Genealogy Chat

Top tip - using the Genes Reunited community

Welcome to the Genes Reunited community boards!

  • The Genes Reunited community is made up of millions of people with similar interests. Discover your family history and make life long friends along the way.
  • You will find a close knit but welcoming group of keen genealogists all prepared to offer advice and help to new members.
  • And it's not all serious business. The boards are often a place to relax and be entertained by all kinds of subjects.
  • The Genes community will go out of their way to help you, so don’t be shy about asking for help.

Boards

Quick Search

Single word search

Tools

Findmypast DNA Banner

Icons

  • New posts
  • No new posts
  • Thread closed
  • Stickied, new posts
  • Stickied, no new posts

Prison records

Login to Add Reply Watch This
ProfilePosted byOptionsPost Date

*Alison*

*Alison* Report 18 Mar 2009 18:25

Thanks margaret, i should really go to look at the newspapers at the library in manchester.

Madmeg

Madmeg Report 17 Mar 2009 22:28

Alison

I haven't researched, but someone I know found info on an imprisoned rellie from the Manchester Times at his local library (which was not in Manchester!).

Margaret

*Alison*

*Alison* Report 17 Mar 2009 13:05

Hello,

I don't suppose anyone knows of any links to old newspapers online in the Manchester/salford area?

Thanks in advance,

Alison.

nameslessone

nameslessone Report 17 Mar 2009 10:42

Try:
Wandsworth Heritage Service at:

Battersea Library,
265 Lavender Hill,
London SW11 1JB.
Old Parish registers, local newspapers, some cemetery records. 1992 edition of IGI etc
www.wandsworth.gov.uk/museum and click on Local History

I don't know if they do research but were very helpful on a visit some years ago.

maggiewinchester

maggiewinchester Report 17 Mar 2009 08:05

For a prisoner as recent as 1911, the best place to look will be local newspapers. As it's Wandsworth, Times Online may have something, depends on how serious the charge was.

maggie

Researching:
Henry Floyd (g x 4 grandad) Allegedly the heaviest man in England in 1842

Katy

Katy Report 17 Mar 2009 05:26

I've just found one of my ancestors in Wandsworth prison on the 1911 census. Does anyone know if you can look records relating to this?

thanks
Katy