Barking County Gaol and House of Correction

Overview

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Records

Overview

Alternative Names   Barking House of Correction

Prison Type   Local Prison -  House of Correction/Bridewell

Jurisdiction   County

Date opened   1792

Date closed   1831

Location   North Street   Barking

Map location   exact or closely approximate

County   Essex

Prison Info

Alternative Names   Barking House of Correction

Prison Type   Local Prison

Jurisdiction   County

Date opened   1792

Date closed   1831

Location   North Street   Barking

Map location   exact or closely approximate
Lat.   51.5389672  Long.   0.0753615

County   Essex

Prisoner Statistics

 

Year 1818

Annual Committed   -   298

Daily Greatest number   -   46

 

Year 1823

Annual Committed   -   262

Daily Census   -   21

 

Year 1828

Annual Committed   -   264

Daily Census   -   29

Principal Primary Sources

  • James Neild, The State of the Prisons of England, Scotland and Wales (London, 1812), p.26
  • Account of Gaols, Houses of Correction or Penitentiaries in the United Kingdom, 1818 (Parl. Papers, 1819, XVII.371), p.14
  • The Third Report of the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders (London, 1821), Appendix, p.21; Fifth Report of the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders (London, 1823), Appendix, p.23; Sixth Report of the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders (London, 1824), Appendix, p.34; Seventh Report of the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders (London, 1827), Appendix, p.40; Eighth Report of the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders (London, 1832), Appendix, p.13
  • Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1824, XIX.359), p.94; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1829, XIX.1), p.80; Reports and Schedules Pursuant To Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1830, XXIV.1), p.74; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1830-31, XII.1), p.74; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1831-32. XXXIII.197), p.77

Secondary Sources

  • http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/essex/vol5/pp235-248#h3-0007

Management

Archive name: Essex Record Office

Catalogue ref: Q/ACM 1-9

Collection: Essex Quarter Sessions

Description: General Committee minutes. Include reports of the Gaol Committee and much relevant material on the administration of the county gaols and houses of correction (including improvements, staffing, labour)

Dates: 1796-1897


Archive name: Essex Record Office

Catalogue ref: Q/ACp 2

Collection: Essex Quarter Sessions

Description: Reports of committees as to Gaols (including additional Gaol) and Houses of Correction

Dates: 1819-1828


Archive name: Essex Record Office

Catalogue ref: Q/CR 4/1-3

Collection: Essex Quarter Sessions

Description: Returns. Of expenses of prisons and houses of correction (1815-1838); of the number of prisoners in the gaols and houses of correction (1830-1849)

Dates: 1815-1849


Archive name: Essex Record Office

Catalogue ref: Q/SBb 378 onwards

Collection: Essex Quarter Sessions

Description: Quarter Sessions bundles include individually catalogued reports of the Keepers, Chaplains, Surgeons and Visiting Justices of the County's Gaols, including Colchester and Newport Houses of Correction, the Gaol, House of Correction and Convict Gaol at Chelmsford, Ilford House of Correction, and Springfield Gaol. The records also include accounts, staff appointments and dismissals, dietaries and labour accounts, and correspondence on prison conditions and prisoners. Up to mid 1840s, contents described in great detail.

Dates: 1800 onwards


Finance

Archive name: Essex Record Office

Catalogue ref: Q/FAC 5/1-15

Collection: Essex Quarter Sessions

Description: County Treasurers' Special Accounts: Gaols and Houses of Correction

Dates: 1767-1849


Prisoners

Archive name: Essex Record Office

Catalogue ref: Q/ALl 9

Collection: Essex Quarter Sessions

Description: Includes return to Government of number of criminal lunatics in Gaol and five Houses of Correction, with original returns from Gaol etc (1808). Copy of lists of lunatics in the Gaol and Houses of Correction within the previous 10 years, giving names, ages, crimes, and observations (1819).

Dates: 1808-1841


Land & Buildings

Archive name: Essex Record Office

Catalogue ref: D/DQs 55

Collection: None

Description: Map of Barking and East Ham, showing workhouse and house of correction

Dates: 1807


Archive name: Essex Record Office

Catalogue ref: Q/AGb 5

Collection: Essex Quarter Sessions

Description: Ground plan of Barking House of Correction

Dates: 1819


Archive name: Essex Record Office

Catalogue ref: Q/RUm 1/13

Collection: Essex Quarter Sessions

Description: Road from East India Docks to Barking. Shows three public houses at Plaistow and House of Correction and Workhouse at Barking.

Dates: 1808