This section will feature spotlighted case files from 1756 through to 1825. One each individual case file has been created, the name will appear in bold and will link through to the full report
| Year |
Prisoner's Name |
Crime |
| 1756 |
John Ratcliffe |
Horse stealing |
| 1757 |
Thomas Hulley |
For returning from Transportation |
| 1759 |
Charles Kirkman |
For murder of his infant child |
| 1763 |
John Perry and Amos Mason |
For Highway Robbery |
| 1768 |
John Lowe |
For Housebreaking |
| 1768 |
Charles Pleasants |
For Forgery |
| 1776 |
Matthew Cocklayne |
For Murder |
| 1780 |
James Meadows |
For Highway Robbery |
| 1780 |
William Buxton |
For Highway Robbery |
| 1782 |
James Williams |
For Horse Stealing |
| 1782 |
John Shaw |
For Escaping from Gaol |
| 1784 |
Thomas Greensmith |
For Robbery |
| 1784 |
William Rose |
For Horse stealing |
| 1784 |
John & Benjamin Jones (brothers) |
For Housebreaking (hanged themselves in their cell) |
| 1785 |
Wm & George Grooby
and James Peet |
For Burglary |
| 1786 |
J Sheppard and Wm Stanley |
For Housebreaking |
| 1786 |
James Halliburton |
For Rape |
| 1787 |
John Porson |
For Picking Pockets |
| 1788 |
Thomas Grundy |
For Poisoning his brother |
| 1790 |
Joseph Allen |
For Shop breaking |
| 1791 |
William Rider |
For Robbery |
| 1794 |
James Murray |
For House breaking |
| 1795 |
Thomas Neville |
For Robbing Mr Morley |
| 1796 |
James Preston |
For Murder |
| 1800 |
Thomas Knowles |
For Uttering a forged note |
| 1801 |
Geo Lacey Powell and
John Drummond |
For Highway Robbery |
| 1801 |
James Gration |
For Burglary |
| 1801 |
Evans and John Dent |
For Sheep stealing |
| 1802 |
J Mellor and J Spencer |
For Burglary |
| 1803 |
William Wells |
For Murder |
| 1804 |
Richard Booth &
John Parker (al. Tolly) |
For Horse stealing |
| 1807 |
William Webster |
For Poisoning two people |
| 1807 |
Joseph West |
For Forgery |
| 1812 |
Percival Cooke &
James Tomlinson |
For Burglary |
| 1813 |
P Mason, Richard Hibbert &
P Henshaw |
For Burglary |
| 1815 |
Anthony Lingard |
For Murder |
| 1816 |
Joseph Wheeldon |
For Murder |
| 1817 |
Brown, Booth, Jackson &
King |
For Firing Hay stacks |
| 1817 |
J. Brandreth, Wm. Turner &
I. Ludlam |
For High Treason |
| 1819 |
Hannah Bocking |
For Poisoning Jane Grant |
| 1819 |
Thomas Hopkinson |
For Highway Robbery |
| 1822 |
Hannah Halley |
For Murder of her infant child |
| 1825 |
George Batty |
For Rape |
Batty was the last person to be hanged outside of the Gaol on Friargate.
A total of 58 people were executed although the Jones brothers, having cheated the hangsman, would have made the total 60.
