Breconshire Quarter Sessions

INTRODUCTION

SESSIONS RECORDS

Sessions Rolls

Recognisance Rolls

Order Books

Draft Order Books

Transcripts of order books

Abstracts

Depositions and Summary Convictions

Miscellaneous

ADMINISTRATIVE RECORDS

Diseases of Animals

Bridges

Constabulary

County gaol

Roads board

Shire Hall

FINANCIAL RECORDS

Treasurer's Account Books

Draft Treasurer's Account Book

Unclassified

County rate

REGISTERED, ENROLLED AND DEPOSITED RECORDS

Enclosure Awards

Elections - Memorials of Grants of Annuities

Registers of Electors;

Poll Books

Registration of Electors

Jurors

Returns of Jurors

Returns of Jurors

Oath Books (oaths of allegiance)

Deposited Plans of Public Undertakings

Sacrament Certificates - Breconshire

Miscellaneous

CLERK OF THE PEACE

Correspondence

Letter books. All indexed

Letters

Returns - Prisoners

Miscellaneous

JUSTICES

Commissions of the Peace

Justices oaths

Qualification rolls

Unclassified

UNCLASSIFIED

Unclassified, box 1

GREAT FOREST OF BRECON PAPERS

LIEUTENANCY

BRECONSHIRE TURNPIKE TRUST

Minute books

Deeds poll books

Surveyor's expenditure account books

Miscellaneous

Unclassified

MISCELLANEOUS

Records deposited by Mr K Mason, curator of Brecknock Museum; 3rd July 1984 relating to Breconshire County Council

Breconshire Quarter Sessions: Administration: Committees

Quarter Sessions: Administration: Roads

Clerk of the Peace

Finance

Enrolment,Registration and Deposit

Clerk's Department

Item deposited by Mr Pickering, Deputy Clerk Brecon, Talgarth and Ystradgynlais Magistrates' Courts

Quarter Sessions Administration

Deposited and Enrolled Records

Registration

Unidentified

INDEX

INTRODUCTION

The list that follows is a preliminary one. Its limitations are mostly such as were imposed by the restricted time that circumstances allowed for the work. 'UNCLASSIFIED' is associated with items that still await numbering and possibly await further classification.

This list provides next to no explanatory matter. A most useful companion to it would be 'COUNTY RECORDS' by F G EMMISON and IRVINE GREY (Historical Association pamphlet H62, reprinted 1967). Users, unless they already have experience of working with Quarter Sessions records, are strongly advised to spend a few hours with this booklet before beginning any research. Equally valuable are many of the published guides to the records of individual counties. Those of Essex, Kent and Sussex, among others, have valuable explanatory matter which will help guide the researcher to the classes of records most likely to provide the information he/she is after.

In referring to the four sessions of the year the following abbreviations are used;

H Hilary (or Epiphany or January or Christmas) session. Occasionally this session fell in December instead of January (hence 'Christmas session). Such session will, in this list, be given the date of the coming year, e.g. session in December 1900 would be listed as 1901 H.

E Easter session.

T Trinity (or July or Midsummer) session.

M Michaelmas (or October) session.

All dates in the list above are given in New Style. The session roll listed 1730 H will be that for January 1729/30. In the course of the final preparation of this list, one or two possible errors of classification have been noticed. These errors will have to stand for the time being