Ancestry (www.ancestry.co.uk) has announced that it is providing free access to its England & Wales, Criminal Registers, 1791-1892 database until the end of the month.
The source information is given as follows:
Home Office: Criminal Registers, Middlesex and Home Office: Criminal Registers, England and Wales; Records created or inherited by the Home Office, Ministry of Home Security, and related bodies, Series HO 26 and HO 27; The National Archives of the UK (TNA), Kew, Surrey, England.
Information potentially returned includes:
•Name of criminal
•Age
•Birthplace (not often listed after 1802)
•Crime
•When and where tried
•Sentence (death, transportation, imprisonment, acquittal, etc.)
•Where and when received
•Date of execution or release
•By whom committed, to whom delivered
The collection is available at http://search.ancestry.co.uk/iexec/?htx=List&dbid=1590
(With thanks to Ancestry)
Chris
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