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HO 23 1847-1866 Registers of County Prisons - Registers of prisoners in the county prisons of Aylesbury, Bath, Leeds, Leicester, Northampton, Nottingham, Preston, Reading, Somerset, and Wakefield The registers are indexed and provide for each prisoner: 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 wither. HO 24 1838-1875 Prison Registers and Returns - Pieces 1-19 of this class comprise nominal registers of Millbank, Parkhurst and Pentonville prisons, as described in HO 23 . Pieces 20 - 29 are annual prison returns for England and Wales giving statistical information on county gaols and juvenile reformatory schools, arranged by county. They give information on numbers of prisoners, sex, age, punishments, health, occupations, their disposal and costs. HO 26 1791-1849 Criminal Registers, Middlesex - Known as Series I, these registers for Middlesex list all persons charged with an indictable offence. Details given include age, crime, where and when tried, Sentence (death, transportation, Imprisonment), acquittals, remarks. May include other personal information about each prisoner, such as date of execution. From 1850 Middlesex is included in Series II, HO 27 . See also HO 16 , HO 77 and HO 140 . HO 27 1805-1892 Criminal Registers, England and Wales - Known as Series II, and arranged by county, these registers are similar to those in HO 26 . There are incomplete microfiche indexes, arranged alphabetically and by county available in the Microfilm Room. HO 38 782-1969 Warrant Books, General Series - Office copies of warrants for a variety of things, including free pardons for prisoners, and other warrants relating to prisons and asylums. Some volumes contain an index, but speculative searches for individuals without prior information would not be advised. County records offices often have prison registers. nell