Catalogue description BOLTON BOROUGH QUARTER SESSIONS

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Reference: QBO
Title: BOLTON BOROUGH QUARTER SESSIONS
Description: 1. ORDER BOOKS; 2. POST-TRIAL CALENDARS OF PRISONERS; 3. INDICTMENT FILES; 4. CASE FILES (INCLUDING DEPOSITIONS AND APPEALS); 5. RECORDERS' NOTE BOOKS; 6. REGISTERS; 7. CORRESPONDENCE FILES.
Date: 1839-1971
Related material:

Records of the Lancashire County Court of Quarter Sessions are available at the Lancashire Record Office.
Held by: Bolton Archives and Local Studies Service, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Bolton Quarter Sessions
Subjects:
  • Bolton, Lancashire
  • Administration of justice
  • Local government
Administrative / biographical background:

The Borough of Bolton, as incorporated in 1838, was granted a separate Court of Quarter Sessions on 9th May 1839. The jurisdiction of the Court was limited to the confines of the Borough as originally incorporated and as extended in 1872, 1877 and 1898. Owing to a prolonged dispute concerning the validity of the Borough Charter, the Court transacted virtually no business between January 1840 and October 1842. During that period, and in the years before 1839, cases from Bolton were usually heard by the Lancashire County Quarter Sessions, held by adjournment for the Hundred of Salford, at Salford or Manchester.
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