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Title: 1881 census look up
Post by: bobbybob on Monday 05 April 10 21:29 BST (UK)

Hi,
I'm looking for help in finding my gr. gr. grandfather Alexander Donaldson, born 1841 in Lasswade. In 1881, i think he might still have been a prisioner in Edinburgh.

Iain

Title: Re: 1881 census look up
Post by: hume on Tuesday 06 April 10 00:52 BST (UK)

Hi Ian,

The age and birthplace is a bit off on this one, but I notice he was a baker in the 1861 census when living with his mother, Isabella. Details obviously may have not came from him at that point. ;D

Address: Court Buildings Police Lock Up, Edinburgh, Midlothian
Alex. Donaldson, m, prisoner, 37, baker (unemployed), b. Edinburgh

hume

Title: Re: 1881 census look up
Post by: bobbybob on Tuesday 06 April 10 22:40 BST (UK)

Thanks Hume,
I would say that it is him. I don't want to sound ignorant here but, would i be able to get access to his prison records.
Iain

Title: Re: 1881 census look up
Post by: hume on Wednesday 07 April 10 02:34 BST (UK)

Hi Iain,

You could have a look on the National Archives' online catalogue: http://www.nas.gov.uk/onlineCatalogue/ There could be a record for him there. It will [most likely] give his name, residence, occupation and nature of his crime. Sometimes it names accomplices and victims, depending on the crime.

How do you know he was in prison? Was he still there in 1891 or there in 1871, etc?

hume