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Home Member Collections Court and Prison Records

Court and Prison Records

Genealogical Gleanings from the Records of the Industrial Reformatory at Huntingdon, 1889

Contributed by Maureen Whyte, originally appeared in Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine, Volume 49, No. 2

Industrial Reformatory at Huntingdon Records: 1889

Original records from the Industrial Reformatory at Huntingdon

Philadelphia Court and Prison Records

Selected and indexed by volunteers of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania

Genealogical Gleanings from the Eastern State Penitentiary Moral Instructor’s Book A, 1836-1840

Contributed by Valerie-Anne Lutz, originally appeared in Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine, Volume 49, No. 3.  Records actually begin in 1829

Eastern State Penitentiary Book A: Name Index with links to original pages

Foreign Born Female Convicts: 1898-1905

Philadelphia Common Pleas Court Divorce Docket: June 1 1874 – March 1875

Philadelphia Common Pleas Court Lunacy Inquests: 1856-1874 Extracts

Philadelphia Common Pleas Court Lunacy Inquests: 1856-1874 Index

Philadelphia Common Pleas Court Miscellaneous Docket: 1856-1867

Philadelphia County Prison Death Records: 1819-1830

Philadelphia Quarter Sessions Court Desertion Docket: 1865-72

Prisoners For Trial First Quarter: 1836 Extracts

Prisoners For Trial First Quarter: 1836 Index

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