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History of Black Notley >> Black Notley Court Cases
Black Notley 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 or archive reference.
- Case
- (d) Joseph Price 40 servant
- (v) Catherine Price
- Poisoning
- Essex Assizes
- Ipswich Journal 21 March 1835
- Case
- (d) George Brewer
- (v) Thomas Alfred Legerton
- Theft
- Black Notley
- Essex Quarter Sessions
- Ipswich Journal 23 February 1888
- Case
- (d) Frank Thoroughgood and William Gooday
- Assault
- Black Notley
- Braintree Petty Sessions
- Birmingham Daily Post 4 August 1890
- Case
- (d) John Rogers 30 labourer
- (v) Thomas Russell, John Clark, William Hutley
- Theft
- Black Notley
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1860 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) George William Hempstead 20 blacksmith
- (v) Thomas Hills Wood
- Theft
- Black Notley
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1860 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) Samuel Watkinson 45 commission agent
- (v) Betsey Laver
- Burglary
- Black Notley
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1866 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) Alfred Staines alias Thomas Stains alias Thomas Gordon Stock 59 groom
- (v) Edmund Clark, Charles Cook, Henry Gibbs, James Hodges
- Theft
- Black Notley, Bocking, Braintree
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1867 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) Frederick Matthews 14 hawker
- (v) Isaac Livermore, George Smith
- Theft
- Black Notley, Stisted
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1867 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) Frederick Matthews 16 shoemaker
- (v) John Wood
- Theft
- Black Notley
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1869 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
- For more on the criminal career of Matthews see Bocking snippets
- Case
- (d) George Wilson 25 blacksmith, John Wakefield 21 bricklayer's labourer
- (v) Samuel Wisbey
- Wounding
- Black Notley
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1871 Q/SMc 10, page 58 Essex Record Office
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