Home Office: Criminal Registers, England and Wales

Description and record details

Reference	HO 27
Title	Home Office: Criminal Registers, England and Wales
Date	1805-1892
Description	Registers of all persons in England and Wales charged with indictable offences showing the results of the trials, the sentences in case of conviction, and dates of execution of persons sentence to death; some of the registers contain personal information respecting the prisoners. Until 1850 Middlesex is excluded, its earlier records being in HO 26. PLEASE NOTE: Electronic images of these registers can be searched online.
Arrangement	The registers are arranged in alphabetical order of county, county boroughs being included under the appropriate counties. It should be noted, however, that the city of Bristol is listed after Gloucestershire; Carnarvon is so spelled; Hampshire is listed as Hants from 1805 to 1837 but thereafter as Southampton; London is listed with Middlesex; Shropshire is listed as Shropshire from 1805 to 1808 but thereafter as Salop; Monmouth is treated as an English county throughout; Welsh counties are listed separately after English counties from 1805 to 1814 and from 1855 onwards, but with the English counties between 1815 and 1854.
Related material	See also: CRIM 3
Held by	The National Archives, Kew
Legal status	Public Record(s)
Language	English
Physical description	223 volume(s)
Access conditions	Available in digital format unless otherwise stated
Copies information	Microfiche indexes, arranged alphabetically and by county, are available on open access.

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