800,000 CRIME AND PRISON RECORDS ADDED TO FINDMYPAST

Thousands of records relating to crimes carried out between the years 1784 and 1939 - from rural poaching to highway robbery - have been added to Findmypast.

The 800,000 newly digitised crime records, in association with The National Archives, have been added to Findmypast’s Crime, Prisons and Punishment collection, which now comprises 6.6 million records.

The new additions span the years 1784-1939 and include registers of inmates from infamous prisons including Pentonville, Wormwood Scrubs, Millbank and Newgate as well as governor’s journals, trial records, lists of visitors, men in solitary confinement, baptisms at women’s prisons and more. Also included are over 1,000 new mugshots taken at Pentonville in 1876.

The full collection includes 22 series from the National Archives at Kew, recording the intimate details of millions of victims and villains, beginning with judges’ recommendations for or against pardons, petitions through which criminals and their families could offer mitigating circumstances and grounds for mercy, and later, licenses containing everything from previous convictions to the state of a prisoner’s health.

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