407,336
edits
England Petty Session Records: Difference between revisions
no edit summary
(Created page with "''England Image:Gotoarrow.png England Court Records'' Petty sessions were minor courts presided over by two or more magistrates (JPs) and have ...") |
No edit summary |
||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
''[[England]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] [[England Court Records|England Court Records]]'' | ''[[England]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] [[England Court Records|England Court Records]]'' | ||
Petty sessions were minor courts presided over by two or more magistrates (JPs) and have been held in some, but not all, counties since Tudor times. They were open courts trying lesser offences and enquiring into (summary trials of) indictable ones, and are now called ''magistrates courts'' or ''police courts.'' | Petty sessions were minor courts presided over by two or more magistrates (JPs) and have been held in some, but not all, counties since Tudor times. They were open courts trying lesser offences and enquiring into (summary trials of) indictable ones, and are now called ''magistrates courts'' or ''police courts.'' | ||
| Line 16: | Line 16: | ||
<br> Records were kept by the clerk of the peace but survival of the 17th-18th century ones is not good, but occasionally a journal or private papers of a clerk of the peace or magistrate have survived and can be utilized instead. Petty session minutes are available at county archives and much has been filmed and can be found in the FamilySearch Catalog under COUNTY - PLACE - COURT RECORDS. | <br> Records were kept by the clerk of the peace but survival of the 17th-18th century ones is not good, but occasionally a journal or private papers of a clerk of the peace or magistrate have survived and can be utilized instead. Petty session minutes are available at county archives and much has been filmed and can be found in the FamilySearch Catalog under COUNTY - PLACE - COURT RECORDS. | ||
Some minutes have been transcribed and published, for example for the Surrey hundreds of Copthorne and Effingham 1784-1793 (Webb 1989), and the Marlborough, Wiltshire petty sessions (Cole 1998a). Indexes are appearing as well, for example for the [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mrawson/ Sevenoaks, Kent petty sessions] 1812-1850.<ref name="chris">Christensen, Penelope. "England Petty, Borough, and Quarter Sessions (National Institute)," ''The National Institute for Genealogical Studies'' (2012), https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/England_Petty,_Borough,_and_Quarter_Sessions_%28National_Institute%29.</ref> | Some minutes have been transcribed and published, for example for the Surrey hundreds of Copthorne and Effingham 1784-1793 (Webb 1989), and the Marlborough, Wiltshire petty sessions (Cole 1998a). Indexes are appearing as well, for example for the [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mrawson/ Sevenoaks, Kent petty sessions] 1812-1850.<ref name="chris">Christensen, Penelope. "England Petty, Borough, and Quarter Sessions (National Institute)," ''The National Institute for Genealogical Studies'' (2012), https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/England_Petty,_Borough,_and_Quarter_Sessions_%28National_Institute%29.</ref> | ||
<br> | |||
== References == | == References == | ||
[[Category: | {{reflist}} | ||
[[Category:Court_records_of_England]] | |||