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Halstead 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 Cook
• (v) Josiah Sharp
• False Pretences
• Halstead
• Essex Assizes
• Ipswich Journal 5 August 1887

• Case
• (d) John Gould 45 farmer, John Bryant 23 labourer, Edward Edwards 24 labourer, Abraham Rayner and William Goodey 40 bricklayer
• (v) Thomas Coe
• Burglary
• Halstead
• Essex Assizes
• Ipswich Journal 29 July 1848

• Case
• (d) Abraham Rayner weaver and labourer
• (v) George De Horne Vaizey farmer
• (w) Edward Byford labourer, Dinah Amos, Richard Hedingham and Thomas Fletcher weaver
• Arson
• Halstead
• Essex Assizes
• Ipswich Journal 17 February 1838

• Case
• (d) William Woolmer alias Walter Beetle 23 labourer
• (v) David Downs
• (w) George West (a boy)
• Theft
• Halstead
• Essex Quarter Sessions
• Ipswich Journal 4 January 1879

• Case
• (d) Joseph Gooday
• (v) John Johnson
• Assault
• Halstead
• Essex Assizes
• Ipswich Journal 13 July 1833

• Case
• (d) William Saxby 9
• (v) John Kempson
• Arson
• Ramsey
• Essex Assizes
• Ipswich Journal 20 July 1844

• Case
• (d) William Warwick
• (v) Sarah Elizabeth Succamore 6
• Assault
• Halstead
• Essex Assizes
• Ipswich Journal 4 March 1837

• Case
• (d) Charles Wilkin 17 labourer and Harry Constable 17 hawker
• (v) Charles Dakin Green
• Theft
• Halstead
• Essex Quarter Sessions
• Ipswich Journal 23 February 1888

• Case
• (d) Maria Hawley 18 servant
• Murder
• Halstead
• Halstead Petty Sessions
• Liverpool Mercury 16 October 1880

• Case
• (d) Lazarus Hempstead 49 weaver
• (v) Ann Hempstead
• Murder
• Halstead
• Essex Assizes
• Ipswich Journal 10 March 1855 and Annual Register on Google Books

• Case
• (d) Issac Dent, George Howard, Alfred Bragg and George Wicker
• (w) John Stribling
• Theft
• Halsted
• Halsted Petty Sessions
• Newcastle Courant 4 January 1867