Denbighshire Gaol Files 1660-1730

Digitised images of many Great Sessions records held at the National Library of Wales have been made available at FamilySearch.org, but without (at present) any item-level metadata.

This resource is a finding aid for documents in Denbighshire gaol files 1660-1730, which I used in my PhD research.

You can browse the data by session via the table below, or download the full dataset for use in a spreadsheet/database.

Caveat: The data is based on working lists I made for my research as a PhD student and should not be confused with a professional catalogue.

Notes

You’ll need to sign up for a FamilySearch account to view images. (It’s free.)

The FamilySearch website doesn’t facilitate linking to sessions, unfortunately: browse the gaol files from here. (And, in case of any problems with the gaol files link, from the Wales Court and Miscellaneous Records main description page, go to the ‘Browse images’ link and then ‘Court records-gaol files’.)

Some file references in FamilySearch are incorrect; the authoritative NLW references numbers are as listed in Glyn Parry’s Guide to the Great Sessions. However, the FamilySearch references are provided here as well, where they differ, for convenience when browsing their images. (The errors look suspiciously like MS Excel date-mangling.)

Document numbers refer to the archivists’ numbering of the original documents, NOT to FamilySearch image numbers. But they should nonetheless aid location of documents within the files.

The documents for 1702-1730 were not numbered when I consulted the files, but they are listed in the order in which they were filed.

Citation

Suggested citation for this resource: Sharon Howard. ‘Denbighshire Gaol Files 1660-1730’ (dataset). 2016. sharonhoward.org/waleslaw/

Sessions

NLW reference Session date   FamilySearch
4/25/1 1660 Sep documents 4/25/2001
4/25/2 1661 Sep documents 4/25/2002
4/25/3 1662 Oct documents 4/25/2003
4/25/4 1663 Aug documents 4/25/2004
4/25/5 1663 Oct documents 4/25/2005
4/26/1 1664 Jul documents 4/26/2001
4/26/2 1664 Sep documents 4/26/2002
4/26/3 1665 Apr documents 4/26/2003
4/26/4 1665 Sep documents 4/26/2004
4/26/5 1666 Mar documents 4/26/2005
4/26/6 1666 Aug documents 4/26/2006
4/27/1 1667 Apr documents 4/27/2001
4/27/2 1668 Jun documents 4/27/2002
4/27/3 1668 Oct documents 4/27/2003
4/27/4 1669 Apr documents 4/27/2004
4/27/5 1669 Oct documents 4/27/2005
4/28/1 1670 Sep documents 4/28/2001
4/28/2 1670 Apr documents 4/28/2002
4/28/3 1671 Sep documents 4/28/2003
4/28/4 1671 May documents 4/28/2004
4/28/5 1672 Sep documents 4/28/2005
4/29/1 1673 Apr documents 4/29/2001
4/29/2 1673 Sep documents 4/29/2002
4/29/3 1674 Apr documents 4/29/2003
4/29/4 1674 Oct documents 4/29/2004
4/29/5 1675 Apr documents 4/29/2005
4/29/6 1675 Sep documents 4/29/2006
4/30/1 1676 Apr documents 4/30/2001
4/30/2 1676 Sep documents 4/30/2002
4/30/3 1677 Apr documents 4/30/2003
4/30/4 1677 Oct documents 4/30/2004
4/30/5 1678 Sep documents 4/30/2005
4/31/1 1679 Apr documents
4/31/2 1679 Oct documents
4/31/3 1680 Aug documents
4/31/4 1681 Apr documents
4/31/5 1681 Sep documents
4/31/6 1682 Apr documents
4/31/7 1682 Sep documents
4/32/1 1683 Apr documents
4/32/2 1683 Sep documents
4/32/3 1684 Mar documents
4/32/4 1684 Aug documents
4/33/1 1685 Mar documents
4/33/2 1685 Aug documents
4/33/3 1686 Mar documents
4/33/4 1686 Sep documents
4/33/5 1687 Mar documents
4/33/6 1687 Sep documents
4/33/7 1688 Apr documents
4/33/8 1688 Oct documents
4/34/1 1689 Sep documents
4/34/2 1690 Apr documents
4/34/3 1690 Sep documents
4/34/4 1691 Mar documents
4/34/5 1691 Sep documents
4/34/6 1692 Mar documents
4/34/7 1692 Sep documents
4/35/1 1693 Jun documents
4/35/2 1693 Sep documents
4/35/3 1694 Mar documents
4/35/4 1694 Sep documents
4/35/5 1695 Mar documents
4/35/6 1695 Sep documents
4/36/1 1696 Mar documents
4/36/2 1696 Sep documents
4/36/3 1697 Mar documents
4/36/4 1697 Sep documents
4/36/5 1698 Apr documents
4/37/1 1699 Mar documents
4/37/2 1699 Sep documents
4/37/3 1700 Mar documents
4/37/4 1700 Sep documents
4/37/5 1701 Apr documents
4/37/6 1701 Sep documents
4/38/1 1702 Apr documents
4/38/2 1702 Aug documents
4/38/3 1703 Mar documents
4/38/4 1703 Aug documents
4/38/5 1704 Mar documents
4/38/6 1704 Aug documents
4/38/7 1705 Mar documents
4/38/8 1705 Sep documents
4/39/1 1706 Mar documents
4/39/2 1706 Sep documents
4/39/3 1707 Apr documents
4/39/4 1707 Aug documents
4/39/5 1708 Mar documents
4/39/6 1708 Sep documents
4/39/7 1709 Apr documents
4/39/8 1709 Sep documents
4/40/1 1710 Mar documents
4/40/2 1710 Sep documents
4/40/3 1711 Mar documents
4/40/4 1711 Sep documents
4/40/5 1712 Mar documents
4/40/6 1712 Sep documents
4/40/7 1713 Mar documents
4/40/8 1713 Sep documents
4/40/9 1714 Mar documents
4/41/1 1714 Sep documents
4/41/2 1715 Mar documents
4/41/3 1715 Sep documents
4/41/4 1716 Mar documents
4/41/5 1716 Sep documents
4/41/6 1717 Apr documents
4/41/7 1717 Sep documents
4/41/8 1718 Apr documents
4/42/1 1718 Sep documents
4/42/2 1719 Mar documents
4/42/3 1719 Sep documents
4/42/4 1720 Apr documents
4/42/5 1720 Sep documents
4/42/6 1721 Mar documents
4/42/7 1721 Sep documents
4/42/8 1722 Mar documents
4/43/1 1722 Sep documents
4/43/2 1723 Apr documents
4/43/3 1723 Sep documents
4/43/4 1724 Mar documents
4/43/5 1724 Sep documents
4/43/6 1725 Mar documents
4/43/7 1725 Sep documents
4/43/8 1726 Apr documents
4/43/9 1726 Sep documents
4/43/10 1727 Mar documents
4/44/1 1727 Sep documents
4/44/2 1728 Apr documents
4/44/3 1728 Sep documents
4/44/4 1729 Mar documents
4/44/5 1729 Sep documents
4/44/6 1730 Mar documents
4/44/7 1730 Aug documents