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History of Dovercourt >> Dovercourt Court Cases
Dovercourt 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) James Goff
- (v) Hannah Patrick
- Theft
- Dovercourt
- Essex Quarter Sessions
- Ipswich Journal 19 October 1872
- Case
- (d) George Peacock dairyman
- (v) Thomas Whitmore dairyman
- Theft
- Dovercourt
- Essex Quarter Sessions
- Ipswich Journal 2 July 1881
- Case
- (d) Samuel Sergeant
- (v) John Brooks
- Theft
- Dovercourt
- Essex Quarter Sessions
- Ipswich Journal 23 February 1888
- Case
- (d) Edward May Sewell farmer
- (v) Emma Smith
- Fraud
- Dovercourt
- Colchester Police Court
- Ipswich Journal 1 September 1894
- Case
- (d) William Pepper shoe seller
- (w) Daniel King grocer
- Fraud
- Dovercourt
- Essex Assizes
- Ipswich Journal 18 January 1881
- Case
- (d) Peter Chisnall 50 labourer
- (v) Philip Moutle
- Theft
- Dovercourt
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1860 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) Thomas Tosbell 54 bricklayers' labourer
- (v) Joseph Rose
- Theft
- Dovercourt
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1861 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) Mary Ann Garnham 19, Susannah Wright 20
- (v) Sarah Sadler
- Theft
- Dovercourt
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1863 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) George Williams alias Charles 24 stone polisher
- (v) Thomas Marston Rutland
- Theft
- Dovercourt
- 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 Wood 40 labourer
- (v) Abraham Jordan
- Arson
- Dovercourt
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1863 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) Robert Brwon 21 labourer
- (v) John Bird
- Attempted burglary
- Dovercourt
- 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 Brown 21 labourer
- (v) John Bird
- Attempted burglary
- Dovercourt
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1866 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) Louis Cherond 28 engineer, Alexander Mostardi 30 interpreter
- Theft
- Dovercourt
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1866 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) Samuel Girling 20 labourer
- (v) Cyrus Addison, William Warner
- Theft
- Dovercourt
- 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 Osborne 39 gardener
- (v) William Hancock
- Fraud
- Dovercourt
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1867 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) William Smith 32 labourer
- (v) William Gooding
- Theft
- Dovercourt
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1869 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) Sarah Moyse 31 widow and needlewoman
- (v) A child
- Murder and attempted suicide
- Dovercourt
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1872 Q/SMc 10, page 82 Essex Record Office
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