Mary Ann Cotton 1839-1873 Durham

[silvery]

Anyone got this person in their tree I wonder?

Hanged 1873 for 'disposing' of up to 21 of her husbands   
ITV3 tonight 9pm.

[tazzie]

   Probably not she seems to have killed most of them.....

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ann_Cotton


                    Tazzie

[silvery]

 

so logical.    TV blurb slightly different than wikipedia. 

[tazzie]

   Put that one up as it has her picture on it ....trying to scare oldest son to go to bed,

                                 Tazzie

[stanmapstone]

The definitive books about her are "Mary Ann Cotton, Her Story and Trial" by Arthur Appleton, 1973, and "Mary Ann Cotton, Dead but not Forgotten" a supplement to that book by Tony Whitehead, 2000,  ISBN0953961400


Stan

[stanmapstone]

They were not her 21 Husbands, she only had four, and one marriage was bigamous. There were children and women among her alledged victims.  She was found guilty of 4 murders; not guilty of 7; and the other 10 were "not proven"

Stan

[silvery]

I realise now Stan that the tv blurb that I quoted was a bit 'over the top' .

She must have been some sort of phsycopath I think.

[stanmapstone]

The book "Mary Ann Cotton, Dead but not Forgotten" has her family tree.

Stan

[stanmapstone]

She was found guilty of 4 murders; not guilty of 7; and the other 10 were "not proven"
Stan

Correction I should have said  that she ws not found guilty of four murders, she was only found guilty of the single specimen charge of the murder of her stepson Charles Edward Cotton. The rest of the murder and bigamy charges were kept on the record just in case she was reprieved  for the first one.

Stan