TheGenealogist adds convict records

Family history website thegenealogist.co.uk has added 651,369 quarterly returns of 19th- century convicts to its Court & Criminal Records collection. The digitised records, taken from series HO8 at The National Archives, date from 1824 to 1854 and list the names of convicts held in prisons, hulks and criminal lunatic asylums. They include information such as inmates’ date of birth and the crime for which they were sentenced. The records were also added to findmypast.co.uk when it completed a major project to digitise The National Archives’ criminal records last June.