Debtors Prison Records Coventry/Birmingham area

[Pelican]

Hello Friends

Does anyone know if there are any records of Debtors Prison inhabitants in the Coventry/Birmingham area in the 1930's please?

Best wishes to you all
Pelican

[tonepad]

Debtors' prisons as formal, separate institutions were abolished in the UK in 1869 by the Debtors Act 1869. Therefore, they did not exist in the 1930s in the form they had in previous centuries.


Do you perhaps mean the 1830s



Tony

[wilcoxon]

There are many reports in the newspapers for 1830 to 1840, there were courts held in
Warwickshire towns. Often they give quite a lot of information.
Is there a name you are looking for. 

[Pelican]

Thank you tonepad and wilcoxon. I did not realise that debtors prisons were no longer in use in the 1930's. As I am a history nut, I give myself a slap on the hand.

There are two men in my family tree, brothers, who were builders and in partnership with an architect. The architect skipped the country with all the money and left the brothers facing the music. They disappear from electoral rolls for a couple of years and it certainly looked as though the were in prison for debt.

I cannot find any newspaper articles for this time frame, or either side of it, so it does not seem to have interested the papers. There are articles about their business and their houses.

There is little family legend here except for the fact the architect skipped the country and they were left with the debt.

Ordinary prison perhaps?

My thanks.