The Gentleman executioner

[mark9825uk]

Hi Everyone, I just started tracing my ancestry and my paternal great grandmother was Florence Kendall nee Marwood. I think I am related to the Kings executioner William Marwood. Now I am hooked and fascinated its taking up all my spare time..I think I read he did 178 hangings and invented the Long drop to make it quicker...If anyone knows ANYTHING about him I certainly would appreciate any info...I just have the basic birth death year etc..Thanks Everyone in Advance Mark Stansfield From HULL in ENGLAND

[iluleah]

http://www.billgreenwell.com/page.php?id=67

[jaybelnz]

WOW iluleah, That's a real treasure- I'm sure that Mark is going to be jumping for joy with your find!

Well done you! 👍👍👍👏👏👏 Excellent!

[mark9825uk]

http://www.billgreenwell.com/page.php?id=67

To say thank you does not seem enough but I will say it anyway..THANK YOU so very much for this fantastic reading...Iam lost for words  . What a fascinating article. Thank you once again. Regards Mark Stansfield. I Certainly was jumping for joy Jaybeinz... That is really special.  Fantastic...I am over the moon...Thanx once again

[Mowsehowse]

I assume you did a google search?

Did you also look at the google images?

This is fascinating....
http://www.arthurlloyd.co.uk/WilliamMarwood.htm

[ThrelfallYorky]

I read the articles with interest, as there's a distant family connection for me with Pierrepoints, apparently. Really not a job I'd like to have!

[Jed59]

I believe that   Albert  Pierpoint  went  on to keep a  pub..  apparently   if  a stranger went  in he'd look them up and downd and say "  so many feet"  when they asked  what that meant  , wa told  that's  how much rope  he reckons  he'd  need..       Black humour!

[heywood]

The pub was the ‘Help the Poor Struggler’ in our town.

[iluleah]

I have had the link saved for a while now ( just waiting for someone to ask! ) No not really...... 

I had been researching a sibling of an ancestor and she married a prison guard who worked at Lincoln Prison and the ancestor was charged and spent some time before sentencing in Lincoln. As I know Lincolnshire very well and this guys life/work was full of twists and turns as well as 'guarding' his brother in law I did lots of research and this was part of my findings, same era so I am assuming they would also have known William Marwood...so pleased now I saved it. It is great info!