Catalogue description WESTON SUPER MARE PETTY SESSIONS RECORDS

This record is held by Somerset Heritage Centre (South West Heritage Trust)

Details of D\PS\wsm
Reference: D\PS\wsm
Title: WESTON SUPER MARE PETTY SESSIONS RECORDS
Related material:

For Petty Sessions records among Quarter Sessions archives, see

 

Q/RCe for records of CONVICTIONS, mainly post 1848 1650-1918

 

Q/RCd for DEPOSITIONS 1855-1876

 

Q/RCa for RETURNS OF FINES 1848-1861

 

Q/RCj for JUVENILE OFFENDERS 1847-1890

 

Q/RCb for BASTARDY ORDERS RETURNS 1844-1857

 

Q/RCh for HAWKERS & PEDLARS RETURNS 1821-1830

 

Q/AGs 14/9 for SUMMARY CONVICTION (GAOL) REGISTER 1865-1879

 

For register of licences issued by Long Ashton Magistrates Court, 1989-91 see D/PS/wsm 3/13-14. See D/PS/wsm 9/1-6 for bail forms of people tried at Long Ashton Magistrates court, 1982-90 (these records are closed for 30 years).

 

Please see the catalogue to Long Ashton Magistrates' Court Records (D/PS/lo 13/1-10) for a random sample of maintenance and affiliation orders issued by the Weston super Mare and Long Ashton courts. Also includes, in some cases, evidence produced in court and letters from one or both partners concerning non payment of maintenance or variation of the amount payable owing to ill health, unemployment, etc. All documents are closed for 75 years.
Held by: Somerset Heritage Centre (South West Heritage Trust), not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Weston-super-Mare Petty Sessional Division
Access conditions:

No court register is to be produced until 30 years after the date of the last entry. This is reckoned to be the following January after the 30 year time period. See Home Office Circular Number 37/1968 (copy on SRO file 35).
Immediate source of acquisition:

G 1647

 

G 2723
Subjects:
  • Weston-super-Mare, Somerset
  • Administration of justice

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