M581, M3087-M3105
National Library of Australia
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Created: 2019
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Fonds. Records of the Middlesex County Record Office, January 1774 - June 1793
Series OB. Records of Middlesex (Old Bailey) Sessions, January 1774 - June 1793
Subseries OB/C/J. Old Bailey. Calendars of indictments, January 1774 - December 1790
The magistrates at Middlesex Sessions prepared bills of indictment which were presented to the jurors. The jurors then decided if there were enough evidence to put the defendant on trial. If so, the bill of indictment would be annotated 'true bill' and the case would be heard at the gaol delivery sessions at the Old Bailey...
Old Bailey. Calendar of indictments - List of Newgate Prisoners indicted for trial at the Old Bailey, January 1774 - December 1790 (File OB/C/J/002)
Subseries OB/SB. Old Bailey, Session books, January 1785 - June 1793
The session books contain minutes of proceedings of the trials of Middlesex and Westminster prisoners in Newgate Gaol held under the Commission of Gaol Delivery at the Old Bailey Sessions House. Old Bailey sessions were held eight times a year. The session books record the names of the justices and jurors and defendants, details of the charges, and sentences. From volume 18 onwards, the session books also contain calendars of prisoners in Newgate Gaol, with the verdicts and sentences for each prisoner and in some instances details of transportation arrangements...
Old Bailey. Session Book, January 1785 (File OB/SB/017)
Old Bailey. Session Book, February 1785 - September 1787 (File OB/SB/018)
Old Bailey. Session Book, October 1787 - July 1790 (File OB/SB/019)
Old Bailey. Session Book, September 1790 - June 1793 (File OB/SB/020)
Fonds. Official Records of County of Middlesex
Series MA. Administration, 10 May 1862 - 1 September 1874
Subseries MA/G. Prisons, 10 May 1862 - 1 September 1874
New Prison, Clerkenwell, 10 May 1862 - 1 September 1874 (File MA/G/CLE 204-6200)
Papers of visiting justices...
Governor, House of Dentention, to Visiting Justices, 10 May 1862 (Item 995)
Removal of prisoner D.C. Patterson to Australia; refusal of Inspector E. Ryan of Melbourne Police Force to remove prisoner.
H. Waddington (Home Office) to Clerk to Visiting Justices, 19 May 1862 (Item 1023a)
Case of D.C. Patterson; his removal ordered by Duke of Newcastle; question of reimbursement for expense while at House of Detention.
Suter, Austin & Co. to Committee of Visitors, 1 September 1872 (Item 4876)
Sends list of institutions supplied with Australian and New Zealand meat.
Suter, Austin & Co. to Committee of Visitors, 4 March 1873 (Item 5076)
Sends list of institutions supplied with New Zealand and Australian meat.
Suter, Austin & Co. to Committee of Visitors, 1 September 1874 (Item 5607)
Quotations for Australian and New Zealand meat; list of institutions already supplied.
Series MJ. Court in Session, 1787 - 1867
Subseries MJ/SBT. Orders to Keepers of Prisons, 1834 - 1847
Orders to Keepers of Prisons, 1834 - 1847 (File MJ/SBT/1)
Orders, mainly from Clerk of Peace to Keepers of Newgate and New Prison, Clerkenwell, concerning convicts under sentence of transportation. Gives name, age, offence and sentence of convicts...
Subseries MJ/SPT. Transportation Papers, 1787 - 1867
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Note stating that Horah Sarah, Ann Farmer, Susannah Mason and Jane Field to be transported to eastern coast of N.S.W (1p.), 1787 (File 4/6)
Return showing amount paid by Treasurer of County of Middlesex for conveyance of prisoners under sentence of transportation (22pp.), 31 December 1836 - 1 July 1837 (File 5/1)
Gives name, where tried, from where conveyed, to where conveyed, amount paid.
Middlesex. Report of a committee to consider the question of penal servitude and particularly the ticket of leave question. London (7pp.), 1863 (File 5/10)
Middlesex. Report of a committee appointed to consider the importance of resuming the transportation of criminals and resolution of the Court. London (9pp.), 1867 (File 5/10)
Series OB. Goal Delivery Sessions Records (post 1754)
Subseries OB/CJ. Index to indictments of Middlesex prisoners, January 1791 - November 1832
Gives name, offence (in general terms eg. larceny, hy. robbery), and date...
Index, January 1791 - December 1811 (File 3)
Index, January 1812 - February 1824 (File 4)
Index, April 1824 - November 1832 (File 5)
Subseries OB/CP. Calendars of Prisoners, Newgate (20 vols.), January 1820 - December 1853
Gives name, age, trade, by whom and when committed, offence (in detail), and sentence...
Calendar of Prisoners, January 1820 - December 1820 (File 1)
Calendar of Prisoners, January 1821 - December 1821 (File 2)
Calendar of Prisoners, January 1822 - December 1822 (File 3)
Calendar of Prisoners, January 1830 - December 1830 (File 4)
Calendar of Prisoners, January 1832 - November 1832 (File 5)
Calendar of Prisoners, January 1833 - October 1833 (File 6)
Calendar of Prisoners, November 1833 - October 1834 (File 7)
Calendar of Prisoners, November 1837 - October 1838 (File 8)
Calendar of Prisoners, November 1838 - November 1839 (File 9)
Calendar of Prisoners, November 1839 - October 1840 (File 10)
Calendar of Prisoners, November 1841 - January 1842 (File 11)
Calendar of Prisoners, November 1842 - October 1843 (File 12)
Calendar of Prisoners, November 1843 - October 1844 (File 13)
Calendar of Prisoners, November 1844 - October 1845 (File 14)
Calendar of Prisoners, November 1845 - October 1846 (File 15)
Calendar of Prisoners, November 1848 - October 1849 (File 16)
Calendar of Prisoners, November 1849 - October 1850 (File 17)
Calendar of Prisoners, November 1850 - October 1851 (File 18)
Calendar of Prisoners, November 1851 - October 1852 (File 19)
Calendar of Prisoners, November 1852 - December 1853 (File 20)
Subseries OB/SB. Gaol Delivery Books, September 1793 - October 1834
Gives names of justices and jury, date, name of convict, offence (in detail), and sentence. Includes some transportation contracts...
Gaol Delivery Book, September 1793 - June 1796 (File 21)
Gaol Delivery Book, September 1796 - September 1799 (File 22)
Gaol Delivery Book, October 1799 - October 1802 (File 23)
Gaol Delivery Book, December 1802 - February 1806 (File 24)
Gaol Delivery Book, April 1806 - September 1809 (File 25)
Gaol Delivery Book, November 1809 - January 1813 (File 26)
Gaol Delivery Book, February 1813 - February 1816 (File 27)
Gaol Delivery Book, April 1816 - May 1818 (File 28)
Very poor quality original.
Gaol Delivery Book, June 1818 - September 1820 (File 29)
Gaol Delivery Book, September 1820 - April 1823 (File 30)
Gaol Delivery Book, May 1823 - December 1825 (File 31)
Gaol Delivery Book, January 1826 - December 1827 (File 32)
Gaol Delivery Book, January 1828 - September 1829 (File 33)
Gaol Delivery Book, October 1829 - September 1831 (File 34)
Gaol Delivery Book, October 1831 - February 1834 (File 35)
Gaol Delivery Book, April 1834 - October 1834 (File 36)
Series. Boards of Guardians Records
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Subseries BG/B. Brentford, 1891 - 1927
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Emigration register, 1891 - 1927 (File 216)
Gives name, age, parish, parents' names, date of resolution of Guardians, date of L.G.B.'s sanction, sponsoring society, date of emigration and cost, date of reports received, remarks. Includes children emigrating to Australia and New Zealand...
Subseries BG/E. Edmondton, 1925
Includes...
Subseries Hp. B.G.. Hampstead, 1852 - 1914
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Emigration papers, 1852 - 1855 (File 97)
Papers relating to emigration to Australia, including accounts, certificates of embarkation, agreements between Guardians and shipowners, correspondence with Poor Law Board, and letters concerning arrival of emigrants in Australia...
Register of emigration, 1906 - 1914 (File 98)
Gives name, date of sailing, destination, cost of emigration...
Subseries La. B.G.. Lambeth, 1920 - 1939
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Register of children emigrated, 1923 - 1928 (File 186/2)
Gives name, age, date of transfer to agency, date of sailing, destination, agency, reports received, school or orphanage...
Alphabetical register of children emigrated, 1920 - 1939 (File 186/3)
Gives names and addresses...
Subseries C.U.B.. Records of Central Umemployed Body for London, 28 January 1905 - August 1917
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Emigration Subcommittee. Minutebook (52pp.), 28 January 1905 - 23 October 1905 (File 5)
Emigration Committee. Minutebook (243pp.), 4 December 1905 - 5 April 1907 (File 27)
Emigration Committee. Minutebook (270pp.), 8 April 1907 - 5 October 1908 (File 28)
Incomplete.
Emigration Committee. Minutebook (363pp.), 26 October 1908 - 6 February 1911 (File 29)
Emigration Committee. Minutebook (319pp.), 20 February 1911 - 6 July 1914 (File 30)
p.37/8 and 129/30 do not exist
Emigration Committee. Minutebook (36pp.), 23 March 1914 - 3 May 1915 (File 31)
The minutes are quite detailed, containing statistics, recording interviews and deputations, and summarizing correspondence. References to Australia and New Zealand are more numerous in the later volumes.
Emigration Committee. Report file. No. 4a. (c.235pp.), September 1912 - November 1913 (File 32)
The file comprises statistics, estimates and statements of expenditure, matters referred by and decisions of Finance Committee, lists of cases considered, posters, and papers concerning British Immigration League of Australia.
Sailing register (86pp.), January 1912 - July 1915 (File 133)
Arranged by borough, register gives name, age, number, relationship of dependents, destination, date of sailing, occupation, special qualifications, cost of outfit, cost of passage, landing money, total expenditure and remarks. Most of emigrants sailed to Australia, destinations including Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth, Hobart, Auckland, Dunedin, Gisborne and Wanganui.
Hollesley Bay Labour Colony subject file, no. 6. (36pp.), February 1917 - August 1917 (File 167)
Correspondence concerning a proposal, not implemented, whereby the Australian Imperial Forces would take over the labour colony at Hollesley Bay.
