How to look for records of... Crime, prisons and punishment 1770-1935
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You can search and download (£) selected crime records for England and Wales 1770-1935.
These are selected digitised records from a variety of record collections held at The National Archives:
- Registers of convicts in prison hulks (ADM 6)
- After-trial calendars of prisoners of the Central Criminal Court (CRIM 9)
- Home Office: convicts, miscellanea (HO 7)
- Quarterly returns of prisoners 1824-1876 of asylums (HO 8)
- Home Office Criminal entry books 1782-1871 (HO 13)
- Home Office criminal petitions series 1 (HO 17)
- Home Office criminal petitions series 2 (HO 18)
- Home Office registers of criminal petitions (HO 19)
- Home Office: Registers of Prisoners from National Prisons lodged in County Prisons 1847-1866 (HO 23)
- Home Office: Prison Registers and Statistical Returns 1838-1875 (HO 24)
- Home Office: criminal registers, Middlesex (HO 26)
- Home Office: criminal registers, England and Wales (HO 27)
- Home Office: Judges’ Reports on Criminals 1784-1830 (HO 47)
- Home Office: Newgate Prison Calendar 1782-1853 (HO 77)
- Home Office: Miscellaneous Criminal Books 1798-1831 (HO 130)
- Home Office: calendar of prisoners (HO 140)
- Metropolitan Police: Criminal Record Office: habitual criminals’ registers and miscellaneous papers (MEPO 6)
- Home Office and Prison Commission: prison records (PCOM 2)
- Home Office and Prison Commission: Male Licences 1853-1887 (PCOM 3)
- Home Office and Prison Commission: Female Licences 1853-1887 (PCOM 4)
- Home Office: Old Captions and Transfer Papers 1843-1871 (PCOM 5)
- Treasury: Departmental Accounts: Convict Hulks 1802-1831 (T 38)
For more information on what these records contain see findmypast.co.uk.
