The records contains fascinating details that can add real colour to your family history, with details such as alleged crime, verdict, sentence and even information such as notes on a person’s appearance and, in some cases, photographs, particularly in the Registers of Habitual Criminals and Police Gazettes 1834-1934 collection.
Ancestry also provided teaser details of collections they’ll be adding or creating over the coming months, including an extra 400,000 records to be released into the 1939 Register collection, and new valuation, poor law and Board of Guardian records for 19th-century Ireland.