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Title: James Stanfield: gaoler/warder/turnkey 1827-1832 in Woolwich?
Post by: BassinghamTerrier on Friday 24 February 17 11:35 GMT (UK)
Hi

I am trying to find out information about a 4xg-grandfather who served in the Royal Artillery February 1805- November 1827. That much I can confirm, but I know that after leaving the Army he was employed as a gaoler before his death in January 1832.

When his daughter Ann Stanfield married John Francis Meillear on 9th Jan 1853 in Lee St Margaret, Blackheath, London she declared her father was a "Turnkey (deceased)"; when his other daughter Rachel Stanfield married William Swanson Ross on 26th June 1857 in Edinburgh she described him as a "Warder".

What I want to know is, where might he have been employed and how would I check? He had three sons born and baptised in Woolwich between August 1827 and May 1832 (by which time he had died) so I am presuming that he would have been in the area. Which prisons are likely, please? And what ought to be my next step?

Thanks in anticipation :)

MT ;)