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Member Since: November 2006 Posts: 121 Send Message	Donal	Report	10 Aug 2008 13:30
	Does anyone know if old prison records can be accessed ??. There is a suggestion that two family members were sent to jail in the 40's, 50's in the Manchester area. One for blackmarketing the other for some unknown minor crime circa 1960. Maillanod
	Researching: Maguire. McKenna. Dublin, Ireland
Member Since: January 2004 Posts: 860 Send Message	ForeverMystified	Report	10 Aug 2008 14:10
Member Since: January 2004 Posts: 860 Send Message	Not sure Donal, maybe if you get in touch with Manchester Record Office Marshall Street Manchester they may be able to tell you. They might be a bit recent though and not able to be released. Sorry cant help more. Frances
Member Since: April 2006 Posts: 337 Send Message	Carole & Sue from up north	Report	10 Aug 2008 14:35
Member Since: April 2006 Posts: 337 Send Message	Hiya, If they were sent to prison, they will have had a trial. Check on the National Archives. I found a relatives trial/police file on there. I think its £8.50 for 10 pages and you can have them e-mailed to you. Just a word of warning, EVERYTHING (including photographs) is sent. So if the crime was of a particularly horrible/grissley nature, brace yourself otherwise you will be shocked. Carole x.