Nina: This site http://www.richard.clark32.btinternet.co.uk/contents.html has a complete list of everyone hanged in the UK. If you do find your ancestor, the best way to find out more details is through local newspapers. You *may* also be lucky and find court reports, but records have not all survived. Those for the Old Bailey are on-line at http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/. Let us know how you get on. Best wishes Paul Prescott ----- Original Message ----- From: <n.terry@ntlworld.com> To: <warwick@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2007 10:09 PM Subject: [WAR] advice please >I have just read an old copy of the Mail with an article on finding an >ancestor who was deported for stealing a sheep. Apparently if the item >stolen was 1 shilling or less, deportation was given instead of hanging! > My problem is that,according to an old family story, my gt gt > grandfather(the number of greats vary!)was hanged for stealing a sheep to > feed his family. No one ever mentioned which side of the family he was > from so I would like to check the Warwick/Staffs lines. > Can anyone tell me, please, where I would find details of hangings,please? > It would be presumably prior to 1837 as I have not turned up any one who > died in this manner after that date. My Warwickshire family came from > around Atherstone. > I realise it may all be fiction but feel compelled to try to find out so I > would be really grateful for some advice on this. > Thank you > Nina Terry > Warwicks names: Lycett,Bradford, Smith > > ----------------------------------------- > Email sent from www.virginmedia.com/email > Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software and scanned for spam > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > WARWICK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Hello List, Although the people 'behind' this enquiry have no known connection with WAR, I'm quietly confident that there must have been a number of WAR families where a similar set of circumstances arose... I have a gentleman who was hanged in 1805 for 'uttering' forged Bank of England Notes. Four years later, his widow was found guilty of being 'in possession' of forged Bank Notes (and some base silver coins), and was transported to Australia. At the time she was found guilty she and her late husband had baptised 6 children between 1796 and 1805 - and there is no mention in the transportation records that she was accompanied by any infant children. I've so far been unable to make any likely identification of any of them in the Censuses or the NBI. The question that I'm hoping the Collective Wisdom of the List may be able to answer is: "What was likely to've happened to those children?" There were no Social Services in 1809 to take them into "care" - and (as far as I can see) no others of the same surname in the area where the trials and baptisms were held. Help, please! Gus