Edward Scollen (1899 - 1940)

Born Mar 1899 in Seaham, Durham, England

Ancestors

Husband of Beatrice Barbara (Brown) Scollen — married Jun 1938 in Cleveland, Yorkshire North Riding

Died 24 Dec 1940 at age 41 in Durham, Durham, England

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Biography

This biography was auto-generated by a GEDCOM import.^[1] It's a rough draft and needs to be edited.

Name

Name: Edward /Scollen/^{[2][3][4][5][6]}

Birth

Birth:

Date: MAR 1899

Place: Seaham, Durham, England^{[7][8][9][10]}

Birth:

Date: 1899

Place: Seaham, Durham, England^[11]

Found multiple copies of BIRT DATE. Using MAR 1899

Death

Death: Executed for Murder of Wife

Date: 24 DEC 1940

Place: Durham, Durham, England^[12]

Cause: Hanging

Residence

Residence:

Date: 02 APR 1911

Place: Houghton Le Spring, Durham, England^[13]

Residence:

Date: 02 APR 1911

Place: Houghton Le Spring, Durham, England^[14]

Residence: St Pauls Road

Date: AUG 1940

Place: Middlesbrough, Yorkshire, England

Note

Note: #N9

PHOTO

PHOTO @M270@

Object

Object: @M269@

Object: @M270@

Marriage

Husband: Edward Scollen

Wife: Beatrice Barbara Brown

Marriage:

Date: JUN 1938

Place: Cleveland, Yorkshire North Riding^[15]

Husband: Edward Scollen

Marriage:

Date: JUN 1927

Place: Easington, Durham, England^[16]

Sources

1. ↑ Scollen-42 was created by Ian Wilson through the import of Scollen.ged on Jan 28, 2014. This comment and citation can be deleted after the biography has been edited and primary sources are included.
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6. ↑ Source: #S31 Object: @M230@
7. ↑ Source: #S15 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Isabella Wilkinson
8. ↑ Source: #S8 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Edward Scollen Object: @M181@
9. ↑ Source: #S29 Data: Text: Birth date: abt 1898 CONT Birth place: CONT Death date: Dec 1940 CONT Death place: Durham Central, Durham, England Object: @M209@
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12. ↑ Source: #S29 Data: Text: Birth date: abt 1898 CONT Birth place: CONT Death date: Dec 1940 CONT Death place: Durham Central, Durham, England Object: @M209@
13. ↑ Source: #S8 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Edward Scollen Object: @M181@
14. ↑ Source: #S8 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Edward Scollen Object: @M181@
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Notes

Note N9Edward Scollen Age 42 Executed by Thomas Pierrepoint on 24th December 1940 at Durham for the murder of his wife Beatrice Scollen

http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/hanged2.html

http://win1089.vs.easily.co.uk/pete/badrick/durhamprishanged.htm

http://nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/displaycataloguedetails.asp?CATID=5098639&CATLN=6&accessmethod=5&j=1

Record Summary

Scope and content

CRIMINAL CASES: SCOLLEN, Edward Convicted at York on 6 November 1940 for murder and sentenced to death.

Covering dates 1940

Held by The National Archives, Kew

Former reference (Department) 836482

Legal status Public Record(s)

Access conditions Closed Until 2005

Record opening date 21 Jun 2005

Thomas Pierrepoint 1870 - 1954. - Period on Home Office List - 1906-1946.

Tom was 6 years older than his brother Henry and worked as a hangman for 37 years before retiring in 1946, in his mid seventies. Thomas assisted at 36 executions and carried out 201 civilian hangings in England and Wales. He is credited with having carried out around 300 hangings in total, although no exact figure has been verified. Thomas was the official executioner for Irish Republic after it gained independence from England in 1923 and carried out 24 executions at Dublin?s Mountjoy prison between 1923 and 1944.

Some of his famous cases were :

On the 10th of March 1930, Pierrepoint executed Alfred Arthur Rouse at Bedford prison for the murder of an unknown man. Rouse had killed the man and then put him in his (Rouse's) car and set it ablaze in an attempt to fake his own death for the insurance money.

Ethel Lillie Major hanged on the 19th of December 1934 at Hull Prison for the murder of her husband.

Nurse Dorothea Waddingham, who was hanged for poisoning one of her elderly patients on the 16th of April 1936 at Winson Green prison in Birmingham.

In the same year he also hanged Charlotte Bryant, who went to the gallows at Exeter on the 15th of July for the murder of her husband by arsenic poisoning.

Tom was appointed as executioner by the US Military and was responsible for the hangings of US servicemen at Shepton Mallet prison during World War II, assisted by his nephew, Albert