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Home Office: Registers of Prisoners from national prisons lodged in County Prisons
Catalogue reference: HO 23
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HO 23
Registers of prisoners in the county prisons of Aylesbury, Bath, Leeds, Leicester, Northampton, Nottingham, Preston, Reading, Somerset, and Wakefield, where the government rented cells for the housing of overflow prisoners from the national...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- HO 23
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Title (The name of the record)
- Home Office: Registers of Prisoners from national prisons lodged in County Prisons
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1847-1866
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Description (What the record is about)
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Registers of prisoners in the county prisons of Aylesbury, Bath, Leeds, Leicester, Northampton, Nottingham, Preston, Reading, Somerset, and Wakefield, where the government rented cells for the housing of overflow prisoners from the national prisons.
The registers give each prisoner's age, marital status and number of children, whether they can read or write, trade, when and where convicted, crime, sentence, where and whence received, previous offences, when removed and where.
Each volume is indexed.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 20 volume(s)
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C8887/
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Home Office: Registers of Prisoners from national prisons lodged in County Prisons
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