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Home Office: Convict Hulks, Convict Prisons and Criminal Lunatic Asylums: Quarterly...
Catalogue reference: HO 8
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HO 8
Sworn lists of convicts on board the convict hulks (until 1861) and in the convict prisons (from 1848). Criminal lunatic asylums are included from 1862. Some returns for hulks at Bermuda are included. Give particulars as to their ages,...
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HO 8
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Title (The name of the record)
- Home Office: Convict Hulks, Convict Prisons and Criminal Lunatic Asylums: Quarterly Returns of Prisoners
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Date (When the record was created)
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1824-1876
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Description (What the record is about)
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Sworn lists of convicts on board the convict hulks (until 1861) and in the convict prisons (from 1848). Criminal lunatic asylums are included from 1862.
Some returns for hulks at Bermuda are included.
Give particulars as to their ages, convictions and sentences, health, behaviour, etc.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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207 volume(s)
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Open unless otherwise stated
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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Section XIV of the Transportation of Offenders Act 1824 (5 Geo IV chapter 85) provided that the Superintendent of Convicts should make sworn quarterly returns of prisoners in the hulks to the Secretary of State.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C8872/
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