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Brentwood Court Cases
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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) William Wright 32 hawker
- (v) John Stevens
- Assault
- Brentwood
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1862 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) John Hughes 29 railway porter
- (v) William Argent
- Theft
- Brentwood
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1862 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) John Hamilton 26 barman, Henry Johnson 23 labourer
- Arson
- Brentwood
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1863 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) Jeremiah Merrit 22 labourer
- (v) William Wells
- Theft
- Brentwood
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1863 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) David Bacon 32 carpenter and clerk to the trustees
- (v) Independent Order of Odd Fellows
- Embezzlement
- Brentwood
- 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 Rogers 23 fitter, William Wiley 25 painter
- (v) Henry Wallis jnr.
- Theft
- Brentwood
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1864 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) Samuel Mitchell 21 soldier Royal Artillery
- (v) Elizabeth Humphreys
- Theft
- Brentwood
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1864 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) George Orchard 25 labourer
- (v) Catherine Callaben
- Indecent assault
- Brentwood
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1864 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) William Hall 49 labourer
- (v) William James Cashway
- Theft
- Brentwood
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1864 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) John Green alias Kimpton 33 baker
- (v) Charles Taylor
- Theft
- Brentwood
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1865 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) Susan Livings
- (v) David Edwards
- Theft
- Brentwood
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1865 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) David Doe alias Jones alias William Hatt 28 bricklayer
- (v) William Flatt
- Theft
- Brentwood
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1866 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) Robert Jones 21 soldier Royal Artillery and stone mason
- (v) Charles Everarert
- Burglary
- Brentwood
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1866 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) Sarah Ann Swales 15 doemstic servant
- (v) Richard Crawford linen draper
- Malicious damage
- Brentwood
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1867 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) George French 52 moulder
- (v) Leonard Jackson
- Theft
- Brentwood
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1867 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) Ann Winters alias Stallard 27 domestic servant
- (v) George Whittleton, Ebenezer Bailey
- Fraud
- Brentwood
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1867 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) George Batershal 18 labourer
- (v) GeorgePalmer, Richard William Palmer
- Embezzlement
- Brentwood
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1867 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
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