Newspaper Article please

[duckweed]

I am looking for more detail on Thomas Knowles who was executed in 1800 for uttering a false note. He forged a Sheffield Bank Note. He was buried strangely in consecrated ground in Brimmington Church yard.

I think he may link to another story I read but am unsure because I can't find where he was living or his age.

Can anyone find details in the papers about the court case?

 

[jay]

Hello Duckweed. I found in the Derby Mercury 11th September that at 12 o' clock he was taken by coach, attended by the Rev. Mr. Bailey. He was 33yrs old and left a wife and two children The sheriff allowed friends to take his body for interment. Efforts were made to get a reprieve and he was given 15 days respite but the forging of a one guinea note was considered too serious a crime.

 

[duckweed]

Yes such a terrible crime. He turns out not to be the person I was looking for. The book I have read suggested that a young lad of poor intellect was given forged money by an older man and then caught trying to pass it. However this person is no lad albeit there were Knowles in the neighbourhood in Norton (which is where the book is about). Oh well back to the drawing board.

 

[leefer]

Fir few Knowles in York i noted...also didn't realise so many people were executed for forgery.