Hi everyone Some advice and guidance please on Maitland Gaol. I would like to know if there are any records of those who were incarcerated there and when they were released. Would also like to know about the prison warders who worked there. My interest comes from a John FITZSIMMONS tried at Maitland C.C. on 16 Oct 1885 for Manslaughter and was sentenced for 10 years P.S. This information comes from the SRA Goal Photograph collection. I am assuming he would have been held at Maitland, but would he have served the entire sentence there? If I have the right man, according to his daughters certificates he was dead prior to 1894. But that may have been to hide the fact he was a criminal. Before I go out and buy death certificates for John FITZSIMMONS's (which may not show me anything if his daughters had disassociated themselves from him) I thought I would try and track this guys whereabouts within the prison system. Sorry for the long description, but it gets more involved than that - as most of researchers find out :-) Any help would be much appreciated. Thank you Maria Thomas LAKE MUNMORAH, NSW