Quarter Session Records of Merionethshire 1733 - 1765 on CD ROM. People used to take others to court for the most trivial & ridiculous of reasons. If you have ancestors in Merionethshire whom you suspect may have lived in the area for many generations then you have every chance of finding them on this CD ROM.
THIS CD ROM OPENS WITH ADOBE WHICH MEANS THAT IT IS FULLY SEARCHABLE If you don't have an ADOBE reader on your PC then just go to
www.adobe.com and follow the download instructions, it's free!
Lets remember we are not suggesting your ancestors were muderers or theives, but simply in many cases these were petty quarrels. Here is an example.
14th May 1763
Robert Jones of Derwen, co. Denbigh, Shoemaker, said that while he was selling his wares at a "standing in the street" at a public fair at Bala on 14th May 1763, he saw Margaret Davies of the township of Rhiwaedog, pa. of Llanfawr, feloniously stealing and carrying away in a linen bag a pair of mens shoes valued at 3d of his own property, and when he pursued her she"endeavoured to hide the bag under some old womans standing", whereupon he accosted her enquirying what she had in the bag and when she replied that she had nothing belonging to him "and was very desirous of getting rid of him", he took hold of the bottom of the bag and threw the shoes out, and he then "secured the said felon and sent for constables to assist him therin" ; also John Thomas of Derwen, aforesaid, Shoemaker, who had been employed for two years as a journeyman shoemaker for the said Robert Jones, afirmed that the said shoes were the property of the said Robert Jones ; and further Margaret Thomas, the wife of Thomas William of Llanarmon, Dyffryn, Ceiriog, co. Denbigh, said that "she saw them thrown out of the said bag by the said Robert Jones as aforesaid ".
