Born in Lincoln Castle prison?

[Leah-WW]

Does anyone know where I should look for records of babies born in Lincoln Castle prison, please?

I'm looking into the case of murderess Elizabeth Warriner who was hanged there in 1821 for poisoning her stepson. Contemporary newspaper reports have her with "a suckling child" at the time of her execution, and sure enough on the 1841 census there is a girl (Charlotte), born around 1821, living in the household of her widowed husband. The assumption is therefore that Charlotte was the suckling child, and must therefore have been born while Elizabeth was at the prison, but I'd like to find a birth record to be sure.

[LizzieW]

I suppose if you have an approximate date of birth, you might find a baptism on Lincstothepast in a church wherever her husband lived.  It means scrolling through a few, but it might be worth it. 

I assume Elizabeth Warriner was from Lincolnshire?

[tink.tech]

Hi leah-ww

This must be the newspaper article you were talking about, how gruesome.
 
http://digital.nls.uk/broadsides/broadside.cfm/id/16661/transcript/1

Helen

[Leah-WW]

Yes that's the one Helen. A rather shocking story I think, even today!

Unfortunately after I posted this yesterday I unravelled my own research - the girl, Charlotte, who was living in the household of Elizabeth's husband Joseph in 1841 was in fact his son's wife. Rats!

In other developments though, I have found that Joseph was married FIVE times - four between 1794 and 1811, and finally once more in 1826. All of his wives, except the last one, died young. I did start to wonder  last night if Elizabeth was really the murderer in the family!?

[tink.tech]

  I would agree either that or a very unlucky man

[LizzieW]

I did start to wonder  last night if Elizabeth was really the murderer in the family!?

It does seem a bit suspicious, unless her husband was particularly unlucky with his wives, and of course if he said she'd done it, in those days he would be believed over her.

[Leah-WW]

It does seem a bit suspicious, unless her husband was particularly unlucky with his wives, and of course if he said she'd done it, in those days he would be believed over her.

Precisely what I was thinking! The same happened in the case of Priscilla Biggadyke slightly later in the 19th century, of course.

[larkspur]

Just a snippet from the Bury and Norwich Post dated July 30 1817
Elizabeth Warriner was capitally convicted of unlawful murder of John Warriner her stepson by administering poison(arsenic) to him. The woman protested her innocence.
She was convicted of Murder at the 1817 Summer Assizes and sentenced to death. Seems she survived a few years in prison and managed to conceive a child too. We visited the prison a few years ago. A truly awful place....

[a-l]

i think the best place to find the recoqd is lincoln castle itself. there are lots of records there