criminal records

[Valda]

Hi

Ancestry (subscription only so you cannot request lookups) holds indexed images of the records held at The National Archives

England & Wales, Criminal Registers, 1791-1892 - HO26 and HO27 (Middlesex 1791-1892 and the rest of England and Wales 1805-1892)

The registers will give the name, place and date of the trial, the crime and the sentence. The earlier registers will give age.


http://search.ancestry.co.uk/iexec/?htx=List&dbid=1590&pcat=ROOT_CATEGORY&offerid=0%3a7858%3a0


You can get a free two week trial from Ancestry, or many people access by the library edition.


some information on this topic (now out of date) on the libraries that subscribe

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,161337.60.html


Regards

Valda

[stonechat]

POst the name here and someone may help

[harvo]

Dear Jansen
     My research for my ancestor Jacob Silverthorne led me to fact he had been arrested ,charged and convicted tried and sentenced at The Lent Assizes for Wiltshire.
     In1993/4 I started my quest for information as to this incident ,non or hardly any on line records back then so everything was "manual." The court records then were Kept at The Public Record Office at Chancery Lane ,London WC2A 1LR.As I was unable to look myself I employed a researcher to look there for me,finding the relevant pages for my man ,the pages had markers put in them,and later photographed,called a"reprographic order"
     I eventually received 5 xA3 Sheets of reprographs yellow background but very clear text all beautifully hand written.
    My guy was sentenced to be HUNG for stealing a side of BACON!,however the sentence was commuted to 2 years HARD LABOUR.I can't find where he served his sentence or release papers if they exist,so make sure if you go down the same route you get everything relevant to the person you are looking for at the time.     Sorry I can't remember the cost guess it would hardly be relevant to today.
       Hope this is useful to you ,and good luck on your quest

[Mimble]

My Williams family came from Beguildy, a tiny village in Radnorshire, Wales, where they were a wealthy farming family and John Williams farmed at Gwenerrin in the late 1700s which is still there. While Googling for Williams and Beguildy, a friend came across the very surprising story of THE LONDON MONSTER, who was identified as Rhynwick Williams whose father was a well-off apothecary, Thomas Williams, and whose grandfather John Williams was 'still living in Beguildy'! This leads me to believe that this notorious criminal may have been related to my John Williams. The sensational trial took place in 1790 and Rhynwick (or Rhenwick) was given 6 years in Newgate Prison.

I am hoping to establish the family of this Rhynwick (or Rhenwick) Williams and wondered how I would be able to do this. It seems that he was born somewhere around 1767 as he was reported to be 23 when arrested in 1790. 
See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Monster

Mary