FLINTSHIRE QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS

PUBLIC RECORDS.

Records of the Flintshire Quarter Sessions, 1720-1971, consisting of minute books, 1720-1957; draft minute books, 1818-1912; session rolls, 1747-1941; administration records, 1810-1903; finance records, 1797-1916; enclosure awards, 1777-1870; commissioner's minutes, 1793-1823; plans, 1792-[1943], including plans of roads, [18th century]-1862; canals, 1792-1796; railways, 1824-1935; gas and water, 1839-[1943]; improvement, 1851-1891; piers and docks, 1862-1911; mines, 1874-1913; bridges, 1893-1923; electricity, 1903-1935; plans of the River Dee, 1839-1895; orders, 1871-1923; and records of the Clerk of the Peace, 1729-1860.

Courts of Quarter Sessions were introduced into Wales following the Acts of Union of 1536 and 1543; they met at quarterly intervals. Until the establishment of county and district councils in 1888 and 1894, they were responsible both for judicial matters and the civil administration of the county, including constructing and maintaining roads and bridges, levying rates, relieving the poor, removing vagrants, issuing licences, and appointing county officials; organisations such as Masonic lodges and friendly societies were obliged to deposit their regulations with the Clerk of the Peace. Courts of Quarter Sessions were replaced by Crown Courts in 1971.

Arranged into the following: Courts in Session; administration; finance; enrolment, registration and deposit; and Clerk of the Peace.

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Compiled by Richard Burman for the ANW project. The following sources were used in the compilation of this description: Flintshire Record Office, Quarter Sessions Records catalogue; Hey, David, Oxford Dictionary of Local and Family History, (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1997).

A hard copy of the catalogue is available in Flintshire Record Office and the National Library of Wales.

Compiled by Richard Burman for the ANW project. The following sources were used in the compilation of this description: Flintshire Record Office, Quarter Sessions Records catalogue; Hey, David, Oxford Dictionary of Local and Family History, (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1997).

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Related papers are Flintshire Record Office, PS, Petty Sessions records.