Alternative Names Stafford County Gaol and House of Correction, Stafford County Gaol, Stafford Prison, HMP Stafford
Prison Type Local Prison - Common Gaol & House of Correction/Bridewell
Jurisdiction County
Date opened 1793
Date closed post 1900 (1916)
Location Gaol Road Stafford
Map location exact or closely approximate
County Staffordshire
Alternative Names Stafford County Gaol and House of Correction, Stafford County Gaol, Stafford Prison, HMP Stafford
Prison Type Local Prison
Jurisdiction County
Date opened 1793
Date closed post 1900 (1916)
Location Gaol Road Stafford
Map location exact or closely approximate
Lat. 52.8125582 Long. -2.1180387
County Staffordshire
Year 1818
Annual Committed - 910
Daily Greatest number - 297
Year 1823
Annual Committed - 2675
Daily Census - 197
Year 1828
Annual Committed - 1195
Daily Census - 239
Year 1833
Annual Committed - 1824
Daily Census - 360
Year 1838
Annual Confined - 2581
Daily Census - 418
Year 1843
Annual Confined - 3892
Daily Census - 448
Year 1848
Annual Confined - 3965
Daily Daily average - 519
Year 1853
Annual Confined - 4195
Daily Daily average - 619
Year 1858
Annual Committed - 4579
Daily Daily average - 676
Year 1863
Annual Committed - 4977
Daily Greatest number - 736
Year 1868
Annual Committed - 5641
Daily Daily average - 663
Year 1873
Annual Committed - 4987
Daily Daily average - 571
Year 1878
Annual Committed - 6186
Daily Daily average - 717
Year 1883
Annual Committed - 5139
Daily Daily average - 519
Year 1888
Annual Committed - 5059
Daily Daily average - 588
Year 1893
Annual Committed - 4884
Daily -
Year 1898
Annual Committed - 5365
Daily -
Archive name: Staffordshire Record Office
Catalogue ref: Q/SB 1800-1899
Collection: Staffordshire Quarter Sessions
Description: The Court in Session, Quarter Sessions bundles. Reports and records relating to the management of Staffordshire Gaol and the Houses of Correction (including Wolverhampton). Material includes calendars of prisoners, lists of debtors, and reports of Committees, the Visiting Justices, the Surgeon, the Chaplain, the Governor or Keeper, the County Surveyor and, from 1879, reports of Visiting Committee of HM Prison. Also, returns and certificates, rules, dietaries, expenses, correspondence, orders.
Dates: 1800-1897
Archive name: Staffordshire Record Office
Catalogue ref: D/4216/F/19/v, vi
Collection: Twemlow and Royds family
Description: Reports of Chaplain to the County Prison and House of Correction
Dates: 1855, 1856
Archive name: Walsall Local History Centre
Catalogue ref: 277/226/4
Collection: Walsall Town Chest (II)
Description: Letter from Governor of Staffordshire Gaol advising of the number of prisoners sent to Stafford from Walsall
Dates: 1835, 1836, 1837
Archive name: Staffordshire Record Office
Catalogue ref: D554/150/6
Collection: Bill family
Description: Abstract of the profit to the County from the employment of male prisoners
Dates: 1841
Archive name: Staffordshire Record Office
Catalogue ref: Q/ACg/2
Collection: Staffordshire Quarter Sessions
Description: Papers include minutes, reports, and Committee papers (1856-1874). This item also includes Officers' Salaries Committee (1856-1875).
Dates: 1856-1875
Archive name: Staffordshire Record Office
Catalogue ref: Q/SB 1819 A/19
Collection: Staffordshire Quarter Sessions
Description: Circulars requesting information regarding number of prisoners and specific offences, with draft returns for Staffordshire County Gaol and Wolverhampton Prison
Dates: 1818-1819
Archive name: William Salt Library
Catalogue ref: M533
Collection: None
Description: Statements concerning the number of prisoners in the common Gaol and House of Correction
Dates: 1792-1820
Archive name: Staffordshire Record Office
Catalogue ref: Q/CM/4/3, 4
Collection: Staffordshire Quarter Sessions
Description: Clerk of the Peace, printed standing orders, County Gaol
Dates: 1847, 1866
Archive name: Staffordshire Record Office
Catalogue ref: 4255 3 2
Collection: None
Description: Account book, which includes Grocer's accounts for the Head Warder, Stafford Prison
Dates: 1870
Archive name: Staffordshire Record Office
Catalogue ref: Q/FAa/5
Collection: Staffordshire Quarter Sessions
Description: Receipts from various sources, including income for prisoners' payments and work
Dates: 1858-1889
Archive name: Staffordshire Record Office
Catalogue ref: Q/FAg/5
Collection: Staffordshire Quarter Sessions
Description: Claims on Treasury for prosecutions, maintenance of prisoners etc
Dates: 1857-1880
Archive name: William Salt Library
Catalogue ref: 4821
Collection: None
Description: Stafford County Gaol, Shire Hall, Judge's house, Lunatic Asylum and County Rate Acts
Dates: 1787-1853
Archive name: Staffordshire Record Office
Catalogue ref: D5112/65
Collection: HM Prison, Stafford
Description: Register of staff
Dates: 1880-1908
Archive name: Staffordshire Record Office
Catalogue ref: Q/SB 1821 A/14
Collection: Staffordshire Quarter Sessions
Description: Letters and testimonials regarding post of Chaplain of County Gaol and House of Correction
Dates: 1820
Archive name: Staffordshire Record Office
Catalogue ref: Q/SB 1820 M/14
Collection: Staffordshire Quarter Sessions
Description: Letters, including references to candidates for post of Keeper and Chaplain of County Gaol
Dates: 1820
Archive name: William Salt Library
Catalogue ref: Portraits: Brutton/Thomas/1 oversize, WSL
Collection: None
Description: Portrait of Thomas Brutton, Governor of Stafford Gaol for 21 years
Dates: 1842
Archive name: William Salt Library
Catalogue ref: Topog: STAFFORD 116E
Collection: Topographical drawings, postcards etc collection
Description: Governor and Prison Officers in the Courtyard of Stafford Gaol, black and white photograph
Dates: c.1890
Archive name: Staffordshire Record Office
Catalogue ref: Q/SB 1820 T/15
Collection: Staffordshire Quarter Sessions
Description: Letter of resignation of Keeper of County Gaol
Dates: 1820
Archive name: Staffordshire Record Office
Catalogue ref: D861/P/3/18
Collection: None
Description: Gaol turnover to new Sheriff, appointment of Gaoler, with bond, and bond of Under-Sheriff
Dates: 1827
Archive name: Staffordshire Record Office
Catalogue ref: Q/SB T/289
Collection: Staffordshire Quarter Sessions
Description: Order to regulate payment of Gaoler, Taskmaster and TurnkeysÂ
Dates: 1818
Archive name: Staffordshire Record Office
Catalogue ref: Q/SB T/291
Collection: Staffordshire Quarter Sessions
Description: Advertisement for post of Matron at the County Gaol, with relating order
Dates: 1818
Archive name: Staffordshire Record Office
Catalogue ref: D5112/66
Collection: HM Prison, Stafford
Description: Record of temporary officers employed at Stafford
Dates: 1897-1904
Archive name: Staffordshire Record Office
Catalogue ref: Q/SB 1819 T/12
Collection: Staffordshire Quarter Sessions
Description: Letters, including from former Turnkey requesting consideration for long service
Dates: 1819
Archive name: Surrey History Centre Â
Catalogue ref: 3521/Box33
Collection: None
Description: Letter from RH Goodber(?), County Prison, Stafford, seeking information to help in the establishment of a Reformatory School for Boys
Dates: 1856
Archive name: Staffordshire Record Office
Catalogue ref: D(W)1723/1
Collection: Staffordshire County Quarter Sessions
Description: Register for Bridewell
Dates: 1792-1806
Archive name: Staffordshire Record Office
Catalogue ref: D(W)1723/2
Collection: Staffordshire County Quarter Sessions
Description: Register of House of Correction and index
Dates: 1806-1815
Archive name: Staffordshire Record Office
Catalogue ref: D(W)1723/4-5
Collection: Staffordshire County Quarter Sessions
Description: Register of felons
Dates: 1793-1816
Archive name: Staffordshire Record Office
Catalogue ref: D5112/1-16
Collection: HM Prison, Stafford
Description: Nominal register of admission and discharge for male and female prisoners
Dates: 1878-1889
Archive name: Staffordshire Record Office
Catalogue ref: D5112/16-29
Collection: HM Prison, Stafford
Description: Nominal register of admission and discharge for male prisoners
Dates: 1888-1901
Archive name: Staffordshire Record Office
Catalogue ref: D5112/51
Collection: HM Prison, Stafford
Description: Register of admission and discharge for penal servitude prisoners
Dates: 1896-1903
Archive name: Staffordshire Record Office
Catalogue ref: D5112/53-56
Collection: HM Prison, Stafford
Description: Nominal register of admission and discharge for female prisoners
Dates: 1890-1905
Archive name: The National Archives
Catalogue ref: PCOM2/401
Collection: Prison Commission
Description: Stafford Gaol, Staffordshire: register of prisoners
Dates: 1841-1845
Archive name: The National Archives
Catalogue ref: PCOM2/402
Collection: Prison Commission
Description: Stafford Gaol, Staffordshire: register of prisoners
Dates: 1866-1870
Archive name: The National Archives
Catalogue ref: PCOM2/404
Collection: Prison Commission
Description: Stafford Gaol, Staffordshire: a copy of the distributed National Alphabetical Register of Habitual Criminals in England and Wales. Printed
Dates: 1869-1876
Archive name: Staffordshire Record Office
Catalogue ref: Q/SB 1842 AA/5
Collection: Staffordshire Quarter Sessions
Description: Testimonial from Chaplain of County Gaol as to good conduct of a prisoner
Dates: 1842
Archive name: Staffordshire Record Office
Catalogue ref: 6957/1/1-3
Collection: HM Prison, Stafford
Description: Photograph album of male and female prisoners upon discharge
Dates: 1877-1899
Archive name: Staffordshire Record Office
Catalogue ref: D1323/S/9/1
Collection: Stafford Borough
Description: Copy plea from Abraham Flint written from Stafford Gaol to George Chetwynd, Magistrate at his trial, concerning complaints about prison conditions and resisting prison discipline
Dates: 1821
Archive name: Staffordshire Record Office
Catalogue ref: D1798/618/37
Collection: None
Description: Letter from Abraham Flint in Gaol at Stafford, referring to the necessity for facilities to meet his legal representatives
Dates: 1821
Archive name: Staffordshire Record Office
Catalogue ref: D5112/58-60
Collection: HM Prison, Stafford
Description: Photograph album of male and female prisoners upon discharge
Dates: 1883-1899
Archive name: Staffordshire Record Office
Catalogue ref: D5112/80-81
Collection: HM Prison, Stafford
Description: Assize re-committal book (record of previous convictions)
Dates: 1888-1896
Archive name: Staffordshire Record Office
Catalogue ref: D5112/85
Collection: HM Prison, Stafford
Description: Quarter Sessions, committal book. Gives names of prisoners, sentence for Quarter Sessions, Adjourned Quarter Sessions and Assizes
Dates: 1894-1898
Archive name: Staffordshire Record Office
Catalogue ref: Q/SB 1815 M/363
Collection: Staffordshire Quarter Sessions
Description: Letter from a prisoner in Stafford Gaol pleading for mercy
Dates: 1815
Archive name: Staffordshire Record Office
Catalogue ref: Q/SB 1820 A /21
Collection: Staffordshire Quarter Sessions
Description: Return relating to prisoners in Stafford County Gaol and Wolverhampton Prison
Dates: 1820
Archive name: The National Archives
Catalogue ref: PCOM2/403
Collection: Prison Commission
Description: Stafford Gaol, Staffordshire: entry book of juvenile offenders
Dates: 1863-1878
Archive name: Walsall Local History Centre
Catalogue ref: 132/4 and 12
Collection: Walsall Corporation
Description: Returns of cost of criminal prosecutions, Walsall Borough, giving names of prisoners and details of offences
Dates: 1852, 1867
Archive name: William Salt Library
Catalogue ref: 276/2008
Collection: None
Description: Letter written by an unidentified woman in the Women's Gaol in Stafford to her sister
Dates: c.1877-1905
Archive name: William Salt Library
Catalogue ref: D(W)1548/9
Collection: None
Description: Plaster death mask of William Palmer, executed for murder at Stafford Gaol
Dates: 1856
Archive name: Derbyshire Record Office
Catalogue ref: D1842/ZP/7
Collection: None
Description: Plans, Stafford Gaol, floor plans of corn mills, bakehouse and flour store
Dates: 19th century
Archive name: Staffordshire Record Office
Catalogue ref: Q/AE/1
Collection: Staffordshire Quarter Sessions
Description: Plans of property belonging to the county of Stafford. Include plans of Stafford Gaol
Dates: 1856
Archive name: Staffordshire Record Office
Catalogue ref: Q/AG/1
Collection: Staffordshire Quarter Sessions
Description: Estimates, contracts, draft deeds concerning enlargement of Stafford Gaol
Dates: 1863
Archive name: Staffordshire Record Office
Catalogue ref: Q/AG/2a-b
Collection: Staffordshire Quarter Sessions
Description: Plan of additions to Stafford Gaol by Architect Joseph Potter, with official letter of Home Office approval
Dates: 1843
Archive name: Staffordshire Record Office
Catalogue ref: Q/Aic/1/4/59
Collection: Staffordshire Quarter Sessions
Description: Plan showing County Gaol, Stafford
Dates: 19th century
Archive name: The National Archives
Catalogue ref: PCOM7/237
Collection: Prison Commission
Description: Stafford Prison : widening, etc. of gaol road
Dates: 1886-1928
Archive name: William Salt Library
Catalogue ref: 7/175/00
Collection: None
Description: Sketch plan of site of Gaol
Dates: 1842
Archive name: William Salt Library
Catalogue ref: 323/41/123/80
Collection: None
Description: Album of Old Stafford, Stafford Gaol, Principal Warder's tower (photograph)
Dates: 1868
Archive name: William Salt Library
Catalogue ref: SV IX.103b
Collection: Staffordshire views collection
Description: County Gaol, watercolour painting
Dates: c.1794
Archive name: William Salt Library
Catalogue ref: SV IX.119b
Collection: Staffordshire views collection
Description: Round tower of the Gaol, sepia drawing
Dates: 1843
Archive name: William Salt Library
Catalogue ref: SV IX.76a
Collection: Staffordshire views collection
Description: The Old House of Correction, watercolour painting
Dates: Early 19th century
Archive name: William Salt Library
Catalogue ref: Topog: STAFFORD 116B, 116D, 4B, 9C
Collection: Topographical drawings, postcards etc collection
Description: Postcards showing Stafford Gaol
Dates: c.1900, 1905