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6 weeks hard labour...where would she have been sent
« on: Tuesday 04 April 17 12:29 BST (UK) »
I have just discovered that in June 1892 my great grandmother Sarah Elizabeth Jackson and her sister Emma Jane Barker were sentenced to 6 weeks hard labour. They were both sentenced at Spalding, convicted of their crime of stealing a money box and burning some of the contents. Punishment was 6 weeks imprisonment with hard labour. Does anyone know where this may have taken place and whether I would be able to find more details? We believe that Emma was pregnant at the time with her eldest child who was born at Postland, with all other children being born in Gedney. Was there a prison here? I've googled but it only comes up with Lincoln. Would be good to find out where she served her sentence and what this entailed. Thank you.

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Re: 6 weeks hard labour...where would she have been sent
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 04 April 17 12:53 BST (UK) »
A thread about Spalding gaol here (includes photo) http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=66726.0
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Re: 6 weeks hard labour...where would she have been sent
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 04 April 17 13:45 BST (UK) »
Thank you for that...but I'm not sure that is where they would have gone because in the information about Spalding prison in says it was only open until 1884 and my great grandmother and her sister were imprisoned in 1892.....back to the drawing board...

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Re: 6 weeks hard labour...where would she have been sent
« Reply #3 on: Tuesday 04 April 17 14:45 BST (UK) »
Yes, actually, searching the 1881 census for Prisoners in Lincs finds them in Lincoln and in Spalding (nowhere else in county).  However, searching in 1891, they are only to be found in Lincoln. :)
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Re: 6 weeks hard labour...where would she have been sent
« Reply #4 on: Tuesday 04 April 17 14:46 BST (UK) »
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Re: 6 weeks hard labour...where would she have been sent
« Reply #5 on: Tuesday 04 April 17 14:52 BST (UK) »
Quote from: Geoff-E on Tuesday 04 April 17 14:45 BST (UK)
Yes, actually, searching the 1881 census for Prisoners in Lincs finds them in Lincoln and in Spalding (nowhere else in county).  However, searching in 1891, they are only to be found in Lincoln. :)

That's all I could find too....so seems as though she went to Lincoln then....I presume that the jail was at the castle in those days?

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Re: 6 weeks hard labour...where would she have been sent
« Reply #6 on: Tuesday 04 April 17 14:55 BST (UK) »
Nope...not at the castle as that closed in 1878 but on the site it still sits today.

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« Reply #7 on: Tuesday 04 April 17 15:17 BST (UK) »
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Re: 6 weeks hard labour...where would she have been sent
« Reply #8 on: Tuesday 04 April 17 16:26 BST (UK) »
Quote from: Geoff-E on Tuesday 04 April 17 15:17 BST (UK)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HM_Prison_Lincoln

Thank you... that's the information I found. Just trying to find a list of inmates now as the only list I can find is convicts who were transported and she definitely wasn't one of those otherwise I wouldn't be here!!!
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