Thank you for your reply Roy. If that is the only way the info. is available I will look it up myself next year when I hope to visit Emgland. Meanwhile I would like to get as much info. as I can so I am prepared. Thanks again. Mary Heppell > From: Mary Heppell <heppell2@bigpond.com> > >> Does anyone know how to find a criminal record belonging to J. >> Darcy/D'Arcy. The crime or crimes occured in the 1840's. >> >> J Darcy appears on the 1851 census in Woolwich Hulks or prison. >> >> He was living with his family in Leeds Yorkshire on the 1841 census so >> maybe that is where he carried out with his crimes. >> >> About 1852 he may have joined the Army, I have been told that >> sometimes they were given the choice of join the Army or stay in Jail.> > > The National Archives holds criminal records, but I suspect that without a > year or place it might be a very long job to search them. As you are in > Australia, you would have to employ a professional researcher who > kinows his/her way around them. > > An alternative source could be a report in a local paper, but again since > you don't know the year or place it could be a very time-consuming > search. I very much doubt the cases are indexed by surname. > > There is a marvellous website covering the proceedings of the Old > Bailey, the Central Criminal Court in London, but it doesn't seem likely > your man came up before that. > > -- > Roy Stockdill > Editor, Journal of One-Name Studies > Guild of One-Name Studies website: www.one-name.org > Newbies' Guide to Genealogy & Family History: > www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html > > "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, > and that is not being talked about." > OSCAR WILDE > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > WEST-RIDING-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message