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History of Brightlingsea >> Brightlingsea Court Cases
Brightlingsea 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 source.
- Case
- (d) George Irman smack-owner
- Smuggling
- Brightlingsea
- Colchester Police Court
- Birmingham Daily Post 5 March 1878
- Case
- (d) Emma Woods 16 domestic servant
- (v) John Richardson
- Theft
- Brightlingsea
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1860 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) James Johnson 22 labourer
- (v) Joseph Alexander
- Theft
- Brightlingsea
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1864 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) Thomas Wickham 34 sailor
- (v) David Burgess, Charles Crabb
- Theft
- Brightlingsea
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1865 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) Harriett Woods 17 needlewoman, Sarah Woods 48 wife of William Woods
- (v) Thomas Fuller
- Theft
- Brightlingsea
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1866 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) George Clark 21 sailor
- (v) George Smith, John Girling
- Theft
- Brightlingsea
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1866 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) James Bruce alias Brown 52 labourer
- (v) Thomas Goddard
- Theft
- Brightlingsea
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1866 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) William Simons 54 innkeeper
- (v) John Salmon
- Theft
- Brightlingsea
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1867 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) Marshall Barnes 50 oyster merchant
- (v) John William Jolly
- Theft
- Brightlingsea
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1868 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) John Wilding 35 mariner, Henry Miller 26 fisherman, William Barnard 45 mariner
- (v) William Bragg
- Theft
- Brightlingsea
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1868 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) Daniel Barnes 20 labourer, Robert Pattrick 30 labourer
- (v) Benjamin Cook
- Theft
- Brightlingsea
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1869 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) Edward Pinner alias Pimm 18 fisherman
- (v) Joseph Alexander
- Theft
- Brightlingsea
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1870 Q/SMc 10, page 25 Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) William Davis 45 fisherman
- (v) William Everett
- Attempted murder
- Brightlingsea
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1871 Q/SMc 10, page 50 Essex Record Office
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