Law and Law Enforcement

Murder

• Black Sheep index

• Comprehensive list of Murders and Murderers-some info quite disturbing

• Murders in Liverpool

Executions-Executioners

• The English hangmen from 1850 to 1964

• Capital Punishments Executed at Strangeways, Manchester

• List Of Executions - England 1606 Onward

• Capital punishment in the 18th & 19th centuries

• Capital Punishment in the Commonwealth

• The abolition of hanging in Britain

• Timeline of capital punishment in Britain

• The history of judicial hanging in Britain.

Gaols

• 19th Century Bedford Gaol

• Details of inmates of Aylesbury prison in the 1870s. Includes details of the prisoner's crime and sentence, and, in some instances, his photograph.

• On-line database of inmates in Warwick County Prison between 1800 and 1900

• List of Executed Prisoners of Derby Gaol 1756-1825

• A History of Newgate Prison, including List of Inmates and Victims

• Prisoners and Warders at HMP Parkhurst in the 19th Century

• Chester Gaol, 1808-1816

Misc

• Western Australian Convicts

• This has the transcripts of Old Bailey hearings from 1674-1834 (to be expanded). You can search by name or place, (the name search includes defendants, witnesses and jurors). Also has old maps and other info about London history.

• History of Crime and detection with specific reference to Shropshire

• The Guillotine Headquarters

• Details of crimes, criminals and punishments from the prison files of the Court of Great Sessions in Wales from 1730 until 1830.

• A searchable database of prisoners in Inveraray prison and their details, including prisoners who were deported
• Prisoners sentenced to transportation from Lewes Assizes between c1790 and c1850
• Important English trials 1649-1895

• Convicts tried at Nottingham Borough Quarter Sessions Assizes

• Kent Quarter Sessions Indices

• An index of over 8000 prisoners brought to trial at York Assizes between 1785 and 1851

• A database of persons tried at the Derbyshire Petty Sessions and Quarter Sessions 1770-1828.

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