Calendar of Cheshire Executions1750 Two Irishmen Joh Connolly and John Morgan for Murder
1768 Three men for Burglary
1776 James Knight for Murder
1777 Samual Thorley for the Murder of Ann Smith. Thorley dismembered the body, eating a part of it
1778 William Ellis for Burglary
William Loom for discharging a pistol at one Charles Warren
Sarah Jones for stealing 28 yards of cloth
1783 Resolution Heap for Burglary. He had already been sentenced to Death, which was commuted to transportation
1784 Elizabeth Wood for poisoning James Simister at Bredbury
John Oakes for Coining
1786 Peter Steers for the murder of his wife by poison
Edward Holt for Burglary
Thomas Buckley for Burglary
Thomas Hyde for horse stealing
James Buckley for Burglary
1789 Thomas Mate for the murder of a constable in Chester. He was aged 64 and when on the gallows accused his wife of infidelity
1790 John Dean for the murder of his pregnant wife
1791 Allen, Aston and Knox for burglary. William Lowndes for Mail robbery. Joseph Booth and William Elliot for shop-lifting
1796 Thomas Brown and James Price for mail robbery. Their bodies were gibbeted
1798 John Thornhill for the murder of Sarah Malone
Peter Martin, alias Joseph Lowton, for firing at an excise vessel
1800 Thomas Bosworth and William Hollingsworth for forgery
Alexander Morton for burglary
Mary Lloyd for forgery
1801 Samuel Thompson, John Morgan and John Clare for Burglary
Aaron Gee and Thomas Gibson for passing forged banknotes
1809 George Glover and William Proudlove for shooting at an excise man.
1810 John Done for the Murder of Betty Eckersley
Smith and Clark for Burglary
1812 Temple and Thompson for rioting, (connected with the luddites)
John Lomas for the murder of his master, Mr Morrey
1813 Edith Morrey for the murder of her husband
William Wilkinson, James Yarwood and William Burgess for rape
Simeon Betson, William Betson and James Renshaw for Burglary
1814 William Wilson for Arson
1815 Griffith and Wood for Burglary
1817 Joseph Allen for passing forged notes
1818 Abraham Rostern and Isaac Moors for Burglary
John Moor for burglary
1819 Joseph Walker for Highway Robbery on the Nothwich to Manchester Road
Samual Hooley and John Johnson for Burglary
1820 Jacob McGhinnes for Murder
Thomas Miller for Burglary
Ralph Ellis for Burglary
William Rickilngton for arson at a rectory house at Coddington
1821 Samuel Healey for Highway Robbery
1822 William Tongue for rape
George Groom for Highway Robbery
Thomas Brierly for Highway Robbery
1823 Samual Fallows for the murder of his sweetheart
John Kragon for rape
Edward Clarke for Highway Robbery
1824 Joseph Dale for the murder of Mr Wood
1825 Phillip McGowan for robbery
1829 John Proudlove for Highway Robbery
John Leir for burglary
Joseph Woodhouse for rape
Joseph Henshall for firing at Gamekeepers
1832 Samuel Cumberledge for Arson
1834 Samual Thorley for Murder at Northwich
John Carr for felonious shooting
Thomas Riley for felonious cutting
William Naylor for felonious shooting
James Mason for attempting to procure a miscarriage
1841 Bartholemew Murray for the Murder of Joseph and Mary Cooke at Over Peover
1842 James Ratcliffe for murdering his wife
1844 Mary Gallop for poisoning her Father
1848 William Bates for the Murder of William Wyatt
1856 William Jackson for the murder of his 2 children
1857 John Blagg for the murder of John Bebbington
1861 Martin Doyle for attempted murder (the last hanging for this offence in England)
1863 Alice Holt for the murder of her mother
1877 James Bannister for the murder of his wife
Henry Leigh for the murder of Alice Halton
1881 William Stanway for the murder of his wife
1882 Patrick Carey, for the murder of Samuel and Mary Mohan
1886 Owen McGill for the Murder of his wife. The first man to be hanged at Knutsford.
1887 Thomas Bevan, for the urder of his Aunt
1890 Richard Davies for the Murder of his Father
Felix Spicer for the Murder of his wife
1905 William Hancocks for the murder of his daughter
1906 Edward Hartigan for the murder of his wife
1907 James Phipps for the murder of Eliza Warburton.
1912 John Williams for the murder of his wife.
Other executions of Cheshire felons took place either in Liverpool or Manchester, following Knutsford becoming a military prison during World War 1