30 January 2021

Findmypasts adds to England & Wales, Crime, Prisons & Punishment, 1770-1935

FMP claim over 92,000 additional court and prison indexes added to this collection this week, now totalling 5,840,002 records. Find out where a person stood trial, what sentence they were given and what their life was like in prison. Each record comprises a transcript and an image from the original document.


The added records are:

Herefordshire Prison Register Index 1849-1915 (17,386 records)
Court of Great Sessions in Wales 1730-1830 (10,202 records)
Bedfordshire Gaol Registers 1801-1901 (51,712 records)
Kirkby Stephen Petty Sessions 1874-1901 (2,233 records)

That doesn't quite total 92,000!

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