Gardiner, James

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Dates 1738
Location London
Vocation Domestic servant
Place of Birth Auldearn
Marriage Unnamed Scottish wife
Issue Unnamed son and daughter
Place of birth Source Old Bailey Online, OA17381222

Executed at Tyburn for theft. 30 years old at the time of his death. Born to a respectable farming family, but disliked this lifestyle and instead became an under-butler, serving in turn two earls and a respectable gentlemen. Lived in Scotland until moving to London for his final post four or five years previously. Claimed to have been tricked into stealing goods from his master, Mr Waldron, while later was taking the waters at Bath.