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Name Matthew Porteous
Gender Male
Age 50
Birth Date 1798
Birth Place Wigtown, Wigtownshire, Scotland
Residence Place Glasgow
Imprisonment Date 1848
Imprisonment Place Canongate, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
Prison Edinburgh (Calton Jail)
Occupation Saddler
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Scottish Indexes; Glasgow, Scotland, UK; Scottish Prison Register Index 1791-1937; Reference Number: Hh21/5/8 P. 37

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Ancestry.com. Web: Scotland, Prison Records Index, 1791-1937 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014.

Original data: Free Online Prison Record Search. Graham and Emma Maxwell. https://www.scottishindexes.com/ScotlandsCriminalDatabase.aspx: accessed 31 March 2014 Update accessed 13 Dec 2023.

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