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- Britain, Executions 1606-1955
- Bury Union Workhouse (Jericho Institution) Admission Registers
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- Chertsey Poor Law Union Admission and Discharge Books post-1900
- Chertsey Poor Law Union Admission and Discharge Books pre-1900
- Cheshire Workhouse Records (Baptisms)
- Cheshire Workhouse Records (Births)
- Cheshire Workhouse Records (Burials)
- Cheshire Workhouse Records (Deaths)
- Cheshire Workhouse Records, Admissions and Discharges
- Cheshire Workhouse Records, Religious Creeds
- City of York calendars of prisoners 1739-1851
- City of York hearth & window tax 1665-1778
- Cobham, Reed’s School Annual Reports 1818-1901
- Derbyshire hospital admissions and deaths 1892-1913
- Derbyshire hospital admissions and deaths 1892-1913
- Derbyshire Workhouse Reports
- Devon, Plymouth Prison Records 1832-1919
- Devon, Tavistock Borough Court Luxton Manuscripts, 1839-1896
- Dorking Poor Law Union Application and Report Books 1837-1847
- England & Wales, paupers in workhouses 1860
- England and Wales, Crime, Prisons and Punishment 1770-1935
- Farnham Board of Guardians Minute Books 1872-1910
- Godstone Poor Law Union Application and Report Books 1869-1915
- Guildford Infirmary Deaths 1933-1939
- Guildford Workhouse Births 1866-1910
- Guildford Workhouse Deaths 1887-1914
- Hambledon Board of Guardians Minute Books 1836-1910
- Hampshire, Portsmouth Hospital Records
- Hampshire, Portsmouth Workhouse Registers
- Hampshire, Portsmouth, Portsea Island Rate Books
- Ireland, Licences to Keep Arms 1832-1836
- Ireland, Ulster Covenant 1912
- Irish Tontines Annuitants 1766-1789 - Annuities
- Irish Tontines Annuitants 1766-1789 - Deaths
- Irish Tontines Annuitants 1766-1789 - Marriages
- Kent, Bexley Asylum Minute Books, 1901-1939
- Lancashire, Manchester cholera victims 1832
- Lincolnshire Poor Law Removals 1665 - 1865
- Lincolnshire Settlement Certificates 1675 - 1860
- Lincolnshire Settlement Examinations 1721 - 1861
- Lincolnshire, Workhouse Guardians' Minutes
- Lincolnshire, Workhouse Guardians' Minutes - Bourne
- Lincolnshire, Workhouse Guardians' Minutes - Caistor
- Liverpool Workhouse Registers
- London, Bethlem Hospital Patient Admission Registers and Casebooks 1683-1932
- Mayford Industrial School Admissions 1895-1907
- Middlesex, Harrow School photographs of pupils & masters 1869-1925
- Middlesex, London, Old Bailey Court records 1674-1913
- National School Admission Registers & Log-Books 1870-1914
- Princess Mary Village Homes Pupils 1870-1890s
- Prison ship (Hulk) Registers 1811-1843
- Redhill, Royal Philanthropic School Admission Registers 1788-1906
- Richmond Poor Law Union Application and Report Books 1870-1911
- Roxburghshire, Kelso Dispensary Patient Registers 1777-1781
- Royal Society of Arts Membership Lists and Minute Books
- Scotland prison registers index 1828-1884
- Scotland, Buchanan Society Members 1725-1948
- Scotland, Edinburgh Temperance Pledges 1886-1908
- Scotland, Inverness-Shire, Dores Free Church Adherents 1893
- Scotland, Linlithgowshire (West Lothian), poorhouse records 1859-1912
- South Yorkshire Asylum, Admission Records
- Surrey County Gaol Deaths 1798-1878
- Surrey feet of fines 1558-1760
- Surrey feet of fines place list
- Surrey Quarter Sessions 1780 -1820
- Surrey, Southwark, St Saviour Poor Relief 1818-1821
- Warlingham Military Hospital Chaplain's Department baptisms, confirmations and deaths 1917-1919
- Warwickshire bastardy index
- Warwickshire, Coventry workhouse admission and discharge registers 1853-1946
- Warwickshire, Coventry, Vehicle Registration Plates (1921-1944)
- Warwickshire, Coventry, Vehicle Registrations 1921-1944
- Westminster, poor law and parish administration - Admissions
- Westminster, poor law and parish administration - Apprentices
- Westminster, poor law and parish administration - Bastardy
- Westminster, poor law and parish administration - Examinations
- Westminster, poor law and parish administration - Land tax
- Westminster, poor law and parish administration - Paupers
- Westminster, poor law and parish administration - Poor law and workhouse records
- Westminster, poor law and parish administration - Valuations
- Wiltshire Asylum Registers, 1789-1921
- Woking, St Peter’s Memorial Home Patients 1885-1908
- Women’s Suffrage Petition 1866
- Yorkshire, Sheffield Crime Courts and Convicts 1737-1938
- Yorkshire, Sheffield Crime Courts And Convicts 1769-1931
- Yorkshire, Sheffield social and institutional records 1558-1939
- Yorkshire, Sheffield, asylum & hospital admissions & subscriptions 1748-1937
- Yorkshire, Sheffield, Workhouse Admissions 1700-1915
Records in this collection
- Home Office: criminal petitions part 1
- Metropolitan Police: Habitual criminals and miscellaneous papers
- Admiralty: convicts in hulks
- Central Criminal Court: calendars of prisoners
- Home Office 23 & 24
- Home Office and Prison Commission: female licences
- Home Office and Prison Commission: prisons records
- Home Office and Prison Commission: prisons records(PCOM2)
- Home Office series 8, 13, 77 & 130
- Home Office: calendar of prisons
- Home Office: convict hulks, convict prisons and criminal lunatic asylums, quarterly returns of prisoners
- Home Office: convicts, miscellanea
- Home Office: criminal petitions, part 2
- Home Office: criminal registers
- Home Office: judges’ reports on criminals 1784-1830
- Home Office: old captions and transfer papers
- Miscellaneous Home Office documents and the Newgate Prison Calendar
- Series HO140, MEPO6, PCOM2, & PCOM3
- Series HO18, HO19, & T38
Find your ancestors in Home Office 23 & 24
In association with The National Archives, Findmypast is excited to release an extensive collection of records from criminal cases, gaols, hulks, prisons, and criminal calendars. England & Wales, crime, prisons & punishment, 1770-1935 is the largest single collection of British crime records online.
HO23,Home Office: registers of Prisoners from National Prisons lodged in County Prisons 1847-1866
As a result of overcrowding in the national prisons, the government had to rent out cells in county prisons. These records hold the details of 13,665 prisoners who were housed in prisons at Aylesbury, Bath, Leeds, Leicester, Northampton, Nottingham, Preston, Reading, Somerset, and Wakefield between 1847 and 1866.
The registers give the following information about the prisoners: age, marital status and number of children, whether they can read or write, and their trade, as well as when and where they were convicted, what their crime was and sentence, the national prison they had been received from, whether they had any criminal history, and where they were removed to and when.
HO24,Home Office: prison registers and statistical returns 1838-1875
There are almost 86,000 records in this set comprising prison registers from Millbank, Parkhurst and Pentonville prisons, as well as annual statistical returns from between 1860 and 1869 for county gaol and juvenile reform schools in England and Wales, arranged by county.
The prison registers provide the following details about each prisoner: age, marital status, and number of children, as well as where the prisoner was received from and when, any previous offences, and where the prisoner was removed to and when. These records are very similar to those of the overflow prisoners kept in county prisons that you will find in HO 23.