Criminal ancestors: A guide to historical criminal records in England and Wales - Hardcover

Hawkings, David T

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0862998174 ISBN 13: 9780862998172

Publisher: Alan Sutton, 1992

Synopsis

When a family historian discovers a criminal way back in the family tree, he or she needs to know how to trace that person. David Hawkings here offers practical in-depth guidelines for researching these criminal ancestors, many of whom were "obliged" to steal for mere survival and suffered imprisonment for the most trivial offenses. His pioneering study includes surveys of material held by all County and Borough Record Offices, police archives, and other repositories, as well as numerous example cases and illustrations, appendices with source material, and a case history to show the extent to which one individual criminal can be researched. This unique and richly illustrated book provides the essential research and reference tool which no genealogist or family historian should be without.

About this title

About the Author:

David T. Hawkings is a highly respected writer and lecturer on family history, and the author of Railway Ancestors: A Guide to Historical Criminal Records in England and Wales.

About this edition

• Publisher: Alan Sutton
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0862998174
• ISBN 13: 9780862998172
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 458