Harriet Tarver - Youngest woman to be hanged on the 9th April 1836

[ChasH]

You did not say if you were interested in Ann's parentage, however, if you go to http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hughwallis/IGIBatchNumbers/CountryEngland.htm#PageTitle  and search Chip' Camp' for Tarver in C and M batches, you will find details which were extracted from church records by the LDS. 

Sue, 

If you should happen to read this, any data given without giving its actual source will be no use in a few years time if somebody queries it and wishes to verify it.  They would have to start the search all over again.

Regards

Chas

[Indaloman]

Is it not a quantum leap to ASSUME that because she poisoned her husband, that he was a drunken bully, what evidence is there for this or is it just  female assumption? She could have been an evil thinking woman. She was lucky to have been hung, killing of a husband was high treason and the usual punishment was to be burned at the stake just a few years before! She was hung at Gloucester on 09/04/1836 but she was certainly not the youngest woman to be hung, on 22/03/1819 Hannah Bocking was hung at Derby at the age of 16

[thewholeworld]

I would like to confirm she was definatly the youngest woman in Gloucestershire to be hanged. As for the drunken bully part, I am free to assume.

[ChasH]

Satisfying to see the correct word, "hanged" for I do not suppose anybody has a picture of her so that it could be hung.

Chas

[thewholeworld]

Chas

I am really offended by your sarcastic comment.

[ChasH]

Sorry if I offended.  Sarcasm was not intended, it's just that it is satisfying to come across somebody who usus the correct words of the English language unlike so many others.

Regards

[Simeon54]

I found a Rosanna ?? ............... what do you think ??

1851

168 Elm Street
Rosanna Tarver   19 Lodger Chipping Campden Gloucestershire silk winder

Emma Beckel   24
Mary Beckel   1
Charles Merriman   35
Maria Merriman   28
George Merriman   7
Elizabeth Merriman   1

HO107; Piece: 2076; Folio: 159; Page: 42

I know I'm writing here a long time after these posts, but I wanted to verify that it is extremely likely that Rosanne Tarver here, was indeed Anne Tarver. Charles and Maria Merriman (Becket) had a child, George, who we can see above, in 1851 was only 7. However, he went on to marry Harriet Tarvers niece, Elizabeth Tracey (daughter of George Tracey, brother to Harriet Tarver (Tracey). This is rather convoluted, but  the families were obviously close. Elizabeth Tracey is my great, great grandmother, making Harriet Tarver my great, great, great grand aunt.

I've had a look around, and there don't seem to be any other Tarvers that could be Rosanne, or the parents of her. Thomas had one sister, Mary, born in 1812.

Fascinating story.

[sarah]

Hi Simeon54,

Welcome to RootsChat

There is a little bit of information from Gloucester Gaol Harriet's story
http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/gloucester.html

Regards

Sarah

[Victor Harvey]

Hi,
Source: Hanged at Gloucester by Jill Evans, p.p. 109-111
Poison in the Rice Pudding
Harriet Tracey married Thomas Tarver at Chipping Camden parish church on 29 January 1834. Less than two years later, Thomas Tarver was buried in the graveyard of the same church, and his widow was in Gloucester Goal, charged with his murder.
On 11 December 1853, Thomas Tarver, who was twenty-four, died after a sudden and short illness. He had gone to work in the morning feeling perfectly well, but during the course of the morning he started to complain of an acute pain in his stomach, excessive thirst, and cold sweats. He returned home and died at two o'clock in the afternoon.
Please see my pm for the rest of the article.
Victor