Ancestors lost in the crowd?
New to family history research?
Perhaps these articles on our website may help:
Census 1841 - 1911

Birth, Death and Marriage Registration

The London Gazette

Newspaper archives

Trade Directories

Crime and Punishment.

For Esssex court cases alos see out Essex Court Cases article.

National Archives
Guide to law courts of England with details of the records held by Archives.
See also Sources for Convicts and Prisoners
and Tracing 19th and 20th Century Criminals

Tyburn Tree
The history of Tyburn and execution in early modern London.

National Archives of Scotland
Information on records relating to crime and criminals.

Victorian Prisons
Rossbret UK Prisons website. Some information on Victorian Prisons.

Chronicles of Newgate
List of Inmates, Victims and those associated with the prison compiled from an 1896 book.

Old Bailey Transcripts
Old Bailey Proceedings for the period 1674-1834. Searchable database of trials. A glimpse into the lives of 'ordinary people' who normally do not leave a record of their lives. Central Criminal Court - Minutes of Evidence
Google Books provide Old Bailey Proceedings published 1836 and 1840.

Newgate Calendar
(or Malefactor's Bloody Register) - the tale of some notorious crimes of the 18th and 19th century and which led their perpetrators to Newgate Gaol.

Australian convict transportation registers and prison ship records.
Search by name. Provided by ancestry.co.uk and the National Archives.

England and Wales, Criminal Registers, 1791-1892 on Ancestry.co.uk. Criminal registers with a listing of individuals charged with crime.