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Hi,
Here in Ireland when prisoners were buried within the prison grounds after
execution. Its only now that in some cases, these bodies have been exhumed
for burial by the family.
At 11:13 13/06/02 -0400, you wrote:
> Dear Histarchers, During the time there were public executions in
>Ontario for a wide variety of crimes, it was a widespread and common
>practice for hanged prisoners, unclaimed by relatives, to be buried in the
>jail yard. It is thought that after rebels Matthews and Lount were
>hanged at the (2nd) jail in Toronto in 1837, they were at first buried in
>the exercise yard, then later reburied at the Necropolis. Archaeologists
>have uncovered burials in the exercise yard at the Waterloo County Jail.
>At Toronto's Don Jail, the burial area was referred to as "Murderer's
>Row". In No Tears to the Gallows, author Mark Johnson cites death-row
>prisoner Frank McCullough, in 1919, looking down from his cell window to
>point out where the last fellow hanged was buried and commenting to
>attending Reverend R. Bertram Nelles : "You see my place is right next."
>The Don Jail was preceded by the 1838 Gaol (on the site of Upper Canada's
>first Parliament Buildings). Does anyone have knowledge of jail yard
>burials at this particular jail (Toronto's 3rd), or at others in the
>period1830 to 1850 in Ontario, or elsewhere if relevant? Rollo Myers
>and Adriana Balen Citizens for the Old Town 416 861 1793 159 King Street
>East Toronto, Ontario M5C 1G9
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