Quarter Session Records / Richard Ratcliffe

Description

Quarter Sessions were responsible for the administration of local government before the introduction of county councils. They dealt with an extraordinarly wide range of topics, and their records have a huge amount of information which is likely to be of interest to family historians. Coroners and criminals, printers and freemasons, vagrants and aliens, are just a few of the people who can be found in these records. This booklet tells you how to find information in Quarter Sessions records.