The following were executed in public in and around Chester |
1601 | | (a woman) CANDEY | for conspiring to murder her husband [b] |
1601 | | (a man) BOON | pressed to death for refusing to plead to the above crime [b] |
19 July 1679 | | John PLESSINGTON | for recusancy, (he was a Roman Catholic Priest) [h] |
1750 | | John CONNOLLY | for murder |
1750 | | John MORGAN | for murder |
1776 | | James KNIGHT | for murder |
1777 | | Samual THORLEY | for murder and cannibalism, near Astbury, of Annie SMITH |
1778 | | William ELLIS | for burglary |
1778 | | William LOOM | for shooting at Charles WARREN |
1778 | | Sarah JONES | for stealing 28 yards of cloth |
1783 | | Resolution HEAP | for burglary |
1784 | | Elizabeth Wood | for poisoning James SIMISTER at Bredbury |
1784 | | John OAKES | for coining |
1786 | | Peter STEERS | for poisoning his wife |
1786 | | Edward HOLT | for burglary |
1786 | | Thomas BUCKLEY | for burglary |
1786 | | James BUCKLEY | for burglary |
1786 | | Thomas HYDE | for horse stealing |
1789 | | Thomas MATE | for the murder of a constable in Chester |
1790 | | John DEAN | for the murder of his wife |
1791 | | ALLEN | for burglary |
1791 | | ASTON | for burglary |
1791 | | KNOX | for burglary |
1791 | | William LOWNDES | for robbing the mail |
1791 | | Joseph BOOTH | for shoplifting |
1791 | | William ELLIOT | for shoplifting |
1796 | | Thomas BROWN | for robbing the mail |
1796 | | James PRICE | for robbing the mail |
23 Apr 1798 | | John THORNHILL | for the murder, at Lymm, of Sarah MALONE, aka Sally STATHAM |
1798 | | Peter MARTIN, alias Joseph LOWTON, for firing at an excise vessel |
18 Oct 1800 | | Mary LLOYD | for forgery [g] |
1800 | | Thomas BOSWORTH | for forgery |
1800 | | William HOLLINGSWORTH | for forgery |
1800 | | Alexander MORTON | for burglary |
1801 | | Samuel THOMPSON | for burglary |
1801 | | John MORGAN | for burglary |
1801 | | John CLARE | for Burglary |
1801 | | Aaron GEE | for passing forged banknotes |
1801 | | Thomas GIBSON | for passing forged banknotes |
1809 | | George GLOVER | for shooting at an excise man |
1809 | | William PROUDLOVE | for shooting at an excise man |
1810 | | John DONE | for the murder of Betty ECKERSLEY |
1810 | | SMITH | for burglary |
1810 | | CLARK | for burglary |
1812 | | TEMPLE | for (luddite) rioting |
1812 | | THOMPSON | for (luddite) rioting |
24 Aug 1812 | | John LOMAS | for the murder of George MORREY, his lover's husband, a farmer in Hankelow (b)[e] |
Apr 1813 | | Edith MORREY | for the murder of her husband (above), sentence deferred until after the birth of her baby (b)[e] |
2 July 1813 | | William BURGESS | for rape, he was from Northwich, the victim from Runcorn [f] |
2 July 1813 | | William WILKINSON | for rape, he was from Northwich, the victim from Runcorn [f] |
2 July 1813 | | James YARWOOD | for rape, he was from Northwich, the victim from Runcorn [f] |
1813 | | Simeon BETSON | for burglary |
1813 | | William BETSON | for burglary |
1813 | | James RENSHAW | for burglary |
1814 | | William WILSON | for arson |
1815 | | GRIFFIN | burglary |
1815 | | WOOD | for burglary |
10 May 1817 | | Joseph ALLEN | for forgery, Allen was a farmer from Crowton near Northwich |
1818 | | Abraham ROSTERN | for burglary |
1818 | | Isaac MOORS | for burglary |
1818 | | John MOOR | for burglary |
1819 | | Joseph WALKER | for highway robbery on the Northwich to Manchester Road |
1819 | | Samual HOOLEY | for burglary |
1819 | | John JOHNSON | for burglary |
1820 | | Jacob McGHINNES | for murder |
1820 | | Thomas MILLER | for burglary |
1820 | | Ralph ELLIS | for burglary |
1820 | | William RICKLINGTON | for arson at Coddington rectory |
1821 | | Samuel HEALEY | for highway robbery |
1822 | | William TONGUE | for rape |
1822 | | George GROOM | for highway robbery |
1822 | | Thomas BRIERLY | for highway robbery |
1823 | | Samual FALLOWS | for the murder of his sweetheart |
1823 | | John KRAGON | for rape |
1823 | | Edward CLARKE | for highway robbery |
12 Apr 1824 | | Joseph DALE | for the murder of William WOOD at Disley |
1825 | | Phillip McGOWAN | for robbery |
1829 | | John PROUDLOVE | for highway robbery |
1829 | | John LEIR | for burglary |
1829 | | Joseph WOODHOUSE | for rape |
1829 | | Joseph HENSHALL | for firing at gamekeepers |
1832 | | Samuel CUMBERLEDGE | for arson |
1834 | | Samual THORLEY | for murder at Northwich |
1834 | | John CARR | for felonious shooting |
1834 | | Thomas RILEY | for felonious cutting |
1834 | | William NAYLOR | for felonious shooting |
1834 | | James MASON | for attempting to procure a miscarriage |
1841 | | Bartholemew MURRAY | for the murder of Joseph and Mary COOKE at Over Peover |
1842 | | James RATCLIFFE | for the murder of his wife |
07 Aug 1844 | | Mary GALLOP | for poisoning her father |
1848 | | William BATES | for the murder of William WYATT |
20 Dec 1856 | | William JACKSON | for the murder of his two children |
1857 | | John BLAGG | for the murder, in Tilstone, of John BEBBINGTON a gamekeeper |
27 Aug 1861 | | Martin DOYLE | for attempted murder (the last execution for attempted murder) [a] |
28 Dec 1863 | | Alice HOLT | for the murder of her mother [a] |
In 1868, public execution was abolished in the UK.
The following were executed inside Chester Goal |
02 Apr 1877 | | James BANNISTER | for the murder, in Hyde, of his wife [a] |
13 Aug 1877 | | Henry LEIGH | for the murder of Alice HALTON, a child |
21 Feb 1881 | | William STANWAY | for the murder, in Macclesfield, of his partner Ann MELLOR |
8 May 1883 | | Patrick CAREY aka John WHITE | for the murder, in Smallwood, Congleton, of Samuel CARLAM and Mary MOHAN |
In 1866 Chester became a military prison. Knutsford Prison became the County Gaol,
the following were executed there. |
22 Feb 1886 | | Owen McGILL | for the murder, near Birkenhead, of his wife Mary |
17 Aug 1887 | | Thomas H BEVAN | for the murder of his aunt [a] |
08 Apr 1890 | | Richard DAVIES | for the murder, in Crewe, of his father Richard DAVIES |
22 Aug 1890 | | Felix SPICER | for the murder of his two children in New Brighton [a] |
1905 | | William HANCOCKS | for the murder of his daughter |
27 Nov 1906 | | Edward HARTIGAN | for the murder, in Stockport, of his wife Catherine |
12 Nov 1908 | | James PHIPPS | for the murder, in Winsford, of Elizabeth WARBURTON age 10 |
19 Mar 1912 | | John WILLIAMS | for the murder, in Birkenhead, of his wife Hilda Mary Josephine |
In 1914 the military commandeered Knutsford Prison. The county's executions had to take place elsewhere.
The following were in executed Walton Prison, Liverpool [L], or Strangeways Prison, Manchester [M] |
1 Dec 1915 | | John James THORNLEY | for the murder, in Macclesfield, of Frances JOHNSON his ex-girlfriend [L] |
16 Aug 1917 | | William Thomas HODGSON | for the murder, in Wallasey, of his wife Margaret, and daughter Margaret[L] |
11 Aug 1920 | | James ELLOR | for the murder, in Hyde, of his wife Ada [L] |
10 Apr 1923 | | Frederick WOOD, aka Ronald LEE & George WOOD, for the murder, in Bramhall, of Margaret Gilchrist WHITE [L] |
8 Apr 1924 | | Francis Wilson BOOKER | for the murder, in Carr's Wood, Northenden, of Percy SHARPE [M] |
23 Mar 1926 | | Lock Ah TAM | for the murder, in Birkenhead, of his wife & daughters Catherine, Doris, & Ceclia [L] |
16 Nov 1926 | | James LEAH | for the murder, in Over Alderley, of his daughter Louise [L] |
9 Apr 1946 | | Harold BERRY | for the murder, near Winsford, of Bernard PHILIPPS [M] |
19 Nov 1946 | | Arthur RUSHTON | for the murder, in Birkenhead, of his girlfriend Catherine COOPER |
15 Jan 1952 | | Alfred BRADLEY | for the murder, in Wythenshawe, of George CAMP [M] |
22 June 1954 | | Milton TAYLOR | for the murder, in Nantwich, of his girlfriend Marie BRADSHAW [L] |
The death penalty was abolished in the uk on 9th November 1964. |
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