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    Was the murderer Joseph Heald one of my wife’s ancestors?

    Apr 05, 2022 2 minutes

    ARWEL DAVIES has hit a brick wall while researching his wife’s family tree

    Q I’ve traced one branch of my wife’s family back to her 4x great grandfather, George Heald, born Warmfield, Yorkshire, c1793. I think that George was the son of Joseph Heald (born c1761) and Sarah Moxon (born c1760), who married in All Saints, Wakefield, in 1782.

    Tree hints on Ancestry () point to this Joseph Heald being executed for murder in York Prison on 21 March 1803. However, this isn’t my wife’s 5x great grandfather, as I have found a report in that gives the executed Joseph Heald’s age as 21 (born c1781), so he couldn’t be the father of George Heald.

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