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Title: Thorp Road Gaol - Peterborough
Post by: oleg_mcnoleg on Monday 28 January 08 21:12 GMT (UK)
Hello all,

I've found an ancestor who is listed in the 1851 Census as a prisoner in Thorp Road Gaol in Peterborough.

Bit of a first this for me - anyone know any information about the place or where i might find some records (or whether they even exist).

thanks!
Title: Re: Thorp Road Gaol - Peterborough
Post by: ricky1 on Monday 28 January 08 21:21 GMT (UK)
Hi

Found this bit of info about it

A new prison was built on Thorpe Road in 1840 in the style of Pentonville Prison in London. The front of this building survives today as the Sessions House restaurant. This was the Peterborough prison up until 1878, when prisoners were instead sent to Northampton or Cambridge

ricky
Title: Re: Thorp Road Gaol - Peterborough
Post by: ricky1 on Monday 28 January 08 21:32 GMT (UK)
Hi

I think this is a picture of it on this website, its the 23 rd picture from the bottom

http://www.deltatango.freeserve.co.uk/peterborough.html

ricky
Title: Re: Thorp Road Gaol - Peterborough
Post by: oleg_mcnoleg on Tuesday 29 January 08 11:56 GMT (UK)
Ricky

thanks for the swift response - some interesting photos there.

now to try and hunt down some records.

cheers!
Title: Re: Thorp Road Gaol - Peterborough
Post by: yogibear on Wednesday 30 January 08 15:57 GMT (UK)
hi i live in peterborough right near the sessions house i will go and ask if they have any records if you like. let me know
Title: Re: Thorp Road Gaol - Peterborough
Post by: oleg_mcnoleg on Thursday 31 January 08 16:54 GMT (UK)
That'd be great.

The name i'm interested in is a John Stephen CARTER b c.1824

He got married in about 1847 so that means he was incarcerated sometime between 1847 & 1851 if that helps at all.
Title: Re: Thorp Road Gaol - Peterborough
Post by: littlefacey on Wednesday 06 February 19 21:19 GMT (UK)
Long shot as this is an old post but did you ever find anywhere online that stored these records?