Age: unknown
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 9 Sep 1843
Execution Place: Chester
Method: hanging
Executioner: unknown
Source: http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
James Ratcliffe was convicted of the murder of his wife Elizabeth Ratcliffe and sentenced to death but there is no indication that he was executed. He had stabbed her in the abdomen wife a knife on 22 June 1843.
They had been living together in Stockport in a state of unhappyness. James Ratcliffe had been a tabaconist but was discharged for being regularly intoxicated. However he had 3 children that were old enough to work in the factories to earn them money.
