Find your family's black sheep

[Q-Buster]

The proceedings of the Old Bailey are now available online at http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/ , containing 45,000 trials, from December 1714 to December 1799.

The site is fully searchable, so get looking for your great great great grandfather, the counterfeiter -
(where you got your hacking gene from )

Q-Buster

[2High]

Blimey one of my lot was sentenced to 7 years for stealing stealing one gold shirt-buckle set with garnet stones, value 16 s. and one shirt-buckle set with glass paste in 1763.

[macdaddy]

i seem to have a lot being don for high way robbery +murder and fook one got done for stealing 121 pounds of camel hair mmmmmmmmmm :|

[dan288]

This guy got a whipping for this

John White, of the Parish of Hackney, was indicted for stealing a Rug, a pair of Blankets, and a pair of Sheets, the Goods of Tho Hall, and 7 s. in Money from Ja Jordan, out of the Dwelling house of the said Tho Hall, on the 16th of Jun...

them were the days

[GameKing]

nice find m8....one of my lot was aquitted of murder, lucky sod

[Thrush]

Nothing much on my family name.... someone stole a pewter pot from us, and she only got a whipping... I would have executed the bitch

[diond1]

Nothing at all. I'm as clean as a whistle.
And that was the whistle stolen by my late great-great-great grandfather Dick Turpin.