Police Gazette, 1921
Spanning the entire year of 1921, the 1921 Police Gazette comprises 152 issues, with 12 or 13 issues being published each calendar month.
The cover of the Police Gazette, issue 132, from November 1921.
Part of Findmypast’s extensive collection of criminal and prison registers, the Police Gazette has a long history, dating as far back as 1772 and taking various aliases. Most famously named Hue and Cry, its purpose was relatively self-explanatory: advertise for wanted criminals across the UK police forces to enable them to catch, convict, and bring to justice the crooks of 1921.
Two sentencing announcements, from November 1921.
With the 1921 Census being delayed until June of that year, the Police Gazette records wanted criminals on either side of the census date, meaning perhaps that some of its wanted criminals can be found within the returns of the census. Crooks being crooks, however, they often went by multiple aliases, or were on the run from the law, making them more difficult to spot.
A portrait of a Herbert Gould, wanted for embezzlement, in October 1921.
This publication has a unique collection of portraits for certain criminals, such as the one above, as well as detailed physical descriptions. It also includes notes, scribbled in red pen, by the police in 1921.
A notice of stolen items next to a notice of a search warrant, written on in red pen by the 1921 police force.
Don't immediately panic if you find your ancestor within these pages, however: it is not simply hardened criminals that the 1921 Police Gazette records. This publication also included notes about apprehensions of crooks across the UK, and publicised crimes that were reported by citizens, such as thefts and break-ins.
There are five brand new titles this week - three from England, and two from Ireland - and an incredible 72 updated newspapers from all four corners of the UK. Here's the full list.
New titles:
Bray and South Dublin Herald, 1876, 1878-1886, 1888-1889, 1891-1904, 1908-1909
Irish Emerald, 1881-1888, 1890-1912
Langport & Somerton Herald, 1855, 1857-1896, 1898-1937
Magnet (London), 1837-1888
Yorkshire Factory Times, 1905-1910, 1912-1926
Updated titles:
Aldershot News, 1984
Alloa Journal, 1915
Arbroath Guide, 1962
Arbroath Herald and Advertiser for the Montrose Burghs, 1962
Banffshire Advertiser, 1915
Banffshire Herald, 1915
Barking, East Ham & Ilford Advertiser, Upton Park and Dagenham Gazette, 1915
Barrhead News, 1915
Birmingham Daily Gazette, 1875, 1900
Bolton Evening News, 1915
Bromsgrove & Droitwich Messenger, 1915
Bromyard News, 1961
Broughty Ferry Guide and Advertiser, 1962
Cambrian News, 1915
Coalville Times, 1915
Cork Weekly News, 1900
County Down Spectator and Ulster Standard, 1915
County Express, 1915
Crewe Chronicle, 1983
Croydon Times, 1962
Cumberland & Westmorland Herald, 1915
Dalkeith Advertiser, 1962
Deal, Walmer & Sandwich Mercury, 1870-1871, 1873-1879, 1890-1896, 1898-1899
Denbighshire Free Press, 1915
Dublin Weekly News, 1862-1864, 1866-1869, 1871-1874, 1876-1878
Durham County Advertiser, 1915
Evening News (London), 1914
Forres Elgin and Nairn Gazette, Northern Review and Advertiser, 1915
Fulham Chronicle, 1982
Glamorgan Gazette, 1982
Hants and Sussex News, 1914-1915
Herts & Cambs Reporter & Royston Crow, 1915
Highland News, 1915
Huntly Express, 1915
Islington Gazette, 1913
Jersey Evening Post, 1915
Leicester Evening Mail, 1927, 1945
Leven Mail, 1962
Louth Standard, 1953, 1955, 1957-1958, 1960
Lowestoft Journal, 1915
Luton News and Bedfordshire Chronicle, 1962
Maidenhead Advertiser, 1915
Marylebone Mercury, 1982
Midland Tribune, 1913, 1915
Montrose Standard, 1962
Nantwich Chronicle, 1984
Newcastle Daily Chronicle, 1926-1927
Northern Chronicle and General Advertiser for the North of Scotland, 1915
Northern Scot and Moray & Nairn Express, 1914-1915
Nuneaton Observer, 1915
Oban Times, and Argyllshire Advertiser, 1878
Orcadian, 1915
Petersfield Express, 1865
Port-Glasgow Express, 1962
Porthcawl Guardian, 1962
Reading Standard, 1962
Ross Gazette, 1915
Salisbury and Winchester Journal, 1915
Scottish Leader, 1889
South Yorkshire Times and Mexborough & Swinton Times, 1960-1961
Southend Standard and Essex Weekly Advertiser, 1915
Sporting Life, 1915
Sporting Times, 1870
Strabane Chronicle. 1915
Strabane Weekly News, 1915
Sussex Agricultural Express, 1962
Teignmouth Post and Gazette, 1915
Ulster Echo, 1880
Uttoxeter Advertiser and Ashbourne Times, 1915
Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard, 1915
Windsor and Eton Express, 1915
Wolverton Express, 1956-1959