I received this from Findmypast this morning:
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Findmypast Friday: Over 800,000 new Crime, Prisons & Punishment records and mugshots available to search
Leading family history website Findmypast.co.uk has just published over 800,000 newly digitised crime records in association with The National Archives. Findmypast’s Crime, Prisons and Punishment collection is now the largest searchable archive of British crime records available anywhere online, containing over 6.6 million records.
The new additions span the years 1784-1939 and include registers of inmates from infamous prisons including Pentonville, Wormwood Scrubs, Millbank and Newgate as well as governor’s journals, trial records, lists of visitors, men in solitary confinement, baptisms at women’s prisons and more.
The full list of series added in this latest update includes;
- Pentonville (prison registers, minute books)
- Gibraltar Prison (visitor's book, journal of proceedings)
- Chatham Prison, Kent (Register of Prisons)
- Portsmouth Prison (Index of working parties)
- Wormwood (Index of working parties, register of prisoners under separate confinement)
- Wormwood Scrubs (index of working parties)
- Millbank Prison (book of questions)
- Newgate (list of prisoners; chaplain, surgeons and sheriff visits)
- Bedford Gaol (governor's journal)
- Lindsey Gaol (Visiting committee)
- Liverpool Gaol (calendar of trials and quarter sessions)
- Reading Gaol (entry book of pardons of prisoners, visiting justices)
- Lancaster Gaol (Register of Debtors and Plaintiffs)
- Oxford Gail (Gaoler's journal)
Containing all manner of documents from a variety of Government departments, including the Home Office, Prison Commission, Metropolitan Police, Central Criminal Court (also known as the Old Bailey), treasury and the Admiralty, the collection covers criminal cases, goals, hulks, prisons, criminal calendars and more.
Spanning 165 years of the British Justice system, they reveal many ordinary and extraordinary stories of criminals, victims and law enforcers from the Georgian highway robber, the Victorian murderer and the Edwardian thief, to the common rural poacher, unemployed petty food thief and the early trade unionist.
Researchers will find physical descriptions, photographs, whether their ancestor was executed or transported, details of their offence, sentencing, imprisonment and official correspondence about their case.
The full Crime, Prisons and Punishment 1770 – 1935 collection includes 22 series from the National Archives at Kew, recording the intimate details of millions of victims and villains, beginning with judges' recommendations for or against pardons, petitions through which criminals and their families could offer mitigating circumstances and grounds for mercy, and later, licenses containing everything from previous convictions to the state of a prisoner's health.
These latest additions have also been added to Findmypast’s browsable collection, allowing you to delve through the original documents page-by-page.
Westminster Parish Records
Unearthed using this week’s new crime records, Findmypast have also added hundreds of baptisms and burials that took place in Westminster Penitentiary to their collection of Westminster Parish records.
An 1823 burial register from Westminster Penitentiary. View the full record.
Most of the new prison baptisms are for adult inmates, although some do record the details of children born to female prisoners or staff.
Newspapers
Two new publications join the Findmypast Archive this week along with substantial updates to six existing titles. Online for the first time are:
- Darlington & Richmond Herald covering 1880
- Staffordshire Newsletter covering 1907-1915 and 1917-1933
- Bangalore Spectator from 1889-1890
- Daily Record from 1895-1896, 1898, 1901-1902, 1908-1910, 1921, 1931-1932, 1936-1937, 1946, 1950 and 1952-1954
- Derby Daily Telegraph from 1989
- Dewsbury Chronicle and West Riding Advertiser from 1880-1881, 1883-1888 and 1890-1893
- Kenilworth Advertiser from 1886-1889
- Morning Herald (London) from 1804-1807, 1809-1810, 1819-1822, 1824-1827 and 1837-1839
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