Tarrant	Salisbury	Hanged with 2 men	Arson
Friday 10th or 17th April	Mary Johnson	Lincoln	Burned	P/T murder of husband (poison)
Wednesday 6th May	Susanna Way	Taunton with 1 man	Hanged	Murder of her male bastard
Wednesday 17th June	Mary Allen (or Smith)	Tyburn with 4 men	Hanged	Stealing in a shop
Friday 31st July	Elizabeth Dennis	Tyburn with 2 men	Hanged	Highway robbery
Friday 18th September	Mary Wadland	Exeter	Hanged	Murder of her male bastard

1748 11 females sentenced to death, 1 hanged and none burned.
Date	Name	Place	Method	Crime
Friday 28th October	Sarah Kennington	Tyburn with 9 men	Hanged	Stealing in a dwelling house

1749 18 females sentenced to death, 3 hanged and 1 burned.
Date	Name	Place	Method	Crime
Wednesday 26th April	Ann Vain	Tyburn with 8 men	Hanged	Highway robbery
Friday 4th of August	Phillis Dykes	Chelmsford with 2 men	Hanged	Murder of her male bastard
Wednesday 18th October	Mary Dymer	Tyburn with 14 men	Hanged	Highway robbery
Tuesday 7th November	Amy Hutchinson	Ely with 1 man*	Burned	P/T murder husband, John (poison)

*John Vickers (or Juckers) who was being hanged for murder asked that Amy be burnt first so that he could watch!

1750 15 females sentenced to death, 5 hanged and one burned.  Probably 1 other woman was hanged, in Essex (Mary Farthing for the murder of her female bastard).
Date	Name	Place	Method	Crime
Thursday 12th April	Susan Phillips	Exeter	Hanged	Murder of her male bastard
Thursday 12th April	Elizabeth Packard	Exeter	Burned	P/T murder of her husband
Friday 6th July	Catherine Conway	Tyburn (all female execution)	Hanged	Uttering forgery (will)
	Margaret Harvey			Privately stealing
	Elizabeth Banks			Highway robbery
Monday 31st December	Catherine Connor (age 17)	Tyburn with 14 men	Hanged	Uttering forgery (will)

Both Catherine Conway and Margaret Harvey had been pregnant at the time of their trials and their
executions were delayed until after they had given birth.

1751 18 females sentenced to death, 4 hanged and none burned. Probably 1 other woman was hanged at Horsham (Elizabeth Lewes for the murder of her male bastard.)
Date	Name	Place	Method	Crime
Thursday 11th April	Ann Smith	Maidstone with 4 men	Hanged	Murder of her female bastard
Thursday 22nd August	Sarah Meredith	Maidstone with 1 man	Hanged	Highway robbery
Wednesday 23rd October	Ann Berry	Tyburn with 9 men	Hanged	Highway robbery
	Bridget Shepherd			Stealing in a dwelling house

1752 20 females sentenced to death, 9 hanged and 1 burned.
Date	Name	Place	Method	Crime
Monday 13th January	Rachel Beachem	Tyburn with 3 men	Hanged	Murder of a child, Henrietta Dawes
Wednesday 18th March	Alice Andrew	Hertford with 3 men	Hanged	Murder of daughter Her male co-defendant was hanged with her.
Monday 23rd March	Anne Wilson	Tyburn with 14 men	Hanged	Murder
	Mary Gilfoy			Stealing in a dwelling house
Saturday 28th March	Elizabeth Jeffries	Epping Forest with 1 man	Hanged	Both for the murder of her uncle, his master.
Thursday 2nd of April	Elizabeth Sparks	Maidstone with 5 men	Hanged	Highway robbery
Monday 6th April	Mary Blandy	Oxford	Hanged	Murder of her father
Monday 3rd August	Agnes Collier (or Cole)	Exeter	Hanged	Murder
Friday 7th August	Anne Whale	Broadbridge Heath, Sussex	Burned	P/T murder of husband, James (poison)
	Sarah Pledge		Hanged	Assisting Ann Whale

1753 18 females sentenced to death, 5 hanged and 2 burned. Possibly 1 other woman, Elizabeth Gammin was hanged in Somerset for being at large in the Kingdom.
Date	Name	Place	Method	Crime
Monday 12th February	Ann Fox	Tyburn with 6 men	Hanged	Stealing in a dwelling house
Friday 13th April	Anne Williams	Gloucester with 2 men	Burned	P/T murder of husband (poison)
Monday 16th April	Grace Weedon	Tyburn with 4 men	Hanged	Highway robbery
	Isabella Roe
Monday 27th August	Ann Course	Aylesbury	Hanged	Arson
Monday 3rd September	Susannah Bruford	Wells Somerset	Burned	P/T murder of husband, John (poison)
Monday 1st October	Hannah Wilson	Tyburn with 3 men	Hanged	Highway robbery

1754 26 females sentenced to death, 11 hanged and none burned. Possibly 2 other women were hanged in Herefordshire (Elizabeth Williams for stealing in a shop) and Somerset (Elizabeth Barnstable for stealing in a dwelling house).
Date	Name	Place	Method	Crime
Monday 4th February	Grace Grannet	Tyburn with 11 men	Hanged	Highway robbery
Monday 4th February	Peggy Dunn	Oxford City gallows	Hanged	Privately stealing
Monday 11th March	Alice Whitman	Hertford	Hanged	Murder of her female bastard
Saturday 23rd March	Mary Dilke(s)	Derby	Hanged	Murder of her male bastard
Monday 8th April	Mary Ashford	Taunton with 1 man	Hanged	Murder of Robert Bacon (hanged with her husband)
Monday 5th August	Mary Smith	Tyburn with 1 man	Hanged	Highway robbery
Monday 12th August	Frances Cheek	Chelmsford	Hanged	Murder of her daughter, Hester
Monday 19th August	Dorothy Catinby	Newcastle upon Tyne	Hanged	Murder of her bastard child
Friday 27th September	Elizabeth Hind	Bristol with 1 man	Hanged	Highway robbery
Monday 9th December	Eleanor Connor	Tyburn	Hanged	At large (returning from transportation)
Saturday 21st December	Margaret Mantle	Canterbury	Hanged	Murder bastard child

1755 20 females sentenced to death, 9 hanged and none burned.
Date	Name	Place	Method	Crime
Monday 10th March	Mary Russell	Winchester	Hanged	Murder of Philip Lander
Friday 4th April	Ann Ockford	Gloucester	Hanged	Murder of her female bastard
Friday 11th April	Sarah Dean	Chester	Hanged	Murder
Thursday 17th July	Margaret Wright	Reading	Hanged	Murder of her bastard child
Friday 1st August	Ann Williamson	Derby	Hanged	Privately stealing from a person
Monday 11th August	Grace Smith	Bodmin	Hanged	Murder of infant girl
Monday 18th August	Catherine Gardner	Bristol	Hanged	Murder of her female bastard
Monday 15th September	Mabel Hughes	Tyburn	Hanged	Murder of Alexander Knipe
Monday 8th December	Elizabeth Barnes	Tyburn with 1 man	Hanged	Murder of lover’s wife, hanged with Richard Jeffreys, her lover

1756 4 females sentenced to death, 1 hanged and none burned.
Date	Name	Place	Method	Crime
Monday 29th March	Ann Lance (or Wood)	Maidstone	Hanged	Murder of her male bastard

1757 16 females sentenced to death, 4 hanged and 1 burned. Possibly 1 other woman hanged at Newcastle upon Tyne for the murder of her bastard child, but no confirmation of this.
Date	Name	Place	Method	Crime
Monday 28th March	Mary Ellah	York	Burned	P/T murder of husband, Thomas with an axe
Monday 30th May	Mary Mussen	Tyburn	Hanged	Murder of her female bastard
Thursday 28th July	Elizabeth Newman	Salisbury	Hanged	Murder of her female bastard
Saturday 6th August	Mary Williams	Winchester with 1 man	Hanged	Stealing in a dwelling house
Wednesday 5th October	Eleanor Eddows	Tyburn with 11 men	Hanged	Uttering forgery

1758 27 females sentenced to death, 5 hanged, 2 probably burned. (Alice Davis & Mary Larny). High treason normally resulted in burning at the stake.
Date	Name	Place	Method	Crime
Friday 31st March	Alice Davis	Tyburn with 7 men	Burned?	H/T coining
Friday 31st March	Christian Perkin	Exeter with 8 men	Hanged	Housebreaking
Wednesday 3rd May	Margaret Dryden	Berwick on Tweed	Hanged	Murder bastard child
Friday 21st July	Ann Jordan	Salisbury	Hanged	Murder of female bastard
Monday 7th August	Alice Williamson	Newcastle upon Tyne (City)	Hanged	Burglary
Wednesday 16th August	Mary Vinson	Gloucester with 1 man	Hanged	Housebreaking
Monday 2nd October	Mary Larny	Tyburn with 4 men	Burned?	H/T filing coins

1759 16 females sentenced to death, 6 hanged and none burned.
Date	Name	Place	Method	Crime
Saturday 31st March	Ann Loale	Northampton	Hanged	Murder of her bastard child
Saturday 31st March	Hannah Thomas	Winchester with 5 men	Hanged	Housebreaking
Monday 2nd April	Mary Edmondson	Kennington Common	Hanged	Murder of her aunt, Susanna Walker
Monday 16th April	Edith Saunders	Gloucester	Hanged	Murder of James Short
Monday 16th April	Sarah Evill	Taunton	Hanged	Murder of her male bastard
Monday 16th June	Catherine Knowland	Tyburn	Hanged	Highway robbery

1760 7 females sentenced to death, 1 hanged and none burned.
Date	Name	Place	Method	Crime
Saturday 24th May	Ann Hulloch	Tyburn	Hanged	Murder of her female bastard

1761 17 females sentenced to death, 5 hanged and none burned. Jean Blave was probably hanged at Ilchester for burglary in a dwelling house.
Date	Name	Place	Method	Crime
Monday 16th March	Elizabeth Castlebine	Leicester with 1 man	Hanged	Murder of Edward Brown (hanged with her husband)
Saturday 21st March	Ann Giles	Reading	Hanged	Arson
Friday 3rd April	Elizabeth Brooks	Gloucester	Hanged	Burglary
Wednesday 8th July	Mary Jefferies	Salisbury	Hanged	Murder bastard child
Monday 26th October	Ester Rowden	Tyburn with 1 man	Hanged	Murder of her female bastard

1762 13 females sentenced to death, 8 hanged and none burned.
Date	Name	Place	Method	Crime
Thursday 11th March	Ann Nott	Worcester City gallows	Hanged	Murder of her male bastard
Friday 26th March	Alice Ridley	Lancaster Moor	Hanged	Murder of her male bastard
Thursday 15th April	Margaret Ramsey	Maidstone with 2 men	Hanged	Personating to receive a another’s wages
Monday 19th July	Sarah Metyard & her daughter, Sarah Morgan Metyard	Tyburn	Hanged	Murder of Ann Nailor (13) their apprentice
Saturday 24th July	Susannah Harris	Oxford with 1 man	Hanged	Murder of her female bastard
Thursday 12th August	Ann Morrell	Warwick	Hanged	Murder bastard child
Friday 20th August	Susanna Guise	Worcester Red Hill	Hanged	Privately stealing from person

1763 20 females sentenced to death, 8 hanged and 2 burned.
Date	Name	Place	Method	Crime
Monday 28th March	Mary Saunders	Stafford	Hanged	Murder of her female bastard
Wednesday 6th April	Elizabeth Morton (age 15)	Nottingham	Hanged	Murder of her master’s child
Friday 8th April	Margaret (Ann) Beddingfield (age 21)	Ipswich	Burned	P/T murder of husband, John (poison) Her co-defendant Richard Ringe was hanged at the same time
Saturday 23rd April	Mary Heald	Chester	Burned	P/T murder of husband, Samuel (poison)
Wednesday 4th May	Hannah Dagoe	Tyburn with 2 men	Hanged	Stealing in a dwelling house
Monday 1st August	Margaret Middleton	Durham	Hanged	Murder of a child, Lucy Elliott
Wednesday 10th August	Margaret Clarke	Coventry (Whitley Common)	Hanged with 2 men	At large (returning from transportation)
	Margaret Brown			Stealing in a dwelling house
Monday 19th September	Esther Levingston	Tyburn	Hanged	Murder of Peter Dove
Wed. 28th December	Mary Robinson	Tyburn with 3 men	Hanged	Stealing in a dwelling house

1764 15 females sentenced to death, 3 hanged and 1 burned.
Date	Name	Place	Method	Crime
Wednesday 21st March	Mary Saunders	Monmouth	Burned	P/T murder of mistress, Joan Jones
Wednesday 28th March	Ann Barker	Tyburn with 3 men	Hanged	Highway robbery
Friday 30th March	Sarah Young	Horsham	Hanged	Murder of her male bastard
Friday 21st December	Jane Smith	Coventry	Hanged	At large (returning from transportation)

1765 22 females sentenced to death, 2 hanged and 1 burned.
Date	Name	Place	Method	Crime
Wednesday 8th May	Mary Norwood	Illchester Somerset	Burned	P/T murder of husband
Friday 16th August	Elizabeth Staddon	Exeter with 1 man	Hanged	Arson
Monday 23rd September	Maria Jenkins	Tyburn with 2 men	Hanged	Murder of her male bastard

1766 23 females sentenced to death, 5 or 6 hanged and none or 1 burned. Mary Davy could have been burned as the crime of murdering her mistress was Petty treason.
Date	Name	Place	Method	Crime
Wednesday 15th January	Mary Pyner	Tyburn with 6 men	Hanged	Stole in dwelling house
Monday 10th March	Mary Lamphrey	Oxford	Hanged	Murder daughter’s bastard child
Wednesday 12th March	Mary Davy	Lincoln	Hanged or burned	Murder of her mistress, Mary Kemp & Elizabeth Verney, a nurse
Friday 4th April	Elizabeth Burroughs	Bury St. Edmunds	Hanged	Murder of maidservant
Wednesday 18th June	Jane M’Ginnis	Tyburn with 1 man	Hanged	Stole in dwelling house
Thursday 29th July	Susan Schiffel	Salisbury	Hanged	Murder of Ann Noyes (her husband had been hanged for this crime in March)

1767 18 females sentenced to death, 4 hanged and 1 burned. 2 others possibly hanged together in Pembrokeshire for murdering their bastard children.
Date	Name	Place	Method	Crime
Monday 3rd August	Sarah Addington	Bedford	Hanged	Murder of Mary Dunton
Friday 7th August	Ann Strawbridge	Salisbury	Hanged	Murder female bastard
Saturday 8th August	Mary Newton	Chester	Hanged	Murder of a child
Monday 10th August	Ann Sowerby	York	Burned	P/T murder of husband, Timothy (poison)
Monday 14th September	Elizabeth Brownrigg	Tyburn	Hanged	Murder of her apprentice, Mary Clifford

1768 19 females sentenced to death, 4 hanged and none burned.
Date	Name	Place	Method	Crime
Wednesday 29th June	Mary Hindes	Tyburn	Hanged	Murder of Joseph Smith (17 months)
Saturday 13th August	Martha Green	Ipswich	Hanged	Stole in dwelling house
Wednesday 12th October	Hannah Smith	Tyburn with 4 men	Hanged	Stole in dwelling house
Wednesday 21st December	Elizabeth Richardson	Tyburn	Hanged	Murder of William Pimlot

1769 18 females sentenced to death, 2 hanged and 1 burned.
Date	Name	Place	Method	Crime
Monday 27th March	Ann Windsor	Exeter	Hanged	Murder of her 6 month old child, Mary
Friday 21st July	Susannah Lott	Maidstone with 1 man	Burned	P/T murder of husband, John (poison)
Saturday 16th September	Elizabeth Martin (or Morton)	Great Yarmouth	Hanged	Murder of her bastard child

1770 15 females sentenced to death, 1 hanged and none burned.
Date	Name	Place	Method	Crime
Wednesday 10th October	Mary Ann Ryan	Tyburn with 4 men	Hanged	Highway Robbery

1771 28 females sentenced to death, 7 hanged and none burned.
Date	Name	Place	Method	Crime
Monday 1st April	Catherine Burgess	Launceston	Hanged	Murder of her female bastard
Saturday 13th April	Ann Catchpole	Ipswich	Hanged	Arson
Wednesday 31st July	Susan Dulwich	Ipswich	Hanged	Murder of her bastard child
Wednesday 7th August	Frances Allen	Tyburn with 2 men	Hanged	Housebreaking
Friday 2nd August ?	Elizabeth Williams	Shrewsbury	Hanged	Murder of her male bastard
Friday 9th August	Ann Chapman	Bodmin	Hanged	Murder of her female bastard
Wednesday 16th October	Mary Jones	Tyburn with 4 men	Hanged	Stole in shop

177221 females sentenced to death, 3 hanged and 1 burned.
Date	Name	Place	Method	Crime
Monday 16 March	Elizabeth Twigg or Trigg	Gloucester	Hanged	Murder of her son
Monday 6th April	Mary Hilton	Lancaster Moor	Burned	P/T murder of husband (poison)
Thursday 6th August	Rachel Bayley	Salisbury	Hanged	Murder of her male bastard
Saturday 29th August	Elizabeth Mansfield	Bridgwater	Hanged	Murder of her male bastard

177316 females sentenced to death, 1 hanged and 1 burned.
Date	Name	Place	Method	Crime
Monday 22nd March	Frances Hallson (aka Mary Hutton)	Exeter	Hanged	Murder of her 3 week old son
Monday 13th September	Elizabeth Herring	Tyburn	Burned	P/T murder of husband, Robert (stabbing)

1774 22 females sentenced to death, 3 hanged and none burned.
Date	Name	Place	Method	Crime
Monday 23rd May	Jane Cornforth	Tyburn	Hanged	Murder of her male bastard
Monday 29th August	Elizabeth Hyne	Chester	Hanged	Murder of neighbour’s bastard child
December (poss. Jan 1775)	Margaret Williams	Caernarfon	Hanged	Murder of her stepson William Williams (age 6)

Margaret Williams was sentenced on the 30th August but respited as she was pregnant.
It is not clear whether she was hanged in the last week of December 1774 or the first week of January 1775.

1775 28 females sentenced to death, 4 hanged and none burned. Possibly also Hannah Saunders hanged at Warwick for highway robbery.
Date	Name	Place	Method	Crime
Friday 24th March	Elizabeth Aldridge	Salisbury with 1 man	Hanged	Murder of her female bastard
	Tamar Swain			Murder of daughter, Ann (hanged with her husband)
Friday 11th August	Susan Bran	Maidstone with 1 man	Hanged	Murder of her male bastard
Wed 13th December	Sarah Reynolds	Tyburn	Hanged	Murder of her male bastard

177620 females sentenced to death, 3 hanged and 3 burned.
Date	Name	Place	Method	Crime
Thursday 14th March	Ann Hale	Worcester	Hanged	Murder of her male bastard
Monday 18th March	Margaret Ryan	Maidstone	Burned	P/T murder of husband, Patrick (stabbing)
Wednesday 20th March	Elizabeth Boardingham	York with 1 man	Burned	P/T murder husband, John (co-accused Thomas Aikney hanged with her)
Friday 29th March	Mary Penylegon	Launceston	Hanged	Murder of her male bastard
Friday 19th April	Susannah Underwood	Gloucester with 1 man	Hanged	Arson
Thursday 8th August	Ann Cruttendon (aged about 80)	Horsham	Burned	P/T murder of husband, Joseph (stabbing)

1777 18 females sentenced to death, none executed.  This is the only year between 1735 and 1800 with no female executions.

1778 23 females sentenced to death, 5 hanged and none burned.
Date	Name	Place	Method	Crime
Monday 16th March	Elizabeth Grimmet	Gloucester	Hanged	Murder of her male bastard
Monday 23rd March	Elizabeth Johnson	Leicester	Hanged	Murder of her bastard child
Thursday 20th August	Alice Curtis	Warwick	Hanged	Murder of her bastard child
	Mary Wright			Murder of her son, Roger
Friday 11th September	Sarah Sant	Chester	Hanged	Murder of her bastard child

177921 females sentenced to death, 4 hanged and 1 burned.
Date	Name	Place	Method	Crime
Tuesday 25th May	Alice Bishop	Exeter	Hanged	Murder of her daughter
Thursday 12th August	Catherine Jenkins	Gloucester	Hanged	Murder of her niece, Ann Jenkins
Saturday 2nd October	Sarah Jones	Chester	Hanged	Stealing in a shop
Wednesday 27th October	Margaret Creamer	Tyburn with 2 men	Hanged	Highway robbery
	Isabella Condon		Burned	H/T coining

1780 30 females sentenced to death, 14 hanged and none burned.
Date	Name	Place	Method	Crime
Saturday 4th March	Catherine Parker	Northampton with 1 man	Hanged	Murder of Thomas Cottingham
Thursday 9th March	Susan(na) Grigg	Worcester	Hanged	Murder of her female bastard
Friday 10th March	Hannah Bryant	Aylesbury	Hanged	Murder of her female bastard
Friday 17th March	Elizabeth Butchill	Cambridge	Hanged	Murder of her female bastard
Saturday 25th March or 1st April	Mary Shelton	Bedford	Hanged	Housebreaking
Wednesday 5th April	Elizabeth Kerby	Aylesbury	Hanged	Housebreaking
Tuesday 11th July	Mary Roberts & Charlotte Gardiner	Tower Hill with 1 man	Hanged	Pulling down a house during the Gordon Riots
Wednesday 9th August	Elizabeth Collins & Mary Locke	St. George’s Fields Southwark	Hanged with 4 men	Pulling down a house during the Gordon Riots
Friday 25th August	Alice Twisden	Exeter with 1 man	Hanged	Stealing in a dwelling house
Saturday 23 September	Mary Ellicks	Stratford	Hanged	Burglary
Wed 22nd November	Mary Gardner	Tyburn with 8 men	Hanged	Pulling down a house during the Gordon Riots
Wed 29th November	Margaret M’Clachlan	Tyburn with 1 man	Hanged	Robbery in a dwelling house

The Gordon Riots were anti-Catholic riots which took place in London in June 1780.

1781 38 females sentenced to death, 7 hanged and none burned.
Date	Name	Place	Method	Crime
Tuesday 27th February	Ann Martin	Tyburn	Hanged	Stealing in a dwelling house
Wednesday 6th June	Jane Vincent	Tyburn with 5 men	Hanged	Robbery in a dwelling house
Friday 24th August	Martha Wills or Willis	Hampton Green nr. Bridgwater?	Hanged	Murder of her female bastard
Thursday 18th October	Mary Bond	Tyburn with 9 men	Hanged	Robbery in a dwelling house
	Jane Fuller & Elizabeth Hatchett			Highway robbery
Monday 20th November	Margaret Tinkler	Durham	Hanged	Murder of Jane Parkinson while attempting an abortion

178242 females sentenced to death, 7 hanged and 1 burned.
Date	Name	Place	Method	Crime
Thursday 14th March	Catherine Higgs	Worcester	Hanged	Murder of her daughter, Mary
Monday 18th March	Jane Whitney	Maidstone	Hanged	Murder of Hannah Fennell
Monday 25th March	Elizabeth Waldron	Exeter with 1 man	Hanged	Murder of her male bastard
Wednesday 12th June	Mary Rawlings	Tyburn with 7 men	Hanged	Robbery in a dwelling house
Monday 29th July	Sarah Turner	Shrewsbury	Hanged	Murder of Mary Davies
Monday 29th July	Rebecca Downing	Exeter	Burned	P/T murder of master, Richard Jarvis
Tuesday 15th October	Charlotte Goodall	Tyburn with 9 men	Hanged	Stealing in a dwelling house
Friday 22nd November	Elizabeth Holmstead	Chelmsford	Hanged	Burglary

1783 59 females sentenced to death, 7 hanged and none burned.
Date	Name	Place	Method	Crime
Friday 18th April	Ann Williams	Gloucester with 1 man	Hanged	Housebreaking
Saturday 3rd May	Martha Brown	Chester with 1 man	Hanged	Arson
Friday 8th August	Eleanor or Elizabeth Hudd	Salisbury	Hanged	Murder of her female bastard
Saturday 23rd August	Sarah Cave	Bedford	Hanged	Arson
Tuesday 26th August	Martha Baker	Southwark with 1 man	Hanged	Murder of Elisha Cook (hanged with her co-accused)
Friday 29th August	Elizabeth Rumbelow (63)	Exeter with 6 men	Hanged	Sheep stealing
Tuesday 9th December	Frances Warren	Newgate with 9 men	Hanged	Burglary First executions outside Newgate prison in London

178440 females sentenced to death, 8 hanged and 1 burned.
Date	Name	Place	Method	Crime
Wednesday 21st January	Mary Moody	Newgate	Hanged	Stealing in a dwelling house
Monday 8th March	Mary Bailey	Winchester	Burned	P/T murder of her husband.Her accomplice, John Quinn, was hanged.
Monday 8th March	Elizabeth Nokes	Northampton	Hanged	Murder bastard child
Wednesday 17th March	Anne Castledine (age 28)	Nottingham	Hanged	Murder of her bastard child (hanged with one man)
Monday 22nd March	Lydia Dickenson	York	Hanged	Murder of her female bastard
Saturday 27th March	Vicaria Owen	Shrewsbury with 2 men	Hanged	Stealing in a shop
Monday 26th April	Betty Ward	Chester	Hanged	Murder of James Sinster
Friday 13th August	Elizabeth Wright (49)	Hereford	Hanged	Burglary
Friday 12th November	Patience Elsom	Lincoln	Hanged	Arson

1785 29 females sentenced to death, 11 hanged and none burned.
Date	Name	Place	Method	Crime
Friday 18th March	Ann Hancock	Shrewsbury with 1 man	Hanged	Murder of her male bastard
Saturday 26th March	Sarah Davis	Shrewsbury with 2 men	Hanged	Housebreaking
Monday 28th March	Elizabeth Wilkinson	Ipswich	Hanged	Murder of daughter, Martha (hanged with her husband)
Friday 22nd April	Elizabeth Green	Warwick	Hanged	Stealing in a dwelling house
Monday 1st August	Isabella Patterson	Durham with 3 men	Hanged	Burglary
Tuesday 2nd August	Ann Smith, Christian Ireland, Mary Smith, Elizabeth Jackson	Kent Street Southwark Surrey	Hanged	Highway robbery (hanged with 3 male accomplices)
Friday 5th August	Mary Morgan	Gloucester with 1 man	Hanged	Horse theft
Wednesday 17th August	Elizabeth Taylor	Newgate with 7 men	Hanged	Burglary

178631 females sentenced to death, 4 hanged and 1 burned.
Date	Name	Place	Method	Crime
Thursday 16th March	Mary Tilley	Hertford with 4 men	Hanged	Sacrilege (stealing from a church)
Monday 3rd April	Eleanor Haywood	Warwick with 1 man	Hanged	Murder bastard child
Saturday 15th April	Ann Sutton	Warwick with 2 men	Hanged	Theft
Wednesday 21st June	Phoebe Harris	Newgate with 6 men	Burned	H/T coining
Saturday 16th September	Susannah Minton (aged 17)	Hereford	Hanged	Arson

1787 49 females sentenced to death, 8 hanged and none burned. Elizabeth Lemon was hanged in the Spring of this year for stealing in a shop in Surrey. Henrietta Radbourne was found guilty only of murder and not of Petty Treason.
Date	Name	Place	Method	Crime
Thursday 1st March	Sophie Pringle	Newgate with 8 men	Hanged	Forging and uttering a Letter of Attorney
Wednesday 11th April	Mary Welkin	Coventry	Hanged	Arson
Thursday 26th April	Catherine Connolly	Newgate with 13 men	Hanged	Burglary
	Elizabeth Sedgwick			Arson
Wednesday 22nd August	Grace Bootle	Ilchester with 2 men	Hanged	Burglary
Wednesday 31st October	Elizabeth Walker	Newgate with 10 men	Hanged	Highway robbery
Friday 14th December	Henrietta Radbourne	Newgate	Hanged	Murder of her mistress, Hannah Morgan

178827 females sentenced to death, 1 hanged and 1 burned.
Date	Name	Place	Method	Crime
Saturday 5th April	Catherine Savage	York with 6 men	Hanged	Burglary
Wednesday 25th June	Margaret Sullivan	Newgate with 3 men	Burned	H/T coining (co-accused hanged)

178934 females sentenced to death, 2 hanged and 1 burned.
Date	Name	Place	Method	Crime
Wednesday 18th March	Catherine Murphy (also known as Christian Bowman)	Newgate with 7 men	Burned	H/T coining (last person to be burned) (co-accused hanged)
Monday 3rd August	Hannah Whitley	York	Hanged	Murder of Joseph Rhodes
Wednesday 4th November	Mary Peters	Newgate with 4 men	Hanged	Highway robbery

1790 31 females sentenced to death, 3 hanged and none burned.  Parliament substituted hanging for Petty Treason by an Act of June the 5th 1790.
Date	Name	Place	Method	Crime
Friday 26th March	Clare Montford	Chelmsford with 1 man	Hanged	Burglary
Saturday 3rd April	Elizabeth Sullivan	Cardigan	Hanged	Housebreaking
Monday 2nd August	Susannah Rigg	Hereford with 1 man	Hanged	Aiding and abetting William Jones to murder his wife. They were hanged together

1791 27 females sentenced to death, 5 hanged.
Date	Name	Place	Method	Crime
Saturday 9th April	Mary Adams	Norwich with 1 man	Hanged	Arson
Thursday 28th April	Catherine Lloyd	Cardigan	Hanged	Horse theft
Wednesday 6th July	Isabella Stuart	Newgate with 7 men	Hanged	Stealing in a dwelling house
Friday 26th August	Joan Pierce	Exeter	Hanged	Murder of her female bastard
Friday 7th October	Catherine Griffith	Cardiff	Hanged	Burglary

1792 31 females sentenced to death, 5 hanged.
Date	Name	Place	Method	Crime
Thursday 22nd March	Sarah Shenston (aged 18)	Shrewsbury	Hanged	Murder of her male bastard
Friday 23rd March	Jane Cross	Northampton with 1 man	Hanged	Highway robbery hanged with her accomplice Thomas Smith
Monday 26th March	Elizabeth Elliot	York	Hanged	Murder Mary Walker
Friday 10th August	Jane Clarke & Eleanor Clarke	West Gate Newcastle-upon -Tyne	Hanged with 1 man	All 3 for the murder and robbery of Mrs. Margaret Crozier (elderly lady)

Jane Clarke’s father had also been hanged for horse theft in 1788. William Winter, the man hanged
with them, was hanged in chains afterwards. Two of his relatives had been hanged previously.

1793 30 females sentenced to death, 4 hanged.
Date	Name	Place	Method	Crime
Wednesday 3rd April	Joan Tattel	Taunton	Hanged	Murder of her female bastard
Friday 26th April	Ann Cooke	Warwick with 2 men	Hanged	Highway robbery
Friday 12th July	Mary Humphrey	Buckingham (or possibly Aylesbury)	Hanged	Murder of her female bastard
Wednesday 14th August	Margaret Dunn	Morpeth with 1 man	Hanged	Burglary

Walter Clarke was hanged alongside Margaret Dunn – he was the father of Jane & Eleanor Clarke above.

1794 36 females sentenced to death, 5 hanged.
Date	Name	Place	Method	Crime
Monday 17th March	Elizabeth Marsh (aged 15)	Dorchester (1st outside gaol)	Hanged	Murder of her grandfather, John Nevil
Friday 4th April	Joan Stone	Exeter (last at Heavitree)	Hanged	Arson
Tuesday 12th August	Ann Scalberd	York	Hanged	Murder of mother in law, Mary Scalberd
Friday 22nd August	Hannah Limbrick	Gloucester County Gaol	Hanged	Murder of her daughter, Deborah Limbrick
Saturday 23rd August	Hannah Weobley	Gloucester	Hanged	Murder of her male bastard

1795 27 females sentenced to death, 3 hanged.
Date	Name	Place	Method	Crime
Wednesday 1st April	Mary Finlayson	Newgate with 4 men	Hanged	Highway robbery
Monday 3rd August	Sarah King	Kennington Common	Hanged with 2 men	Murder of her male bastard
Friday 14th August	Margaret Boulker	Warwick	Hanged	Riot

1796 23 females sentenced to death, 4 hanged.
Date	Name	Place	Method	Crime
Wednesday 11th May	Sarah Scott	Newgate with 3 men	Hanged	Stole in a dwelling house
Monday 27th June	Mary Nott	Newgate with 1 man	Hanged	Murder of Le Comte Montec de Laval
	Eleanor Hughes		Hanged	Murder of George Hebrier.(Co-accused, Richard Ludman hanged with them)
Wednesday 10th August	Hannah Griffiths	Kennington Common	Hanged with 2 men	Burglary

1797 36 females sentenced to death, 6 hanged.
Date	Name	Place	Method	Crime
Friday 17th March	Elizabeth Brockleby	Lincoln	Drawn to gallows & hanged	P/T murder of husband.First woman not to burned for this crime
Monday 20th March	Elizabeth Amos (19)	Maidstone	Hanged	P/T murder of husband, Stephen.
Wednesday 10th May	Diana Davis	Presteigne	Hanged	Sheep stealing
Wednesday 9th August	Rebecca Howard	Norwich	Hanged	Murder of her male bastard
Monday 21st August	Rebecca Dunn	Kennington Common	Hanged with 2 men	H/T colouring coin
Monday 11th December	Maria Theresa Phipoe	Newgate	Hanged	Murder of Mary Cox

Elizabeth Brockleby & Elizabeth Amos were both drawn to the gallows on sledges as they were to die for Petty Treason.
Rebecca Dunn was also probably drawn to the gallows.

1798 38 females sentenced to death, 3 hanged.
Date	Name	Place	Method	Crime
Wednesday 30th May	Elizabeth Brown	Newgate with 4 men	Hanged	Forging a bank note
Monday 22nd July	Mary Nicholson	Durham	Hanged	Murdered her master’s sister
Wed. 28th November	Ann Warner	Newgate with 2 men	Hanged	H/T Coining

The rope used to hang Mary Nicholson broke as she dropped and she was made to wait an hour while another was found.

1799 26 females sentenced to death, 5 hanged.
Date	Name	Place	Method	Crime
Monday 18th March	Sarah Williams (aka Lucy Bowes)	Maidstone	Hanged	Murder of her female bastard
Saturday 23rd March	Mary Ann Martin	Exeter (Devon County Gaol)	Hanged	Murder of Margaret Palmer
Friday 5th April	Betty Limpany (18)	Exeter	Hanged	Arson
Monday 22nd July	Elizabeth Lavender (19)	Horsham	Hanged	Murder of her male bastard
Wednesday 24th July	Margaret Hughes	Canterbury	Hanged	P/T murder of husband, Thomas.

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