4th Border History Conference, Saturday 12 June 2010: From Pillory to Policeman.
March 20, 2010 - 16:25 — Ian Bailey
Local & Family History Societies in N.Staffordshire & S.Cheshire Present
4th Border History Exploration Day
Saturday 12 June 2010
From Pillory to Policeman : see below for contact
the changing nature of peace keeping names and addresses
in village and town communities
before 1860c – a study of the evidence.
The subject continues previous investigations into an industrialising society and the social welfare of communities. Among many questions worth discussing are :-
Charivari in North Staffordshire: what do you know about this?
Where were the pillories, stocks and pinfolds in south Cheshire?
Parish constables and their accounts – where can you find them? What do they contain? How were my criminal ancesters dealt with?
Who and what were Hundred chief constables?
Who was in an Association for the Prosecution of Felons, when and why? Where were they formed in Staffordshire and Cheshire?
Was Cheshire in the 1830s a pilot county for the reform of policing nationwide?
Lead speaker
to set the agenda :- James Sutton, MA
3 groups to study special topics and original evidence
A. The self-regulating parish
B. Spontaneous special interest action groups
C. Early professional policing in Staffordshire
and Cheshire.
In rural areas and budding towns there were ways of relieving the sufferings of the destitute: there were also ways of keeping peace and order, and they overlapped.
This day is intended to look closely at how ways of maintaining harmony and order changed over the 150 years before the establishment of a professional police force in the later 1850s and 1860s. Scold’s bridles and pinfolds exemplify one way; courts leet and vestries, constables and magistrates figure in other ways; Cheshire Quarter Sessions in the 1830s and private prosecution associations will be noted, and the introduction of professional, uniformed police forces will get special attention.
David Hayns from Malpas will guide the group investigating evidence relating to self-regulating parishes and James Sutton of Alsager will take the group with a focus on Prosecution Societies. The third group on policing will have special assistance from Gerry Mort from the Cheshire Police Museum
Cost £5.00
from 10.15 am to 4.15pm Bring picnic lunch
in the Methodist Chapel, tea and coffee provided
Mow Cop, Stoke-on-TrentFor inquiries, applications for places and further information as planning proceeds please contact
Peter Aston, 3 Ullswater Road, Congleton, Cheshire, CW12 4LX Tel. 01260 280047
email peteraston@btinternet.com
or Paul Anderton, 14 Berne Avenue, Newcastle-u-Lyme, Staffs. ST5 2QJ
email p.anderton.male@btinternet.com
Please make cheques out to Border History.