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Correctional Institutions information for Wirksworth and places above it in the hierarchy

Wirksworth

Records of incarcerations are unlikely to be found. Your best place to look for information is in the local newspapers.

John PALMER quotes the following from the 7th October, 1813, issue of the Derby Mercury newspaper:

"At the general quarter sessions of the peace for this county, which commenced yesterday... Jacob DOXEY, John CLAYTON, Job BATEMAN, and William GRATTON, convicted of being rogues and vagabonds, having been discovered in an inclosed piece of land in the night using gate nets for the purpose of destroying game, were severally ordered to be imprisoned six months in the House of Correction at Wirksworth."

Christine JOHNSTONE has a photograph of The Old Lock Up on the north side of Wirksworth on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2016. It was built in 1842 and contained four cells.

Derbyshire

  • The Prison Service Museum near Rugby houses HM Prison Service's historical collection of exhibits, illustrating the history of imprisonment from medieval times to the present day. Housed in a converted stable block, the museum contains reconstructions of Victorian prison architecture, and exhibits include the last set of Gibbet Irons used in England. Smaller items include bone carvings and paintings made by prisoners in their cells, and a nineteenth century sampler embroidered by a female prisoner from her own hair

    Admission to the museum is by appointment only, please contact:-

    The Curator,
    HM Prison Service Museum,
    Newbold Revel,
    Rugby CV23 0TH

    [Information compiled from "The Penal Lexicon Home Page", formerly at www.penlex.org.uk/pages/index.html.]

England

UK and Ireland

  • The Complete Newgate Calendar is now online.
  • Old Bailey Online - the Proceedings of the Old Bailey, London's Central Criminal Court, 1674 to 1913: "A fully searchable edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published, containing 197,745 criminal trials held at London's central criminal court."
  • Derek Wilcox's Black Sheep Index - "an index of Victims and Villains (and some heroes too) extracted from newspaper reports of court cases and inquests between 1865-1900" (archived copy).
  • Capital punishment in the 18th & 19th centuries - many listings and articles.
  • About Prison History - from the Open University's  International Centre for the History of Crime, Policing and Justice.
  • The Digital Panopticon - "allows you to search millions of records from around fifty datasets, relating to the lives of 90,000 convicts from the Old Bailey".