For those of you with Irish ancestors, you may be interested in a new collection of prison records for Ireland from the 18th to 20th centuries which has been added to the FamilySearch website.
The new collection, which comprises 3,127,924 records, is a compilation of prison records from collections held in the National Archives of Ireland. It includes most surviving prison records from the 26 counties of the Republic of Ireland.
The records can contain the following information about individuals:
- Name
- Age
- Birthplace
- Name of prison
- Dates of admission and release
- Physical description
- Next of kin
- Details of crime and name of victim
Remember FamilySearch is a free resource for family history researchers. To access you need to register with the website, then you have access to all their wonderful records. To take a look and see what you can find.
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