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ZQ - Chester Quarter Sessions

A - Administration

AA - Assessments: Wage Rates - 1575

AB - City of Chester Probation Committee - 1928 - 1957

AG - Gaol and House of Correction - 1808-1872

AP - Point of Air Lighthouse Trust - 1775-1889

AR - River Dee - 1800-1831

AS - Quarter Sessions: Administration: Special Sessions - 1864-1880

C - Chester City Coroner - 1442-1973

CI - Coroners' Inquests. - c1442-1839

1 - Coroners Inquests. - 1519-1540

2 - Coroners Inquests. - 1549-1552

3 - This bundle is largely illegible. - 1560-1575

4 - Coroners' Inquests. - 1582-1584

5 - Coroners' Inquests. - 1585-1586

6 - Coroners' Inquests. - 1588-1595

7 - This bundle is faded. - 1594-1595

8 - Coroners' Inquests. - 1602-1604

9 - Coroners' Inquests. - 1610-1617

10 - This bundle on paper, in English. - 1613-1636

11 - Paper, ff.2,3,4a,b, rep. M.S. 1952. - 1658-1668

12 - Coroner's Inquests. - 1669-1673

13 - Coroners' Inquests. - 1674-1677

14 - Coroners' Inquests. - 1677-1684

15 - Coroners Inquests. - 1686-1687

16 - Coroners' Inquests - 1690-1701

17 - Coroners' Inquests. - 1701-1708

18 - Coroner's Inquests - 1708-1714

19 - Coroners' Inquests. - 1715-1726

20 - Coroners' Inquests. - 1727-1740

21 - Coroners' Inquests - 1740 - 1749

1 - Peter Parry on Robert Partington, aged eight, son of Edward, fell over the rails of the Rows while standing on a bench outside his father's house in Watergate Street and was killed. - Aug 8th 1740

2 - Peter Parry and Charles Bingley on Daniel Tier, master of the 'Little Prince' of Glasgow, about 20 tons, drowned while trying to get from the ship into a boat, near the Skinners' premises. - Oct 11th 1740

3a - Thomas Duke on Isabel Booth, wife of Richard Booth, labourer, run down by a horse while walking near the sign of the 'Carpenters Arms' in Boughton and died soon after. - 17th March 1741

3b - Bond for appearance at next court of Crownmote of Thomas Bradshaw, supposed murderer of Isabel Booth.

4 - Charles Bingley on John Jones, soldier in Col Cholmondoley's Regiment, Captain Lee's Company, murdered with a hanger -short sword- by another solder in General Barrell's Regiment. - April 22nd 1741

5 - Peter Parry on Sarah Steward (aged about 18mths) daughter of John and Mary Steward, accidentally stabbed by father when he was quarrelling violentally with his wife. - May 7th 1741

6 - The same on Robert Bailey, drowned when he swam out of his depth at John's Dee Lane End - July 2nd 1741

7 - Charles Bingley on William Hughes, labourer, killed by a fall of earth while digging for clay in a Clay pit in Boughton. - Sep 17th 1741

8a - Samuel Jarvis, on two infant children, one about 6 months old and the other new born, found dead in a vault of a house of Easement in Watergate Street - July 26th 1742

8b - Depositions of Witnesses in above case.

9 - Samuel Jarvis on Richard Jemmions, son of Joseph Jemmions, barber, died from natural causes. - Oct 13th 1742

10 - Depositions of witnesses in above case, including that of Thomas Wilbraham, surgeon.

11 - Thomas Davies on Richard Cooper, yeoman drowned while trying to cross the Shotwick ford. - June 27th 1743

12 - Thomas Davies and Thomas Maddock, on James Fishwicke, the younger, clockmaker, drowned while bathing at Boughton ford. - Aug 8th 1743

13 - Thomas Maddock, on Matthew Molone, mariner of the 'Diligence' of Chester, fell overboard and was drowned at Parkgate. - 25 Sep 1743

14 - The same on Margaret Betson, spinster, killed by part of roof collapsing on her in bed during a storm at the house of James Percivall, swordbearer. - 29 Feb 1744

15 - The same on Robert Jones, servant to Margaret Warrington of Puddington, widow, drowned while trying to retrieve some cloth that had fallen off his cart into the Dee. - June 19th 1744

16 - Thomas Gother on James Clews, poisoned himself by taking arsenic. - July 14th 1744

17 - John Francis and George Fernall, on Catherine Edwards, spinster, burned to death when her apron caught fire. - Oct 22nd 1744

18 - George Fernall on ---- Walker, mason, found drowned on the sands near Blacon Point. - May 4th 1745

19 - John Francis on John Joseph, slipped while trying to get into a 'small sloop' near the Crane and was drowned. - June 1st 1745

20 - George Fernall on John Hughes, alias Meredith, a sailor on board the 'Darran' of Dublin, crushed while trying to clear the sloop from another ship. - June 19th 1745

21 - The same on John Edwards, soldier in the Rt Hon George Earl of Cholmondely's Regiment, Major Marriott's Coy., drowned by the incoming tide while he was bathing. - May 28th 1746

22 - John Francis on George Waring, cordwainer, hanged himself from an apple tree. - April 10th 1747

23 - John Francis and George Fernall on Isabel Loyde, late wife of Robert Loyde, labourer, hanged herself from a beam in her husband's house. - June 27th 1747

24 - George Fernall on Joseph weigh, crushed when he fell in between his own cart and another passing cart while going across the Bridge to Handbridge. - Sep 18th 1747

25 - John Francis on Robert Bosier, died from natural causes while in the Northgate gaol. - 28 Sep 1747

26 - George Fernall on John Bishop, labourer, found a cask of spirits in the in the tables while looking after the horses of Samuel Gellion, carrier, and died of an excessive indulgence. - Dec 20th 1747

27 - The same on John Phillips, carpenter, drowned while making a salmon cage at the end of the Causeway above Dee Bridge. - Sep 17th 1748

28 - John Francis on James Anderson, cut his throat with a sharp instrument. - March 23rd 1749

29 - The same on an unknown woman, drowned while crossing the ford from Pudington [Puddington]. - March 29th 1749

30 - George Fernall on Thomas Roberts, aged about eight years, fell into the river while playing with an old sloop near the Crane. - July 10th 1749

31 - The same on Thomas Hughes, drowned when his boat in which he was bringing coals from the Lower Ferry up the new river, was caught broadside on and overturned by a 'great tide'. Found near the lower end of Brewer's Hall Marsh. - Aug 24th 1749

22 - Coroners' Inquests - 1751 - 1759

23 - Coroners' Inquests. - 1760 -1769

24 - Coroner's Inquests - 1770 -1775

25 - Coroner's Inquests - 1776-1779

26 - Coroner's Inquests - 1780 -1789

27 - Coroner's Inquests. - 1790-1798

28 - Coroner's Inquests - 1811-1819

29 - Coroner's Inquests. - 1822-1826

30 - Coroners' Inquests. - 1837-1839

CR - Crownmote Court Rolls - 1316-1611

F - Finance

FA - Accounts - 1828-1836

J - Justices of the Peace

JC - Commissions of the Peace - 1836-1970

JD - Declarations - 1860-1901

R - Registration and Deposit

RJ - Jurors - 1608-1817

RL - Licenced Victuallers - 1552-1833

RP - Deposited plans - 1772-1935

RR - Sacrament Certificates - 1673-1789

RTB - Transportation Bonds - 1731-1775

RTC - Transportation Contracts - 1764-1775

S - Court in Session

SE - Examinations and Depositions - 1522-1858

SF - Quarter Sessions Files - 1488-1971

SM - Sessions Books Minute Books - 1814-1865

SMP - Sesions Books Register of Prisoners - 1853-1872

SMR - Sessions Books - Recognizance Book - 1780-1798

SO - Order Books - 1799-1866

SP - Process Records Register of Prosecutions, etc.

SPE - Quarter Sessions Fine Rolls - 1561-1634

SPT - Petitions mainly for poor relief or for exemption from poor rate, 16th century. - 1563-1594