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Boreham 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)James Thorogood alias Thurgood 29, William Thorogood 22, Thomas Thorogood and James Guiver
- (v) William Hales gamekeeper
- (w) Ebenezer Chalk labourer, Joseph Wisbey gamekeeper
- Murder
- Boreham and Fairsead
- Essex Assizes
- Ipswich Journal 8 March 1856
- Case
- (d) James Burgess labourer and John Smee labourer
- (w) Robert Hart and John Plaile 12 bird-scarer
- Poaching
- Boreham
- Chelmsford Petty Sessions
- Morning Chronicle 4 November 1829
- Case
- (d) John Pinder 47 labourer
- (v) Sarah Davey
- Burglary
- Boreham
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1861 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) James Thornton Adams 46 painter, George Sayer 24 millwright
- (v) Henry Richell
- Theft
- Boreham
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1861 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) John King 52 carpenter
- (v) Abraham Warriker, John Lambert, David Lambert
- Theft
- Boreham, Witham
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1863 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) Edward Jiggens 27 labourer
- (v) Mark Ardley
- Theft
- Boreham
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1863 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) James Brand 35 labourer
- (v) Joseph Parks
- Theft
- Boreham
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1866 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) David Richardson 32 labourer
- (v) Charles Cousins
- Theft
- Boreham
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1869 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) Robert Redfern 29 carpenter, Oswald Walker 34 carpenter
- (v) Marian Kate Russell, Sarah Jane Russell, Mary Carney
- Theft
- Boreham
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1869 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) John Simpson 16 farm labourer
- (v) John Lewis
- Robbery
- Boreham
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1870 Q/SMc 10, page 8 Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) William Patrick John O'Riley alias William Rogers 34 shoemaker
- Going equipped for burglary
- Boreham
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1871 Q/SMc 10, page 47 Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) Edward Philip Taverner 26 carpenter
- (v) Charles Turner
- Theft
- Boreham
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1871 Q/SMc 10, page 54 Essex Record Office
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