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Court Records information for Wigtownshire and places above it in the hierarchy

Wigtownshire

Records of Wigtown Sheriff Court, Stranraer Sheriff Court and Wigtown Commissary Court are held by the National Records of Scotland. An outline of the records is given on a separate page.

An Index to Consistorial Processes and Decreets at the Commissariot of Edinburgh, 1658 - 1800, is available at the Open Library. These are court actions concerning marriage, legitimacy and divorce.

Scotland

Various court records are held at The National Records of Scotland in Edinburgh. These records include records of testaments and inventories, as well as civil and criminal court records.

Court Records held by the Mitchell Library, Glasgow.

UK and Ireland

  • The TNA has numerous Research Guides pertaining to Courts of Law.
  • Many coroners' inquests were subsequently reported in local newspapers  
  • The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640 - "The aim of the site is to make available to scholars, researchers, local historians and genealogists the records of the Court of Chivalry during its heyday between 1634 and 1640. Over this period the court dealt with well over a thousand cases of which it has been possible to recover details of 738. These cover a wide variety of topics relating to the social, political and cultural history of the period, from ship money and the Bishops' Wars to pew disputes and duelling, from heralds visitations and grants of arms to brawls in the street and quarrels at race meetings."
  • An Introduction to Quarter Sessions Records (archived copy), by Richard Ratcliffe.