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Prisoner
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Phyll | Report | 12 Mar 2018 10:43 |
I am led to believe that a relative of mine was in prison for vagrancy sometime in the late 1950's early 60's. Is there any way I can find out if this is so. If I wrote to the prison would they tell me? |
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RolloTheRed | Report | 12 Mar 2018 11:05 |
One of my rellies served 6 months for drink driving (nobody hurt, lots of damage ), another one got a year for running a bingo hall, another got 6 months for being C.O., another served long spells in an asylum. |
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Phyll | Report | 12 Mar 2018 11:43 |
Thanks Rollo |
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JoyLouise | Report | 12 Mar 2018 11:54 |
Rollo, I, too, had a distant relative who died in an asylum during the 19th century. It surprised me that he was the only one because it was as a result of VD (STD to you young ones), fairly obviously caught in one of the places sailors visit and I have a lot of Royal and Merchant Navy in my background. (I have my suspicions about a second death but I am too far from that particular records office to visit.) |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 12 Mar 2018 16:44 |
I had an ancestor who was jailed, then transferred to an asylum in 1851, |
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KathleenBell | Report | 12 Mar 2018 17:06 |
If the case was heard in the magistrate's court then the local archives should have the Magistrate's Court Record Books. When I was looking for records of a desertion claim against my grandfather I was told that as long as the case was over 30 years ago then we could look through the books - which we did and found the report of the case. We were allowed to read through as many of the records as we wanted until we found the one we were looking for. |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 12 Mar 2018 17:14 |
Local newspapers may have a report. |
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Phyll | Report | 12 Mar 2018 19:18 |
Thank you all for your kind & useful advice. |
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