Great Britain - Home Office [HO 9] - Criminal - Miscellaneous registers and letterbooks relating to convict prison hulks, 1802-1849

PRO 4879-4883
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fonds

Canberra : Australian Joint Copying Project, [19--]

432168

microfilm reels 35 mm

1803-1849; HO 9/1-16: Registers of convicts on hulks in Chatham, Devonport, Portsmouth and Woolwich. Names of hulks: Ganymede, Dolphin, Cumberland, Fortitude, Euryalus, Captivity, Discovery, Prudentia, Justitia, Retribution, Bellephon, Fortunee, Hospital, Leviathan, York, Establishment. The registers provide varying details of offence, conviction, character, behaviour in gaol, and in some cases date and place of transportation. HO 9/16 (PRO 4883) is a letterbook, 1847-49, relating to the establishment of the hulks. (Call No.: PRO 4879-4883)
1803-1836; HO 9/1-4: Registers of convicts on hulks in Chatham, Woolwich and Devonport. (Call No.: PRO 4879)
1802-1836; HO 9/4-7: Registers of convicts on hulks in Woolwich. (Call No.: PRO 4880)
1802-1836; HO 9/7-9: Registers of convicts on hulks in Woolwich and Portsmouth. (Call No.: PRO 4881)
1805-1844; HO 9/9-13: Registers of convicts on hulks in Portsmouth. Letterbooks for Chatham, Woolwich, and Devonport. (Call No.: PRO 4882)
1837-1849; HO 9/13-16: Letterbooks for Woolwich and Portsmouth. (Call No.: PRO 4883)

Original held by the National Archives (Great Britain), formerly the Public Record Office, London.

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Filmed as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project, by the National Library of Australia and the State Library of New South Wales.
Australian Joint Copying Project 'Handbook'. Part 3: Home Office - Class and piece list, p.40.
Public Record Office: HO 9.
Originals held in the Public Record Office, London.