Holliday, John

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Dates 1720
Location London
Vocation Packman
Place of Birth Village near Edinburgh
Marriage Unnamed wife
Issue
Place of birth Source Old Bailey Online, OA17200919

Executed at Tyburn for defying transportation. 40 years old at the time of his death. Formerly transported overseas for selling stolen cloth. Returned home to fetch his wife, apparently by way of a mutiny upon the transportation vessel (in which he claims to have played no active part)