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Executed - Western Australia project focused on persons executed under the law of Western Australia, Australia. Please also add profiles to the geni project Hangings if executed in that fashion.==Executed===Long Island, Houtman Abrolhos* Jeronimus Corneliszoon - 2 October 1629 - Hanged as party to the murder of 125 men, women and children* Lenert Michielsz - 2 October 1629 - Hanged as party to ...
=Flagellation=This project is for people who were beaten or flogged to death. People Beaten to Death: * Bakari Henderson - ABC News - American tourist’s beating death in Greece: What to know. by Morgan Winsor & Dragana Jovanovic 13 Jul 2017 * Kelly Thomas (1974-2011) ( Wikipedia - Death of Kelly Thomas )* Matthew Shepard (1976-1998) - Wikipedia - Matthew Shepard * Delvin Mendoza-Chaparro - Dail...
Persons executed under the Australian Law in the State of Tasmania. Please also add profiles to the geni project Hangings if executed in that fashion.==Tasmania - incomplete * Thomas England - about Mar 1806 - Hanged at Port Dalrymple for theft of pork from government stores at Port Dalrymple* James Keating - 14 April 1806 - Hanged at Hobart for theft of pork from government stores at Port Dalr...
If you know of a profile representing someone hanged in Colonial America , please add to this project. Additional resource links welcome for the "overview." From Wikipedia John Billington is thought to be one of the first men to be hanged in New England. Billington was convicted of murder in September of 1630 after he shot and killed John Newcomen.[6]During the Salem witch trials, most of the m...
I've been running across ancestors who were publicly "punished" in Colonial America, have you? Here's a project to remember what they endured.* from Crimes and Punishment in Colonial America In Colonial America the court structure was quite different from Great Britain. The colonial system was a hierarchy of overlapping courts and common law was the law of the land. The common law was greatly i...
This project is one which will link the prisoners of Robben Island from 1673-1834 to profiles on Geni. The information is from the transcriptions of documents of The Court of Justice at the Cape of Good Hope regarding convicts, exiles and prisoners.The documents have been transcribed by TEPC (Transcription of Estate Papers of the Cape of Good Hope). It was a joint project of the Universities of...
This is an Australian portal page similar to the Occupations Portal , with two separate lists, Crime and Punishment. Please add persons who committed crimes and were deported to Australia, the crimes can have been committed anywhere, the punishment must have taken place in Australia. When we work in migration areas, often the occupation, place born and in many cases in Australia the crime and p...
Within weeks of the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788 and the establishment of Sydney, New South Wales as the first permanent European settlement, Thomas Barrett became the first person to be executed in Australia under British law. Most of the earlier hangings were for stealing, one person hanged for stealing bread due to hunger. These people escaped the gallows in England, to, some of them, ...
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 cons...
Persons executed under Australian Law in the State of Queensland Australia. Please also add profiles to the geni project Hangings if executed in that fashion.==Queensland* John Bulbridge – 18 December 1830 – Hanged at Moreton Bay for absconding from the penal colony there and committing a robbery at Port Macquarie.* Charles Fagan - 18 December 1830 - Hanged at Moreton Bay for absconding and com...
Persons executed under Australian Law in the State of Victoria Australia. Please also add profiles to the geni project Hangings if executed in that fashion.Victoria* Tunnerminnerwait – Hanged at Melbourne on 20 January 1842 for the murder of two whalers at Cape Paterson* Maulboyheenner – Hanged at Melbourne on 20 January 1842 for the murder of two whalers at Cape Paterson* Charles Ellis – Hange...