Records of 100,000 Victorian prisoners launched online
TheGenealogist has released over 100,000 individuals into its expanding Court & Criminal Records collection. With this release, researchers can find the details of ancestors who had broken the law and were incarcerated in the harsh conditions of early Victorian convict prisons – including some who were only children.
The new data will allow the family history researcher to discover:
- Over 100,000 individuals in records covering the years 1838 to 1875
- Registers of prisoners inside Millbank, Parkhurst and Pentonville prisons
- Each prisoner’s age on conviction
- The marital status and whether the prisoner could read or write
- The convict’s former trade
- When and where they were convicted, their crime, sentence, where received, previous offences, when removed and to where.
These fully searchable records are from the HO24 Home Office: Prison Registers and Returns 1838-1875 for Millbank, Parkhurst and Pentonville at The National Archives.
Read TheGenealogist’s article about these records here