There might be a local or "district" census of the parish in 1821.  Typically, any census before 1841 just has the surname of the head of household and a count of males and females in various age brackets.  Sometimes you get lucky and the earlier census will have a full name of the head of household, or maybe just a first initial.  These early census results may be at the local Archives office, but they are of little use to the family historian. There may also be land-tax records from that period.  Again, these may list a parcel, the head of household's surname, and the amount of tax due.  They can be useful to pin down where a family was, because renters were listed, too, not just the owners. There may be records in the parish chest that refer to a family if the church paid them a few pence to keep them in bread.  And they may have been getting "out payment" via the existing Poorlaw system.  But it would be a local parish record since the poor law Unions didn't exist yet. Sometimes, in the church records, you will find confirmation lists that might mention one or more of the children.  And school logs, if they exist, may also mention the children.  Unfortunately, there was no requirement to archive confirmation records or school logs. I've had limited good luck with the land-tax records, but otherwise it is a tough period to find anything in other than a parish register.     Lou (list admin.) ________________________________ From: themindlady <themindlady@gmail.com> To: ENG-LINCSGEN@rootsweb.com Sent: Monday, February 6, 2012 10:42 AM Subject: [LIN] Prison for poaching On looking on the Newspaper Archives site I came across the following reference for my 3xgreat grandfather, Joshua Fountain, in January 1821. "Wm. Fowler, late of Bardney, labourer and Joshua Fountain, late of the same, labourer, convicted of entering a wood in Tupholme in the night with guns to destroy game, were committed to the said house of correction to hard labour for two years." Would there be any record of this elsewhere, please? He was married with seven children at the time.  I presume that, in those days, granny would have gone to family or the House but 8 would be a lot for anybody to take in for two years. I don't suppose there would be records that early? Grateful for any help - Shay ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-LINCSGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message