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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.