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Member Since: June 2003 Posts: 9,301 Send Message	Ozibird	Report	19 May 2009 23:10
Member Since: June 2003 Posts: 9,301 Send Message	Old Bailey is just one court. Local Record Offices also hold many of their local courts' Quarter Sessions records. However check the archives around Portsea first. Even gaol records may have something. Ozi.
Member Since: August 2004 Posts: 524 Send Message	Stevendeg	Report	19 May 2009 09:20
Member Since: August 2004 Posts: 524 Send Message	Try with http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/ Cheers, Steven.
Member Since: July 2003 Posts: 88 Send Message	ang	Report	19 May 2009 09:02
Member Since: July 2003 Posts: 88 Send Message	i found him on the 1871 census-convict..how do you look at court records
Member Since: June 2003 Posts: 9,301 Send Message	Ozibird	Report	18 May 2009 23:16
Member Since: June 2003 Posts: 9,301 Send Message	You'd need to look at court records. But you'd need to know where the crime was committed. Was he actually in prison in 1871? Have you found him in 1881? Ozi
Member Since: July 2003 Posts: 88 Send Message	ang	Report	18 May 2009 23:08
Member Since: July 2003 Posts: 88 Send Message	how would you find out what crime was committed in 1871.. someone in my tree went to portsea prison in portsmouth but i dont know why he was there as he came from huddersfield?