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Does anyone know where I should look for records of babies born in Lincoln Castle prison, please?

I'm looking into the case of murderess Elizabeth Warriner who was hanged there in 1821 for poisoning her stepson. Contemporary newspaper reports have her with "a suckling child" at the time of her execution, and sure enough on the 1841 census there is a girl (Charlotte), born around 1821, living in the household of her widowed husband. The assumption is therefore that Charlotte was the suckling child, and must therefore have been born while Elizabeth was at the prison, but I'd like to find a birth record to be sure.

I've been trying to find a birth that has eluded me for some time - the birth of Alice Innocent, who married John Warriner at Tuxford, Notts on 01 Jun 1676, and in doing so I've just noticed something that I could kick myself for not noticing before - that the first child of John and Alice (Ann) was baptised in March 1676; 3 months before they got married (not quite so innocent after all, then!)

This isn't extraordinary in itself I suppose, and it doesn't help me locate the birth of Alice. The only record I can find that is anything close to possible for that birth adds yet more confusion, because it shows an Alice Innocent being baptised at Skegby, Notts (4 miles from Tuxford) on 15 Apr 1632**, with parents Francis Innocent and Alice. This is ok, but when I searched for a marriage between Francis Innocent and Alice to corroborate the birth, I only found one between a Francis WASSE and an Alice INNOCENT (in 1625). Can I assume that this isn't the right marriage do you think, or should I look into something peculiar happening whereby the husband (Francis Wasse) for some reason took his bride's surname (Innocent) instead of the usual way around?!

** If this baptism is for "my" Alice, then that would make her 22/23 years older than John Warriner, who was baptised in 1655. This would explain why "my" Alice died in 1684, whilst John went on to marry again and lived until 1710. My imagination is now dreaming up a scenario where young John Warriner (age 22) is having an affair with the much older Alice Innocent (age 44). She falls pregnant and gives birth to Ann in 1676, and because he/they acknowledge the affair Ann is given John's name with the intention that they'll get married shortly after. They go on to have 2 more children in wedlock - Richard, in 1677 and Thomas, in 1683 (though this would make Alice 51 by the time of that birth). I'm not sure this is even feasible, but I can't yet find anything to prove otherwise?!

Is anyone able to tell me whether a Richard WARRENER (or Warriner) was buried at Laneham in 1772, please?

A member of Saxilby (Lincs) history group kindly pointed me in the direction yesterday of a coroner's inquest for Richard WARRENER who drowned in the Fossdyke at Saxilby that year, but I can't see him in the local burials despite it saying "of Saxilby" on the inquest description. I do have a Richard WARRENER of around the right age who was first-cousin to my Thomas WARRINER who lived at Saxilby in the late 1770s. I'm trying to establish if Thomas was at Saxilby earlier than I thought, and perhaps Richard was visiting his cousin there, from Laneham.

(I hope that make some sense!?)

Does anyone else find Lincs to the Past infuriating? I've just about got the hang of actually searching the database now, but I find the size of the 'frame' in which you can view the original images far too small, especially on my laptop where I don't find it so easy to navigate around the image when zoomed in. They would be much better having a large 'frame' which fills the screen like Ancestry, in my opinion. Don't get me wrong, I'm very grateful that the site is there, but I do wish it was easier to use!

I wonder who one would contact with feedback...

I've solved a mystery this morning - hurrah! I had two additional grandchildren with a surname that didn't fit into my tree, but found out that their mother (who I did have in my tree) had been married twice, and it was the first marriage (and therefore the children) that I didn't know about.

However, this has - as usual for me - thrown up another mystery.

Doris Ruth BRIMICOMBE m. (1) John HINDLE Jan/Feb/Mar 1918 at Mansfield, Notts
                                               --- Jack W. HINDLE b. Jul/Aug/Sep 1918 at Mansfield, Notts
                                               --- ***** * HINDLE b. Oct/Nov/Dec 1919 at Mansfield, Notts
                                    m. (2) Albert E. TUCKER Oct/Nov/Dec 1927, Derby.

I know this isn't a great deal to go on, but I can't seem to find any further reference to John HINDLE. I assumed (perhaps wrongly; I don't know how divorce worked in the 1920s) that he had died between 1919 and 1927, but can't find an entry of death. I've also looked on the 1911 census, and for a birth record, and I can't find anything to help me. There are a lot of John HINDLEs in Lancashire, but so many so that I can't hope to be able to say for certain that one of them is the one I'm looking for without any further information (a year of birth would be nice, for example).

Does anyone perhaps have any suggestions about where I can go next, please..?