Having found Hannah Mayes in HO 27/29 (see "Research at the PRO" and "Criminal Research"), I looked for a few other people who had gone missing and was able to record a number in various counties with relevant names. These data were generally left untouched until, in May 1994, I started a project to record and index the details for certain counties appearing in the first twelve yearbooks.
I chose Northamptonshire, Leicestershire, Bedfordshire and Cornwall. I then added Oxfordshire to complement growing research in that county and Rutland because I noticed its entries were very few, being the smallest English county anyway. The six counties were completed by March 1995 and a database had been created to hold all the data from the registers and it now contained nearly 3,000 records.
I wanted to publish the registers and thought that the six counties would stand better in company with those adjacent. Despite having interests in most west-country counties, I had left the others initially as I thought they were too large to transcribe. However, I carried straight on in Spring 1995 and added more English counties and the whole of Wales (again, it seemed quite small!), until I had transcribed thirty counties from the first twelve books. In January 1996, the database stood at 8,440 records and had exceeded 25,000 by March 1997 and 38,000 by the time of the publication of the twentieth volume (including some later dates) in November 1997.
As at September 1998, forty-two of the fifty-three counties, 1805-1816, had been published in sixteen volumes and the whole database contained nearly 60,000 records. With only three counties to go, the database stood close to 70,000 records.
The database now contains in excess of 77,000 entries.
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CDP1 - South-West (Cornwall, Devon, Somerset & Dorset)
CDP2 - South-Central (Wiltshire, Berkshire & Hampshire)
CDP3 - London (Middlesex & Surrey)
CDP4 - South-East (Sussex & Kent)
CDP5 - Wales & Borders (Wales & Monmouthshire, Shropshire, Herefordshire, Gloucestershire & Bristol)
CDP6 - Home Counties North (Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire & Essex)
CDP7 - West Midlands (Staffordshire, Worcestershire & Warwickshire)
CDP8 - East Midlands (Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, Rutland, Northamptonshire)
CDP9 - East Anglia (Huntingdonshire, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk & Suffolk)
CDP10 - North-West (Lancashire & Cheshire)
CDP11 - North & North-East (Cumberland, Westmoreland, Northumberland, Durham & Yorkshire)
CDPD - Death sentences - persons noted as sentenced to death, although not all were executed
CDPS - Serious Crimes - persons indicted on charges relating to highway robbery, killing, money, sexual crimes and unrest.
CDPT - Transportation - persons sentenced to transportation, although not all were sent to the colonies.
CDPX - Lists surname and county for all 55,000 entries.
CDP201 - Devon & Cornwall
1805-1816: Volume 1 Somerset and Dorset (2,400 records) £4.99 Volume 2 Devon and Cornwall (2,732 records) £5.99 Volume 3 Wiltshire (1,058 records) £3.99 Volume 4 Gloucestershire and Bristol (2,417 records) £4.99 Volume 5 Wales and Monmouthshire (1,252 records) £3.99 Volume 6 Oxfordshire and Berkshire (1,438 records) £3.99 Volume 7 Northamptonshire, Leicestershire and Rutland (1,450 records) £3.99 Volume 8 Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire (1,327 records) £3.99 Volume 9 Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire (954 records) £3.99 Volume 10 Cumberland, Westmorland, Northumberland and Durham (1,626 records) £3.99 Volume 11 Middlesex (1,226 records) £3.99 Volume 12 Hampshire (2,266 records) £4.99 Volume 13 Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire (2,773 records) £5.99 Volume 14 Cheshire (1,558 records) £3.99 Volume 15 Shropshire and Staffordshire (2,446 records) £4.99 Volume 16 Herefordshire and Worcestershire (1,726 records) £3.99 Volume 17 Warwickshire (2,453 records) £4.99 Volume 18 Norfolk and Suffolk (3,383 records) £5.99 Volume 19 Essex (2,037 records) £5.99 Volume 20 Surrey (2,920 records) £5.99 Volume 21 Kent (3,080 records) £5.99 Volume 22 Sussex (1,027 records) £3.99 Volume 23 Lancashire (8,168 records) £5.99 Volume 24 Yorkshire (3,595 records) £5.99 Volume X - Master Index (shows surname and county) £4.99 1817-1828: Volume 25 Cornwall (1,291 records) £3.99 Volume 26 Dorset (1,482 records) £3.99 Volume 27 Bedfordshire (1,165 records) £3.99 Volume 34 Devon (4,826 records) £5.99 Volume 38 Bristol (1,880 records) £3.99 Volume 45 Leicestershire (2,251 records) £4.99 1805-1840: Volume 5A Anglesey (271 records) £0.99 1829-1840: Volume 66 Cornwall (2,614 records) £4.99 Volume 67 Dorset (2,546 records) £4.99
Every County in England and Wales, 1805-1816: Supplement D Death Sentences £4.99 Supplement T Transportation £4.99 Supplement H Highway Robbery £3.99 Supplement K Killing £3.99 Supplement M Monetary Crime £3.99 Supplement S Sexual Crime £3.99 Supplement U Unrest £3.99 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Crown copyright material in the Public Record Office is reproduced by permission of the Controller of Her Majesty's Stationery Office. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------