Convict Guide - published 2006 - Manual / Resource - Page 370
Guide to New South Wales State archives relating to convicts and convict administration
Home Office 16
Old Bailey Sessions-Returns of Convicted Prisoners, 1815–49
Original returns by the Clerk of the Sessions of those committed for trial at the Sessions of Oyer and Terminer and
Gaol Delivery for the City of London and County of Middlesex, with the charges against them and the results of the
trials. From Nov 1834 onwards the returns are of the Central Criminal Court.
The returns provide details of the prisoner's name, crime as charged in indictment, verdict of jury and sentence. They
are arranged chronologically by session.
Reel 1542 (Copy in SRNSW)
HO16/1
1815–18
HO16/2
1819–22
HO16/5
1831–Oct 1832
HO16/7
1839–Aug 1842
HO16/9
1847–49
Reel 1543 (Copy in SRNSW)
HO16/3
1823–26
HO16/4
1827–30
Reel 1544 (Copy in SRNSW)
HO16/5
Nov 1832–1834
HO16/6
1835–37
Reel 1545 (Copy in SRNSW)
HO16/7
Sep–Dec 1842
HO16/8
1843–46
Home Office 25
Criminal Entry Books, 1850–71
Copies of letters sent re the transportation of convicts and other matters relating to convicts
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HO25/1
1 Jan 1850–9 Dec 1850
Index pp.487-536
HO25/2
11 Dec 1850–30 Dec 1851
Index pp.478-504
HO25/3
1 Jan 1852–5 May 1852 (p.174)
Cont. on next reel
HO25/3
4 May 1852 (p.173)–31 Dec 1852
Index pp.489-513
HO25/4
1 Jan 1853–20 Mar 1854
Index pp.478-504
HO25/5
22 Mar 1854–24 Feb 1855 (p.373)
Cont. on next reel
HO25/5
24 Feb 1855 (p.372)–12 May 1855
Index pp.417-440
HO25/6
14 May 1855–11 Nov 1856
HO25/7
12 Nov 1856–26 Apr 1859
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Reel 3125
Reel 3126
HO25/8
26 Apr 1859–28 Feb 1862
HO25/9
1 Mar 1862–7 Mar 1864
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HO25/10
7 Mar 1864–1 Mar 1866
HO25/11
6 Mar 1866–23 June 1868
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HO25/12
24 June 1868–6 Aug 1870
HO25/13
6 Aug 1870–8 Mar 1871
Home Office 26 and 27
Criminal Registers, 1791–1868
These are registers of all persons charged with indictable offences showing the results of the trials, the sentences in
cases of conviction, the dates of execution of persons sentenced to death, with personal information respecting the
prisoners. H.O.26 consists of the register for Middlesex only, which from 1850 is included in H.O.27, which contains
the remaining counties of England and Wales arranged in alphabetical order.
Occasionally when they were being microfilmed a page was omitted and added at the end. Therefore if a county is not
in alphabetical order check at the end of the frames of that particular volume.
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