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Subject: [ENG-SHROP] POLICE RECORDS
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 17:27:00 EDT


In a message dated 07/08/2003 18:01:36 GMT Standard Time,
writes:

> I have received a copy of the marriage certificate for my gggf Richard
> GOUGH's second marriage to Ann MATHEWS in Ashford Carbonel in 1848.
>
> Richard gives his father's (also Richard Gough) occupation as "police
> constable". It doesn't say deceased, but if still alive he would have been
> rather elderly, as gggf was born around 1896 in Clun.
>
There are a few personal records at the Shropshire Records Centre. I rescued
them and deposited them some years ago, but they were mostly from the early
20th century. Most were destroyed during a move to a new police station in
Shrewsbury around 1973. There is a card index that contains information on
officers. The staff may not know of it, so you need to ask for the Douglas Elliott
index. This was compiled by the late Douglas Elliott while researching his
book "Policing Shropshire 1836 - 1967". Richard Gough is not in Doug's book,
but there was a lot of excess material in the index.

Do not be confused by someone's comment about parish constables. They were a
different thing and from an age earlier than the one you are concerned about.


Shean Bostock, Madeley, Shropshire, England


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