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  • This 'Visitors Book' lists the names of individuals who visited prisoners at Beaumaris Gaol between 1862 and 1878. The following pages show the names of those individuals who were allowed to visit Richard Rowlands, a prisoner who had been found guilty of the murder of his father-in-law at Llanfaethlu. Rowlands was sentenced to death and his public execution in April 1862 was the second and the last to be carried out at the new Gaol at Beaumaris. In the few days before he was hanged, Rowlands was allowed a number of visitors, including his close relatives and several ministers of religion who came to pray with him.
Beaumaris Gaol Visitors Book, 1862-78 [front cover, image 1 of 3]
  • This ballad relates the story of William Murphy who was the last man to be executed at Caernarfon Gaol on 15 February 1910. Murphy was executed for the brutal murder of Gwen Ellen Jones at Holyhead on Christmas Day 1909. He was sentenced to death at the Beaumaris Assizes on 25 January 1910.
Ballad entitled 'Execution of Murphy', 1910 [image 1 of 4]
  • Photographed by John Thomas.
Dr Griffith, Ffestiniog, c. 1875
  • R. M. Jackson describes the view from the slopes of Moel Fama. He relates the story of a vicious murder which had taken place in the area the previous year and visits the grave of the victim.
A weekend excursion in North Wales, by Richard M. Jackson, 29-31 July 1820 [page 13, image 14 of 18]
'Tales and Traditions of Breconshire' edited by Stanley Jackson Coleman (1956) [page 11, image 11 of 12]