ScotlandsPeople releases historic Perth Prison records

Scotlandspeople (www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk) has released historic records from Perth Prison. From its announcement:

Scottish prison registers held by National Records of Scotland (NRS) have been added to ScotlandsPeople for the first time. The admission entries of thousands of prisoners have been indexed and can be searched using the prison registers search page. People from a broad range of backgrounds can be found in the prison registers and there is a wealth of information in these volumes for the genealogist and social historian alike.

The first set of released records concern admissions to Perth Prison between 1867-1879 and 1888-1921 which can be searched for free on ScotlandsPeople and the images viewed and downloaded for a small fee. This equates to over 50,000 indexed entries for Perth Prison over this period and includes details of both male and female prisoners.

The full article is at https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/article/news-article-prison-registers-released.

Note these records are free to search, not to view, you will need to pay to see an image (unlike the kirk session records).

There is still no update from ScotlandsPeople on why it has removed its fuzzy search and name variant search capabilities. (See http://scottishgenes.blogspot.com/2022/02/why-has-scotlandspeople-changed-its.html)

Chris

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