Ipswich County Gaol and House of Correction

Overview

Details

Records

Overview

Alternative Names   Ipswich County Gaol, Ipswich Prison, HMP Ipswich

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

Jurisdiction   County

Date opened   1790

Date closed   post 1900 (1925)

Location   St Helen's Street   Ipswich

Map location   exact or closely approximate

County   Suffolk

Prison Info

Alternative Names   Ipswich County Gaol, Ipswich Prison, HMP Ipswich

Prison Type   Local Prison

Jurisdiction   County

Date opened   1790

Date closed   post 1900 (1925)

Location   St Helen's Street   Ipswich

Map location   exact or closely approximate
Lat.   52.056772  Long.   1.16161

County   Suffolk

Prisoner Statistics

 

Year 1818

Annual Committed   -   153

Daily Greatest number   -   55

 

Year 1823

Annual Committed   -   467

Daily Census   -   91

 

Year 1828

Annual Committed   -   383

Daily Census   -   69

 

Year 1833

Annual Committed   -   515

Daily Census   -   97

 

Year 1838

Annual Confined   -   541

Daily Census   -   190

 

Year 1843

Annual Confined   -   782

Daily Census   -   86

 

Year 1848

Annual Confined   -   640

Daily Daily average   -   87

 

Year 1853

Annual Confined   -   652

Daily Daily average   -   98

 

Year 1858

Annual Committed   -   429

Daily Daily average   -   72

 

Year 1863

Annual Committed   -   580

Daily Greatest number   -   124

 

Year 1868

Annual Committed   -   540

Daily Daily average   -   70

 

Year 1873

Annual Committed   -   437

Daily Daily average   -   56

 

Year 1878

Annual Committed   -   784

Daily Daily average   -   102

 

Year 1883

Annual Committed   -   873

Daily Daily average   -   106

 

Year 1888

Annual Committed   -   1080

Daily Daily average   -   132

 

Year 1893

Annual Committed   -   865

Daily   -  

 

Year 1898

Annual Committed   -   892

Daily   -  

Principal Primary Sources

  • James Neild, The State of the Prisons of England, Scotland and Wales (London, 1812), p.295
  • Account of Gaols, Houses of Correction or Penitentiaries in the United Kingdom, 1818 (Parl. Papers, 1819, XVII.371), p.42
  • [Second] Report of the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders (London, 1820), p.17; 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.69; 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.104; 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.130; 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.135; 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.41
  • Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1824, XIX.359), p.214; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1825, XXIII.1), p.246; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1826, XXIV.1), p.236; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1826-27, XIX.365), p.216; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1828, XX.327), p.252; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1829, XIX.1), p.223; Reports and Schedules Pursuant To Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1830, XXIV.1), p.222; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1830-31, XII.1), p.217; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1831-32. XXXIII.197), p.216; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1833, XXVIII.1), p.231; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1834, XLVI.1), p.218; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1835, XLIV.225), p.209; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1836, XLII.1), p.140; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1837, XLV.1), p.140; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1837-8, XLIII.227), p.145; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1839, XXXVIII.17), p.142; Reports Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1840, XXXVIII.1), p.149; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1841, XVIII.1), p.156; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1842, XXXII.1), p.158; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1843, XLIII.1), p.156; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1844, XXXIX.403), p.160; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1845, XXXVII.417), p.192; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1846, XXXIV.187), p.186; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1847, XLVII.297), p.200; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1847-48, LII.465), p.209
  • Abstract Return of Establishment and Expenditure of Gaols and Houses of Correction in England and Wales (Parl. Papers, 1840, XXXVIII.241), p.56
  • Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District. First Report (Parl. Papers, 1836, XXXV.161), p.76; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Fourth Report (Parl. Papers, 1839, XXII.1), p.155; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Fifth Report (Parl. Papers, 1840, XXV.565), p.135; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Seventh Report (Parl. Papers, 1842, XXI.1), p.158; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Ninth Report (Parl. Papers, 1844, XXIX.227), p.43; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Eleventh Report (Parl. Papers, 1846, XXI.483), p.16; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Midland and Eastern District, Fourteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1849, XXVI.1), p.60; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Fifteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1850, XXVIII.291), p.80; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Sixteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1851, XXVII.461), p.165; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Eighteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1856, XXXIII.1), p.55; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Nineteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1856, XXXIII.385), p.61; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Twentieth Report (Parl. Papers, 1857, Session 1, VII.313), p.51; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Twenty-first Report (Parl. Papers, 1857, Session 2, XXIII.1), p.46; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Twenty-second Report (Parl. Papers, 1857-58, XXIX.1), p.53; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Midland District, Twenty-third Report (Parl. Papers, 1859, Session 1, XI.1), p.126; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Midland District, Twenty-fifth Report (Parl. Papers, 1860, XXXV.229), p.118; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Midland District, Twenty-sixth Report (Parl. Papers, 1861, XXIX.45), p.118; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Midland District, Twenty-seventh Report (Parl. Papers, 1862, XXV.93), p.109; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Twenty-eighth Report (Parl. Papers, 1863, XXIII.1), p.77; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Thirtieth Report (Parl. Papers, 1865, XXIII.1), p.217; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Thirty-first Report (Parl. Papers, 1866, XXXVII.1), p.192; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Thirty-second Report (Parl. Papers, 1867-68, XXXIV.203), p.262; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Thirty-third Report (Parl. Papers, 1868-69, XXIX.1), p.182; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Thirty-fourth Report (Parl. Papers, 1870, XXXVII.1), p.188; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Thirty-fifth Report (Parl. Papers, 1871, XXIX.241), p.239; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Thirty-sixth Report (Parl. Papers, 1872, XXXI.1), p.137; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Thirty-seventh Report (Parl. Papers, 1873, XXXII.1), p.279; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Thirty-eighth Report (Parl. Papers, 1874, XXIX.1), p.320; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Thirty-ninth Report (Parl. Papers, 1875, XXXVII.1), p.346; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Fortieth Report (Parl. Papers, 1876, XXXV.1), p.345; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Forty-first Report (Parl. Papers, 1877, XLIII.1), p.348; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Forty-second Report (Parl. Papers, 1878, XLI.1), p.345
  • Commissioners of Prisons, Second Annual Report (Parl. Papers, 1878-79, XXXIV.1, 97), p.32; Commissioners of Prisons, Third Annual Report (Parl. Papers, 1880, XXXV.1,73), p.41; Commissioners of Prisons, Fourth Annual Report (Parl. Papers, 1881, LI.441, 521), p.43; Commissioners of Prisons, Fifth Annual Report (Parl. Papers, 1882, XXXIII.443, 541), p.48; Commissioners of Prisons, Sixth Annual Report (Parl. Papers, 1883, XXXI.445, 579), p.53; Commissioners of Prisons, Seventh Annual Report (Parl. Papers, 1884, XLII.461, 551), p.49; Commissioners of Prisons, Eighth Annual Report (Parl. Papers, 1884-85, XXXVII.527, 651), p.48; Commissioners of Prisons, Ninth Annual Report (Parl. Papers, 1886, XXXV.1, 93), p.43; Commissioners of Prisons, Tenth Annual Report (Parl. Papers, 1887, XLI.203, 335), p.39; Commissioners of Prisons, Eleventh Annual Report (Parl. Papers, 1888, LVIII.1, 209), p.39; Commissioners of Prisons, Twelfth Annual Report (Parl. Papers, 1889, XLI.1, 181), p.39; Commissioners of Prisons, Thirteenth Annual Report (Parl. Papers, 1890, XXXVII.1, 183), p.39; Commissioners of Prisons, Fourteenth Annual Report (Parl. Papers, 1890-91, XLIII.1, 125), p.38; Commissioners of Prisons, Fifteenth Annual Report (Parl. Papers, 1892, XLII.1, 147), p.36; Commissioners of Prisons, Sixteenth Annual Report (Parl. Papers, 1893-94, XLVII.1, 121), p.37; Commissioners of Prisons, Seventeenth Annual Report (Parl. Papers, 1894, XLIV.1, 183), p.37; Commissioners of Prisons, Eighteenth Annual Report (Parl. Papers, 1895, LVI.727, 865), p.38
  • Report of Coms. of Prisons and Directors of Convict Prisons, 1895-96 (Parl. Papers, 1896, XLIV.235), p.97; Report of Coms. of Prisons and Directors of Convict Prisons, 1896-97 (Parl. Papers, 1897, XL.105), p.239; Report of Coms. of Prisons and Directors of Convict Prisons, 1897-98 (Parl. Papers, 1898, XLVII.23), p.264; Report of Coms. of Prisons and Directors of Convict Prisons, 1898-99 (Parl. Papers, 1899, XLIII.65), p.262; Report of Coms. of Prisons and Directors of Convict Prisons, 1899-1900 (Parl. Papers, 1900, XLI.1), p.301

Additional Primary Sources

  • William White, History, Gazetteer and Directory of Suffolk (2nd edn, Sheffield, 1855), p. 75

Secondary Sources

  • http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=1109328&sort=2&type=&rational=a&class1=11&period=&county=&district=&parish=&place=Wing&recordsperpage=10&source=text&rtype=&rnumber=&p=54&move=n&nor=609&recfc=0

Management

Archive name: Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch

Catalogue ref: IY400

Collection: None

Description: HM Prison, Ipswich. Records, including paybooks, registers of Officers, and Prison Visitor Committee minutes.

Dates: 1878-1925


Archive name: Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch

Catalogue ref: B/100/1/61

Collection: Suffolk Quarter Sessions

Description: Includes report of Chaplain, Ipswich Gaol (1832-1833)

Dates: 1831-1834


Archive name: Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch

Catalogue ref: HB26/412/2079

Collection: Rous family, Earls of Stradbroke

Description: Letter from John Kerrich, concerning claim to fines imposed at Quarter Sessions. Collected from the Keeper of the House of Correction on behalf of John Garden.

Dates: 1852


Archive name: Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch

Catalogue ref: B/100/1/23/57-58

Collection: Suffolk Quarter Sessions

Description: Ipswich Gaol, female prisoners and visitors' reports

Dates: 1844


Archive name: Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch

Catalogue ref: B/100/1/24/53

Collection: Suffolk Quarter Sessions

Description: Report on state of health of prisoners in County Gaol

Dates: 1845


Archive name: Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch

Catalogue ref: B/100/1/25/52

Collection: Suffolk Quarter Sessions

Description: Return from county gaol, Ipswich

Dates: undated


Archive name: Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch

Catalogue ref: B/100/1/25/55

Collection: Suffolk Quarter Sessions

Description: Ipswich Gaol, annual return

Dates: 1850


Archive name: Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch

Catalogue ref: B/100/1/29B/22

Collection: Suffolk Quarter Sessions

Description: Gaol returns and reports

Dates: 1852-1855


Archive name: Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch

Catalogue ref: B/100/1/30A/9

Collection: Suffolk Quarter Sessions

Description: Letters and notices, including re Gaol and Police Committees

Dates: 1865-1867


Archive name: Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch

Catalogue ref: B/100/1/30B/7

Collection: Suffolk Quarter Sessions

Description: Gaol reports , certificates

Dates: 1833-1836


Archive name: Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch

Catalogue ref: B/100/1/31/11

Collection: Suffolk Quarter Sessions

Description: Returns of prisons

Dates: 1857


Archive name: Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch

Catalogue ref: B/100/1/64

Collection: Suffolk Quarter Sessions

Description: General papers, series two. Chiefly circulars and returns from and to Secretaries of State relating to (among other things) gaols.

Dates: 1826-1841


Archive name: Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch

Catalogue ref: B/106/3/11

Collection: Suffolk Quarter Sessions

Description: Visitation books, Ipswich Gaol and House of Correction, printed rules and regulations

Dates: 1829


Archive name: Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch

Catalogue ref: HA11/B3/15

Collection: Rous family archives

Description: Note of number of prisoners in Ipswich Gaol

Dates: 1851


Archive name: Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch

Catalogue ref: HA11/B3/9

Collection: Rous family archives

Description: Returns of prisoners in Ipswich Gaol and Beccles House of Correction

Dates: 1846-1851


Archive name: Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch

Catalogue ref: HA24/4/4/3

Collection: None

Description: Papers relating to Ipswich Gaol, including extensions and repairs. With abstract of commitments (1796-1819), and advertisement of flour ground by prisoners in the Gaol.

Dates: 1796-1820


Finance

Archive name: Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch

Catalogue ref: EE5/5/48

Collection: Orford Borough and Orford Town Trust

Description: Account of George Newcock with Corporation for taking prisoners to Ipswich Gaol

Dates: 1860


Staff

Archive name: Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch

Catalogue ref: B/106/3/3

Collection: Suffolk Quarter Sessions

Description: County Gaol Ipswich. Election of Captain and Mrs Crickitt as Govenor and Matron (1871). Applications for post of Govenor and Matron (1852). 'Johnson's Bells' (tradesmen and officers) in County Gaol, Ipswich (1840-1845).

Dates: 1840-1871


Archive name: Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch

Catalogue ref: B/106/2C/2.8

Collection: Suffolk Quarter Sessions

Description: Loose papers and correspondence concerning the erection of the hall and Courts, the holding of Assizes, and appointment of Jailers, Ipswich. Including application of Charles Miles.

Dates: 1834-1841


Archive name: Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch

Catalogue ref: B/106/3/10

Collection: Suffolk Quarter Sessions

Description: Minutes and papers concerning pensions and other matters, Ipswich and Bury Gaols

Dates: 1864-1881


Archive name: Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch

Catalogue ref: BB3/2/1/1

Collection: Bosmere and Claydon Petty Sessions

Description: Letter from Frank Morgan, Offton Castle, to the Deputy Chief Constable, County Gaol, Ipswich. Concerning Truck Amendment Act forbidding provision of intoxicating liquor in addition to wages.

Dates: 1889


Prisoners

Archive name: Hampshire Archives and Local Studies

Catalogue ref: 26M62/F/C636

Collection: None

Description: Letter to Lord Calthorpe from F. S. Barlee, County Gaol, Ipswich. Pleading with Lord Calthorpe to help her against the cruelty of her husband and the trustees of her marriage settlement.

Dates: 1823


Archive name: Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch

Catalogue ref: A609/1-30

Collection: None

Description: Ipswich County Gaol, Receiving Books

Dates: 1840-1870


Archive name: Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch

Catalogue ref: B/100/1/24/59

Collection: Suffolk Quarter Sessions

Description: Letter re escape of prisoner

Dates: undated


Land & Buildings

Archive name: Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch

Catalogue ref: B/100/1/25/4

Collection: Suffolk Quarter Sessions

Description: Approval of plan by Secretary of State. Ipswich Gaol.

Dates: 1852


Archive name: Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch

Catalogue ref: B/106/2C/2.21

Collection: Suffolk Quarter Sessions

Description: Draft conveyances of County Gaol, County Hall, Police Station, Ipswich and other County properties to Justices of the Peace

Dates: 1824-1860


Archive name: Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch

Catalogue ref: B/106/3/7.1

Collection: Suffolk Quarter Sessions

Description: Plans, Ipswich Gaol, amendments and additions

Dates: 1852


Archive name: Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch

Catalogue ref: B/106/3/7.2

Collection: Suffolk Quarter Sessions

Description: Plans, Ipswich Gaol, alterations etc

Dates: 1878


Archive name: Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch

Catalogue ref: HD 844

Collection: None

Description: Gaol and House of Correction, St Helens Street and Rope Lane Ipswich, Suffolk. Includes a plan and a partial copy.

Dates: c.1859