I am not sure if this will help or not as my "criminal" was in a different time slot and place but, here goes: the miscreant, Thomas D. committed a theft in Oxford in 1839. I first found him in a Prison Hulk (Prison ship storing transportees until there was a ship to take a ship load away) at Alverstoke near Portsmouth. We then hunted and found the Prison Hulk Registers and Letter Books 1802-1849 (too early for you) which gave his age (2 years out, older than he was in fact) Then we found the England and Wales Criminal Registers 1791-1892. These gave a bit more, his level of education "Well" i.e thoroughly literate (he later worked both as a teacher and an accountant) and more details of the crime and punishment. (He was pardoned and not, finally, transported, but he spent 2 1/2 years on the hulk instead of the given 10 days before transportation!) Finally my cousin then found a local history booklet by Carol Richmond called "Banished! Sentences of Transportation from Oxfordshire Courts, 1787-1867" - clearly no use for Notts. BUT there may well be an equivalent publication for your Notts subject. Take great care checking ages and any extra information to separate your six possibles! Some such registers give physical descriptionss descriptions. Try newspapers. Jean Wood > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 07:12:30 +1000 > Subject: [NTT] Criminal Records for Nottingham > > Hello Everyone, > > I have 6 different people on my family tree by the name of Frederick CRINAGE who lived in Notts during the 1800s. > > Using Ancestry.com, I have also obtained hand–written records of the indictment a Frederick CRINAGE in the form of “Returns of Persons Indicted of criminal offences at various (5 in all) Quarter Sessions or Winter Assizes in Nottingham . These records cover various dates from 1864 to 1889; they give a very brief description of the nature of the offence committed and the sentence imposed. I am at a loss to determine to which of my six Frederick CRINAGEs these records relate!! > > Is there any way I can access records of the trials themselves that might give more interesting details of the offences and especially the ages or other details especially those that might enable me to identify my ancestors? > > I gather that details of these proceedings may be held at the Nottingham Records Office. > > Thank you in anticipation, > Martyn Peart > Queensland, Australia > > > Notts Surname List > > http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~hughw/notts.html > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message