Ancestry adds Scottish Indexes' Scottish Crown Counsel Procedure Books index

Ancestry has added the following index to Scottish court records as created by Scottish Indexes (www.scottishindexes.com):

Web: Scotland, Crown Counsel Procedure Books Index, 1822-1877
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/collections/70963/
Source: Scotland, Crown Counsel Procedure Books Index, 1822-1877. Glasgow, Scotland, UK: Scottish Indexes. https://www.scottishindexes.com/ Accessed: 2024.

There is no description of the records on Ancestry's platform (I suspect Scots Law is too much for it!), but there is a guide to them on Scottish Indexes itself, available at https://www.scottishindexes.com/learningccpb.aspx, which notes the following:

The Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (now known as the COPFS) is Scotland’s public prosecution service and sudden or suspicious death investigation authority. Although modern records are closed, we can access historical records and these can be a great resource if you are tracing your Scottish family history. Records for preservation are held by the National Records of Scotland.

We have indexed historical cases reported to the Crown Counsel for an opinion, this is the AD9 collection held by the National Records of Scotland. These are cases where someone was accused of a crime and the Crown Office was asked for an official ‘opinion’.

As is the case today, some went on to the High Court, some to the Sheriff Court or another lower court, and some were dropped. This means that the Crown Counsel Procedure Books acts as a finding aid to other records

NB: Alternative indexing for the records is also available on Old Scottish from 1822-1856 at https://www.oldscottish.com/crown-counsel-procedure-cases.html

Chris

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