Where do I look?
 

I have just been given a tree of my OH's Pusey family. It says that his 3 X Great Grandfather Nathaniel Pusey was jailed for 1 year with hard labour for poaching, in 1820 Taplow.

I've never had to look for any criminal records etc before so can someone give me some advice as to how I can find some information to verify this please.

Can't ask the person who drew up the tree as they have passed on.:(

Ancestry has recently put some Criminal Registers online, but I can't get ancestry to load on the laptop at the moment to look.

I don't have access to the Criminal records.

I got it to load but he wasn't listed on there. Had a look at the 19th Century British Library Newspapers but I couldn't see him on there either. So I think you would have to go to the Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies: http://www.buckscc.gov.uk/bcc/archiv..._Studies.page?

Thanks Kite, but I don't think I will be going to Buckinghamshire in person.:(

Will have to see if anyone is going.

We do have a member offering lookups at Bucks Archives but I'm not sure if his offer would include looking through the quarter sessions. It would be worth asking him, though, I should think.
http://genealogistsforum.co.uk/Forum...read.php?t=329

He has done some lookups for me in the past. Will see what he says about the criminal records.

Thanks Kite.

any of these yours?

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/s...llCategories=0

My ancestor was a witness in a quarter sessions hearing - found him on the www.a2a.org.uk site. If your relative is there it will give a reference a person going to Centre for Bucks Studies can use to locate the document quickly. Or alternatively that you can use to ask for a photocopy.

I'm sure Bucks have online gaol records.

I'll see if I can find a link