Warwickshire prisoner records?

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Member Since: March 2005 Posts: 16 Send Message	Natasha	Report	29 Mar 2009 19:32
Member Since: March 2005 Posts: 16 Send Message	i have just found an ancestor in the 1881 census and it says he was a prisoner in majesty's prison warwick. is there any way i can find out what he had done and why he was in prison? many thanks
Member Since: April 2006 Posts: 2,833 Send Message	Nickydownsouth	Report	29 Mar 2009 19:35
	Ian..... Take a look here, it has Police charge book for Stratford area up to 1880...... http://www.shakespeare.org.uk/content/view/543/504/ Nicky
	Researching: Furniss/Furness in Lancashire,Critchett in Devon and London, Keemish/Camish/ Kemish from Hampshire then Cambridge, Copper and Godden in Kent, Spink/Spynk in Norfolk and Cambridge
Member Since: March 2005 Posts: 16 Send Message	Natasha	Report	29 Mar 2009 20:35
Member Since: March 2005 Posts: 16 Send Message	thanks for the website. i had a look but couldnt find him.
Member Since: December 2006 Posts: 4,275 Send Message	Madmeg	Report	29 Mar 2009 23:04
	Try the local paper - my gg uncle was in a Manchester prison in 1881, the sentence was reported in the Manchester Times - he had " stolen £90 from a lad in Picadilly" - and it wasn't his first offence either! Margaret