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PRISONERS - Internment :
1942-1945   Emma Maria Westcott: 18B detainee HO 45/25764/863197   (1, 5-7,9)
1940-1947   Margaret Elizabeth Newitt: 18B detainee HO 45/25739/861940   (2-9)
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1961   Harry Frederick Houghton (CO) and Ethel Elizabeth Gee (CO): charged by Director of Public Prosecutions   ADM 116/6295
1868-1967   Assizes: Midland Circuit: Indictment Files   ASSI 12/1-272
PRISONERS - Infanticide :
1868-1967   Assizes: Midland Circuit: Indictment Files   ASSI 12/1-272
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1860-1969   Assizes: Midland Circuit: Indictment Files: includes women: see list   ASSI 12/1-298
PRISONERS - Infanticide :
1860-1969   Assizes: Midland Circuit: Indictment Files: includes women: see list   ASSI 12/1-298
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1862-1969   Assizes: Midland Circuit: Criminal Depositions and Papers: includes women: see list   ASSI 13/1-1015
PRISONERS - Infanticide :
1862-1969   Assizes: Midland Circuit: Criminal Depositions and Papers: includes women: see list   ASSI 13/1-1015
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1606-1696   Assizes: Norfolk Circuit: Indictments and other documents recovered from private custody: includes women: see list   ASSI 16/1-75
PRISONERS - Infanticide :
1606-1696   Assizes: Norfolk Circuit: Indictments and other documents recovered from private custody: includes women: see list   ASSI 16/1-75
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1729-1971   Assizes: Western Circuit: Indictment Files: includes women: see list   ASSI 25/1-287
PRISONERS - Infanticide :
1729-1971   Assizes: Western Circuit: Indictment Files: includes women: see list   ASSI 25/1-287
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1861-1969   Assizes: Western Circuit: Criminal Depositions and Case Papers: includes women: see list   ASSI 26/1-510
PRISONERS - Infanticide :
1861-1969   Assizes: Western Circuit: Criminal Depositions and Case Papers: includes women: see list   ASSI 26/1-510
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1559-1969   Assizes: Norfolk, Home and South Eastern Circuits: Indictment Files: includes women: see list   ASSI 35/1-510
PRISONERS - Infanticide :
1559-1969   Assizes: Norfolk, Home and South Eastern Circuits: Indictment Files: includes women: see list   ASSI 35/1-510
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1812-1969   Assizes: Home, Norfolk and South Eastern Circuits: Depositions: includes women: see list   ASSI 36/1-652
PRISONERS - Infanticide :
1812-1969   Assizes: Home, Norfolk and South Eastern Circuits: Depositions: includes women: see list   ASSI 36/1-652
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1607-1969   Assizes: Northern and North Eastern Circuits: Indictment Files: includes women: see list   ASSI 44/1-404
PRISONERS - Infanticide :
1607-1969   Assizes: Northern and North Eastern Circuits: Indictment Files: includes women: see list   ASSI 44/1-404
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1613-1969   Assizes: Northern and North Eastern Circuits: Criminal Depositions and Case Papers: includes women: see list   ASSI 45/1-904
PRISONERS - Infanticide :
1613-1969   Assizes: Northern and North Eastern Circuits: Criminal Depositions and Case Papers: includes women: see list   ASSI 45/1-904
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1627-1971   Assizes: Oxford Circuit: Indictment Files: includes women: see list   ASSI 5/1-476
PRISONERS - Infanticide :
1627-1971   Assizes: Oxford Circuit: Indictment Files: includes women: see list   ASSI 5/1-476
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1877-1968   Assizes: Northern Circuit: Indictment Files: includes women: see list   ASSI 51/1-415
PRISONERS - Infanticide :
1877-1968   Assizes: Northern Circuit: Indictment Files: includes women: see list   ASSI 51/1-415
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1877-1970   Assizes: Northern Circuit: Criminal Depositions and Case Papers: includes women: see list   ASSI 52/1-1961
PRISONERS - Infanticide :
1877-1970   Assizes: Northern Circuit: Criminal Depositions and Case Papers: includes women: see list   ASSI 52/1-1961
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1719-1969   Assizes: Oxford Circuit: Criminal Depositions and Case Papers: includes women: see list   ASSI 6/1-501
PRISONERS - Infanticide :
1719-1969   Assizes: Oxford Circuit: Criminal Depositions and Case Papers: includes women: see list   ASSI 6/1-501
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1831-1945   Assizes: North and South Wales Circuit, Chester and North Wales Division: Indictment Files: includes women: see list   ASSI 64/1-172
PRISONERS - Infanticide :
1831-1945   Assizes: North and South Wales Circuit, Chester and North Wales Division: Indictment Files: includes women: see list   ASSI 64/1-172
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1831-1944   Assizes: North and South Wales Circuit, Chester and North Wales Division: Criminal Depositions: includes women: see list   ASSI 65/1-48
PRISONERS - Infanticide :
1831-1944   Assizes: North and South Wales Circuit, Chester and North Wales Division: Criminal Depositions: includes women: see list   ASSI 65/1-48
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1834-1945   Assizes: North and South Wales Circuit, South Wales Division: Indictment Files: includes women: see list   ASSI 71/1-77
PRISONERS - Infanticide :
1834-1945   Assizes: North and South Wales Circuit, South Wales Division: Indictment Files: includes women: see list   ASSI 71/1-77
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1837-1944   Assizes: North and South Wales Circuit: South Wales Division: Criminal Depositions: includes women: see list   ASSI 72/1-90
PRISONERS - Infanticide :
1837-1944   Assizes: North and South Wales Circuit: South Wales Division: Criminal Depositions: includes women: see list   ASSI 72/1-90
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1652-1688   Assizes: Midland Circuit: Indictments and other documents recovered from private custody: includes women: see list   ASSI 80/1-19
PRISONERS - Infanticide :
1652-1688   Assizes: Midland Circuit: Indictments and other documents recovered from private custody: includes women: see list   ASSI 80/1-19
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1866-1974   Assizes: Midland, Northern, Oxford, Wales and Chester and Western Circuits: Pardons: includes women: see list   ASSI 81/1-108
PRISONERS - Infanticide :
1866-1974   Assizes: Midland, Northern, Oxford, Wales and Chester and Western Circuits: Pardons: includes women: see list   ASSI 81/1-108
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1945-1971   Assizes: Wales and Chester Circuit: Indictments: includes women: see list   ASSI 83/1-203
PRISONERS - Infanticide :
1945-1971   Assizes: Wales and Chester Circuit: Indictments: includes women: see list   ASSI 83/1-203
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1945-1969   Assizes: Wales and Chester Circuit: Criminal Depositions and Case Papers: includes women: see list   ASSI 84/1-531
PRISONERS - Infanticide :
1945-1969   Assizes: Wales and Chester Circuit: Criminal Depositions and Case Papers: includes women: see list   ASSI 84/1-531
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1689-1950   Assizes: Norfolk and Home Circuits: Indictment Files: includes women: see list   ASSI 94/1-2569
PRISONERS - Infanticide :
1689-1950   Assizes: Norfolk and Home Circuits: Indictment Files: includes women: see list   ASSI 94/1-2569
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1959-1960   Dawn Joy Emery: death following assault by foster mother   BN 28/153
PRISONERS - General :
1897-1980   Remand homes for girls: topographical: see list   BN 62
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1935-1939   Minnie and Phyllis Muscovitch, known as Minnie and Phyllis Maurice: Cardiff and Barry Court: debtors appeal to Divisional Court and Court of Appeal against order suspending Bankrupt's Order of Discharge   BT 103/120
1937-1938   Iris Shaw, High Court: debtor's appeal against order of Adjudication   BT 103/98
PRISONERS - General :
1944-1947   Supplementary clothing coupons: men and women discharged from prison in England, Scotland and Wales   BT 64/1441
1917   Punishment for women in France WC131,8   CAB 23/2
PRISONERS - Internment :
1919   Release of Irish men and women interned in English prisons under Defence of the Realm Regulation 14B WC 526,3; WC 527,2   CAB 23/9
PRISONERS - Infanticide :
1918-1919   Infant Protection   CAB 26/1
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1910   Case of Miss Malecka, a British subject imprisoned in Russia   CAB 37/103/39
1911   Case of Miss Malecka, a British subject, imprisoned in Russia   CAB 37/107/86
1912   The Malecka case: trial of Miss Malecka for conspiracy against Russian Government   CAB 37/110/71
1912   Miss Malecka (75pp)   CAB 37/111/72
1935   Honduras, British: Mrs Jeanette Thompson's expulsion from Guatemala   CO 123/354/2
PRISONERS - Internment :
1945-1946   Hong Kong: proposed legislation to regularise registration of births, marriages and deaths in Stanley internment camp during Japanese occupation   CO 129/594/7
1947   Hong Kong: marriages solemnised in Stanley Camp during the Japanese occupation and subsequent legislation for divorce   CO 129/610/5
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1947-1949   Hong Kong: deportation order against Madame Lui Sze (closed 50 years)   CO 129/617/5
1934   Leeward Islands: conviction for murder of Mary Ryan, Montserrat   CO 152/449/8-9
1937   Straits Settlements: Mrs Amy Doo and Mr G Y Doo: deportation orders   CO 273/624/13
1933   Deportation of the wives of British protected persons   CO 323/1216/6
PRISONERS - General :
1934-1935   Death sentences on women: replies to circular despatch 25 July 1934   CO 323/1283/4
1936   Death sentences on women   CO 323/1399/4
PRISONERS - Infanticide :
1938-1942   Infanticide Act 1938   CO 323/1615/21-22
PRISONERS - General :
1934   Bermuda: death sentence on negress in Bermuda   CO 37/281/1
1935   Seychelles: Sentence of Death (Expectant Mothers) Legislation   CO 530/369
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1931   Kenya: Notice of Summons: served on Mrs Gama Rose, Goa   CO 533/409/14
1934   Kenya: Mrs Helen Selwyn: murder trial   CO 533/450/2
1935   Kenya: imprisonment of Mrs H Selwyn: correspondence with Dean Selwyn   CO 533/457/9
1947   Detainees: Miss Sulamith Heppner   CO 537/2411
PRISONERS - Internment :
1947   Palestine: detainees: Mrs Sulamith Heppner   CO 537/2411
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1950   Cyprus: Cypriots in Greece: deportation of Miss Krini Pavlides   CO 67/368/3
1927   Iraq: stoppage of Mrs Mary Dick's widow's pension due to her imprisonment for theft   CO 730/116/6
1932-1933   Palestine: Amendment of the Palestine Citizenship Order of the Council: the question of women acquiring nationality through marriage to avoid deportation   CO 733/220/12
1937   Palestine: service of writs: Cylla Podruznik-Schwarz   CO 733/327/13
1937   Palestine: service of writs: Arife and her daughter Sebrige   CO 733/327/8
1939   Palestine: arrest of Madame Sajez Nassar   CO 733/398/17
1940   Palestine: deportation to the UK: Mrs Valentine Wood   CO 733/420/5
PRISONERS - General :
1939-1940   Death sentences on women   CO 859/19/6
1940   Death sentences: women   CO 859/37/12
1951-1953   Women prisoners: provision of handbags discontinued after experiment PCOM 9/1444 1953-1954 Women prisoners   CO 859/485
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1956   Malaya: traffic in women and children: activities of wives of UK soldiers in Malaya   CO 859/548
1954-1955   Singapore: traffic in women and children: alleged activities of Service wives in Singapore   CO 859/550
1957   Cyprus: interrogation and trial of Maria Anastassion Lambrou   CO 926/884
1933   Gold Coast: Ekua Amponsah, queen mother, Mim sub-division: release from imprisonment   CO 96/712/15
1942   Trinidad: detention of Mrs Doris de Verteuis   CO 968/69/26
PRISONERS - General :
1891-1892   Pondoland: unsettled conditions in the territory; case of 'smelling out' (witchcraft) leading to torture of a woman at instigation of Chief Sigean   DO 119/118
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1960   Arrest of Miss H Stanton during emergency in Union of South Africa, March 1960   DO 35/10595
1928-1930   Canada: deportation of Mrs Aaron Van Willson from Canada to US   DO 35/360/4
PRISONERS - General :
1956-1957   Bechuanaland Protectorate: flogging of women   DO 35/4308
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1959-1960   Representations re banishment of Mrs E Mafeking from Union of South Africa and her entry into High Commission Territories   DO 35/7429
1942   Activities of undesirables: Mrs Tattersall   DO 35/816/14
PRISONERS - General :
1925   Research by Dr G W Pailthorpe on female inmates of preventive or 'rescue' homes: reports and correspondence   FD 1/1411
1931-1973   Research by Dr G W Pailthorpe on female inmates of preventive or 'rescue' homes: MRS Special Report series, revisions and correspondence   FD 1/1412
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1948-1955   Germany: Allied National Prison Werl: prisoners' personal records: Gerda Ganzer   FO 1024/12
1948-1954   Germany: Allied National Prison Werl: prisoners' personal records: Margarethe Rabe   FO 1024/70
1946-1954   Germany: Allied National Prison Werl: prisoners' personal records: Ella Schmidt nee Nowka vols I and II   FO 1024/78-79
1945-1954   Germany: Allied National Prison Werl: prisoners' personal records: Martha Denner   FO 1024/9
1948   Control Commission Germany: High Court Cases: war crimes: Julia Antaschkin or Julia Antoskin   FO 1060/1399
1948-1954   Control Commission Germany: High Court Cases: war crimes: Frieda Braun and 7 others   FO 1060/1414
1948   Control Commission Germany: High Court Cases: war crimes: Agnes Junke and 1 other, Pole   FO 1060/1466
1949   Control Commission Germany: High Court Cases: war crimes: Ella Lotte Louise Schmidt-Marquardt   FO 1060/1533
1948   Control Commission Germany: High Court Cases: war crimes: Erna Stolz   FO 1060/1549
1945   Control Commission Germany: General and Intermediate Courts Cases: war crimes: Andrea Capozzi, Italian and 1 other   FO 1060/1608
1946   Control Commission Germany: General and Intermediate Courts Cases: war crimes: Janina Gradowski, Pole   FO 1060/1650
1945   Control Commission Germany: General and Intermediate Courts Cases: war crimes: Margarethe Grosschopf, Austrian   FO 1060/1653
1945-1947   Control Commission Germany: General and Intermediate Courts Cases: war crimes: Ilse Hecke   FO 1060/1663
1945   Control Commission Germany: General and Intermediate Courts Cases: war crimes: Blanca Henze and 1 other   FO 1060/1671
1945-1947   Control Commission Germany: General and Intermediate Courts Cases: war crimes: Jadwiga Janicka, Pole and 1 other   FO 1060/1683
1945-1950   Control Commission Germany: General and Intermediate Courts Cases: war crimes: Wincenty Kujava, Pole and 1 other   FO 1060/1712
1945-1946   Control Commission Germany: General and Intermediate Courts Cases: war crimes: Frieda Nattermann   FO 1060/1738
1945   Control Commission Germany: General and Intermediate Courts Cases: war crimes: Alma Patzer   FO 1060/1749
1945   Control Commission Germany: General and Intermediate Courts Cases: war crimes: Elsbeth Pokar   FO 1060/1759
1945   Control Commission Germany: General and Intermediate Courts Cases: war crimes: Tatanya Manaschova, Russian   FO 1060/1762
1945   Control Commission Germany: General and Intermediate Courts Cases: war crimes: Josefine Rullmann   FO 1060/1783
1945-1947   Control Commission Germany: General and Intermediate Courts Cases: war crimes: Erika Schulze   FO 1060/1797
1945-1946   Control Commission Germany: General and Intermediate Courts Cases: war crimes: Gisela Stadie   FO 1060/1810
1945   Control Commission Germany: Summary Courts Cases: war crimes: Helena Delke   FO 1060/1863
1947   Control Commission Germany: Summary Courts Cases: war crimes: Marie Disselhoff   FO 1060/1864
1947   Control Commission Germany: Summary Courts Cases: war crimes: Luise Gausmann   FO 1060/1867
1946   Control Commission Germany: Summary Courts Cases: war crimes: Ruth Gebhardt   FO 1060/1868
1945   Control Commission Germany: Summary Courts Cases: war crimes: Gertrude Griese   FO 1060/1869
1945   Control Commission Germany: Summary Courts Cases: war crimes: Katharina Muller   FO 1060/1885
1947   Control Commission Germany: Summary Courts Case: war crimes: Gerda Runke   FO 1060/1896
1945   Control Commission Germany: Summary Courts Cases: war crimes: Annemarie Wulfing   FO 1060/1909
1950   Control Commission Germany: Courts of Appeal Cases: war crimes: Mrs Rachel Wilhelmina Duncan, British   FO 1060/1939
1949   Control Commission Germany: Allied High Commission (BE), Office of the Legal Adviser: Riga ghetto case: Ella L L Schmidt- Marquardt, appeal and discharge   FO 1060/271
1950-1954   Control Commission Germany: Allied High Commission (BE), Office of Legal Adviser: war crimes: Margarete Mewes   FO 1060/488
1953   Control Commission Germany: Office of UK High Commissioner, Office of Legal Adviser: German courts jurisdiction: high treason against Winfried Adaschkiewitz   FO 1060/599
1948   Control Commission Germany: Top Secret Files: Jeanne Gebauer: espionage case   FO 1060/737
1948   Control Commission Germany: Top Secret Files: interrogation of unnamed Soviet woman officer, former German interpreter to the Soviet Chief Military Prosecutor in Berlin   FO 1060/738
1944   USA: correspondence: War Trade: Black List investigations: Lady Palmer   FO 115/4157
1944   USA: correspondence: War Trade: Black List investigations: Mrs Otto Henry Hafner   FO 115/4164
1949   Lisbon: arrest and detention of Miss Lilian Margaret Buckley by the International Police   FO 173/26
1917-1918   Greece: (289) Mrs Kahl, suspected agent   FO 286/663
1916-1918   Greece: (352) Maria Donatos, suspected German agent   FO 286/666
1929   Exile of Vera Reiblatt formerly employed at the British Mission, Moscow   FO 366/867/3568
1948   Bulgaria: expulsion from Bulgaria of Miss Faith Christov   FO 369/3850
1954   Mrs Mary Esther Gebhardt, detained in USA pending deportation for alleged Communist activities   FO 369/5056
1955   Case of Mrs Eunice Brillhart imprisoned in USA on charge of murdering her children   FO 369/5196
PRISONERS - Infanticide :
1955   Case of Mrs Eunice Brillhart imprisoned in USA on charge of murdering her children   FO 369/5196
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1958   Death of Mrs Eunice Brillhart who was released from prison in July 1957   FO 369/5404
PRISONERS - Infanticide :
1958   Death of Mrs Eunice Brillhart who was released from prison in July 1957   FO 369/5404
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1917 (1938)   Mrs White: daughter as enemy agent in 1917   FO 370/553/8580
1952   Hungary: wives of two American Legation employees under arrest, deprival of all their furniture and either deported or arrested   FO 371/100598
1952   Roumania: disappearance of Mrs Sylvia Placa, holding dual British and Roumanian nationality and employee of the US Minister in Bucharest; American report of her arrest at home by Roumanian secret police, November 1952   FO 371/100777
1953   USA: reaction to the trial and conviction of Mr and Mrs Rosenburg in USA on charges of espionage   FO 371/103563
1953   Austria: case of Austrian-born British subject Mrs Therese Harris, arrested on suspicion of participating in a crime involving espionage; her visit to USA to give evidence in a spy trial   FO 371/103787
1953   Germany (East): Czechoslovak Military Mission in Berlin enquiry on proceedings concerning extradition of Marie Mayerova and Antonia Mayer, Czech nationals, to Czechoslovakia   FO 371/103879
1953   Germany (West): war criminals: Valentina Billien: proposal to put her case forward when present clemency review is complete; request for arrangements for a further medical report 1661/35   FO 371/104143
1953   Germany (West): war criminals: Valentina Billien: medical report by BAOR consulting physician 1661/48   FO 371/104144
1953   Germany (West): war criminals: Ella Schmidt: memorandum from UK legal adviser, Wahnerheide, with recommendation that sentence be reduced to 15 years 1661/59   FO 371/104144
1953   Germany (West): war criminals: Valentina Billien: letter from Office of Legal Adviser, Wahnerheide, enclosing plea for mercy 1661/89   FO 371/104146
1953   Germany (West): war criminals: Valentina Billien: an appeal for clemency from Mrs Dorothy Buxton, a co-founder of the Save the Children Fund, to Lord Salisbury 1661/130   FO 371/104148
1953   Germany (West): war criminals: Valentina Billien: letter from Mrs Dorothy Buxton asking to whom she should submit information relating to plea for clemency 1661/138   FO 371/104148
1953   Germany (West): war criminals: Valentina Billien: further petition for clemency from Mrs Dorothy Buxton 1661/155   FO 371/104149
1953   Germany (West): war criminals: Valentina Billien: letter from Office of Legal Adviser, Wahnerheide, enclosing a further medical report 1661/182   FO 371/104151
1953   Germany (West): war criminals: Valentina Billien: letter from Office of Legal Adviser, Bad Godesberg, requesting return of memorandum from Mrs Dorothy Buxton and accompanying statements 1661/203   FO 371/104151
1953   Germany (West): war criminals: Valentina Billien: letter from Rev. R W Sorensen MP, enclosing letter from a German citizen, and an affidavit protesting Valentina Billien's innocence of crimes for which she was sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment 1661/256   FO 371/104155
1953   Germany (West): war criminals: Valentina Billien: report and recommendation of Mixed Consultative Board, submitted by Sir F Hoyer Millar 1661/266   FO 371/104156
1953   Germany (West): war criminals: Margarethe Rabe: report and recommendations of Mixed Consultative Board, submitted by Sir F Hoyer Millar 1661/268   FO 371/104156
1953   Roumania: official approach to Roumanian Minister of Foreign Affairs on behalf of a Madame Placa, of British origin, but wife of a Roumanian, concerning the nature of the charge for her conviction and imprisonment   FO 371/106476
1953   Italy: refusal of Italian request to release Maria Pasquinelli who murdered the British Commandant of Trieste in 1947   FO 371/107785
1954   Germany (West): war criminals: Valentina Billien: recommendation for clemency 1661/6   FO 371/109721
1954   Germany (West): war criminals: Mixed Consultative Board's report and recommendation for immediate release: Martha Denner 1661/17   FO 371/109721
1954   Germany (West): war criminals: Gerda Ganzer: letter from a German Liberal decrying a breach of justice in her case 1661/11   FO 371/109721
1954   Germany (West): war criminals: Gerda Ganzer 1661/18   FO 371/109721
1954   Germany (West): war criminals: Gerda Ganzer: true report to be made known to her advocate 1661/20   FO 371/109721
1954   Germany (West): war criminals: Mixed Consultative Board: recommendation for immediate release of Margarethe Rabe 1661/1   FO 371/109721
1954   Germany (West): war criminals: Margarethe Rabe: recommendation for clemency 1661/8   FO 371/109721
1954   Germany (West): war criminals: Mixed Consultative Board: question of taking medical factors into consideration when dealing with cases: recommendation for release of Ella Schmidt 1661/22   FO 371/109721
1954   Germany (West): war criminals: names of trial courts in cases of Martha Denner, Gerda Ganzer, Ella Schmidt 1661/26   FO 371/109722
1954   Germany (West): war criminals: Gerda Ganzer: note by Sir Alexander Maxwell questioning validity of her conviction 1661/96   FO 371/109725
1954   Germany (West): war criminals: Gerda Ganzer: recommendation by Sir Alexander Maxwell for clemency 1661/131   FO 371/109726
1954   Poland: continuing efforts to obtain release of Mrs Halina Firth, British subject of Polish origin, sentenced to 15 years imprisonment   FO 371/111583
1954   Roumania: conviction and imprisonment of Mrs Sylvia Placa, British subject married to a Roumanian   FO 371/111647
1954   Italy: release of Maria Pasquinelli after serving sentence for assassination of General de Winton in protest against Italian Peace Treaty   FO 371/113132
1956   Soviet Union: case of Nina Ponomareva from Soviet Union accused of shoplifting in London   FO 371/122983-122984
1957   Hungary: Mrs Bátyka, Hungarian headmistress of UK Legation school Budapest: reported arrest on 7 Oct 1957 10110/693   FO 371/128688
1957   Hungary: Mrs Bátyka: appreciation from Sir Leslie Fry to the British Council for their assistance in her case, 10 Dec 1957 10110/766   FO 371/128689
1957   Hungary: Mrs Bátyka: report from Sir Leslie Fry that she was due to leave Budapest on 21 Dec 1957 10110/774   FO 371/128689
1958   Hungary: commencement of secret trial of Mrs Julia Rajjk, Gabor Tancsos and Sandor Haraszti (members of the Nagy group) 10110/138   FO 371/134858
1958   Greece: imprisonment of Dr Antonia Flountais in Greece   FO 371/136270
1965   Cuba: political prisoners: arrest of Baptist ministers and Mr Lunt and Mrs Mackay   FO 371/179438-179439
1938   USA: arrest of Miss Unity Mitford 5291   FO 371/21581
1939   China: petition of Catherine Hadley for release from prison 697   FO 371/23502
1940   USA: arrest of Mrs Deegan of US Embassy Paris 5042   FO 371/24263
1942   Greece: the imprisonment of Mlle Nicotsara   FO 371/33208
1944   Murder charge against English woman and US soldier   FO 371/42332
1945   Poland: arrest in Poland of Madam Freyd, wife of a former member of the Polish Government in London   FO 371/47805
1946   Request for reconsideration by Swiss authorities of the case of Miss E M Hodgson, convicted in absentia by a Swiss Court for wartime intelligence activities   FO 371/60516
1947   USA: detention of Miss Lilian Hedley on Ellis Island   FO 371/61079
1947   Italy: assassination of Brigadier de Winton: reprieve of Maria Pasquinelli   FO 371/67813A
1948   Germany: requests for assistance concerning proof and presumption of death, marriage by proxy; divorce from missing husband; conviction of fianceé   FO 371/70876-70877
1948   Greece: protests from British communists at the sentence to death in Greece of Madam Kitsikes. Arrests and trials of other alleged rebels in in Greece   FO 371/72336-72340
1949   Poland: Polish arrest of Mrs Firth, employee of British Embassy, Warsaw   FO 371/77498B-77499
1949   Greece: execution of Greek girl Eupraxia Nicholiades   FO 371/78365
PRISONERS - Internment :
1949   Greece: internment of women and children in the Women's Detention Camp in Chios in Greece   FO 371/78369
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1949   Greece: arrest and trial of Madame Svolos   FO 371/78374
1949   Italy: continued detention of Dr Lisilotte Pickel by Italian authorities who claim Britain asked for minimum of seven year sentence   FO 371/79522
1949   Switzerland: trial and subsequent deportation of Solvan Vitianu and his wife, Rumanian nationals   FO 371/79864
1950   China: trial of Miss B M F Rudd on charges of insulting behaviour to students   FO 371/83513
1950   Poland: trial and sentence in Warsaw of Mrs Halina Firth   FO 371/86601
1950   Soviet Union: US press articles on US policy towards Russia; trial of M. Gubichev and Miss Coplin for spying in the USA   FO 371/86742-86743
1950   Greece: attempts to obtain release from prison of Mrs Helen Zaglanakis finally successful   FO 371/87667
1950   Hungary: disappearance of Mr C W T Lamerton, arrested by Hungarians and eventually deported along with his wife   FO 371/87828
1950   Roumania: arrest and eventual deportation to Istanbul of Mrs Frosell a Roumanian subject married to a British subject   FO 371/88044
1950   Roumania: request for Foreign Office assistance concerning arrest of Annie and Nora Samuelli two sisters employed by US and British Legations respectively   FO 371/88049
1951   Czechoslovakia: expulsion of a British diplomat Gardner and Embassy secretary Miss Maines for alleged spying   FO 371/94497
1951   Poland: attempts to obtain release from a Polish prison of Mrs Firth allegedly sentenced for offences against the Polish state including passing of military information; protests to Polish authorities; attempts to alleviate Mrs Firth's plight by visits and sending of parcels   FO 371/94725
1951   Greece: release of Miss Koini Pavlides, a British Cypriot, imprisoned in Greece and under sentence of death for alleged subversion   FO 371/95113
1943   Blanche J McDonald: deported from USA   FO 372/3552
1948   Extradition of Miss Helena Mateja   FO 372/6451
1911-1912   Russia: Warsaw: correspondence concerning case of Miss Malecka   FO 394/11
1953   USA: San Francisco: case of war bride Mrs Alice White, charged with murdering her husband, but acquitted   FO 600/42
1939-1941   Tahiti: suspects: Mrs Hanner   FO 687/21
1949   Poland: Mrs M Marynowska: appeal against sentence   FO 688/77
1956   Poland: release of Madame Marynowska   FO 688/97
1947-1949   USA: Jacksonville: shooting of Sargeant Graydon Emery Poland by his wife Margaret Irene Poland following his kidnapping their son: wife acquitted of murder; attempts to regain custody of child   FO 700/109
1933-1934   USA: Los Angeles: Rulia Singh: pardon (2 parts)   FO 740/7
1939   Austria: Vienna: arrest of Mr H W A O de Wet and Mrs Adèle de Wet née Hepner   FO 741/6
1934   Egypt: Port Said: judicial/estates/criminal/divorce cases   FO 846/109
1911-1912   Russia: Miss Kate Malecka: correspondence: Confidential Print   FO 881/10057*
1945   Egypt: arrest of Maltese women in Alexandria for failing to report for National Service   FO 891/161
1924   Egypt: Madame (Princess) Avierino Wienevsky: interrogation by Parquet   FO 891/18
PRISONERS - Internment :
1941   Internment: Belgian women married to British subjects   FO 916/129
1942   Women ambulance drivers: internment   FO 916/235
1940   Internment of English girl students at Jutland Gymnastic Institute KW 1/10   FO 916/2571
1940   Internment in Germany of women ambulance drivers and mobile canteen units KW 1/13   FO 916/2572
1941   Internment of German women in Iran   FO 916/81
1941   Women ambulance drivers: internment in Germany   FO 916/9
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1950   Car accident involving Miss Greenlees of the British Council; case against her resulting in expulsion from Czechoslovakia   FO 924/778-779
PRISONERS - Internment :
1946   Siam: Mrs D Williams: claim for ill-treatment during internment   FO 950/110
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1947   Iraq: claim of Mrs Nina Worsley née Sergis, on account of detention in India   FO 950/225
PRISONERS - Internment :
1946   Poland: claim of Mrs S Sourazglu for disablement caused by internment   FO 950/94
1944   Germans have interned Duchess and Dowager Duchess of Aosta f252   FO 954/14A
1944   Italy: The Duchess of Aosta f219   FO 954/14A
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1945   Italian female neo-fascist personnel handed over to the Italian Government WO 204/2866 1945 Poland: reported arrest of Mme Arcszewska f428   FO 954/20C
1941   Cairo: accusations against Mrs Chalmers Wright f143   FO 954/5A
1867   Request for extradition of Chinese girl from Hong Kong   FO 96/305
1867   Banishment from Roman territory of Duchess Cesarini for her support of Garibaldi   FO 96/329
PRISONERS - General :
1852   Disposal of female convicts in Van Diemen's Land   HO 12/17/4826
1850   Holloway Prison: Bill for legalising the occupation of the house of correction erected by the City of London at Holloway   HO 12/18/5023
1850   Purchase of Brixton House as prison for women   HO 12/18/5054
1852   Objection to sending any more female convicts to Van Diemen's Land   HO 12/19/5448
1849   Chaplain of gaol slightly burns condemned woman to give her a notion of hell   HO 12/4/248
1847-1853   Treatment of female convicts on voyage   HO 12/5/626
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1873-1900   Criminal cases: long list of individual women, various crimes: list gives date, court, sentence and offence   HO 144
1901-1909   Criminal cases by name: see list   HO 144
1910-1919   Criminal: by name: see list   HO 144
1927-1938   Doris Williams convicted at Cardiff on 8 December 1927 for murder and sentenced to death (commuted)   HO 144/ 21011-21012/517534
1905-1914   Marion Seddon: free pardon   HO 144/1002/133625
1909   Girl of 15 serving 6 weeks' prison sentence: case for exception to principle that detention in a reformatory or conditional pardon should apply only to comparatively long sentences   HO 144/1036/179352
1910   Request for free pardon for accessory to enable her to give evidence without implicating herself. Refused by Secretary of State   HO 144/1098/197905
1911-1913   Borstal inmate: order for production at the Glasgow High Court to give evidence against her parents charged with the murder of her brother and sister   HO 144/1109/201171
1911   Margaret Kerrkan: conditional pardon   HO 144/1120/203930
1911   Florence Ada Hilderbrando: conditional pardon   HO 144/1125/205244
1911   Woman sentenced to one month imprisonment for obtaining goods by false pretences.Mr Churchill took great interest in this case and as a result a second warrant on a similar charge was dropped   HO 144/1144/209195
1911   Mary Elizabeth Caroline Rowarth: conditional pardon   HO 144/1152/211337
1883-1891   Criminal lunatic Lucille Dudley, conditionally discharged. Later arrested in USA and acquitted as insane. Discharged on condition she was received in English asylum. Discharged from Broadmoor on application of Salvation Army. (later particulars HO 144/567/A62310)   HO 144/124/A32014
1915   Catherine Berny: conditional discharge   HO 144/1252/234289
1913-1915   Emily Morse: free pardon   HO 144/1284/241805
PRISONERS - Infanticide :
1883-1884   Infanticide: woman left in care of husband. Trial adjourned sine die   HO 144/129/A34007
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1914   Mrs S Savage: sentenced to 6 months hard labour for cruelty to her children. Arrangements made for the proper keep of the woman and her children, and remainder of sentence remitted   HO 144/1306/249076
1917-1931   Alice Wheeldon: convicted at CCC on 27 Feb 1917 for conspiracy to murder (plot to kill Lloyd George and Arthur Henderson) and sentenced to 10 years penal servitude NOTE previously closed for 100 years. Opened in 1997 following re-review.   HO 144/13338
1915   Mrs Elizabeth Pullman: fined ten pounds for aiding in the forging of a military pass. Free pardon granted and £9.10/- of the fine remitted   HO 144/1438/299668
1915-1916   Martha Hulme: convicted of attempting to obtain money by false pretences. Free pardon   HO 144/1438/307880
PRISONERS - Internment :
1918   Ireland: internment in England of Mrs Maude Gonne Macbride   HO 144/1465/321387
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1917   Emma Cockburn: fined 40/- for theft by finding. Granted free pardon as the facts were not such as to support conviction   HO 144/1483/348170
1918-1919   Mary Emily Pullen: fined for detaining military stores. Granted free pardon on grounds of wrongful conviction. Fines and penalties remitted   HO 144/1497/363845
1918   Sarah Ellen Hodson: sentenced to 2 years' borstal training at Lincoln Assizes on 18 June 1918. Considered unsuitable for borstal treatment and granted conditional pardon to serve 6 months imprisonment in Division II   HO 144/1497/363968
1918   Annie Eustace: successfully appealed against one conviction but her solicitor failed to lodge an appeal against another which should have been similarly quashed. Free pardon granted   HO 144/1499/366127
1915-1932   Bournonville, Eva de: convicted at CCC on 11 January 1916 for spying and sentenced to death (commuted)   HO 144/15700
1928   Tribunal of inquiry into conduct of police in the interrogation of Miss I Savidge   HO 144/17752/512746
1903-1923   Mary Stone and William Joseph Tuffin. Convicted at Guildford on 18 July 1903 for murder and sentenced to death. Mary Stone's sentence was commuted   HO 144/1791/110115
1927-1934   Lilian Irma Valerie Arkel-Smith, who masqueraded as 'Colonel Barker'   HO 144/19128/535467
1941-1942   Coffee, Irene Louise Valeska convicted at CCC on 9 Dec 1941 for murder and sentenced to death (commuted)   HO 144/21641/844196
PRISONERS - General :
1911-1944   Borstal treatment for young female offenders   HO 144/21905/235348
PRISONERS - Internment :
1927-1944   Mary Allen, Commandant of unofficial Women's Auxiliary Service: detained under Defence Regulation 18B for fascist sympathies   HO 144/21933/512110
1940-1944   Lady Diana Mosley; detained under Defence Regulation 18B   HO 144/21995/840766
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1941-1945   Elizabeth Maud Baker (later known as Elizabeth Marina Jones): committed to approved school on account of her not being under proper care of guardianship and falling into bad associations (see also HO 144/22219/895031) Convicted of murder 1945   HO 144/22159/843749
1944-1945   Helen Duncan: sentenced to nine months' imprisonment for conspiracy to contravene the Witchcraft Act, 1735   HO 144/22172/884430
1920-1939   Preventive detention and other sentences served by woman with many aliases following convictions for stealing   HO 144/22287/415147
PRISONERS - Internment :
1941-1943   Accommodation for married detainees under Defence Regulation 18B in Isle of Man and Holloway Prison including Sir Oswald and Lady Mosley   HO 144/22495
PRISONERS - General :
1897   Request of RC priest to allow a prisoner to attend RC church outside prison to get married: refused   HO 144/244/A54142
1893-1899   Exposure of prisoners to public gaze: hancuffing of female prisoners   HO 144/249/A54980
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1922-1923   Frederick Edward Francis Bywaters and Edith Thompson: controversy regarding sentence (see also PCOM 8/22 and 436 and PCOM 9/1983)   HO 144/2685/438338
1898-1899   Continuation of allowance to wife made before becoming a criminal lunatic   HO 144/273/A60054
1879-1880   Euston Square Murder Mystery. L.O.O. 590 as to prosecution of Hannah Dobbs   HO 144/41/84111
PRISONERS - General :
1886   Release of prisoner in an advanced state of pregnancy   HO 144/469/X10648
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1887   Joseph Lester and Theresa Rooney: convicted of manslaughter   HO 144/471/X14715
1888-1889   Alice and Harriett Woodhall: Alice only extradited to USA   HO 144/475/X18533
1891   Prisoner (Mary Ann Smith, Bradford) too ill and unfit to be tried. Case remitted to next Session, Removed to care of grandmother   HO 144/480/X31166
1891   Kate Edelson: Cambridge: escape from 'Spinning House' (House of Correction of Cambridge University)   HO 144/480/X31464
1891   Mary Ann Wiltshire: entry of nolle prosequi   HO 144/480/X32026
PRISONERS - General :
1891   Refusal of Justices to commit children whose mother is in prison to care of Dr Ben Waugh of the NSPCC   HO 144/482/X33929
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1891   Unlawful imprisonment of Isle of Man woman for trial at Liverpool Sessions   HO 144/483/X34392
1891-1892   The Spinning House, Cambridge University: the Daisy Hopkins case   HO 144/483/X35096
PRISONERS - General :
1895   Refusal of Guardians to take into Union an infant child who had been received into prison with its mother   HO 144/501/X51612
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1886-1903   Emma Mary Buckingham: murder charge: insane on arraignment   HO 144/529/A44266
1889-1905   Papers (7 bundles) relating to the case of Mrs Maybrick who was sentenced to death and later reprieved   HO 144/539/A50678
1889-1904   Mrs F E Maybrick: appointment of administrator   HO 144/539/A5067E
1889   Mrs F E Maybrick: petitions and opinions of doctors and others   HO 144/539/A5067F
PRISONERS - Infanticide :
1908   Request for information as to numbers of persons serving imprisonment for infanticide   HO 144/544/A54643
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1900-1901   Manslaughter charge against midwife who was drunk whilst attending a patient: sentenced to penal servitude 3 years: licensed as for 15 months   HO 144/567/A62141
PRISONERS - General :
1901-1902   Prisoner released from local prison on licence, to have a child, at time she would have been sent to a convict prison   HO 144/574/A63038
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1901   Compensation to two sisters illegally detained in prison   HO 144/658/V35750
1901   Early release of girl sentenced to 3 consecutive terms of 1 month: her mother had died, and it was at first intended to get her into an Inebriate Reformatory, but the father refused consent   HO 144/659/V38407
1902   Imprisonment of three girls (aged 12, 14 and 15) for stealing coal   HO 144/660/V39983
1902   Rose Amelia Vincent: free pardon   HO 144/660/V41195
1904-1905   Mary Ann Revell: conditional pardon   HO 144/762
1904   Harriet Thomson L.O.O.   HO 144/770/122250
PRISONERS - General :
1881   Licence granted to woman on medical grounds as weak-minded for removal to workhouse   HO 144/78/A4145
1905   Marriage in prison   HO 144/790/129528
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1905-1909   Florence Doughty   HO 144/792/130566
1906   Margaret Jane Flett: prisoner detained in default of finding sureties, should not be detained beyond date on which period for which she was to be bound over expires   HO 144/813/137240
1906   Agnes Wass: free pardon   HO 144/831/143311
1906   Jean F Benezit: free pardon   HO 144/834/144695
1907   Elizabeth Anne Breeze: murder: insane on arraignment   HO 144/860/154533
1882-1883   Criminal lunatic discharged after giving birth to child   HO 144/94/A13424
PRISONERS - General :
1905   Cutting of hair of female prisoner awaiting trial   HO 144/not traced/126468
1909   Admittance of infants into prison with their mothers   HO 144/not traced/186701
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1914-1919   Bertha Trost: deportation order   HO 144/not traced/263169
1893-1899   Emily Harriet Wilson: murder, guilty but insane. Conditional discharge   HO 144/X42157
PRISONERS - Internment :
1940-1945   Women, children and married couples interned on the Isle of Man: report by Inspector Cuthbert   HO 213/1053
1940   Female German and Austrian category B internees: arrangements including maintenance of destitute school age children   HO 213/1764
1941   Internment: review of married couples' cases where husbands were sent to Australia and Canada   HO 213/2021
1942-1944   Invasion of British Isles: detention of women suspects   HO 213/2149
1941-1942   Weiss, Charlotte: internee: Austrian national interned under the Prerogative; request for temporary release to visit seriously ill father refused   HO 214/25
1941-1949   Rubal, Annie (Tauba): stateless person interned under the Prerogative; committed suicide during internment; disposal of property   HO 214/28
1941-1943   Evans, Gertrude Louise: British national detained under defence regulation 18B; witholding of pension by Sudan government; escape and recapture   HO 214/51
1942   Butterworth, Erika Johanna Henrietta (nee Fruhling): German national interned under Prerogative; refusal of access to protected area after release   HO 214/55
1943-1944   Schmiedl, Josefa: German national interned under the Prerogative; marriage by proxy during internment   HO 214/68
1943-1947   Sowa, Sophie: Austrian national interned under the Prerogative; died during internment   HO 214/69
1942-1944   Dietz, Gertrude Marie Luise: Polish national detained under article 12(5A) of the Aliens Order; subsequently recognizes as being of German nationality by the German government; German nationality not recognised by British or Polish governments   HO 214/70
1943-1944   Jolly, Freda: British national detained under defence regulation 18B: refusal of request to transfer from Isle of Man to Holloway Prison; hunger strike in protest   HO 214/72
1941   Communists at Huyton Camp, Lancs: enquiry from Miss Eleanor Rathbone MP   HO 215/12
1941   Women's Camp, Isle of Man: segregation of Nazi and non-Nazi internees   HO 215/156
1941   Transfer of female 18B and 12(5A) detainees from mainland to Isle of Man   HO 215/246
1940-1941   Medical arrangements in Isle of Man Camps: report by Dr J C Methven, departmental medical consultant; comments by Dame Joanna Cruikshank, commandant of women's camp   HO 215/306
1941   Provision of education in Women's Camps, Isle of Man: report by the Friendly Aliens Protection Committee   HO 215/336
1940-1943   Marriage during internment: policy   HO 215/355-356
1944   Marriage during internment: policy adopted with regard to Italian co-operators   HO 215/357
1941-1942   Internment for married couples   HO 215/358-363
1940-1942   Children joining interned mothers   HO 215/365-366
1941-1943   Wives of Italian internees: voluntary internment   HO 215/367
1941   Jamaican camps for married couples (internees)   HO 215/368
1940   Internment: women's camps   HO 215/386
1944   Internment: provision for the newly-born: enquiry from German government   HO 215/393
1941-1946   Retirement of Dame Joanna Cruikshank, commandant of women's camps, Isle of Man, and appointment of successor   HO 215/405
1941-1942   Rushen Camp for women, Isle of Man: regulations   HO 215/408
1941   Refusal to allow publication of poems by female internee   HO 215/433
1941-1944   Women's Camp, Isle of Man: medical services and catering arrangements   HO 215/476-477
1942-1943   Port St Mary, Isle of Man: accommodation for married couples   HO 215/500
1943   Married camp, Isle of Man: nominal roll November 1943   HO 215/502
1941   Women's Camp, Isle of Man: report by International Co-operative Women's Guild   HO 215/55
1942-1944   Red Cross visit to Women's Camp, Isle of Man   HO 215/74
1943   Conditions in Camps: Woluwe, Belgium; position of British Catholic nuns   HO 215/93
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1965-1966   Illicit transmission: Mrs M P Seymour, Whitstable, Kent: shore link for Radio 390   HO 255/576
1968-1969   Illicit transmission: radio: Miss S Brinham and C J Woods, London W12   HO 255/593
PRISONERS - Internment :
1941   Detainee: Perry, Anne Marie Louise (see also HO 45/25691)   HO 283/56
1942-1943   Defence regulations 18B: Emma Maria Westcott ( see also HO 45/ 25764)   HO 283/75
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1953-1955   Forensic science laboratories: miscellaneous questions; case of Louisa and Alfred Merrifield   HO 287/1411-1412
1970   Question of what to do with captured Palestinian hijacker Leila Khaled (Note: retained temporarily)   HO 287/1802-1894
PRISONERS - Infanticide :
1956-1965   Infanticide: proposals to amend law   HO 291/140
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1953   Louisa Merrifield: at Manchester on 31 July 1953 convicted of murder; sentenced to death; executed 18 September 1953   HO 291/229-230
PRISONERS - General :
1974-1975   Thames TV report, 'Women and Crime': comparisons between men and women offendors; nature of criminality and treatment   HO 303/46
1965   Provision of remand home for girls in Holloway, London   HO 307/117
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1960   Maria Ethel Celine Mack: witness made verbal statement incriminating herself despite policeman's warning   HO 314/9
1928   'Report of the Tribunal of Inquiry in regard to the Interrogation by the Police of Miss Savidge'   HO 326/6
PRISONERS - Infanticide :
1946   Recording of suspected infanticide in case of body found in a railway carriage   HO 329/112
1925-1933   Infanticide Act 1922: effects of the Act: table of crimes and convictions 1921-1933   HO 329/119
1930-1946   Infanticide Act 1922: tables of crimes, convictions and sentences 1921-1944   HO 329/120-124
PRISONERS - General :
1962-1966   Approved probation hostels and homes: future policy on girls' approved hostels   HO 330/67
1877-1892   Children: juvenile offenders: reformatory and industrial schools; traffic in girls; memorandum   HO 347/5
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1967   Employment abroad: contravention case: Joanna Wallworth and Deborah Catherine Milton   HO 354/241
PRISONERS - General :
1966-1976   Inspectors' Reports: Holloway   HO 383/242
1965-1968   Winding up of Central After-Care Association Women's Division   HO 383/90
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1871-1878   Criminal woman murderers by name: see list   HO 45
PRISONERS - General :
1905   Suggested abolition of capital punishment for women   HO 45/10010/A51455
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1906-1907   Anna Woolf: expulsion order   HO 45/10348/145773
1909   Pardons: Sarah Winsper   HO 45/10404/186321
PRISONERS - Infanticide :
1909-1912   Infant Life Protection: provisions in Children Act, 1908   HO 45/10569/175825
1909-1910   Bill to abolish death sentence on mothers in infanticide cases   HO 45/10573/176819
PRISONERS - General :
1910   Marriages in prison   HO 45/10623/197666
1921   Women sentenced to death and pardoned on the ground of pregnancy AD 1366-1394   HO 45/11027/415123
1908-1922   Pentonville and Holloway Prisons: Conditions etc.   HO 45/11050/49309
PRISONERS - Infanticide :
1909-1922   Infanticide Act 1922   HO 45/11053/178685
PRISONERS - General :
1922   Conditional licence to Homes which attempt to reform young women   HO 45/11056/216238
1913-1922   Conveyance of female prisoners to prison   HO 45/11057/234294
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1923-1925   Imprisonment of daughter of the Tichborne claimant   HO 45/11970/451573
PRISONERS - General :
1923-1925   Female prisoners: payment of fines by undesirable persons   HO 45/12001/467183
1918-1926   Transfer of women Star Convicts from Liverpool Prison to Aylesbury Borstal Institution as an experiment   HO 45/12606/370038
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1922-1927   Wife's responsibility for crimes committed under her husband's coercion   HO 45/12621/431865
PRISONERS - Infanticide :
1908-1929   Infanticide: various Bills   HO 45/13291/165493
PRISONERS - General :
1911-1929   Aylesbury Prison: use of part of, as Borstal Institution for girls   HO 45/13314/217190
PRISONERS - Infanticide :
1929   Infant Life (Preservation) Act, 1929: its effect upon Coroner's law and practice   HO 45/13524/538945
PRISONERS - General :
1846   Husband and wife imprisoned for debt allowed an interview   HO 45/1571
1846   Male and female prisoners (husband and wife) imprisoned for debt allowed to see each other every day   HO 45/1591
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1933-1934   Prisoner on a murder charge allowed to enter a convent while on bail awaiting trial   HO 45/15921/67809
PRISONERS - General :
1934   Stage system for women convicts   HO 45/15971/674843
1907-1937   Female prisoners' clothing   HO 45/16860/147975
1920-1927   Leeds: closing of female wing   HO 45/16863/149054
PRISONERS - Infanticide :
1938   Isle of Man: Infanticide and Infant Life (Preservation) Act 1938   HO 45/17665/805204
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1938   Lily Medd (fined for keeping a dog without a licence). Later established that valid licence held: granted free pardon   HO 45/17749/812311
PRISONERS - General :
1847   Female convicts: suggestions etc. as to treatment   HO 45/1841
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1933   Tramps convicted of concealing the death of their daughter's child   HO 45/19040/662253
PRISONERS - Infanticide :
1922-1943   Infanticide Acts, 1922 and 1938   HO 45/19230/439256
PRISONERS - General :
1910-1945   Introduction of physical training for young female prisoners   HO 45/19647/201023
1945   Overcrowding in women's prisons   HO 45/19893/897385
1922-1939   Visiting Committee of Holloway Prison: constitution   HO 45/20018/439266
PRISONERS - Infanticide :
1940   Channel Islands: 'Loi sur la Protection de l'Enfance': ratification of Act   HO 45/20243/831473
PRISONERS - General :
1936-1946   Marriages in prison   HO 45/20565/694054
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1947   Myrtle Ena Digby: convicted of stealing money from employer; granted free pardon after stolen property found intact   HO 45/21438/930974
PRISONERS - General :
1946-1948   East Sutton Park Borstal Institution: first 'open' borstal institution for girls   HO 45/21993/910966
1931-1949   Temporary release for marriage: treatment of exceptional cases   HO 45/22992/591969
1935-1949   Treatment of women in prison   HO 45/23053/685488
1944-1947   Holloway: use of part as borstal institution   HO 45/23195/885230
1946-1949   Askham Grange Prison: new women's prison without bars   HO 45/23223/910935
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1949   Ruth Stone, wrongly convicted under Wireless Telegraphy Act 1904: granted free pardon as she was covered by her employer's licence   HO 45/23505/952796
PRISONERS - Internment :
1940-1943   Fay Helen Taylour, international racing driver: internment as member of British Union   HO 45/23667
1940-1943   Lucy Temple Cotton, prominent member of British Union: internment   HO 45/23673
PRISONERS - General :
1931-1952   Sentence of Death (Expectant Mothers) Act 1931: memoranda; barrister's query   HO 45/24517/101666
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1912-1915   Mary Johnson: convicted in Oct 1912 of sending threatening letters 1952 and sentenced to 6 months' hard labour; convicted in May 1913 of a similar offence and sentenced to 12 months' hard labour; granted 2 free pardons and paid compensation in Mrach 1915   HO 45/24645/238545
1917-1950   Florence Annie Parkes: convicted at Exeter Assizes on 1 Nov 1917 of manslaughter and sentenced to 6 months' imprisonment: granted free pardon and ex-gratia payment of £1000 in 1935   HO 45/24694/352047
1926   Goldfarb, Anna Borisova: whether Soviet citizen should be allowed to remain in the UK   HO 45/24861/489112
PRISONERS - General :
1931   Aylesbury Prison: 'A' wing set aside for the detention of women   HO 45/24881/503663
1923-1928   Deaths and stillbirths in prison: procedure under the Births and Registration Act 1926   HO 45/24888
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1931-1932   Woman 76 years old sentenced to 6 months' imprisonment for fraud at Monmouth Assizes: appeals for clemency refused: local JP taken off prison visitors list   HO 45/24937/594716
1939-1944   Prosecutions against servicemen's wives: Children and Young Persons Act 1933; Poor Law Act 1930; care of children and importance of husband being notified   HO 45/25058/817205
PRISONERS - Internment :
1943-1944   Accommodation of female suspects in civil prisons in the event of a German invasion: note of a departmental meeting on 9 July 1943   HO 45/25141/874576
PRISONERS - General :
1945   Hospital domestic duties performed by Holloway inmates: experiment at Guy's Hospital   HO 45/25187/898369
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1950   Two young women incorrectly charged when found on US property: granted absolute discharges after refusal of Home Secretary to quash convictions   HO 45/25326/957700
PRISONERS - Infanticide :
1953-1971   Timothy John Evans murder case (open)   HO 45/25652-25662/957250
PRISONERS - Internment :
1939-1944   Anne Marie Louise Perry: 18B detainee (see also HO 283/56)   HO 45/25691/824844 (1, 3-5)
1943-1948   Ethel Annie Baggaley: 18B detainee   HO 45/25710/840389
1939-1944   Norah Constance Lavinia Brisco: convicted with Gertrude Blount Hiscox at CCC on 16 June 1941 for offences under the defence regulations and sentenced to 5 years penal servitude: subsequently subject to restriction order under defence regulation 18A   HO 45/25741/862630 (1,2)
1942-1944   Gilda Camillo: 18B detainee   HO 45/25759/863057 (1, 4, 7)
1941   Sir Oswald and Lady Mosley and Captain Ramsay claim damages from Home Secretary for false imprisonment and breach of statutory duty   HO 45/25982
PRISONERS - General :
1848-1849   Cutting of hair of female convicts on voyage to Van Diemen's Land   HO 45/2935
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1851   Factories: woman convicted of falsifying baptismal register of her child   HO 45/3677
PRISONERS - Infanticide :
1860-1861   Increase in infanticide in Middlesex   HO 45/6955
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1860-1861   Murder of factory sub-inspector's child. Popular resentment against father who was innocent. Sub-inspector was removed to another district (Kent case). Murderer turned out to be Kent's daughter Constance   HO 45/6970
1865   Prosecution of wife of British subject in Baden by her husband: government assistance refused   HO 45/7782
PRISONERS - Infanticide :
1867   Infanticide: recommendations of Committee of Hareian Society to mitigate   HO 45/8040
1867   Infanticide aided by defective regulation system: Manchester Statistical Company   HO 45/8044
1868   Reward offered in case of murder, but conviction only for 'concealment of birth': half reward paid   HO 45/8179
PRISONERS - General :
1864-1872   Establishment of Refuges for female convicts conditionally licensed   HO 45/9318/16208
1869-1875   Prevention of Crimes Act, 1871: children of women in prison sent to Industrial Schools   HO 45/9320/16629B
1884   Permission requested for marriage to take place in prison. Declined.   HO 45/9545/55952
1881-1882   L.O.O. 703 as to strip of land adjoining Holloway Prison   HO 45/9565/73566DB
1879-1880   Not advisable to form a separate class of female weak-minded prisoners   HO 45/9588/89824
1844-1848   Female convicts in Van Diemen's Land   HO 45/959
1844   Female convicts: conduct and employment   HO 45/959A
1882   Vaccination of children born in prison   HO 45/9621/A16742
1882   Proposed closing of Aylesbury Prison and alternative arrangements   HO 45/9625/A20169
1884-1885   Disposal of children of prisoners discharged from Lincoln Gaol   HO 45/9644/A35748
1887-1893   Closing of Fulham Female Convict Prison   HO 45/9650/A37852H
1887-1888   Closure of Russell House, Streatham. Female convicts discharged. Form of conditional licence   HO 45/9677/A47183
1870-1888   Proposed use of stocks at Leeds Prison for punishing refractory female prisoners not sanctioned   HO 45/9685/A48397
PRISONERS - Infanticide :
1886   Infanticide cases (Penal Servitude Life) to be considered after completion of seven years of sentence   HO 45/9687/A48622
PRISONERS - General :
1897   Report of the Lady Visitor at Aylebury Prison   HO 45/9750/A58684
1885   Prison: diet for nursing mothers   HO 45/9961/X7735
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1897-1898   Expenses in arresting a woman under Elementary Education Act   HO 45/9985/X66268
1906   Maria Barclay: fined for keeping an unlicensed common lodging house   HO 45/not traced/135890
1962   Recognizances: Ivy Medora Buckeridge   J 117/140
1963   Recognizances: Pat Arrowsmith   J 117/145
1963   Recognizances: Hazel Brown   J 117/148
1966   Recognizances: Joy Elsbeth Baker   J 117/159
1940   Bail Summonses and Orders: Vinnie Pedratchik and Rose Brookarsh   J 118/2
1941   Bail Summonses and Orders: Laura May Shackell   J 118/4
1963   Bail Summonses and Orders: Dorothy Lindsay   J 118/52
1964   Application for Bail: Shirley Farrer   J 118/66
1942   Bail Summonses and Orders: Olive Devlin   J 118/7
1966   Application for Bail: Sophia Surridge   J 118/90
1967   Application for Bail: Eunice Grant and others   J 118/95
1967   Application for Bail: Henrietta Moraes   J 118/98
1880-1925   Supreme Court of Judicature: High Court of Justice, Chancery and King's Bench Divisions: Depositions: individuals: see list   J 17/1-649
1876-1945   Supreme Court of Judicature: High Court of Justice, Chancery and Queen's Bench Divisions: Affidavits: individuals: see list   J 4/1-11486
1876-1881   Supreme Court of Judicature: High Court of Justice, Queen's Bench Division: Affidavits: individuals: see list   J 5/1-97
1876-1942   Supreme Court of Judicature: High Court of Justice, Chancery, Common Pleas, Exchequer and Queen's Bench Divisions: Pleadings: nominal: see list   J 54/1-2451
1908-1979   Court of Criminal Appeal and Supreme Court of Judicature, Court of Appeal, Criminal Division: Registers: including women   J 81/1-287
1945-1979   Court of Criminal Appeal and Supreme Court of Judicature, Court of Appeal, Criminal Division: Case Papers: includes women: see list   J 82/1-1196
1900-1983   General Bundles of Court Papers: individual cases: many women: see list   J 92/1-226
PRISONERS - General :
1941-1945   Registration of Boys and Girls Order: approved schools, borstals, remand homes and prisons   LAB 19/102
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1935-1936   Proposed prosecution by Gloucester Local Education Authority of Nellie Irene Gage for non-attendance of authorised course of instruction   LAB 19/65
PRISONERS - General :
1926   Home Office: adult female labour: finding employment for persons placed in probation by magistrates   LAB 2/1238/ED3102/1926
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1926   Dressmaking & Women's Light Clothing Trade Board: Mrs M Davies, 28 Priory Street, Cardigan: inspection : suggested prosecution (269)   LAB 2/1663/TBI/A18185
1933   Aliens blacklist: warning against entry of Kate Neeferkirchner or Niederkirchner and Max Lerner, German Communists (83)   LAB 2/2084/ETAR4174/1933
1918   Suggested legal proceedings against Mrs Martha Singer of Ballyward, Co.Down a sub-contractor in linen and cotton embroidery trade for alleged offences against the Trade Boards Act (243)   LAB 2/287/TB10045/18
1919   Embroidery Trade: Mrs Elizabeth Kerr: prosecution for furnishing false information (243)   LAB 2/431/TB10204/2
1915   Office of Trade Boards: suggested legal proceedings against Mr & Mrs Tabb and/or Mrs Williams of London employed with the Tailoring Trade for alleged offences against the Trade Board Act (247)   LAB 2/635/TB32591/1915
1920   Paisley Employment Exchange: Financial Irregularities Local Accountants Reports June-December 1920. Prosecution of Miss E C Kay, member of staff (224)   LAB 2/747/SD647/1920
1933   Proceedings against Central Committee on Women's Training and Employment, 1 Walton's Parade, Reston: proposed defendant, Miss Eileen Margaret Tomlinson: correspondence with H S Walker, 34 Leckhampton Rd, Blackpool (224)   LAB 2/771/SD678/1933
1921   Lerwick BEO Financial Irregularities (Nov 1920-Feb 1921): prosecution of G W Hoggan and Miss Margaret Spence, member of staff (224)   LAB 2/857/SD191/2/1921
1925   Retail Bespoke Tailoring Trade Board: Messrs Reynard & Sons, Nelson, enquiry as to legality of mother signing as guardian in lieu of father, an agreement of intended apprentice: Solicitor's Opinion (243)   LAB 2/991/TB105/13/1925
PRISONERS - General :
1954-1955   Women's Consultative Committee: arrangements for helping discharged women prisoners   LAB 8/2307
PRISONERS - Infanticide :
1936-1938   Infanticide: proposed amendment of Infanticide Act 1922 re the term 'newly born'   LCO 2/1329
PRISONERS - General :
1947   Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1885 (s.(11)). Suggestion that there should be a similar age limit for male and female offenders   LCO 2/3346
PRISONERS - Infanticide :
1947   Infanticide Act 1937: mode of trial   LCO 2/3591
1922   Child Murder (Trial) Bill 1922, becoming Infanticide Act 1922   LCO 2/476
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1955   Criticism of Home Secretary; articles in 'Spectator' on the execution of Ruth Ellis   LCO 2/5573
1924   Writ of Mittimus in N Ireland: Emily Matilda Corballis   LCO 6/1169
1933   Writ of Mittimus in N Ireland: Margaret Cumming   LCO 6/1170
1910   Applications for the Attorney-General's Fiat for leave to appeal to the House of Lords in criminal cases: Ball, W H and Ball, Edith   LO 2/1
1938-1939   Applications for the Attorney-General's Fiat for leave to appeal to the House of Lords in criminal cases: Milne, Florence, Boundford, H and Leonard, J C   LO 2/12
1928   Inquiry concerning the case of Irene Savidge   LO 2/24
1936   Election offences under the Representation of the People Act 1918, s. 34: Lady Houston's pamphlets   LO 2/32
PRISONERS - General :
1922   As to judgment and execution against a married woman   LO 3/568
PRISONERS - Infanticide :
1923   Infanticide Act 1922; Coroners Act 1887 (can a coroner's jury bring in a verdict of infanticide?)   LO 3/645
PRISONERS - General :
1907   Remand Homes: conveyancing of girls   MEPO 2/1061
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1967-1969   Inquiry into alleged theft of prison records relating to Ruth Ellis from Holloway Prison in Jan 1964   MEPO 2/10910
1967   Murder of Jane Serina Scott at Hookend, Berks on 3 March 1967: Raymond Cook and Eric Jones convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment; Valerie Newell convicted of accessory before the fact and sentenced to life imprisonment   MEPO 2/10943
PRISONERS - Infanticide :
1967-1977   George Frederick Johnson convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment following the death of 11 month old Andrew Ian Johnson at Queen Mary's Hospital on 27 April 1967: first case in legal history with a verdict of murder for a single 'battered baby syndrome'   MEPO 2/10944
1967-1969   Murder of Ian Charles Henry Chowles (aged 3½) by Wendy Carol Chowles and John David Newton at 7 Wellesley Place, NW5, on 31 August 1967 (with photographic negatives)   MEPO 2/10949
PRISONERS - General :
1910   Prisoners: women: provision of cell screens   MEPO 2/1377
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1869   Reports relating to Mrs Hoffman, a lunatic, in possession of a pistol   MEPO 2/160B
PRISONERS - General :
1922-1923   Police stations with cells for women: visiting by Lady Justices   MEPO 2/2065
1936   Custody and treatment of women prisoners. Committee report and Deputy Commissioner's observations   MEPO 2/2822
1938-1939   Custody and treatment of women prisoners: lavatory accommodation   MEPO 2/2824
PRISONERS - Infanticide :
1896-1898   Murder - baby farming: Infant Life Protection Act   MEPO 2/399
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1939   Unlicensed woman money lender and her penny-in-the-shilling interest: reward offered by Customs and Excise Department to Detective Sergeant   MEPO 2/4180
PRISONERS - General :
1932-1933   Escort of women prisoners single handed where practicable by women police officers   MEPO 2/4566
1938   Detention of female prisoners at police stations: revised methods   MEPO 2/4603
1938   Exercise for female prisoners   MEPO 2/4604
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1919-1920   Detention and search of a woman prisoner known to be violent: Annie Bell, distributor of scurrilous leaflets   MEPO 2/4623
1939-1941   Essex Police warrant of apprehension against Lilian Easterbrook for breach of recognizances regarding John Wm Day   MEPO 2/5009
PRISONERS - Internment :
1940-1946   Women's Internment Camp, Isle of Man: staffing by Metropolitan Police Women   MEPO 2/6151
PRISONERS - General :
1936-1960   Report by committee on custody and treatment of female prisoners at police stations: selection, duties of matrons   MEPO 2/7625
PRISONERS - Internment :
1946-1955   Duties of police matrons: report of committee on extension of the depot scheme dealing with female prisoners   MEPO 2/7636
PRISONERS - General :
1938   Female prisoners at police stations: provision of newspapers and writing facilities   MEPO 2/8226
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1957   Marie Roberts: abduction of Terry Carol Hatherly, aged 2½ years   MEPO 2/9747
1871   Manslaughter (reduced from murder) of Frederick Graves Moon by Hannah Newington, alias Flora Davy, his paramour   MEPO 3/100
1939   Ida Parry: imprisoned for controlling prostitution; described as first case of its kind   MEPO 3/1003
PRISONERS - Infanticide :
1871   Newly born infant found strangled in Holford Mew EC1   MEPO 3/101
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1919-1932   Frederick O'Dowd alias Horsenail, and Sarah Katz suspected of supplying herbal remedies to procure abortions   MEPO 3/1016
1932-1933   Dorothy Evelyn Short, death through abortion: Nellie Ethel Bostel and Betty Clarke jointly concerned, but latter used as witness on Director of Prosecutions instructions   MEPO 3/1017
1933-1934   Elizabeth Mary Cattermole: using an instrument to procure abortion resulting in death of Millicent Reynolds   MEPO 3/1018
1871   Attempted murder of Charles Parfitt by Agnes Norman   MEPO 3/102
1937-1943   Lily Frederica Winslow, widow, Joseph Tidman and Harvey Mutch concerned together in causing death of Elizabeth Georgina Clayton through illegal operation   MEPO 3/1024
1937   Charlotte Durbridge bound over for three years for using an instrument and manslaughter of Ethel Wells   MEPO 3/1025
1938   Maud Spear unlawfully using an instrument upon Winifred Barlow to procure abortion, resulting in her death   MEPO 3/1026
1938   Mary Gray alias Florence Taylor, using an instrument and manslaughter of Maud Kitching: charge of murder withdrawn   MEPO 3/1027
1938-1939   Edith Collins and Florence Maud Hawke: concerned together in the sudden death of Florence Edith Martin through attempted abortion   MEPO 3/1033
1872   Murder of Madam Riel by Marguerite Disblancs (Park Lane)   MEPO 3/104
1932-1933   Harold Brown, one time estate agent and associate of Mrs Whittaker West End flat owner: arranging marriages of convenience   MEPO 3/1072
1940   Mary Hodge: making sketches from Greenwich Pier of barges, power station etc. (specimen enclosed)   MEPO 3/1150
1940   Alleged attempt at communicating with the enemy by Mr and Mrs Henry Burns, nee Neumann: Director of Public Prosecutions enquiry   MEPO 3/1152
PRISONERS - Infanticide :
1873   Murdered body of a newly born female child found at 60 Euston Square (murderer unknown)   MEPO 3/116
1873   Murder of her newly born male child by Emma Maslin   MEPO 3/117
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1923   Need for warrant in a criminal case where New York requested assistance by cablegram re George Maxwell and Mrs Allan Ryan: statement of Marconi Company's position   MEPO 3/1173
1929-1930   Arrest of Florentino and Elsie Andrews wanted in France for being concerned with Rowe Williams or William Tudor Williams, obtaining money by false pretences   MEPO 3/1190
1940   Patricia Ferguson charged with stealing by finding on a bus 34 packets of precious stones: offence discovered through loser receiving the jewelley for valuation   MEPO 3/1358
1887-1888   Elisabeth Cass charged with soliciting: alleges perjury by arresting officer   MEPO 3/139
1927-1936   Ivy or Aileen Sinclair, self-styled 'Sister Anstruther Sinclair' imprisoned in Holloway for larceny: enquiries about proceeds of crime allegedly given by her to certain people   MEPO 3/1414
1938   Albert Frederick Revell and Elsie May Hillson: stealing £5 property of the Commissioner by falsely claiming money handed in to Paddington Police Station   MEPO 3/1430
1934   Mrs Adelaide Alice Killick, obtaining £23,000 by false pretence over a period of 10 years, husband Robert Edward Killick knowingly receiving   MEPO 3/1435
1936   Mrs Sophie Hancock fined £15 for professing to tell fortunes by means of cards and a crystal globe: legal aid case, attention drawn to form of summons   MEPO 3/1455
PRISONERS - Infanticide :
1922   Murder of William Adams aged 5 months, by Archibald Lionel Crockford at Wellington St. Camden Town on 28 April 1922   MEPO 3/1575
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1922   Murder of George Stanley Grimshaw by William James Yeldham and Elsie Florence Yeldham at Highams Park on 17 May 1922   MEPO 3/1576
1922-1923   Murder of Percy Thompson by Frederick Edward Francis Bywaters and Edith Jessie Thompson at Belgrave Road, Ilford on 4 Oct 1922   MEPO 3/1582
1923   Marguerite Marie Fahmy acquitted of murder of Aly Kamel Fahmy Bey at Savoy Hotel, Strand, on 10 July 1923   MEPO 3/1589
PRISONERS - Infanticide :
1923   Murder of Dorothy Catherine Kaslofsky aged 18 months, by being thrown from Westminster Bridge by Ada Elizabeth Kaslofsky (mother) on 27 August 1923   MEPO 3/1592
1923-1924   Murder of new born child of Alice Crabb by Harry William Gimber at Hampstead Road on 14 March 1922   MEPO 3/1595
1923   Murder of her 4 months old child by Alice Rose Turney at Renelagh Road, Wembley on 22 October 1923   MEPO 3/1596
1923-1924   Murder of Sonia Sarah Katzman aged 4½ and Jean Rachel Katzman aged 10 months by Dora Sadler at West Kensington Mansions on 11 November 1923   MEPO 3/1598
1924   Attempted murder of her two children and attempted suicide by Lilian Maud Chamberlain at Aster Place SE on 11 January 1924   MEPO 3/1601
1924   Murder of her children Catherine aged 7 and Margaret aged 2½ and suicide by Margaret Ann Davey on 23 February 1924   MEPO 3/1602
1925   Murder of Selina Miles, aged 26 and Agnes Mary Miles aged 7 months by George Frederick Miles at Hutton Grove, North Finchley on 7 September 1925   MEPO 3/1617
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1903-1911   Louisa Mary Heritage: obtaining charitable contributions by fraud   MEPO 3/164
1932-1933   Elvira Dolores Barney acquitted of murder of Thomas William Scott Stephen at Williams Mews on 31 May 1932   MEPO 3/1673
1908-1909   Murder of Teddy Haskell aged 10 by his mother Flora Haskell at Salisbury Wiltshire on 1 November 1908   MEPO 3/187
1909-1913   Criminal libel 'The Sutton Libel Case' (Mrs Annie Tugwell)   MEPO 3/189
1941   Arrest of Lady Lucas as result of a protest she made against the handling by police of a drunken soldier   MEPO 3/1966
1911-1913   Fraud and false pretences: Charles ('Monte Carlo') Wells alias Lucien Rivier and his associate Jeanne Burns nee Pairis   MEPO 3/204
1941-1942   Murder of Margaret Salomon Brann by Irene Louise Valeska Coffee at Castellain Rd, W9 between 11 and 18 Oct 1941 (suicide pact)   MEPO 3/2196
1941-1942   Murder of Arthur Davy Jennings and suicide by Jeannie Marti at Eton Rd, Hampstead on 17 Dec 1941   MEPO 3/2204
PRISONERS - Infanticide :
1942   Murder of Patricia Ann Ayres (aged 4) and attempted suicide by Louisa Elizabeth Ayres (mother) by drowning in the River Lea, Enfield on 18 Feb 1942   MEPO 3/2209
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1942   Murder of Patricia Juliet St John Smythe by Lilian James at 626 Green Lanes, Harringay, N4 on 17 March 1942   MEPO 3/2211
PRISONERS - Infanticide :
1942   Patricia Cary Craig-Waller convicted of infanticide after drowning her 3 month old son in a lake at Walton-on-Thames on 7 June 1942   MEPO 3/2222
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1942-1943   Frederick Charles Davis and Dorothy Maud Ford acquitted of the murder of Louis Aubrey Stickland at Piddletrendthide, Dorset on 17 Sept 1942   MEPO 3/2236
PRISONERS - Infanticide :
1943   Ernest Charles Digby and Olga Davy Hill (bigamous wife) concerned together in murder of their child Dawn Digby at Milborne Port, Somerset on 15 Nov 1943   MEPO 3/2264
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1944   Murder of Francis William Turner, RAF by Marie Scherz, a German national, at Franklin Rd, Willesden on 2 Jan 1944   MEPO 3/2265
PRISONERS - Infanticide :
1938-1944   Murder of a male child aged one month by Margueriter Eastwood by throwing him from a railway train at Putney on 26 May 1938   MEPO 3/2276
1944-1945   Murder of Eileen Thwaites (aged 2½) by her stepfather Sidney Francis Buckley at Bolingbroke Grove, Battersea on 23 Sept 1944   MEPO 3/2279
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1944-1945   Murder of George Edward Heath by Private Karl Gustave Hulten, US Army and Elizabeth Jones at Great West Road on 7 Oct 1944   MEPO 3/2280
1945   Murder of Benjamin John Swinton by Mary Leith Hay Davis at 6 Abbotts Place, Blakenhall, Walsall, Staffs between 31 March and 3 April 1945   MEPO 3/2292
1945-1946   Murder of Ruben Martirosoff by Marian Grondkowski and Henry Malinowsky at Chepstow Place, W 10 on 1 Nov 1945   MEPO 3/2316
PRISONERS - Infanticide :
1913   Murder of Winifred Tombs (adopted child) by Emily Rosina Stanton on 4 October   MEPO 3/236A
1914-1921   Murder of William Starchfield, aged 5½ years, in a North London railway train on 8 January 1914   MEPO 3/237B
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1915-1917   Margaretta Geertruida Zeele known as Mata Hari: convicted of espionage and executed on 15 October 1917   MEPO 3/2444
1915-1919   Sara Rechtand, Austrian: exemption from deportation (specimen case)   MEPO 3/2451
1915   Attempted murder of Lilian Eastlake Thomas or Becker by Damoda Das Lamba on 24 August 1915   MEPO 3/247
1920   Murder of Sarah Anne White by Primrose Catherine Alice Whistance, aged 15 years, at Llanvtherine (Llantillo) Monmouthshire on 11 June 1920   MEPO 3/270
1920   Murder of Maud Alice Amelia Jeffrey by Maud Elizabeth Jeffrey (mother) and her attempted suicide on 24 Aug 1920   MEPO 3/282
1947   Suicide of Mrs Elsie Catherine Wade after murdering her two children at Bexley Heath, 14 April   MEPO 3/2848
PRISONERS - Infanticide :
1948   Murder of Alan Hobbs (8months) by mother, Lily Hobbs at Nathaniel Buildings, Stepney E1 on 2 January 1948   MEPO 3/2993
1948   Murder of Eleanor Catherine Powers (2½ years) by mother Mary Heron at Dover House Bermondsey SE1 on 4 January 1948   MEPO 3/2994
1948   Murder of Raymond William Hamshere (3½ years) by mother Mary Ellen Hamshere of Peckham SE15 on 6 May   MEPO 3/3008
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1948   Murder of Mary Elizabeth Williams by her daughter Mary Elizabeth Lockey at Battersea on 23 July   MEPO 3/3018
1948-1949   Murder of Nancy Ellen Chadwick by Margaret Allen at Rawtenstall, Lancs on 28 August 1948   MEPO 3/3024
PRISONERS - Infanticide :
1948   Murder of Michael Joseph Benfield (6 years) by his mother Mary Ann Benfield at Chalcot Road, NW1 on 15 November   MEPO 3/3031
1948   Murder of Peter Buckingham (8½ years) by his mother Elenore Buckingham at Harlesdon NW10 on 18 November   MEPO 3/3032
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1949   Murder of Peter John Read at Hanworth, Middlesex on 13 July by his mother who committed suicide   MEPO 3/3136
1949   Murder of Marie Mary Murray (16 years) at Sidcup, Kent on 12 August by her mother Gladys Matilda Murray who committed suicide   MEPO 3/3138
PRISONERS - Infanticide :
1949-1974   Timothy John Evans executed for murder of his baby daughter at 10 Rillington Place, W11 on 10 Nov 1949: Evans granted posthumous pardon by HM the Queen as a result of second public inquiry in 1966   MEPO 3/3147
1966   Timothy John Evans executed for murder of his baby daughter at 10 Rillington Place W11 on 10 November 1949: Evans granted posthumous pardon by HM the Queen as a result of second public enquiry   MEPO 3/3147
1926   Concealment of birth: Galdys Pollock, found in possession of mummified body of child to which she had given birth ten years previously   MEPO 3/334
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1922-1923   Bogus allegation of robbery with violence by Lottie Hughes, a servant, subsequently convicted of larceny of clothing etc.   MEPO 3/350
1921-1923   Rose Gooding twice convicted of publishing obscene libel; (a feud between next door neighbours in a Littlehampton back street which subsequently became known as the 'Littlehampton Letters Case'.) Both convictions quashed on appeal   MEPO 3/380
1922-1923   Lydia Webb, aged 60, found guilty of committing bigamy   MEPO 3/390
1926   Violet Mabel Jobling committed for trial for bigamy after voluntarily reporting the fact herself   MEPO 3/392
1931   Mrs Raie McLellan committed for trial on her confession of bigamy   MEPO 3/394
1926-1929   Mrs Lallias Irma Valerie Arkell-Smith known as 'Colonel Barker': causing a false entry to be made in a register of marriage when she 'married' Miss Elfreda Emma Haward at Brighton on 14 Nov 1923   MEPO 3/439
1923-1928   Theresa Agnes Skyrme alias Josephine O'Dare and others; forgery and uttering will of Edwin Docker   MEPO 3/441
1923   Mrs Alice W Rees, taking charge of a lunatic, for payment, in an unlicensed house contrary to s.315 of the Lunacy Act 1890   MEPO 3/451
PRISONERS - General :
1931-1932   Trafficking by wardresses at Holloway Prison   MEPO 3/468
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1927   Murder of Louis Fisher by Mary Josephine Waits on board ss 'American Trader' on the High Seas on 5 August 1927   MEPO 3/474
1926   Margaret Watson, a maid, aged 19: charged with larceny of purse containing £10 gold and setting fire to employer's maisonette   MEPO 3/496
1921   Counterfeit coin: woman wrongly given in custody for 'knowingly uttering' a counterfeit florin in payment of an LCC tram fare   MEPO 3/521
1849   Murder of Patrick O'Connor by George Frederick Manning and his wife   MEPO 3/54
PRISONERS - Infanticide :
1860   Murder of Francis Saville Kent, aged 4 years by Constance Emilie Kent   MEPO 3/61
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1940   The Melodies Bar Club: Mrs Irene Ransom alias Meyrick   MEPO 3/629
1933-1938   Suspected attempted suicide, alleged to be attempted murder: Mrs Gertrude Brown   MEPO 3/723
1936   Gaming parties conducted as 'At Homes' at different addresses by Lady Cleveland   MEPO 3/757
1931   Mrs Lilian Anderson: acquitted of murdering her son John William   MEPO 3/812
1931-1934   Grace Elizabeth Smith: charged with murdering her daughter, Mavis Doris, and later released from Broadmoor   MEPO 3/813
1931   Florence Ethel Dent: charged with manslaughter and murder of her son Owen   MEPO 3/814
PRISONERS - Infanticide :
1932-1933   Mary Langley: charged with murdering her one day old child   MEPO 3/817
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1933   Alice Kimberlin: murder of her daughter Patricia, and attempted suicide   MEPO 3/819
1933   Ivy Winifred Caroline Palin: murder of daughter Daphne (commuted to penal servitude for life)   MEPO 3/820
PRISONERS - Infanticide :
1935-1936   Decomposed bodies of two infants found at 189 Grey Mare Lane, Bradford   MEPO 3/823
1935-1936   Doris McCardle: suspected of murdering her newly born child (discharged to hospital)   MEPO 3/825
1935-1936   Julia Wood-Murray: murder of John Stanley George Murray, aged 1 year 5 months   MEPO 3/826
1936   Hilda Queree: murder of David Edward Queree, aged 4 months, and attempted suicide (capital sentence commuted to penal servitude for life)   MEPO 3/827
1937   Murder of newly born child found outside Fieldgate Mansions, E1, by unknown person   MEPO 3/828
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1937   Katie Jones, rendered her child stillborn   MEPO 3/829
1934   Sarah Russell, abortionist: causing death of Lilian Florence Williams   MEPO 3/836
PRISONERS - Infanticide :
1937   Percy and Lilian Mary Davis: manslaughter of their two sons through desertion   MEPO 3/841
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1939-1940   Rebecca Rose Hodges: manslaughter through using an instrument on Rose Barrett to procure abortion   MEPO 3/845
PRISONERS - Infanticide :
1927   Death by asphyxia of newly born child of Iris Dorothy Jones   MEPO 3/857
1933   Fred Morse: charged with murder of Dorothy Winifred Brewer aged 12¾ (who was pregnant), by drowning at Curry Mallet, Somerset   MEPO 3/868
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1935   Gertrude Elizabeth De La Mare: murder of Alfred Brouard, aged 76, at Four Cabot, Guernsey after staging a suicide   MEPO 3/870
1936   Murder of Valerie, aged 8, by her mother, Carmen Martha Alice Swann at Maida Vale   MEPO 3/872
1938   Manslaughter by shooting of Percy Arthur Casserley by Edward Royal Chaplin, at Wimbledon: Georgina Mary Casserley charged with 'harbouring'   MEPO 3/877
1938   Investigation into suspected poisoning of Lewis Arthur Sandford at Downham Market, Norfolk: Rose Emma Sandford acquitted, refusal to allow witness, a boy of 8, to give evidence against his mother   MEPO 3/878
1938   Suspected poisoning of William Mufitt of Risby, Suffolk, by Mary Elizabeth Fernie Chandler   MEPO 3/879
1939-1940   Great Yarmouth Police enquiry about Alice Amelia Medhurst whose 6 husbands died within 9, 7, 11, 13, 5 and 2 years of marriage respectively: police order on exhumation procedure   MEPO 3/880
1936-1937   Irene Schmeder extradited to France for attempted murder after landing by aircraft at Selsey, Sussex   MEPO 3/883
1932   Robbery with violence and stealing from Hariprasad Chatterji at Hounslow: William Torquil Goodwin, Elsie Jean Goodwin and Maurice Edward Archer   MEPO 3/888
1937-1943   Harry Goodman alias Miller alias James Hynes and Jessie Rubin: robbing Millicent Hesketh-Wright   MEPO 3/901
1869-1870   Mrs C Martin: baby farming and abortionist   MEPO 3/92
1935-1936   Elizabeth Brodhecker, alleged writer of threatening letters: refused leave to land   MEPO 3/920
1939-1955   Albert Edward Lorford, Richard Kaufman, Marjorie L Butt and Jean Brent alias Kathleen Hewitt: concerned together in blackmailing activities   MEPO 3/924
1870   Margaret Waters and Sarah Ellis: baby farmers (Waters convicted of murder and Ellis of false pretences)   MEPO 3/93
PRISONERS - Infanticide :
1870   Margaret Waters and Sarah Ellis: baby farmers (Waters convicted of murder and Ellis of false pretences)   MEPO 3/93
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1870   Mary Hall: baby farming and fraud   MEPO 3/94
1939-1941   Marcia Florence Ireland alis Mrs Jackson alias Lady Haldon, and Dr Arthur John Ireland: false information concerning births and practising baby farming   MEPO 3/968
PRISONERS - General :
1945   Marriage of girls during period of supervision: letter to Home Office from Manchester Home Office Schools suggesting that responsibility of managers and headmistresses should end with girls' marriages   MH 102/1408
1946-1954   Proposed maternity homes for pregnant girls committed to approved schools: meeting charitable organisations and Home Office representatives: correspondence   MH 102/1452/901428
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1863   Enquiry into justification for detaining a criminal patient, Helen Englefield, in Northumberland Asylum No 7722   MH 51/57
1863-1964   Report relating to the case of Mary Ann Ford and the practice of committing insane persons and idiots to gaols No 7679   MH 51/58
1886   Illegal reception of lunatics by Mary Dix and her son Walter Dix at Totton, near Southampton   MH 51/68
1902-1903   Proposed prsoecution of Mary Canning of Hove, Sussex, for illegal charge of Julia Phillips No 27333   MH 51/73
1853-1887   Female licences (prisoners): in licence order: see list   PCOM 4
1853-1887   Registers and Indexes to licences (nominal): see list   PCOM 6
PRISONERS - General :
1907-1914   Chairs for women prisoners   PCOM 7/206
1890-1905   Places for confinement of offenders under sentence or order of Penal Servitude: Aylesbury Prison (males and females)   PCOM 7/225
1926-1927   New pattern of clothing for women prisoners   PCOM 7/315
1922-1928   Recreative work for women: Brabazon employment society   PCOM 7/335
1927   Births in prison: registration of stillbirths   PCOM 7/349
1896   Pregnant prisoners: reports of   PCOM 7/363
1923   Pregnant prisoners not to be shut up alone night or day   PCOM 7/364
1901-1902   Holloway: eradicating vermin and cleaning of cells   PCOM 7/368
1904   Holloway: Discharged Prisoners' Aid Society   PCOM 7/396
1919   Holloway Prison: Duchess of Bedford's committee of enquiry into various matters   PCOM 7/40
1928-1929   Clothing: outfits for Borstal girls and women convicts   PCOM 7/415
1893   Transfer to another prison of female prisoner: use of handcuffs and chain   PCOM 7/452
1913-1915   Matron not to be sent on escort duty   PCOM 7/454
1926-1927   Escort of women and young prisoners: use of handcuffs and wrist straps   PCOM 7/457
1926   Pregnancy cells: approved standard pattern   PCOM 7/5
1913-1917   Training of girls (prisoners) at Aylesbury   PCOM 7/557
1910-1916   Girls released: reports on etc.   PCOM 7/561
1912-1917   Girls: arrangements for discharge   PCOM 7/562
1917-1924   Borstal: girl revokees: treatment and location   PCOM 7/567
1917   Borstal: girls: correspondence   PCOM 7/574
1919-1924   Girl Guides movement at Aylesbury Borstal   PCOM 7/575
1909-1917   Borstal system: application of system to girls   PCOM 7/585
1910-1914   Girls caring for infants: employment and instruction of   PCOM 7/586
1910-1911   Holloway Prison scheme for girls   PCOM 7/587
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1915-1925   Criminal case (capital): Neale, Margaret Hannah at Maidstone on 15 June 1915 (commuted) (closed 100 years)   PCOM 8/104
1913-1927   Criminal case (capital): Phipps, Beatrice at Northampton on 31 May 1913 (commuted) (closed 100 years)   PCOM 8/111
1918-1925   Criminal case (capital): Cook, Ada Jane at Reading on 3 June 1918 (commuted) (closed 100 years)   PCOM 8/29
1922-1923   Criminal case (capital): Thompson, Edith: at CCC on 11 December 1922 convicted of murder, sentenced to death; executed 9 January 1923   PCOM 8/436
PRISONERS - General :
1937   Reconveyancing price of Holloway Prison in event of its disposal   PCOM 9/120
1932-1933   Sterilisation of the mentally unfit: memorandum presented to the Board of Control Committee   PCOM 9/123
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1949   Allen, Margaret: convicted at Manchester 8 December of murder and sentenced to death   PCOM 9/1234
PRISONERS - General :
1938   Production of trial remand prisoners: women   PCOM 9/1291
1944   Publicity: photos of Holloway Prison Hospital   PCOM 9/1330
1949-1951   Holloway Prison: report by the Director of Women's Prisons   PCOM 9/1337
1950   Visits to women's prisons in USA by Sir Lionel Fox: notes   PCOM 9/1356
1930-1931   Women prisoners painting prison walls   PCOM 9/143
1946   Askham Grange: acquisition and adaption as a training prison for women   PCOM 9/1434
1946-1950   Women convicted of child neglect investigations at Holloway Prison and reports   PCOM 9/1435
1949   Women Prisoners: introduction of maternity dresses   PCOM 9/1443
1945-1947   Employment of women prisoners at Guy's Hospital   PCOM 9/1449
1931   Conditions for women prisoners in England: memorandum to the Women's Institutes of Southern Rhodesia   PCOM 9/161
1931   Female prisoners: haircutting   PCOM 9/169
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1943-1954   Wandsworth prison: security of medical records of executed prisoners; measures arising from the prosecution of Mrs Van der Elst, a campaigner against capital punishment   PCOM 9/1697
PRISONERS - General :
1953-1956   Execution of women: correction of misinformation in an MP's letter to 'The Times'   PCOM 9/1755
1956   Executions: refutation of allegation that women must be trussed before being hanged   PCOM 9/1777
1959   Visits by female Justices to men's prisons and by male Justices to women's prisons: inquiry by Gloucester Prison Visiting Committee   PCOM 9/1813
1853-1905   Holloway Prison: brief history (written in 1955)   PCOM 9/1814
1959   Prostitutes: rejection of proposal to segregate them in prison; committee stage of Street Offences Bill   PCOM 9/1831
1958-1959   Aylesbury Girls' Borstal: conversion into an establishment for males   PCOM 9/1833
1954-1957   Clothing: production in dressmaking classes   PCOM 9/1859
1958   Prisoners' earnings: discrepancy between men and women   PCOM 9/1864
1949   Quality counterpanes: for special grade girls at Aylesbury Borstal   PCOM 9/1878
1957   Yield analysis of farm marmalade industry at Holloway Prison produced for audit purposes   PCOM 9/1881
1933-1937   Holloway Prison: treatment of women prisoners   PCOM 9/192
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1964-1968   Records: prison record of Ruth Ellis found to be missing   PCOM 9/1968
PRISONERS - General :
1963-1967   Clothing for women prisoners: proposed experiment in wearing own clothing   PCOM 9/1980
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1956   Executions: parliamentary questions and debate arising from allegations about the execution of Mrs Edith Thompson in 1923   PCOM 9/1983
PRISONERS - General :
1963-1970   Borstal system: training for disturbed girls   PCOM 9/1994
1964-1966   Outside employment scheme for female prisoners   PCOM 9/1995
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1944-1954   Elizabeth Marina Jones: at CCC on 23 January 1945 convicted of murder; sentenced to death (commuted); released on conditional life licence 24 February 1954   PCOM 9/2035
PRISONERS - General :
1935   Scold bridles (last of their kind used in England) given to Knutsford Library by Knutsford Prison   PCOM 9/206
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1952-1955   Edith Horsley: at Nottingham on 26 June 1952 convicted of murder; sentenced to death (commuted); transferred to institution under Mental Deficiency Act 1913 on 4 July 1955   PCOM 9/2072
1955   Ruth Ellis: at CCC on 21 June 1955 convicted of murder; sentenced to death; executed 13 July 1955   PCOM 9/2084
PRISONERS - General :
1958   Accommodation: experiment at HMP Holloway; preventative detention prisoners and long term prisoners held in same wing   PCOM 9/2100
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1937-1940   Caroline Williams: at Ruthin Assizes on 4 February 1938 convicted of murder: sentenced to death (commuted); released on licence 5 August 1940   PCOM 9/2118
PRISONERS - General :
1935   Preventative detention women permitted to smoke   PCOM 9/213
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1948-1951   Renee Duffy: at Manchester Assizes on 17 March 1949 convicted of murder; sentenced to death (commuted); released on licence 5 November 1951   PCOM 9/2141
1949-1950   Margaret Laughton Williams: at CCC on 19 September 1949 convicted of murder; sentenced to death (commuted)   PCOM 9/2149
PRISONERS - General :
1938   Women prisoners: advice on birth control   PCOM 9/215
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1955-1960   Margaret Jane Williams: at Manchester Assizes on 22 March 1955 convicted of murder; sentenced to death (commuted); released on licence 27 February 1957   PCOM 9/2159
PRISONERS - General :
1962-1963   Food: underdrawals of oatmeal and cocoa used to offset costs of supply of cornflakes and extra milk to women and young prisoners   PCOM 9/2179
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1957-1962   Mary Elizabeth Wilson: at Leeds Assizes on 10 March 1958 convicted of double murder, sentenced to death; respited to life imprisonment on 30 May 1958; died 5 December 1962 in prison   PCOM 9/2205
1962-1963   Helen Allegranza: member of the 'Committee of 100'; at CCC on 30 January 1962 convicted of conspiracy to commit breach of Official Secrets Act; sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment; died whilst in confinement   PCOM 9/2208
PRISONERS - General :
1967   Prostitutes: allocation of prisoners convicted under Street Offences Act, 1959   PCOM 9/2233
1960-1964   Proposal for all executions of women to be centralised at Holloway Prison   PCOM 9/2236
1959-1970   Mothers and babies in custody: care and treatment   PCOM 9/2250
1962-1970   Prison Index; introduction; documentation; extension to women's establishments   PCOM 9/2295
1929-1933   National Association of Prison Visitors to Women   PCOM 9/31
1930-1931   Holloway Prison: protest against discontinuance of visiting by Roman Catholic sisters   PCOM 9/38
1933-1945   Venereal Disease: women prisoners   PCOM 9/413
1949   Holloway Prison: newspaper cuttings regarding disturbances   PCOM 9/457
1930-1939   Births and infants in prison   PCOM 9/467
1935   Holloway prison burial ground   PCOM 9/502
1943   Christenings in prison chapels   PCOM 9/538
1943-1945   Borstal girls: camps to assist in harvesting   PCOM 9/548
1936-1938   Issue of clothing on discharge to Borstal boys, girls and women convicts   PCOM 9/66
1930-1938   Women prisoners: clothing   PCOM 9/69
1933-1942   Women prisoners: notes for those undergoing preventative detention   PCOM 9/70
PRISONERS - Internment :
1940-1941   Mosley, Lady Diana: interned under Defence Regulation 18 B   PCOM 9/88
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1916-1922   de Bournonville, Eva, spy: at CCC on 11 January 1916   PCOM8/245
1956   Criminal proceedings: case of Nina Ponomareva   PREM 11/1240
1960   Detention of UK citizens in South Africa: case of Miss Hannah Stanton. Discussions on South Africa refugees in High Commission Territories   PREM 11/3113
nd   Hatton Papers. Letter from George Farrar relating to the woman, Rutter, confined for assault ff 833-834   PRO 30/45/1
1814   Hatton Papers. J Selwyn requesting that William Blake be allowed to accompany his wife who has been sentenced to transportation ff 123-124   PRO 30/45/1
1815   Hatton Papers. Benjamin Hall forwards a petition in favour of Jane Brown ff 157-158   PRO 30/45/1
1815   Hatton Papers. J Heath recommends that Mary Ranson be given a free pardon ff 177-178   PRO 30/45/1
1815   Hatton Papers. W Bennet forwards a petition from John Chapman in favour of Mary Smith convicted, together with her daughter, of stealing calico from Mr Williams' shop ff 649-650   PRO 30/45/1
1815   Hatton Papers. W Kennick transmits a petition on behalf of Mary Smith claiming insanity ff 181-182   PRO 30/45/1
1815   Hatton Papers. Rothes to William Kennick: states that Mary Smith's real name is Chapman and recommends that transportation be changed to imprisonment ff 183-186   PRO 30/45/1
1816   Hatton Papers. E Spencer forwards a petition signed by Sir G Smart in favour of a woman who had robbed him ff 292-293   PRO 30/45/1
1816   Hatton Papers. Joseph Corbett gives information concerning Mary Austin and Isaac Taylor, both convicted as insane ff 272-273   PRO 30/45/1
1816   Hatton Papers. Corbett acknowledges that Taylor and Austin have been moved to the New Bethlehem Hospital ff 274-275   PRO 30/45/1
1817   Hatton Papers. (1) John Bond writes to Lemon in favour of Ann Edwards, convicted of burglary (2) petition in favour of Ann Edwards, signed by the minister of Kea and others ff 320-324   PRO 30/45/1
1817   Hatton Papers. Viscount Falmouth to Becket in favour of Anne Edwards, sentenced to transportation and recommends imprisonment in a House of Correction ff 365-366   PRO 30/45/1
1817   Hatton Papers. Wilbraham Egerton forwarding letter from the constable of Chester in favour of William Cryer Gidswell and Mary Sutcliffe sentenced to transportation ff 373-374   PRO 30/45/1
1818   Hatton Papers. R H Davis forwards a petition in favour of Mary Ingram ff 408-409   PRO 30/45/1
1818   Hatton Papers. Earl of Egremont writes in favour of Anne Masuer, sentenced to one month's imprisonment in the House of Correction for stealing wood ff 432-433   PRO 30/45/1
1818   Hatton Papers. Mr Sargent, chairman of Western Division of the County of Sussex, writes in favour of Ann Masuer ff 434-435   PRO 30/45/1
1818   Hatton Papers. James Barnett writes in favour of Harriet Shelton, forwarding a petition anf other papers f 407   PRO 30/45/1
1818   Hatton Papers. Robert Bowyer forwards two letters addressed to the Director of the Bank in favour of Harriet Shelton, under sentence of death in Newgate ff 442-443   PRO 30/45/1
1821   Hatton Papers. Henry Bright to Mr Hobhouse in favour of Sylvia Morgan and Mary Willis. Asks that their case may be referred to the Attorney General, and, if necessary, to the Solicitor of the Bank ff 612-613   PRO 30/45/1
1821   Hatton Papers. Mr Leigh Keck asks that Mary Watts should be removed to Penitentiary House if she is not transported ff 623-624   PRO 30/45/1
1821   Hatton Papers. Mr Leigh Keck requests that Mary Watts be removed from Leicester Gaol ff 625-626   PRO 30/45/1
PRISONERS - General :
1823   Hatton Papers. Edward Bootle Wilbraham stating that seven female prisoners chosen to be recommended for mercy were chosen on merit not on account of health ff 694-695   PRO 30/45/1
1931   Ramsay MacDonald Papers: Sentence of Death (Expectant Mothers) Bill   PRO 30/69/382
PRISONERS - Infanticide :
1936   Irregular disposal of remains of unknown baby in corporation refuse destructor   RG 48/1219
1935   Mummified body of infant child   RG 48/1241
PRISONERS - General :
1944   Birth in prison: alternative address for registration purposes   RG 48/1502
PRISONERS - Infanticide :
1932   Registration of death of unidentified infants: skeletons to be retained as hospital specimens   RG 48/420
1924   Irregular burial of deceased infant   RG 48/620
PRISONERS - General :
1667-1774   Registers of Clandestine Marriages and of Baptisms in the Fleet Prison, King's Bench Prison, The Mint and the May Fair Chapel   RG 7/1-835
PRISONERS - Internment :
1945   Aline Sybil Atherton-Smith, one-time member of the Anglo-German Fellowship and The Link; suspected of expressing anti-British sentiments in France during the occupation HO 45/25809/865149   sub 1
1945   Kathleen Anderson Gardiner, suspicions of assisting the enemy not substantiated HO 45/25821/865165   sub 1
1945-1946   Mariette Smart, one-time member of the British Union; employed by the German intelligence service and by the Gestapo in France HO 45/25828/865176   sub 1
1945   Evelyn Marjorie Laura Abbott; acted as informer during internment in France HO 45/25808/865148   sub1
1945   Suzanne Louise Provost-Booth; employed as an actor by German radio; suspected of acting as an informer for the Gestapo HO 45/25806/865143   sub1
1945   Laura Margaret Rawcliffe; sympathetic to Germany and to National Socialism but suspicions of collaborating with the enemy not substantiated HO 45/25824/865169   sub1
1945-1946   Pearl Joyce Vardon; employed as an announcer and news reader by Luxemburg Radio HO 45/25811/865152   sub1
1945-1946   Edith Louise Walford; employed as a typist by the Deutscher Verlag publishing company on the propaganda publication 'Signal' HO 45/25832/865181   sub1
1945-1946   Italy: Rhanagh Maureen Robb; employed by the Italian Ministry of Popular Culture; broadcast propaganda for Italian radio HO 45/25800/865128   sub1
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1911   Post Office. Savings Bank account of Belle Elmore: forged withdrawals therefrom (Belle Elmore was the stage name of the wife and victim of Dr Crippen. Forged withdrawals may have been made by Miss Le Neve, Crippen's mistress)   T 1/11335/19725
1911   General Register Office. Change of entry on death certificate of J H Bingham, whose death was attributed to wilful murder by Miss E A Bingham, who was later acquitted upon trial   T 1/11348/21404/11
1913   Treasury Solicitor, Ireland. Estate of S Hull, formerly sub-postmistress, Moira, Co. Down, imprisoned for embezzlement and forgery (5319/13; 3908/13)   T 1/11570/18652/13
1915   Chief Secretary's Office, Ireland. Pardon of Misses E and J Walsh, wrongfully convicted of theft: charge of court fees to Law Charges Vote   T 1/11726/1325/15
1916   Scottish Office. Remission of fines of Pte J White, Highland Light Infantry, and Mrs I White, his mother, convicted of attempted fraud in connection with claim to separation allowance   T 1/11962/23098/16
1919   Board of Agriculture & Fisheries. Taking of legal proceedings against Mrs Sutherst, who offered commissions to certain officers in respect of the sale of property to the department for land settlement purposes.....   T 1/12380/39443/19
PRISONERS - General :
1883   Holloway Prison: proposed purchase of land outside wall, also no 3 Parkhurst Road, adjoining   T 1/14998
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1883   Home Office: reward for information leading to Emma Scott's arrest   T 1/15471
PRISONERS - General :
1879   County Cork; Bridewell Keepers; gratuities to be given to wives for acting as attendants to female prisoners   T 1/17097
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1700s   Petition of Alice Russell and Martha Robinson, for a reward for being concerned in the capture of Isabella Henderson   T 1/338/46
1750's   Petition of Edward Hosea and John Delaporte that they may receive the proceeds, now in the hands of the Sheriff of Middlesex, from the goods of Elizabeth Campbell alias Johnson towards the cost of the suit which they brought against her for keeping a disorderly house   T 1/350/113
1758   Indictments against rioters in co. York in 1757: Elizabeth Chambers, Jane Simpson, Thomas Robinson and Richard Meynil at Brompton on 5 Sept   T 1/383/79
1770   Treasury Solicitor: John Grey, Board of Green Cloth, for Treasury Solicitor to prosecute James Ferguson for breach of the peace and Mary Barnsley for assault   T 1/478/169-170
1769   North America: Lord Hillsborough, enclosing extract of letters from Governor of Virginia, relative to his suspending payment of fine by two women imprisoned for receiving stolen goods   T 1/479/206-209
1772   Petition of Emmerich asking for money due to him for [supplying the army]. Because of the debt he incurred his wife languishes in a Dutch dungeon. Copy of his wife's letter to him T 1/493/113-114 and   T 1/494/232-233
1780   Petition of William Ivey for £50 reward for informing on Elizabeth Collins, a ringleader in the Southwark riots, and subsequently condemned to death   T 1/559/8-9
1785   North America: East Florida: William Panton to Peter Spence. He has been unable to arrest the 'yellow woman' who laid with the Governor, she now having gone off to New Orleans   T 1/624/105-106
1785   W Chamberlayne: favourable report on enclosed petition of the JPs for Norfolk, asking that a fine imposed on Mary Palmer be remitted. She has spent over three years in prison for common assault, and being unable to pay the fine, could remain imprisoned for the rest of her life   T 1/624/425-428
PRISONERS - General :
1930-1942   Reformatory and Industrial Schools; arrangements for after-care of boys and girls at the end of training   T 161/1066/S35839
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1921   Wrongful imprisonment of Mrs Rose Emma Gooding   T 161/134/A11347
1940-1941   Wrongful arrest and detention by the military authorities of Mr & Mrs C W Loveridge and others   T 161/1413/S47599
1920   Mrs S Brammer (or Bancroft); remission of recognisance forfeited for failure to attend trial as witness   T 161/15/S635
1923-1925   Defalcations by Miss M I Read, writing assistant in the Pensions Issue Office   T 161/215/S21472
1925   Mrs F Rubenstein; forfeited recognisance   T 161/251/S27015
1926   Staffordshire Quarter Sessions; absent juror - Sarah Louisa Inglis - remission of fine   T 161/267/S29726
1935   The Crown versus Mrs Gertrude de la Mare; accounts connected with the trial to be charged against Crown revenues   T 161/669/S39891
1929   Elizabeth Parlett: forfeited recogisances collected by instalments   T 162/145/E22161
1931   Rex v Elisabeth Gertrude Willcock: waiver of recovery of costs   T 162/265/E26039
1920   Mrs M Miller, temporary clerk Grade I; payment of wages whilst under suspension; payment to clerks of wages misappropriated   T 162/31/E2200
1937-1938   Recognisances: Cordelia M Brown, and Royland Taylor   T 162/478/E35438
1935-1939   Miss Florence Annie Parkes: compensation for wrongful arrest   T 162/522/E32766
1931-1932   Answorth, M A, Mrs: pension obtained illegally by not disclosing date of marriage   T 164/119/6
1934   Holmes, B H, murdered by his wife: payment of gratuity to be made to Public Trustee for administration   T 164/141/8
PRISONERS - General :
1960-1964   Prison establishments: payment of local hairdressers for haircutting   T 227/1976
PRISONERS - Individual Prisoners :
1947-1966   Horace Roye Narbeth, Mrs M E N Narbeth and Colonel Angus Narbeth: investigations   T 295/283
1812-1868   Carr, Walter, deceased. Claim by daughter of a share of the estate of her mother, Grace Griffin, who was convicted of the murder of her husband   TS 18/232
1865   Regina v Adelaide Warren: defendant left the Royal Portsmouth, Portsea and Gosport Hospital without official discharge. The case came under the 'Act for the Prevention of Diseases at certain Naval and Military Stations' (1844) which was intended to stop the spread of VD   TS 18/64
1851   Rachel Menzies, alias Fisher: sentenced to three months imprisonment in Newgate for obtaining from Alexander Beale the sum of £50 in part payment of a contract for £300 under pretence of using her influence in getting the latter appointed as a clerk in the Admiralty   TS 18/67
1916   Disposal of women arrested in the Irish Rebellion   WO 141/19-20
1915   Espionage charges: R Rowland and Mrs L E Wertheim (formerly part of WO 32 Box 1699) 63/3042 (63/2854 attached)   WO 141/3/1
1944   Italy: report on Fraulein Kiel   WO 204/10944
1947   Allied Military Government: case of Maria Pasquinelli: court proceedings   WO 204/11202
1945   Mrs Margherita Himmler and her daughter (wife and daughter of Reichsführer - ss Heinrich Himmler): capture and disposal   WO 204/12603
1946   War Crimes Cases: Enschede Case: Eva Borowski   WO 235/108
1946   War Crimes Cases: Enschede Case: Gertrud Schulz   WO 235/109
1945   War Crimes Cases: Bergen-Belsen and Auschwitz Concentration Camps Case: includes women: see list   WO 235/12
1946   War Crimes Cases: Enschede Case: Anneliese Kohlmann   WO 235/120
1946   War Crimes Cases: Enschede Case: Maria Szaroletta, Christel Dibbern   WO 235/121
1946   War Crimes Cases: Enschede Case: Mertha Suerth, Anita Frank   WO 235/124
1946-1947   War Crimes Cases: Walsum Case: Elisabeth Schrandt   WO 235/135
1946   War Crimes Cases: Walsum Case: Gertrud Heize   WO 235/136
1946   War Crimes Cases: Neugraben-Tiefstak Concentration Camp Case: Martha Linke   WO 235/143B
1945-1946   War Crimes Cases: Sasel Case: 9 women, named: see list   WO 235/179
1946   War Crimes Cases: Gross Gerau Case: Martha Nold   WO 235/196A
1946-1949   War Crimes Cases: Klettke Case: Anna Cattani, Sara Turolia   WO 235/252
1946   War Crimes Cases: Ruehen Baby Case: Ella Schmidt, Kathe Pisters   WO 235/263
1946-1947   War Crimes Cases: Ravensbruck Case: 8 women, named: see list   WO 235/305
1947-1953   War Crimes Cases: Hamburg-Wansbeck Case: Helga Bramberger, Hildegard Knoedler   WO 235/332
1945-1946   War Crimes Cases: August Willie and Doris Willie   WO 235/40
1947   War Crimes Cases: Fuhlsbuttel Case No 3: 5 women, named   WO 235/400
1947   War Crimes Cases: Fuhlsbuttel Case No II: Anna Bismark, Hildegard Burmeister   WO 235/407
1948   War Crimes Cases: Sefitz Childrens Home Case: Minnie Groenitz   WO 235/447
1948   War Crimes Cases: Kiel Hasse Case (minor accused): Charlotte Barreau   WO 235/448
1948   War Crimes Cases: Yellow Cross Prison Case: Elfriede Berger   WO 235/473
1947   War Crimes Cases: Kiel Hasse Case: Ruth Kleinsteuber, Orla Jensen   WO 235/481
1948   War Crimes Cases: Wilhelmsburg Work Education Camp Case: Katchen Obernhuber, Else Weinert   WO 235/507
1948-1953   War Crimes Cases: Ravensbruck Jugendschulungs-Lager Case No 3: 5 women, named: see list   WO 235/516A
1948   War Crimes Cases: Ravensbruck Case No 6: 6 women named: see list   WO 235/528-529A
1948   War Crimes Cases: Ravensbruck Case No IV: 3 women, named: see list   WO 235/530
1948   War Crimes Cases: Aranth Prison Case: Margarete Geiter   WO 235/544
1945-1949   War Crimes Cases: Deputy Judge Advocate General Files: includes women: see list   WO 235/605
1945-1946   War Crimes Cases: Deputy Judge Advocate General Files: Lina Schroder   WO 235/611
1946   War Crimes Cases: Deputy Judge Advocate General Files: August Willie, Doris Willie   WO 235/627
1946-1947   War Crimes Cases: Deputy Judge Advocate General Files: Annaliese Kohlmann   WO 235/654
1946   War Crimes Cases: Deputy Judge Advocate General Files: Marta Linke   WO 235/655
1946   War Crimes Cases: Deputy Judge Advocate General Files: Gertrud Heize   WO 235/656
1946-1948   War Crimes Cases: Deputy Judge Advocate General Files: includes 9 women, named: see list   WO 235/668
1946-1949   War Crimes Cases: Deputy Judge Advocate General Files: Ella Schmidt, Kathe Pisters   WO 235/674
1946-1948   War Crimes Cases: Deputy Judge Advocate General Files: Hertha Suerth, Anita Frank, Maria Szaroletta, Christel Dibbern   WO 235/675
1946-1948   War Crimes Cases: Deputy Judge Advocate General Files: Martha Nold   WO 235/692
1947-1949   War Crimes Cases: Deputy Judge Advocate Files: 8 women, named: see list   WO 235/738
1948-1949   War Crimes Cases: Deputy Judge Advocate General Files: Elfriede Berger   WO 235/748
1948   War Crimes Cases: Deputy Judge Advocate General Files: Charlotte Barreau   WO 235/751
1948   War Crimes Cases: Deputy Judge Advocate General Files: Minnie Groenitz   WO 235/752
1948-1949   War Crimes Cases: Deputy Judge Advocate General Files: 5 women, named: see list   WO 235/758
1948   War Crimes Cases: Deputy Judge Advocate General Files: Gerda Ganzer, Martha Haake, Liesbeth Krzok   WO 235/769
1948-1949   War Crimes Cases: Deputy Judge Advocate General Files: Else Weinert   WO 235/770
1948   War Crimes Cases: Deputy Judge Advocate General Files: 6 women, named: see list   WO 235/777
1948-1949   War Crimes Cases: Deputy Judge Advocate General Files: Margarete Geiter   WO 235/791
1945-1946   War Crimes Cases: Dreierwalde Airfield Case: Ida Reik   WO 235/99
1954-1955   Request by Mrs L A A Penn née Smith for access to proceedings of her trial by military court in 1945   WO 32/16480
1955   Petition from Mrs L A A Penn née Smith to the Queen   WO 32/16481
1945   Statements by former political prisoners: Margot Heberlein   WO 328/12
1945   Statements by former political prisoners: Lina Lindemann   WO 328/20
1945   Statements by former political prisoners: Kathe Mohr   WO 328/24
1945   Statements by former political prisoners: Countess Gisela Von Plettenberg   WO 328/28
1945   Statements by former political prisoners: Isa Vermehren   WO 328/41
1945   Statements by former political prisoners: Irma Goerdeler   WO 328/6
1918-1920   Exhibits in court martial of Countess Markievicz   WO 35/210-211
1943   General Courts Martial: Civilians: Mrs P E Pritchard: Section 40   WO 71/1241
1945   Military Courts: Civilians: Miss L A A Smith: espionage   WO 71/1251
1974   Court Martial: J Logan and Mrs J Logan: manslaughter   WO 71/1329
1979-1980   Court Martial: H G Smith and Mrs D M Smith (with photos): manslaughter: proceedings   WO 71/1400-1406
1985-1986   District Court Martial (abroad): Mrs Z M Brown: maliciously wounding a person (see also ER 1/8)   WO 71/1553
1956-1958   Legal opinion on alleged breach of park regulations in arrest of Mrs M Trevor-Jones in Kensington Gardens, 12 July 1956   WORK 16/2094
 
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