I have added another three months of Tipperary Town Petty Court Session records to those I already have online. While that is not a long time, there were over 500 entries in the time period (July, Aug & Sept 1852). Some, of course, like today were held over and so you will find them repeated a number of times, especially those cases against the Waterford & Limerick Railway Company who tended to abuse/use the property of the residents. Again, these are only indexes with names and residents of both the complainants and defendants. There is much more to each entry, such as the offense and the resolution of the case. Many are for stealing potatoes, livestock and clothes. Others for being drunk and/or fighting. Some are for letting their livestock and dogs roam the roads and property of others and not penned in. The dispositions/sentences are also interesting. Of this group, I found probably the most emotional for me were the number of people who were jailed for not having a place to live. Given it was 1852, in the middle of The Famine, these were not rare cases. If you find a name of interest, please get the film and read the rest of the entry. Besides good information about where they lived, witnesses are often related and can added to your family history. So far, I have transcribed the last two months of 1851 and the 3/4s of 1852. It takes me a good 12-14 hours to transcribe a half of year, so this will be a long project, since I interested in the Tipperary Town records till 1862 when my family emigrated to Troy, NY. Another point, while the court is in the Tipperary Town area and covers all the civil parishes in the area, there are also some cases for people in County Limerick. Also, since the records give the place of residency, you get almost as much genealogical information from them as in the Griffith's Valuation and/or Tithe Applotments. Plus, if there were other family members involved, you might just get more information. -- Pat Connors, Sacramento CA http://www.connorsgenealogy.com