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Re: The hangman
« Reply #18 on: Monday 24 May 10 16:40 BST (UK) »
How exciting!  How far have you got in researching the connection?
I try to imagine Calcraft going home and his wife saying, "Had a good day, dear?"
Godden in East Sussex, mainly Hastings area.
Richards in Lea, Gloucestershire, then London.
Williamson in Leith, Vickers in Nottingham.
Webb in Bildeston and Colchester.
Wesbroom in Kirby le Soken.
Ellington in Harwich.
Park, Palmer, Segar and Peartree in Kersey.

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« Reply #19 on: Monday 24 May 10 17:14 BST (UK) »
(Why do I suddenly feel this might be the start of some of the more gruesome RootsChat humour ... ??  ;D )
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C'wall/Devon/France/CANADA (Barkerville, B.C.): Pomeroy/Pomerai/Pomroy
Som'set: Clark(e) Fry
Durham: Law(e)
London: Hanham Poplett
Lancs/Cheshire/CANADA (Kelowna, B.C. & Sask): Stubbs Walmesley

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Re: The hangman
« Reply #20 on: Monday 24 May 10 17:16 BST (UK) »
...as if we'd come up with some ropey old jokes.  ;)

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Re: The hangman
« Reply #21 on: Monday 24 May 10 17:20 BST (UK) »
Quote from: stanmapstone on Monday 24 May 10 09:32 BST (UK)
Execution at Bedford
William Bull, aged twenty-one, who was convicted at the last Bedford Assizes of the murder  of a poor imbecile named Sarah Marshall, fifty-one years of age, at the village of Little Staughton, was executed by Calcraft at eight o'clock on Monday morning, within the walls of the county prison at Bedford.
Penny Illustrated Paper (London, England), Saturday, April 08, 1871; pg. 211; Issue 497.

I have a large collection of old Bedfordshire lace bobbins.
One of them is inscribed 'W. Bull. Hung April 1871'.
It was quite common for such bobbins to be made and distributed to 'celebrate' the execution.

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Re: The hangman
« Reply #22 on: Monday 24 May 10 19:50 BST (UK) »
Quote from: JenB on Monday 24 May 10 17:20 BST (UK)
I have a large collection of old Bedfordshire lace bobbins.
One of them is inscribed 'W. Bull. Hung April 1871'.
It was quite common for such bobbins to be made and distributed to 'celebrate' the execution.

Jennifer

You learn something new every day  :)
The commercial nature of bobbin making, however, is probably best illustrated by the phenomena of the 'hanging bobbin': bobbins that were made to commemorate the public hangings and proved extremely popular souvenirs. They were inscribed with the name of the criminal and the year of their execution ('Joseph Castle hung 1860'). http://england.prm.ox.ac.uk/englishness-lace-makers-bobbins.html

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« Reply #23 on: Monday 24 May 10 19:57 BST (UK) »







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Re: The hangman
« Reply #24 on: Tuesday 25 May 10 01:11 BST (UK) »
This is absolutely true, My late father( he wasn't hung!) used to go for a drink in Oldham Lancashire. In the late 1940's early 50's The owner of the pub was Albert Pierpoint, who was the hangman in the north of England. The name of the pub was "Help the poor Struggler".
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Re: The hangman
« Reply #25 on: Tuesday 25 May 10 01:54 BST (UK) »
Gosh this is awful and fascinating all at the same time  ;D
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« Reply #26 on: Tuesday 25 May 10 08:03 BST (UK) »
I'd much rather have been hanged by Pierpoint than Calcraft - Calcraft didn't always make a very good job of it  :o

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