Cumbria Archive Service - Petty Sessions and Magistrates' Court records
Petty Sessions and Magistrates` Courts
Informal meetings of a few local justices of the peace developed into petty sessions which dealt with minor criminal proceedings. More formal petty sessional divisions or districts within each county were created in 1828. Petty sessions have evolved into the present day magistrates' courts which deal with minor crime and licensing.
Alston records at Carlisle Archives
Alston records at Kendal Archives
Barrow-in-Furness with Bootle and Ulverston - available at Barrow
Bootle (Millom) Records available at Barrow
Bootle (Millom) Records available at Whitehaven
Cumberland Ward (in Quarter Sessions records)
Cumberland Ward (in Carlisle City Council records)
Kendal and Lonsdale and South Lakes
Longtown (in Quarter Sessions records)
Longtown (in Carlisle city Council records)
Millom see Bootle
South Lakes Magistrates' Court
Whitehaven (formerly Allerdale Above Derwent)
Wigton (in Quarter Sessions records)
