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Title: Ancestry Glasgow Court or Prison record
Post by: cammey on Saturday 09 March 13 13:28 GMT (UK)
Hi There,

Can anyone help as to where the best place to look for an ancester who was charged of a crime in Glasgow around 1927 to 1947 and  and spent small time in prison. I have looked in the NAS in the Scottish National archives but don't seem to see any prison or court records.

thanks
Cammey
Title: Re: Ancestry Glasgow Court or Prison record
Post by: MonicaL on Saturday 09 March 13 13:52 GMT (UK)
NAS is the source for this info, Cammey.

Have you tried searching on the online catalogue here www.nas.gov.uk/onlineCatalogue/ Spellings are rigid and will not include variants.

Newspapers are the other source. You can search the Scotsman by key words but unfortunately not the Glasgow Herald for which you need a more specific date range to be able to search for anything.

Monica
Title: Re: Ancestry Glasgow Court or Prison record
Post by: ayrgenes on Saturday 09 March 13 15:28 GMT (UK)
Hi Cammey

just to re-inforce Monica's comment. NAS is the place to go.

I couldn't make sense of the online catalogue so contacted them direct. Staff were great, not only telling me how to use the system but also finding the relevant records and ordering them for me. A few days later I visited the centre and not only did I view the court records but also the prison records...all very helpful in my understanding my research.

give them a call.

Davie 
Title: Re: Ancestry Glasgow Court or Prison record
Post by: John.faulkner1 on Saturday 04 May 13 12:42 BST (UK)
I live in Australia and recently started looking into my family history...my family moved a lot between Glasgow and Fermanagh, Ireland in the late 1800s to early 1900s. I have been told that there is a John Falconer aged 15, born in 1876 in Ireland in the 1891 Scottish census, occupation 'pony driver in a pit'....inmate of Her Majesty's General Prison, Barlinnie, Parkhead, Glasgow. I want to find out more about the prison record pertaining to John (he might be my Grand Uncle) but I have been advised that the prison records are not online and I would need to go to Edinburgh (Barlinnie Prison, Glasgow 1882-1960 HH21/70/1-157). an anyone assist or point me in some direction with this as I am a long way from Edinburgh (was there last November for a day doing the family history research) and it might be a long time before I am able to get there again.