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Notes and Queries

The following notes are by no means comprehensive but give an indication of where to look for further information.

Peterborough Archives

Peterborough Archives have the following records:
Commissioners minute books PAS/PCC/1/1 1790-1812 and PAS/PCC/1/2 1812-1844 (are there other volumes between 1844 and 1857 somewhere in private ownership yet to be found?)
Sanitary and Sewerage minute book (covers watch items) 1850-1870 PCC/6/3/22/1
N.B. searching their online catalogue on "police" brings up no fewer that 348 records.

Northampton Archives

Appointment of Parish Constables in Liberty of Peterborough
Reference QS/CC/260/588
Date 1892 - 1892
Appointment of Parish Constables in Liberty of Peterborough - case for counsel as to validity of by Peterborough Quarter Sessions, and legality of overseers refusing to nominate, with opinion of W Graham, December 1892.

Liberty of Peterborough Police Account Books
Reference ML/657 and ML/658
1867 - 1874 and 1874 - 1891
Date 1867 - 1891
Payments and income for police force. Also superannuation fund accounts.

Petty and Quarter Session Books of Evidences
Reference ML/659 and ML/660
1859 - 1867 and 1874 - 1889
Liberty of Peterborough. Sworn evidence, name of Justices, signed for (?) case, and witnesses signatures. From Peterborough gaol, 1954.

Cambridgeshire Archives

Hold the collection of police related records belonging to the Cambridgeshire Constabulary Museum deposited when the Museum lost its premises at Thorpe Wood in the 1990s

Huntingdonshire Archives

Hold the records of the Huntingdonshire Quarter Sessions and the Huntingdonshire Constabulary.

 
 

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