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Executed - Australian Islands and Territories

Persons executed under the laws of Australia in Territories and on Islands. Please also add profiles to the geni project Hangings if executed in that fashion.

Norfolk Island

  • Peter McLean – 14 December 1800 – Irish convict and political prisoner, hanged without trial for conspiracy to mutiny
  • John Houlahan – 14 December 1800 – Irish convict and political prisoner, hanged without trial for conspiracy to mutiny
  • Robert Douglas - 23 September 1834 - Hanged for mutiny
  • Henry Drummond - 23 September 1834 - Hanged for mutiny
  • James Bell - 23 September 1834 - Hanged for mutiny
  • Joseph Butler - 23 September 1834 - Hanged for mutiny
  • Robert Glennie - 23 September 1834 - Hanged for mutiny
  • Walter Burke - 23 September 1834 - Hanged for mutiny
  • Jospeph Snell - 23 September 1834 - Hanged for mutiny
  • William McCulloch - 23 September 1834 - Hanged for mutiny
  • Michael Andrews - 23 September 1834 - Hanged for mutiny
  • William Groves - 23 September 1834 - Hanged for mutiny
  • Thomas Freshwater - 23 September 1834 - Hanged for mutiny
  • Henry Knowles - 23 September 1834 - Hanged for mutiny
  • Robert Ryan - 23 September 1834 - Hanged for mutiny

Cooking Pot Uprising

Hanged for mutiny and killing police runner Stephen Smith, and convict constables John Morris, John Dinon and Thomas Saxton, on 1 July 1846, known as the "Cooking Pot Uprising"

  • William Westwood (Jackey Jackey) – 13 October 1846 wiki
  • John Davis – 13 October 1846
  • Samuel Kenyon – 13 October 1846
  • Dennis Pendergast – 13 October 1846
  • Owen Commuskey – 13 October 1846
  • Henry Whiting – 13 October 1846
  • William Pearson – 13 October 1846
  • James Cairnes – 13 October 1846
  • William Pickthorne – 13 October 1846
  • Lawrence Kavenagh – 13 October 1846 wiki
  • William Scrimshaw – 13 October 1846
  • Edward McGuinness – 13 October 1846.

Northern Territory

  • Charles Flannagan – 15 July 1893 – Hanged at Fannie Bay Gaol for the murder of Samuel Croker at Auvergne Station.
  • Wandy Wandy – 25 July 1893 – Hanged on gallows constructed at the scene of the crime at Malay Bay for his part in the murder of six unnamed Malays.
  • Moolooloorun (Aboriginal male, no given surname) – 17 January 1895 – Hanged on gallows constructed at Crescent Lagoon in the presence of other members of his aboriginal community for the murder of an unnamed Chinese man near the Roper River.
  • Chung Yeung – 10 August 1899 – Hanged at Fannie Bay Gaol for the murder of Chee Hang at Yam Creek.
  • Lem Kai – 10 August 1899 – Hanged at Fannie Bay Gaol for the murder of Chee Hang at Yam Creek.
  • Jimmie (Aboriginal male, no given surname) – 8 April 1901 – Hanged on gallows constructed at Shaw's Creek, Victoria River, for the murder of John Larsen at Daly River.
  • Tommy (Aboriginal male, no given surname) – 21 December 1905 – Hanged at Fannie Bay Gaol for the murders of Henry Edwards, Richard Frost and Nowra at Victoria River district.
  • Koppio (Aboriginal male, no given surname) – 15 July 1913 – Hanged at Fannie Bay Gaol for the murders of Ching Loy and Lo Sin at the old Howley Mine.
  • Jaroslav Koci and Jan Novotny – 8 August 1952 – Hanged at Fannie Bay Gaol for the murder of Darwin taxi-driver George Thomas Grantham.

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