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Topic: Ipswich Gaol (Read 763 times)
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bpking
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Hello
Does anyone happen to have a picture of Ipswich Gaol?
My 4x Gt Grandfather was incarcerated there in 1792 just after it was built & was to be the first person to be hanged on its new gibbett until he took matters into his own hands and did the job himself in his cell the night before his execution was due. I would love to see what the building looked like. A Google search gave no results but there must be engravings or paintings of it somewhere.
Regards
Brenda
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ringwarrior
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Its surprising how elusive a picture of the jail is.
It isn't a lot of help bit if you Google 'margaret catchpole' there are a number of sites about the horsethief / transportee which have an engraving of her escaping over the wall from Ipswich Gaol. Shame your ancestor didn't follow in her footsteps!
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bpking
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Hello
Thanks for your suggestion but unfortunately Margaret Catchpole was too early. The new gaol was built after Margaret's time, it opened in the summer of 1791. Maybe because too many were escaping from the old one!!!
My ancestor was one of the first residents, they had single cells for the first time and a "peculiar dress" uniform. He was to be the very first person to be hanged on the new gibbet had he not thwarted their plans.
Thanks anyway
Brenda
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w105uk aka Margi :-)
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have you tried suffolk records office...ipswich
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bpking
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Hello Sally
Thank you so much for your message & link. I have just recently found a picture of the gaol at www.kindred-spirit.co.uk/imagedetail.php?picid=13036. I cannot see a similarity, though, between this and the ones you mention. Please can you confirm that they are the same building?
Re the old hanging post you mention, according to an Ipswich Journal report my ancestor was to be the first to be hanged on it, in April 1792, & it was tested before the planned day of his execution to ensure it was working properly. My ancestor had other ideas though.
Brenda
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bpking
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Lovely. Thanks very much, Sally.
Brenda
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windy_miller
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Hi Brenda,
I've looked in the book "Death Recorded, Capital Punishment in Suffolk, 1732-1900", by Pip Wright, 2006, which contains some details on your relative if he was called James Mann; there are also some reproductions of prints from around that time showing the scaffold on the roof of the gateway into the gaol.
Book was published by Pawprint, ISBN 0-9548298-3-2.
Hope this is useful,
windy_miller
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suffolkmawther
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Pip has his own web site at
www.pipwright.com
All his publications can be bought directly from him.
There are a couple more of his books available on www.poppyland.co.uk which specialises in books from Suffolk and Norfolk.
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