Tracing Your Prisoner Ancestors: A Guide for Family Historians

The History of the British prison system only had systematic records from the middle of the nineteenth century. Before that, material on prisoners in local goals and houses of correction was patchy and minimal. In more recent times, many prison records have been destroyed. In Tracing Your Prisoner Ancestors, crime historian Stephen Wade attempts to provide information and guidance to family and social history researchers in this difficult area of criminal records. His book covers the span o...