Forum: Black Sheep

My ancestor, Charles Alfred MARTIN (alias Carlos MARTINI) born 1824 in Frome Somerset, was judged to be insane and detained in Broadmoor for 10 years. http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/browse.jsp?id=t18691122-76&div=t18691122-76&terms=Surrey|cases#highlight Charles was released into the care of...

I have a William Harvey White born 1851 Plaitford, wiltshire England He enlisted 1870 Have a document enclosed with his Attestation Papers saying he was charged with theft. Hence sent to court. Does anyone know how I can search for prison records?? He was most certainly a shady...

I have 2 black sheep in my tree. One was sentenced along with his accomplce to serve a significant amount hard-time and the other did 1 year at hard labour. I have read newspaper aricles on both cases. I have traced the families of both convicts and their lives both before and after...

Would anyone care to claim any of these as their own? http:// tinyurl.com/7ck2t9j (Article in the Daily Mail - in case you are worried about the link.) Maggie

I have an ancestor from Pembrokeshire who was transported to Australia in 1832 for life. He was tried and convicted at Monmouth Assizes. He received a conditional pardon in 1846, but could not return to the UK. In 1849 he and his wife sailed from Sydney to San Francisco and the last mention I...

I wonder if someone could do me a favour, you see I promised my Aunts that I would not look for a Birth Certificate, but I am getting so curious as to what my Nanny put down for the Fathers name.:ninja: :whistling: So I thought you may be able to help me on here, as then I have not actually...

Good afternoon everyone Could anyone tell me if there are any court or prison records for the 1920's and 30's available on line or elsewhere in the public domain or would records for this period still be classified as under 100 years old? Apologies if the information is already on the forum!...

On 3 Nov 1846, Thomas Summerlin (retired blacksmith) was acquited of a charge of "Assault with an unnatural intent" by Bedfordshire Assizes. It is with a certain amount of trepidation that I ask what might he have been up to? :confused5:

Not all black sheep were convicts, it was very common to send remittance men and women often with their families overseas to get them away from the area where they had disgraced themselves. A place of residence was bought and regular sums of money deposited in the bank to keep them away....

The South African Commercial Advertiser for 31 August 1842 and for 3, 7 and 10 September 1842 carried reports of the wreck of the convict ship Waterloo. If anyone has found reference to an ancestor being transported in 1842, but has found no reference to them in Australia, they may be on this list....

First of all some background - my 2X gt-Grandfather was John Jory born 1828 in St. Allen, Cornwall. He was the youngest of 4 children born to Jane Jory. Each child of Jane had a different father and she never married. Her 1st child was named Mary Perry Jory. According to her baptism, which...

Two new Ancestry databases which may be of interest to anyone with transportees in the family . . . 'UK Royal Navy Medical Journals, 1817-1857' 'This collection includes 671 volumes, each from a single ship and covering a particular time period. The majority are convict ships bound for...

My great Grand Mothers Sister appears on Birmingham Pub Black List 1901. Because of this sad event, I now have photo of her taken by the Police and some insight to what was happening to the family in 1900s.

I'm looking into the possibility of having a relative sent to Tasmania about 1844, Thomas Mackinder and Ann Baldock imprisoned around the same time, guessing in Lincolnshire. I there anyway of finding out finer details?:) Not sure what would have happened to the children....maybe a work house?

H,i we are looking for some help in this field, the name is George Hillier 1797,there are 4 G.H. two if them have died around the 1846/8 time and two of them were Transported one in Dec/1850 and one in March/ 1850, one of these G.H is ours and we cannot find which one, we know that he was in Honey...

Having black sheep in the family (not too close) is a cool thing to have. I have a William Mumford transported from Portsmouth Apl 1834 aboard the Augusta Jessie arriving Tasmania, Australia 22 Jan 1935. Where do I access his prison records?

I've discovered that Henry was in Portland at the time of 1881 census, aged 21. He married in 1885, so left Portland between those dates. Portland's records are missing, so have spent a lot of hours on visits to Kew going through the licenses after many other avenues, but no luck so far. I can...

Would there be any way of finding out details of the above entering the 'house of corrections' as I am trying to find out if she would have taking her children in which would have been 10, 7, 5 and 2 months (widowed):o She would have gone in April 1844

I was browsing through a parish register searching for births and marriage's of my ancestors. I came across an entry for what I believe to be a relative of my ggggrandfather. It listed the birth of a son James as the spurious (illegitimate) offspring of this woman Elizabeth. A couple pages later...