Guide to the Records of the Prison Commission (as filmed by the AJCP)

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Created: 2018

Collection Summary

Creator: Prison Commission, Great Britain
Title: Records of the Prison Commission (as filmed by the AJCP)
Date Range: 1816 - 1866
Collection Number: PCOM
Extent: 36 items
Language of Materials: English
Repository: Australian Joint Copying Project
Sponsor: The Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP) online portal was created with the assistance of the Australian Public Service Modernisation Fund, 2017-2020. The National Library of Australia gratefully acknowledges the contributions of the other foundation AJCP partners, the State Library of New South Wales and The National Archives of the UK, and all other organisations which supported the work of the AJCP, the world's most extensive collaborative copying project, operating from 1948 to 1997.

Introduction

Scope and Contents

Select items were copied by the Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP) from Home Office and Prison Commission Prison Records: Series 1 (PCOM2) including registers of prisoners in County Middlesex, Dorset and various ships.

Conditions Governing Access

Available for Access.

Conditions Governing Use

Many of the records digitised as part of the AJCP are still in copyright. Readers wishing to publish or reproduce documents should seek permission, in the first instance, from the National Archives of the UK. Further advice is available from: The National Archives of the UK. Copyright (http://nationalarchives.gov.uk/legal/copyright/)

Preferred Citation

Acknowledgement of use of this material should refer to the location of the original material (The National Archives of the UK) and to the Australian Joint Copying Project.

Citation of items from this collection should include references to the location of the original material at the National Archives of the UK and to the AJCP nla.obj number, which serves as the online identifier for the digital copy.

Example: TNA Series: CO 201/429, New South Wales. Original Correspondence. Despatches May-June 1850 (AJCP ref: http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1234)

Further information on citation guidelines is available at The National Archives of the UK (http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/citing-documents-national-archives/ ).

Archival History

Material selectively filmed as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project. Original microfilm digitised as part of the AJCP Online Delivery Project, 2017-2020.

Existence and Location of Originals

The National Archives of the UK (TNA).

Series Reference: PCOM. For further information, see PCOM at TNA. (http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C225)

Existence and Location of Copies

The original AJCP microfilm of the records filmed from this collection is available at the National Library of Australia (https://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn560797) as well as other institutions holding AJCP microfilm.

Finding Aid Note

Dates used in this finding aid refer to the date range of the records selected for filming by the AJCP rather than to the date range of the original Series or File.

This online finding aid, published by the National Library of Australia in 2018, is a revised version of the original AJCP paper handbook: Australian Joint Copying Project. Handbook. Part 6. Public Record Group: Air Ministry, Board of Trade, Exchequer and Audit Department, Treasury and other Record Groups, Second Edition, pp xvi, 64-65, National Library of Australia, 1995.

Files 21-32 were originally incorrectly identified as Pentonville Prison material in Australian Joint Copying Project Handbook: Part 6. Titles have been amended to Millbank.

Subjects

Great Britain: Home Office and Prison Commission

Bibliography

Originally published as:

Australian Joint Copying Project. Handbook. Part 6. Public Record Group: Air Ministry, Board of Trade, Exchequer and Audit Department, Treasury and other Record Groups, Second Edition, , National Library of Australia, 1995.

Biographical / Historical

Until 1877 prisons such as Newgate were administered by the central courts, while justices of the peace were responsible for county and borough gaols. The Home Office had powers of supervision over convict and local prisons and also controlled the convict hulks.

In 1846 a Surveyor General of Prisons was appointed. In 1877 local prisons were brought under government management, the Prison Commission being established as a statutory board to administer and inspect prisons in England and Wales.

Item Descriptions

Series PCOM 2. Home Office and Prison Commission: Prison Records, Series 1, 1816 - 1866

36 items

Registers of convicts and other records of British prisons and convict hulks. Registers give details of prisoners in British and Gibraltar gaols, minute books, order books, visiting books, and calendars of the Assizes and quarter sessions.

The Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP) filmed selected items from pieces 85-87. The remaining items were copied in their entirety.

Existence and Location of Originals

The National Archives of the UK (TNA). Series Reference: Pcom 2. For further information, see Pcom 2 at TNA. (http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C11497)

Existence and Location of Copies

The original AJCP microfilm of the records filmed from this collection is available at the National Library of Australia [https://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn560797] as well as other institutions holding AJCP microfilm.

Subjects

Convicts; Australia: transportation of convicts; Defence (prison hulk); Stirling Castle (prison hulk); Retribution (prison hulk); York (prison hulk)