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Portland Prison & Henry Nelson
« on: Saturday 09 April 05 21:24 BST (UK) »
I have just found an ancestor in Portland Prison in 1901. He was born in Hull in 1849 and from various docs I know he also lived in Liverpool (1871), Skipton, Warton near Lancaster (1881) and Hindley (near Wigan) in 1891.

Can anyone help with how and why he ended up at the other end of the country in prison?
Wilson in the Lancaster area
Clegg in Todmorden
Adamson in Edinburgh
Miller in Edinburgh
Nunn in Norfolk and Co Durham
Smith in Glasgow
Haig in Peebles/Edinburgh
Also Nelson, Gardener, Garnett, Blair, Coleman, Aaronson and many more as the branches expand!

Census info is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk