Talk:John Hatfield (forger)

ODNB
There are slightly different but presumably more accurate details in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. I don't have time to fact-check them all right now. Charles Matthews (talk) 10:16, 7 January 2014 (UTC)

Date of birth
Hello, "The chronicles of crime; or, The new Newgate calendar, being a series of memoirs and anecdotes of notorious characters who have outraged the laws of Great Britain from the earliest period to 1841" states: it appears that he was the son of poor parents, who lived at Mortram, near Longdale, in Cheshire, and that he was born there, in the year 1759. Lotje (talk) 08:29, 20 September 2023 (UTC)