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Davy Crockett (1786–1836), American folk hero and the descendant of one Monsieur de la Croquetagne, a captain in the Royal Guard of French King Louis XIV, whose family converted to Protestantism, fled France and settled in the north of Ireland. [677] Philippe de Corguilleray, colonist, French Antarctique. [678] Louis de Freycinet, French ...
A Provisional Irish Republican Army member was sentenced to death for murder before abolition was extended across the UK. European Union human-rights protocols signed in 1999 abolished the death penalty in EU nations, but the UK is no longer an EU member. [18] 1998 Mahmood Hussein Mattan, convicted and hanged 1952, conviction quashed 1998. [19]
Name Crime Method A England: 13 August 1964 [154] Peter Anthony Allen and Gwynne Owen Evans: capital murder: hanging: A Guernsey: 10 February 1854 [154] John Tapner: murder: hanging: A Isle of Man: 1 August 1872 [154] John Kewish: patricide: hanging: A Jersey: 9 October 1959 [154] Francis Joseph Huchet: murder: hanging: A Northern Ireland: 20 ...
The last active Huguenot congregation in North America worships in Charleston, South Carolina, at a church that dates to 1844. The Huguenot Society of America maintains the Manakin Episcopal Church in Virginia as a historic shrine with occasional services. The Society has chapters in numerous states, with the one in Texas being the largest.
Thomas Hartley Montgomery (1873) only Irish policeman sentenced to death for murder; Carey Dean Moore (2018) most recent execution in Nebraska; Harry Charles Moore (1997) most recent execution in Oregon; Patrick Moran (1921) William Morva (2017) last execution in Virginia; Leon Moser (1995) Norishyam s/o Mohamed Ali (1999) Shukri Mustafa (1978 ...
Huguenot history (6 C, 4 P) M. Abraham de Moivre (9 P) Pages in category "Huguenots" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 286 total.
Emblem of The Huguenot Society of America. The Huguenot Society of America is a New York City–based genealogical organization. On April 12, 1883, the Society was inaugurated by a group of descendants of Huguenots who had fled persecution in France and who (or whose descendants) settled in what is now the United States of America.
After the Norman conquest of Ireland, English law provided the model for Irish law. This originally mandated a death sentence for any felony, a class of crimes established by common law but, in Ireland as in England, was extended by various Acts of Parliament; [4] a situation later dubbed the "Bloody Code".