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ZQ - Chester Quarter Sessions

A - Administration

AA - Assessments: Wage Rates - 1575

AG - Gaol and House of Correction - 1808-1872

1 - Register of prisoners committed to the City Gaol - 1808-1827

2 - Register of prisoners committed to the City Gaol. - 1823-1824

3 - Register of prisoners committed to the City Gaol, with index. - 1823-1836

4 - Register of prisoners committed to the City Gaol, labelled Felony Book. - 1836-1859

5 - Register of prisoners committed to the City Gaol, labelled Felony Book. - 1859-1870

6 - Register of prisoners committed to the City Gaol. - 1871-1872

7 - Index to 4, 5 and 6. - 1859-1872

8 - Register of debtors committed to the City Gaol. - 1827-1872

9 - Register headed 'Prisoners remaining under sentence'. - 1853-1865

10 - Register of prisoners, arranged alphabetically, but chronologically under each letter. - 1860-1865

11 - Register of lock-up prisoners kept in the City Gaol from the burning down of the Exchange 30 Dec. 1862 to the opening of the Town Hall on 16 Oct. 1869. - 1862-1869

12 - Number book of prisoners, taken weekly - 1830-1832

13 - Number book of prisoners taken weekly as in 12. - 1832-1835

14 - Number book of prisoners taken weekly as in 13. - 1835-1845

15 - Number book of prisoners taken daily. - Oct 1853 - Oct 1854

16 - Number book of prisoners, taken daily, as in 15. - Oct 1854-Nov 1855

17 - Number book of prisoners, taken daily, as in 15. - Dec 1855-Dec 1856

18 - Number book of prisoners, taken daily, as in 15. - Dec 1856-Jan 1858

19 - Number book of prisoners, taken daily, as in 15. - Jan 1858-Jan 1859

20 - Number book of prisoners, taken daily, as in 15. - Feb 1860-Feb 1861

21 - Number book of prisoners, taken daily, as in 15. - Feb 1862-Feb 1865

22 - Number book of prisoners, taken daily, as in 15. - Feb 1864-Feb 1865

23 - Number book of prisoners, taken daily, as in 15. - Feb 1865-Dec 1865

24 - Number book of prisoners, taken daily, as in 15. - Jan 1866-Jul 1867

25 - Number book of prisoners, taken daily, as in 15. - Aug 1867-Feb 1869

26 - Number book of prisoners, taken daily, as in 15. - Mar 1869-Oct 1870

27 - Number book of prisoners taken daily as in 15. - Oct 1870-Mar 1872

28 - Prisoners' property book, with index. - 1842-1856

29 - Prisoners' property book, with index - 1857-1863

30 - Prisoners' property book, as in 29, with index. - 1863-1868

31 - Prisoners' property book, as in 29, with index. - 1868-1872

32 - Register of prisoners' visitors and letters received. - 1844-1872

33 - Prisoners' address book, with index. - 1854-1872

34L - Gaolers' daily report book or journal. - 1839-1869

35 - Misconduct book - 1849-1872

36 - Gaol temperature book - 1868-1872

37 - Officers' daily report book. - 1855-1857

38 - Officers' daily report book, as in 37. - 1859-1861

39 - Matrons' daily report book re female prisoners. - 1853-1855

40 - Matrons' daily report book, as in 39. - 1858-1869

41 - Matrons' reports on one prisoner, Mary Ann Glynn. - 1869-1870

42 - Surgeons' report book or journal, George Harrison, surgeon. - 1824-1833

43 - Surgeon's report book, George Harrison, surgeon. - 1833-1841

44 - Surgeon's report book, W.S. Bage, surgeon - 1848-1856

45 - Surgeon's report book, W.S. Bage, surgeon to May 1870, then Job Harrison - 1863-1870

46 - Surgeon's report book, Job Harrison, surgeon. - 1870-1872

47 - Surgeons' case book. - 1846-1850

48 - Surgeons' case book, as in 47. - 1850-1854

49 - Surgeons' case book, as in 47, with index - 1854-1865

50 - Surgeons' case book, as in 47, with index - 1865-1871

51 - Extra diet book, i.e. supplied to prisoners by order of surgeon or visiting magistrates. Includes details of extra food supplied and refers to diets graded 1 to 5. - 1866-1872

52 - Chaplains' daily report book or journal, William Clarke and John F. Hewson, chaplains. - 1844-1852

53 - Chaplains' daily report book as in 52. - 1852-1872

54 - Sunday School attendance register - 1839-1843

55 - Prisoners' denomination register - Jul-Dec 1870

56 - Prisoners' character book compiled by chaplains. - 1844-1849

57 - Prisoners' character book, as in 56, no index. - 1849-1856

58 - Prisoners' character book as in 56, no index - 1856-1872

59 - Report book of visiting magistrates. - 1823-1857

60 - Bread book for the House of Correction containing the names of the prisoners and bread issued each day. - 1827-1837

61 - Bread book of numbers of loaves delivered to the Gaol and House of Correction. - 1858-1862

62 - Bread book as in 61. - 1862-1867

63 - Bread book as in 61. - 1867-1872

64 - Meat book of meat delivered to the Gaol and House of Correction. - 1862-1872

65 - Tradesmens' day book containing details of goods delivered or work done, listed daily under the names of the tradesmen. - 1853-1855

66 - Tradesmens' day book as in 65 - 1855-1857

67 - Tradesmens' day book as in 65 - 1859-1863

68 - Tradesmens' day book as in 67 - 1863-1872

69 - Provision, receipt and consumption book containing details of provisions received with names of tradesmen, numbers of prisoners and details of provisions used each day. - 1850-1854

70 - Provision, receipt and consumption book as in 69. - 1854-1860

71 - Provision, receipt and consumption book as in 69 - 1860-1864

72 - Provision, receipt and consumption book as in 69 - 1864-1869

73 - Provision, receipt and consumption book as in 69 - 1869-1872

74 - Book containing details of replacements of cleaning materials, clothes, blankets etc., supplied to the Gaol and House of Correction. - 1836-1842

75 - Monthly returns by the Keeper of the City Gaol and House of Correction to the Justices at Petty Sessions in Chester of the fines and other sums of money received and how applied. - 1848-1854

76 - Account book containing weekly receipts and payments. - 1857-1872

77 - Account book of weekly pay received by warders. - 1867-1872

78 - Account book of work done by prisoners in the City Gaol and House of Correction. - 1824-7,1839

79 - Materials account book of stone purchased 1839-1852 and rope for oakum etc., 1845-1853, containing details of quantity and price. - 1839-1853

80 - Materials account book as in 79. - 1853-1857

81 - Materials account book as in 79. - 1857-1872

82 - Labour account book of work sold. - 1840-1857

83 - Ledger book of work sold. - 1853-1872

84 - Weekly register of prisoners' labour. - 1863-1869

85 - Weekly register of prisoners' labour as in 84. - 1869-1872

86 - Labour book of pauper labour, containing details of work done by paupers (named) mainly in cleaning the city streets. - 1851-1852

87 - Labour book of pauper labour as in 86. - 1853-1854

88 - Letter book of Henry Steel and James Long. Successively Keepers of the City Gaol. - 1857-1864

89 - Bundle of miscellaneous letters and papers, mainly from Whitehall, re the administration of the Gaol. - 1840-1871

90 - Bundle of orders for the removal of prisoners from Chester Gaol to other prisons, lunatic asylums, reformatory schools and houses of correction. Each one signed with receipt for prisoners transferred. - 1852-1871

91 - Regulations for the prison at Chester drawn up by a committee of justices under Regulations for prisons sent to the magistrates by the Home Secretary, Sir James Graham. - 28 March 1843

92 - Copy of the complaint by John Carroll re the treatment of prisoners confined in the Gaol with the magistrates observations on the same. - 6 Oct 1843

93 - Volume containing the following Acts of Parliament etc.: - n.d.

94 - Circular containing regulations for the government of prisons under the Prisons Act 1865. - 23 March 1866

95 - Selection of prayers from the Liturgy of the Church of England to be used by the prisoners confined in the City Gaol, Chester, Chester, printed by W.W. Dobson, Foregate Street, 1867. 30p. - 1867

AP - Point of Air Lighthouse Trust - 1775-1889

AR - River Dee - 1800-1831

AS - Quarter Sessions: Administration: Special Sessions - 1864-1880

C - Chester City Coroner - 1442-1973

CI - Coroners' Inquests. - c1442-1839

CR - Crownmote Court Rolls - 1316-1611

F - Finance

FA - Accounts - 1828-1836

J - Justices of the Peace

JC - Commissions of the Peace - 1836-1970

JD - Declarations - 1860-1901

R - Registration and Deposit

RJ - Jurors - 1608-1817

RL - Licenced Victuallers - 1552-1833

RP - Deposited plans - 1772-1935

RR - Sacrament Certificates - 1673-1789

RTB - Transportation Bonds - 1731-1775

RTC - Transportation Contracts - 1764-1775

S - Court in Session

SE - Examinations and Depositions - 1522-1858

SF - Quarter Sessions Files - 1488-1971

SM - Sessions Books Minute Books - 1814-1865

SMP - Sesions Books Register of Prisoners - 1853-1872

SMR - Sessions Books - Recognizance Book - 1780-1798

SO - Order Books - 1799-1866

SP - Process Records Register of Prosecutions, etc.

SPE - Quarter Sessions Fine Rolls - 1561-1634

SPT - Petitions mainly for poor relief or for exemption from poor rate, 16th century. - 1563-1594