Tracing Your Insolvent Ancestors

An easy-to-use guide for British family historians tracing ancestry connected with the insolvency system.   Debtors’ prisons are infamous, but very little has been written about the records of those confined within them in London or elsewhere in the country. Even less has been written about the trials of those who were often incarcerated following misfortune or mismanagement rather than criminal intent. That is why Paul Blake’s handbook is so useful for researchers who want to learn about f