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Ancestry’s collection of criminal registers for England and Wales covers 1791–1892, and there are a large number of smaller national and regional datasets to look out for. A collection of West Yorkshire prison records includes calendars of prisoners from Wakefield (1872–1914) and Leeds (1896–1915), and there’s the UK-wide collection ‘Licences of Parole for Female Convicts’. Others include the Bedfordshire Gaol Index, Birmingham prisoners, Bodmin Gaol records, prison hulk registers (from material held at TNA) and a collection of registers from debtors’ prisons. Criminal registers from a West Midlands Police Museum collection are due in March/April 2019.