Where was an executed person buried in Exeter?

[jannergray]

Hi Nainmaddie

Thanks ever so much for your help and information. It's much appreciated.

If you were able to trace a burial for Mordecai SOLOMON that would be excellent. Mordecai was murdered in Plymouth in the beginning days of January 1760. I believe however that he was from Exeter since he had some form of connection with a guy called Ezekiel ABRAHAM of Exeter.

If you can shed any light on where Mordecai might be buried I'd be very interested indeed.

Thanks

Graham

[Valda]

Hi


http://www.gentfamily.plus.com/exeshul/

Follow the button for 'our history' and it takes you to detailed information on the Jewish burial ground


Regards

Valda

[jannergray]

Hi Valda

Thanks for this - its a wonderful site and fascinating about the Jewish cemetery - alas no sign of Mordecai Solomon...!

All the best

Graham

[nainmaddie]

Plymouth Hoe Jewish Burials has a site that you can look up names.

I just googled and up it came, the same with the synagogue, and I forgot to write them down !!

Hope it helps

Maddie

[silvertonhistory]

A book that I have "Reminiscences of Exeter" published in 1878 lists the executions in Devonshire since 1794, however it also states that "before the goal was built the executions for the county were held at Ringwell, about two miles on the London road. The prisoners were taken through Heavitree in carts, each sitting on a coffin. After they were cut down they were buried near the same spot" This explains the previous posting that bones were found in this area.
Silvertonhistory

[davidc]

I may be a bit late for this topic, but I have been compiling a page of those executed in Exeter for the past two years. I have recently updated the page with some new names and also noted those buried in St Sidwell's parish. The page starts by listing the various places of execution and places of burial, both for Exeter executions and Devon executions. See

http://www.exetermemories.co.uk/EM/executed.php

Added 26th July - note that the list is still a work in progress and I have to add some more extracts from the early Flying Post.

[nainmaddie]

Hi David

Thank you so much for your posting.

I have learnt so much from your list.  I have no ancestors from Exeter, nor any in Devon that I know of, that misbehaved to come to an execution.  Amazing that some of them only stole a sheep !!

Nainmaddie

[moggie57]

usually in the prison grounds or if not the local cemetery in a paupers grave...but the records would be in the cemetery office on site...

[Valda]

Hi

see my previous post with this link

http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/hanging1.html

on what happened to the bodies of many criminals (certainly those that committed murder) after 1751

'From 1752 the bodies of executed murderers were not returned to their relatives for burial....The 1752 "Act for the better preventing the horrid Crime of Murder", usually known as the "Murder Act", mandated the dissection of the bodies of executed murderers (including females ones) or gibbeting for male murderers in particularly heinous cases.....Up to 1832, except in a case of murderer where the court had ordered dissection or gibbeting, it was usual for the criminal's body to be claimed by friends or relatives for burial.  This burial could take place in consecrated ground provided that the person had not committed murder....Dissection was removed from the statute book on the 1st of August 1832, by the Anatomy Act. The same act directed that the bodies of executed criminals belonged to the Crown and were now to be buried in the prison grounds in unmarked graves, often several to a grave to save space. Typically the person was placed into a cheap pine coffin, or even a sack and covered with quicklime which was thought to hasten the process of decomposition of the body.....The Capital Punishment Amendment Act of 1868 required that a formal inquest be held after an execution and that the prisoner be buried within the grounds of the prison unless directed otherwise by the sheriff of the county.  This practice continued up to abolition'

Most cemeteries were created after 1832.


Regards

Valda