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General => The Common Room => Topic started by: David Pinkney on Monday 01 January 18 01:07 GMT (UK)
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Is there anywhere i can find a date of a possible prisoner's time in jail around 1948-1950?
Is this is closed info or can a relative request the information, the person involved is deceased
Thanks
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Have you tried the National Archives website?
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According to NA site
Prisoners records are opening date: 01 January 2067
I posted this on another tread :
'I have two late uncles who were caught by police when they tried to steal a van with a load of televisions in it in the mid to late 1960s. They did not realise that there were police officers amongst the van’s cargo and they were arrested. They had a stay in Oxford prison for there trouble.
I think that it took place in London or the Home Counties to the west of London.
How can I substantiate this story?'
in the hope that somebody might be able to find more details about the case. I feel that the local newspapers of the time would have reported it but have so far been unable to find anything. In the light that the uncles are dead, I do not see any reason why I should not have access to any records of them.
David, please excuse me for piggybacking your thread but I feel that if we unite our cause somthing might turn up.
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Have you tried the National Archives website?
See Prison registers and calendars of prisoners (1770-1971)
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/prisoners-or-prison-staff/
Stan
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Stanmapstone reaches the parts where others fail.
Thanks Stan
:D
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Unfortunately searching through all the available info i can find there is no records that bring up anything relevant unfortunately
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My great grans file was available at the national archives and she was a serial killer in the 1950's,
the file had statements, letters, photos, etc , and we found that just by searching her name in the general search on there, so maybe yours might have something similar.
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Unfortunately nothing seems to come up :(
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I have learnt one thing in ten years + of FR. These things can take time.
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I have learnt one thing in ten years of FR. These things can take time.
i am patient :) took me 15 years to find the name of my paternal grandfather
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Then you will know that it is ‘just’ a matter of looking in the right places. Good luck. Have you tried posting a letter to the relevant prison?
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Unfortunately i have no idea which prison it would have been, the only clue i have is his prison number written on the back of a photo of my mum as a baby