Can I suggest you try the Croydon Local Studies Library, I've always found them helpful.http://www.croydon.gov.uk/leisure/archives/lslibrary Bob Brock > > Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 09:11:32 +0000 > > From: sbooth59@btinternet.com > > To: Eng-Surrey@rootsweb.com > > Subject: [SRY] Croydon Gaol / debtor records > > > > Hi > > I have just discovered from a newspaper report of the Court of Insolvent Debtors, 13 September 1839, Sarah BRIGDEN, formerly of Crawley, Sussex, as a prisoner in the County Gaol for Surrey, Horsemonger Lane. > > She was ordered to be 'brought up before the Court and Court House in Portugal Street, Lincolns Inn Fields on Twenty-second day of November next at the hour of Ten in the morning precisely'. > > > > I'm not sure how to find out more about the result of this court appearance and what happened subsequently to Sarah. Can anyone help? > > > > I have found a Sarah BRIGDEN, of possibly the correct age in the 1841 census residing at 'Barrack Field', Croydon. I'm wondering if this was in fact a workhouse? > > > > Many thanks for any help with this > > > > Sheena