Attention: Baptisé (12 octobre 1800) avant la naissance (??-??-1801).
Age:42-43
Elle est mariée avec John WESTWOOD.
Ils se sont mariés le 22 décembre 1823 à St. Michaels, Lichfield, Staffordshire, England, elle avait 22 ans.
Enfant(s):
1841 Burntwood (St Michael, Lichfield) Census -
quo;/b»Mary WESTWOOD. 17. Nailor. Yes.
Charles WESTWOOD. 14. Nailor. Yes.
Elizabeth WESTWOOD.12. Yes.
Harriett WESTWOOD. 10. Yes.
Eliza WESTWOOD. 7. Yes.
Keziah WESTWOOD. 5. Yes.
Amy WESTWOOD. 3. Yes.
John WESTWOOD. 2mths. Yes.
Samuel PHILLIPS. 35. nailor. Yes - born in Staffs.
ohn Westwood Body in good condition. Bowels in intense state ofinflammation. Lungs are dark coloured and turgid. The internal organs are
good. There is presence of Arsenic in the stomach. There are small grains in
the bowels. Arsenic from the stomach was produced in a medallic state onto a
piece of glass.
r. Before dinner had headache and feelingcold. He had dinner at 12 of Gruel followed by meat and bread. He then went
to bed for a lie down. He was sick at 3pm. He was chilly at 5pm. 9pm he was
823 in St Michael, Lichfield, STS. May 1801 in StBartholomew, Farewell, STS,died on 13 January 1844 in Stafford Gaol,
Stafford, Sts,, at age 43, and was buried in January 1844 in
eneral Notes:ife of John Westwood, a nailmakerat Burntwood in Staffordshire. In 1843 he was 40 and she 42.
They had been married for twenty years and, apart from an
illegitimate child of Sarah's from before her marriage, had
seven children. Three of their offspring had left home but
one son, Charles, who worked with his father, and four
little girls remained at home.
on the groundin a lane. Sarah stood by and was encouraging Phillips with
cries of 'Kill him!. Her husband was heard to demand of
Phillips, 'Damn your eyes! What was you doing at her
when I knocked you down?'
rtly afterwards a row broke out between the couple whenthey were at the home of Robert Westwood, John's brother.
John accused Phillips and Sarah of stealing some ale, which
denied. Her husband ordered her to stop going out withPhillips, hut she refused and swore at him.
ed to reaping at harvest time. Women played as big a partas men, walking behind the reapers and bundling the corn into
sheaves. That night Sarah refused to go home with John, sitting
all night by Robert Westwood's fire and complaining that, 'It's
hard work to go out reaping and have to sit by the fire'.
n John invitedSarah to go 'a-tea drinking' at the Bell Inn. Sarah refused and
John replied, 'If I hadn't wanted to have gone you'd have been
there. Recollect you wanted to make a child of me by locking
the door last night'.
/p>his son spent the morning working together, after which John
complained of feeling starved. Astonishingly, Samuel Phillips
was still lodging there but was not at home, so John, Sarah,
Charles and the three little girls ate together. John had gruel
with sugar and butter, some meat and fried bread. Eliza West-
wood, aged 10, remembered hearing him ask her mother what
was the white substance mixed in his gruel and Sarah replying
that she did not know.
of the Bible then went to rest on his bed, somethinghe had done after recovering from typhus a year before.
p>Charles heard his mother ask whether she should send for adoctor. John refused, saying that he would be alright if he
could only get warm, but an hour later he was dead.
The dead man's family voiced some suspicions and there was a
postmortem, then Sarah was arrested and committed for trial.
The hearing opened at Stafford Assizes on 28th December1843.
on 1st November andasked if Hannah knew how to cure 'the itch'. They had gone
together to a chemist's shop, where Hannah bought hellebore,
arsenic and red and white precipitate. She had mixed them
with her fingers, while in the shop, and had told Sarah that
the mixture would 'cure the rankish itch in twenty four hours
by wearing the linen for a fortnight '(sic).
chemist's shop in Walsall. She wasalone, but the chemist knew Hannah Mason well and sold her
the ingredients for the ointment.
stomach had containeda huge amount of arsenic, between a quarter and half an ounce.
cy. Judge's disliked recommendations tomercy for poisoners and she was sentenced to death. Pleading
pregnancy as a reason for a reprieve, she was examined by a
jury of matrons appointed by the Court. They found that she
was not pregnant, and she was hanged at Stafford on 13th Janu-
ary 1844. It seemed that no one was curious about the fact that
it was Phillips's mother who showed Sarah how to get arsenic.
Sarah Westwoodof Burntwood. She was convicted of administering Arsenic to her husband John
Westwood, a nailer, in a bowl of gruel. There was suspicion of a third party
nt. Samuel Phillips, who lodged with the Westwoods and worked withthe husband. After her conviction, Sarah claimed she was pregnant and a panel
of nurses were to consider her claim. Itwas considered unfounded. Samuel
Phillips tried to visit Sarah under the guise of being a relation, the visit
was not allowed.
trength deserted her and she was carriedto the drop by two officers. Sarah was seated on a stool placed on the trap
door and right up to the end pleaded her innocence, stating "it was hard to die
for a thing one is innocent of".
rles 16, Elizabeth 14, Harriet 12,Eliza 9, Sarah 7, Amy 5 and a boy of two at the time of execution.
He diedOctober 25, 1893.
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John WESTWOOD |
Sarah Parker
Birth name: Sarah
Gender: Female
Christening: Oct 12 1800 - St Mary, Lichfield, Staffordshire, England
Marriage: Spouse: John Weatwood - Dec 22 1823 - St. Michaels, Lichfield, Staffordshire, England
Parents: Charles Parker, Elizabeth Craddock
Husband: John Weatwood
Children: Amy Westwood, Harriett Westwood, Mary Ann Westwood, Eliza Westwood, Charles Westwood, Elizabeth Westwood, Kezia Westwood, John Westwood
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