Prison sentence 1944

[oldhippyone]

Can anyone help  , or point me in right direction,  some one was sent to prison around 1944 for getting a minor pregnant iv been told she was very young  she gave birth June 1944 the man in question was born 1913 , I know the mans name and area he lived  was hartlepool  , and I believe he he was born there and died there so stayed in that area iv looked at newspapers but can not find anything , , any help is appreciated 
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[Jebber]

Perhaps you have put too much information into the search. Have you tried just putting the man’s name in inverted commas and the exact year. That often works provided it is not a very common name, it even works with a common name like John Smith, but there would be far too many results  to sift through.

Of course it is quite possible the relevant  papers have yet to digitised.

[oldhippyone]

If you are referring searching newspapers I just put his name and searched the year then it was just a free search as I'm not a paying subscriber of newspapers I also searched criminal records on ancestry but they didn't go that far , if just looked at prisoners on national archive again nothing came up but I'm no good at national archive,  but thank you for trying to help

[GrahamSimons]

Newspapers that "recent" are less likely to be digitised. You may need to look at microfilmed copies in the county archives.  They may be able to advise on court records too.

[oldhippyone]

Ok thank you but I dont know where the county archives are kept or how to contact them

[Jebber]

Sometimes libraries hold microfilm copies or their local papers. Perhaps they would do a search for you, or you could find someone willing to look. You have a tight time scale date wise, so it wouldn’t be an onerous job.

[GrahamSimons]

Ok thank you but I dont know where the county archives are kept or how to contact them

Start with the council website. Look for the archives service, or possibly the museum service or library service. A Google search for county and archive,  e.g. 'Buckinghamshire archives ' will usually succeed.

[CaroleW]

If the offence took place in Hartlepool then search under Durham.   If it took place in a different county then use that county

[GR2]

Don't restrict your search to the county where the crime took place, as they are often reported more widely. Unfortunately, with paper shortages during the war, newspapers didn't always print as much as they did and do.