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Great Waltham Court Cases
For a full explanation of these court cases and how to further research them, please look at our Essex Court Cases page.
The information is supplied in the following format:
- (d) defendant’s name, age and occupation (when given)
- (v) victim’s name, age and occupation (when given)
- (w) witness names, age and occupation (when given)
- Offence
- Place offence committed and places mentioned where the (d), (v) or (w) lived. Some of the defendants may have been from neighbouring parishes not mentioned by name, or itinerant wanderers.
- The court hearing the case.
- The source newspaper.
- Case
- (d) Thomas Wakeling 60
- (v) Thomas Poole farmer
- Threats to arson
- Great Waltham
- Essex Assizes
- Morning Chronicle 12 December 1823
- Case
- (d) John Gowers
- (v) Frederick Olive
- Murder
- Great Waltham
- Essex Assizes
- Ipswich Journal 18 March 1843
- Case
- (d) Martha Prior 37 labourer‘s wife
- (v) Her infant
- Murder
- Great Waltham
- Essex Assizes
- Ipswich Journal 18 March 1848
- Case
- (d) James Gowers
- (w) Walter Clark
- Assault
- Great Waltham
- Chelsmford Petty Sessions
- Daily News 9 September 1882
- Case
- (d) John Terry labourer, Mosiah Mead labourer, Samuel Mead labourer, and John Tilley labourer
- Breach of Poor Law
- Great Waltham
- Chelmsford Petty Sessions
- Jackson’s Oxford Journal 30 May 1829