Law and Law Enforcement

• Western Australian Convicts

• Capital punishment in the 18th & 19th centuries

• This has the transcripts of Old Bailey hearings from 1674-1834 (to be expanded). You can search by name or place, (the name search includes defendants, witnesses and jurors). Also has old maps and other info about London history.

• History of Crime and detection with specific reference to Shropshire

• The Guillotine Headquarters

• Capital Punishment in the Commonwealth
  • The Commonwealth provides about 30% of the Worlds population comprising 54 member nations.
  • The term ABOLISHONIST is used for those nations who no longer have the death penalty and those retaining it are known as RETENTIONIST
  • This is the breakdown of how things stand at present.
    • 28 nations = retentionist
    • 16 nations = abolishionist
    • 9 nations = abolishonist in practice but remains in the penal code.
  • For a detailed explanation of where each country stands and when the last execution took place click on the link above

• The abolition of hanging in Britain

• Timeline of capital punishment in Britain

• The English hangmen from 1850 to 1964
  • George Smith from Dudley in the Midlands 1805-1874.
  • William Calcraft - Little Baddow, near Chelmsford, Essex 1800- 1879.
  • Thomas Askern of York 1816-1878.
  • William Marwood of Horncastle Lincolnshire 1820-1883.
  • George Meker or Incher – of Dudley.
  • Bartholomew Binns.
  • James Berry of Heckmondwike Yorkshire 1852-1913.
  • Thomas Henry Scott - Huddersfield.
  • James Billington of Farnworth near Bolton in Lancashire 1847-1901.
  • Thomas Billington 1872-1902.
  • William Billington 1873-1934.
  • John Billington 1880-1905.
  • Henry Pierrepoint 1874-1922 from BradfordYorkshire.
  • John Ellis of Rochdale Lancashire 1874-1932.
  • William Willis from Manchester. 187?-1939.
  • Thomas Pierrepoint 1870 - 1954.
  • Robert Wilson from Manchester.
  • Robert Baxter of Hertford.
  • Alfred Allen - Wolverhampton.
  • Thomas Mather Phillips from Farnworth near Bolton.
  • Stanley William Cross.
  • Albert Pierrepoint of Clayton Nr. Bradford Yorkshire 1905-1992.
  • Harry Kirk from Huntingdon.
  • Stephen Wade from Doncaster.
  • Harry Bertrum Allen from Manchester 1911-1992.
  • Robert Leslie Stewart from Chadderton Lancashire 1918-1988.

• On-line database of inmates in Warwick County Prison between 1800 and 1900

• Details of crimes, criminals and punishments from the prison files of the Court of Great Sessions in Wales from 1730 until 1830.

• Details of inmates of Aylesbury prison in the 1870s. Includes details of the prisoner's crime and sentence, and, in some instances, his photograph.

• 19th Century Bedford Gaol

• A searchable database of prisoners in Inveraray prison and their details, including prisoners who were deported

• Prisoners sentenced to transportation from Lewes Assizes between c1790 and c1850

• Important English trials 1649-1895

• Murders in Liverpool

• The history of judicial hanging in Britain.

• Convicts tried at Nottingham Borough Quarter Sessions Assizes

• Kent Quarter Sessions Indices

• An index of over 8000 prisoners brought to trial at York Assizes between 1785 and 1851

• A database of persons tried at the Derbyshire Petty Sessions and Quarter Sessions 1770-1828.

• List of Executed Prisoners of Derby Gaol 1756-1825

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