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CobaltBlue
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London prison records - help please ++ COMPLETED +++
« on: Tuesday 16 June 09 08:56 UTC (UK) »
I would be grateful for any help / suggestions as to where to start searching for my great-grandfather’s prison record (and any other records that might be associated with it). The following details about him were extracted from the records held by the library of the Goldsmiths’ Company:

Joseph William Jaggers, of 108 Holly Street, Dalston, served one month’s hard labour in April 1892 for stealing silver from his employer Messrs Deere and Jackson of 43, Spencer Street, Clerkenwell


Many thanks

++ COMPLETED ++   Thank you to the people who responded to my query. Although not completely resolved, I have enough information on this now.
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Re: London prison records - help please
« Reply #1 on: Saturday 20 June 09 12:36 UTC (UK) »
Like you, I'm searching for my great-grandfather's prison records. It might be worth looking at this page as a starting point:

http://www.victorianlondon.org

The National Archives have a photograph section of Victorian prisoners although I'm not sure that it goes up to 1892. I don't think they kept the trial records etc for any cases other than murder.

Good luck.
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Re: London prison records - help please
« Reply #2 on: Friday 26 June 09 16:34 UTC (UK) »
The sentence is light so he may only have served his time in a local prison.

'Clerkenwell was also the location of three prisons: the Clerkenwell Bridewell, Coldbath Fields Prison (later Clerkenwell Gaol) and the New Prison, later the House of Detention...'

Survival rates of prison records is variable but particularly poor to non-existant for small local prisons. The surviving records tend to be of government prisons held usually by The National Archives or county gaols held in local record offices.

The more likely records to have survived would be the calendar of prisoners records. See The National Archives research guide

Tracing 19th and 20th Century Criminals

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/RdLeaflet.asp?sLeafletID=120


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Valda
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