Catalogue description Home Office: Old Captions and Transfer Papers

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Details of PCOM 5
Reference: PCOM 5
Title: Home Office: Old Captions and Transfer Papers
Description:

Copies of orders of court ('old captions') for the imprisonment or transportation of convicts and transfer papers for removal of a convict to a government prison, each containing the penal records and other particulars of the prisoners.

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Date: 1843-1871
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See also: Home Office and Prison Commission: Registers and Indexes: PCOM 6

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Physical description: 52 box(es)
Unpublished finding aids:

Reference is by means of indexes in PCOM 6

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