Crimes & Criminals

This Foldout collects the entries for some crimes and court cases in the district.

• Miscellaneous Crimes

• Transported Convicts

• People executed at Tyburn, York

See also the entries for Murders & Murderers, Deaths, and Coiners

Miscellaneous Crimes

The Holden Family of Forgers Jeremy Brigg Brighouse Co-operative Stores: Stabbing [1929] Arson at Canal Wharf Saw Mills, Hebden Royd John Carpmael Dixon vs Brearley Goldthorpe vs Hardman Halifax Corporation vs Barraclough Halifax Race Course Hare Mill, Todmorden Hare Spinning Company Limited Hipperholme Picture House James Hoyle (Limited) vs Cousin & Mitchell Jones vs Greenwood Jesse Lord Mark Mellor Mixenden Riot Newby & Woodhouse

Patchett vs Sutcliffe George Paxton Pound breach Thomas de Quincey Robinwood Mill, Todmorden William Rookes Roper vs George Greenwood & Sons Shillito vs Shillito & Hirst Men playing Shoolnige Taylor vs Green Sidney Thornton Todmorden Joint Stock Mill Company William Town Waddington vs Waller Harry Wallace Wardle John Whiteley Winterburn, Warley Wood vs Wood & Farrar Yorkshire Artificial Silk Company Limited Rev Hamilton Young

Transported Convicts

Valentine Ackroyd Abraham Akroyd Abel Ashworth George Ashworth Samuel Asquith John Baines John Baines John Bancroft Elkanah Bannister William Barber Jonas Barrett Isaiah Bentley Joseph Bentley Benjamin Borran Isaac Briggs Isaac Broughton James Brown John Bulmer John Clarke Henry Clayton John Clayton Joseph Clayton Joseph Cliffe John Cockroft Solomon Crabtree and 2 others John Crowther George Dawtrey John Downs Charles Evans Mark Farrar Gideon Fearnley John Fielding Joseph Firth James Fletcher William Gaukroger John Greenwood

Mary Greenwood James Hainsworth The Hermit of Hathershelf Edward Holden John Holden John Holden Samuel Holdsworth Mary Hyde George Ibbetson Joseph Ingham Henry Jagger Benjamin Jowett John Kitson William Law Simeon Lord Alexander Mackay Daniel Maude Martin McGuire John Mellor John Mitchell Jonas Mitchell William Mitchell James Mozley James Naylor Ellis Nicholl Joseph Noble Paramatta cloth Richard Partridge James Pickles Matthias Pilling James Price Eli Priestley Jabez Priestley Prison hulk

Samuel Ramsden Joseph Ratcliffe Henry Riley Jonathan Rushworth Joseph Saville George Scholes James Scholes Sarah Shackleton George Cropper Smith Jonathan Smith William Snowden Thomas Spencer Thomas Squires George Stansfield Jonathan Stansfield Benjamin Stott Henry Sunderland Henry Sutcliffe Henry Sutcliffe Henry Sutcliffe John Swallow Joseph Tatham Benjamin Thorpe Robert Titterington Transportation John Verity Intruder apprehended by Mr Wade Amelia Wade William Walsh Sidney Whitaker James Wilkinson Joshua Wilson John Wood John Wood Thomas Bardsley Wood

People executed at Tyburn, York

• Thomas Boys [1740-1767]
• John Brigg [17??-1790]

• Isaac Charlesworth [1803-1825]
• Joshua Clayton [1762-1820]

• George Bell for forging the will of Ralph Dalton
• Charles Dimmey [1665-1692]
• John Dobson [1791-1843]
• John Dove [1623-1646]

• Thomas Boys & Richard Boys for the robbery of Abraham Earnshaw

• William Field [17??-1783]

• Benjamin Gartside [17??-1817]
• John Greenwood [1788-1817]

• George Harger [1???-1762]
• David Hartley [1729-1770]
• William Hartley [1772-1813]
• Job Hey [1771-1813]
• John Hill [1777-1813]

• Robert Iredale [1738-1776]

• Joseph King [17??-1788]

• George Mellor [1791-1813]
• Benjamin Micklethwaite [1761-1817]

• Matthew Normington [1739-1775]

• James Oldfield [17??-1770]

• Michael Pickles [1776-1817]

• Rev Edmund Robinson [16??-1691]

• John Scott [17??-1774]
• Michael Shaw [1765-1821]
• Joseph Shepherd [1836-1858]
• Christopher Singleton [1593-1630]
• Henry Smelt [1605-1630]
• Thomas Smith [1791-1813]
• Henry Sutcliffe [1784-1813]

• Robert Thomas [1739-1774]
• William Thorpe [1790-1813]
• Andrew Tucker [1651-1680]

• Mr Watson [17??-1793]
• Richard Watson [17??-1793]
• William Cowan & William Hall for the attempted murder of John Williamson

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