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Quarter Sessions were also known as Petty Sessions and handled both civil and criminal cases. | Quarter Sessions were also known as Petty Sessions and handled both civil and criminal cases. | ||
State Library of New South Wales has a good guide to finding and using Quarter Sessions Court Records at [http://guides.sl.nsw.gov.au/content.php?pid=400401&sid=3303142 | State Library of New South Wales has a good guide to finding and using Quarter Sessions Court Records at [http://guides.sl.nsw.gov.au/content.php?pid=400401&sid=3303142 State Library of New South Wales, CONVICTS: BOUND FOR AUSTRALIA, Quarter Sessions Court records, 1723-1878] | ||
England's quarter sessions (court) records can prove valuable in the search to discover just where in the country a convict ancestor came from. Numerous convicts to the Australian colonies were processed and tried, convicted and sentenced to be "transported" at The Old Bailey Sessions, one of two major quarter session courts, in Middlesex. See their online database for searching for ancestors' names: [https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/ '''The Old Bailey Sessions.org'''] Last place of residence and occasional place of birth may be cited in these session records. This is a great place to start your search of a convict's origins in especially England. | England's quarter sessions (court) records can prove valuable in the search to discover just where in the country a convict ancestor came from. Numerous convicts to the Australian colonies were processed and tried, convicted and sentenced to be "transported" at The Old Bailey Sessions, one of two major quarter session courts, in Middlesex. See their online database for searching for ancestors' names: [https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/ '''The Old Bailey Sessions.org'''] Last place of residence and occasional place of birth may be cited in these session records. This is a great place to start your search of a convict's origins in especially England. | ||