As part of our ongoing partnership with Ancestry, images of additional resources have been added to the Gloucestershire’s section of the Ancestry web site:
- Records of prisoners in the county gaol and houses of correction 1728-1914
- Land tax assessments 1713-1833
- Electoral registers 1832-1974
To mark this launch on 16 June 2016, Liz Jack, author of the book A Rogue’s Gallery: Victorian Prisoners in Gloucester Gaol, has kindly provided this article about the youngest and oldest prisoners to be photographed in Gloucester gaol in the Victorian period:
Gloucestershire Archives 