![[Product Image]](images/fhp-029.jpg) Quarter Sessions Records for Family
Historians
A Select List
Fifth edition. Compiled by Jeremy Gibson, with assistance from Else Churchill,
Tony Foster and Richard Ratcliffe. 40 pages + inside covers. ISBN 978-1-906280-02-4
Quarter Sessions records are potentially the most useful source for filling in
the background in family history research. In addition to the Sessions’ role as
judicial authority in cases of minor crime (which continued until 1972), they were
the administrative body of each county before the establishment of county councils.
Dating from medieval times, their records often extend back to Tudor times (or even
earlier).
Although not intended as a genealogical source, records of settlement and, occasionally,
apprenticeship may provide such direct evidence. More relevant is the ‘lucky dip’
which may mention family members as magistrates, offenders or witnesses, holders
of minor administrative office and a host of other occupations. Categories of likely
use are listed on the inside cover.
Other Gibson Guides list in detail some of these: Coroners’ Records; Electoral
Registers; The Hearth Tax; Land and Window Tax Assessments; Militia Lists; Poll
Books; and Victuallers’ Licences. There are many, many more to provide
rich pickings for the researcher, as described in Richard Ratcliffe’s recent
Basic Facts about Quarter Session Records.
Much depends on the current organisation of the records, their condition, cataloguing
and indexing. This Guide will tell you just what is there, what is reasonably accessible,
and so on, in the usual style of a Gibson Guide.
Quarter Sessions Records, first published in 1982, has been a valuable
part of the series and this new edition, the first for twelve years, and now incorporating
internet website and email information, will be widely welcomed.
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