Harwich Borough Gaol and House of Correction

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Overview

Alternative Names   Harwich Town Gaol, Harwich Borough Gaol

Prison Type   Local Prison -  Common Gaol & House of Correction/Bridewell

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   {1812}

Date closed   [1848]

Location   town hall   Harwich

Map location   exact or closely approximate

County   Essex

Critical Remarks

The Harwich Borough Gaol and House of Correction (ID 308) were housed in separate buildings each with its own keeper but on the same site. Some official sources consider them as separate institutions, others as the same institution. (When the same, included under this ID) Last appears in the penal statistics for 1847.

Prison Info

Alternative Names   Harwich Town Gaol, Harwich Borough Gaol

Prison Type   Local Prison

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   {1812}

Date closed   [1848]

Location   town hall   Harwich

Map location   exact or closely approximate
Lat.   51.9459932  Long.   1.2876666

County   Essex

Critical Remarks

The Harwich Borough Gaol and House of Correction (ID 308) were housed in separate buildings each with its own keeper but on the same site. Some official sources consider them as separate institutions, others as the same institution. (When the same, included under this ID) Last appears in the penal statistics for 1847.

Prisoner Statistics

 

Year 1818

Annual Committed   -   0

Daily Greatest number   -   0

 

Year 1828

Annual Committed   -   3

Daily Census   -   3

 

Year 1832

Annual Committed   -   12

Daily Greatest number   -   10

 

Year 1838

Annual Confined   -   13

Daily Census   -   0

 

Year 1843

Annual Confined   -   0

Daily Census   -   0

Principal Primary Sources

  • James Neild, The State of the Prisons of England, Scotland and Wales (London, 1812), p.261
  • Account of Gaols, Houses of Correction or Penitentiaries in the United Kingdom, 1818 (Parl. Papers, 1819, XVII.371), p.14
  • 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 (1829, XIX.401), p.46
  • Return of Places of Confinement Outside Gaol Acts in England and Wales (Parl. Papers, 1833, XXVIII.425), p.50
  • Royal Commission of Inquiry into Municipal Corporations of England and Wales, First Report, Appendices: Part 4 (Parl. Papers, 1835, XXV.1), p.2269
  • Abstract Return of Establishment and Expenditure of Gaols and Houses of Correction in England and Wales (Parl. Papers, 1840, XXXVIII.241), p.14
  • Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Home District, Fourth Report (Parl. Papers, 1839, XXI.1), p.177; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Home District, Fifth Report (Parl. Papers, 1840, XXV.1), p.191; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Home District, Sixth Report (Parl. Papers, 1841 Session 2, IV.1), p.132; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Home District, Tenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1845, XXIII.1), p.205

Staff

Archive name: The National Archives

Catalogue ref: PROB 11/1555/110

Collection: None

Description: Will of Samuel Martin, Gaol Keeper of Harwich, Essex

Dates: 1814