Elizabeth Morgan et al. in London, England - 20 August, 1745, at night

from Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 07 February 2019), September 1745, trial of Thomas Morgan (t17450911-32):

[Thomas Morgan, a pipemaker, was found guilty of murdering his wife Elizabeth in a frenzied knife attack and was executed at Tyburn 4 April 1746. The listener, also named Thomas Morgan, describes an encounter at the home of the Morgans, including Thomas and Elizabeth quarrelling]

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Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 07 February 2019), September 1745, trial of Thomas Morgan (t17450911-32), number t17450911-32. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1550843461088 accessed: 11 October, 2024

location of experience: London, England

Listeners

Listening to

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unspecified singing performed by Thomas Morgan

Experience Information

Date/Time 20 August, 1745, at night
Medium live
Listening Environment in private, indoors, solitary

Notes

The listening experience was identified in ‘The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913’, a fully searchable database detailing the lives of non-elite people, containing 197,745 criminal trials held at London’s central criminal court. Tim Hitchcock, Robert Shoemaker, Clive Emsley, Sharon Howard and Jamie McLaughlin, et al., The Old Bailey Proceedings Online, 1674-1913 (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0 February 2019)


Originally submitted by 5011Henning on Fri, 22 Feb 2019 13:51:01 +0000
Approved on Mon, 01 Apr 2019 14:00:02 +0100