Titel: Långholmens
Skrivet av: Allan Hansson skrivet 2005-03-12, 23:31
Karen, I can not say that the information you got is wrong, since I have not seen the primary sources. The book I refered to is of course a secondary source, but seems well researched, so I believe it is correct concerning the presence of female prisoners at Långholmen after 1825. After closer reading of what my source says about the 1880?s, I can see that there were a lot of factories and industries located on or close to Långholmen, which used prisoners as workers. The biggest of these factories, a wool manufacturer, used 220 male prisoners around 1870. Indeed, the company was also in charge of 65 female prisoners. But these women did not belong to the Långholmen prison, but had workshops at their prison, which was straff- och arbetsfängelset å Norrmalm /the punishment and labour prison at Norrmalm - Norrmalm is situated in the northern part of Stockholm, at least 5 km from Långholmen/.
Maybe your female relative was sent to spinnhuset (which would refer to the Norrmalm women prison or some other prison for women), and someone at SSA Stockholm did interpret this as spinnhuset på Långholmen, though Långholmen was not mentioned. Or she may actually have been sent to Långholmen by some other reason, unknown to me.
Anyway, I think that there should either be a court decision, or a decision by the Överståthållareämbetet concerning your female relative. In both cases, it should be possible to find the records in the proper archives. (I guess that SSA refers to Stockholms Stadsarkiv, so you are already in touch.)