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

Findern

Jane TAYLORE also notes that the Derby Mercury reported on 15 February 1804: ABSCONDED from his wife and family: "Whereas John REDFEARN, of the Parish of Findern, in the county of Derby, has Absconded from his Wife and Family, and left them chargeable to the said Parish. This is to give Notice, that whoever will apprehend the said John REDFEARN, and lodge him in any of His Majesty's Gaols, and give information thereof to the Overseer of the said Parish of Findern, shall be handsomely Rewarded. The above John REDFEARN is by Trade a Butcher, about 30 years of age, 5 feet 7 inches high, light hair, pitted with small pox, and has a cast with his eyes. When he went away he wore Black Clothes.
Findern, Feb.15, 1804"

Jane TAYLOR reports that the Derby Mercury newspaper for 28 March 1805 notes: MISC: "The assizes for this county ended on Thursday last, when the following prisoners took their trials in addition to those mentioned in our last, viz. Wm. HAND for a burglary at Findern ... received sentence of death, but were afterwards reprieved."

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".