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Elmstead 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) William Clary 22 sawyer
- (v) John Pilgrim farmer
- (w) John Marshall labourer and Thomas Osborne labourer
- Burglary
- Great Bromley and Elmstead
- Essex Assizes
- Ipswich Journal 15 December 1855
- Case
- (d) Samuel Welham 32 brick-maker
- (v) John Dines
- Murder
- Elmstead
- Essex Assizes
- Ipswich Journal 9 March 1833
- Case
- (d) Daniel Pitchell 35 labourer
- (v) Francis William Johnson and John Dane Ward
- Theft
- Elmstead
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1862 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) Henry William Day alias Smith 18 labourer
- (v) James Taylor, George Marshall, and John Davis
- Theft
- Elmstead and Alresford
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1863 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) William Clements
- (v) John Downs
- Theft
- Elmstead
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1864 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) Andrew Kavanagh 37 34th Foot, John Thomas Wilson 21 carrier
- (v) Henry Gardiner
- Theft
- Elmstead
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1865 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) John Pallant 51 bricklayer
- (v) Sarah Francis
- Theft
- Elmstead
- 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 Brown 22 labourer
- (v) Elizabeth Coker
- Fraud
- Elmstead
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1866 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) John Wilson 45 bricklayer, George Hartley 34 labourer
- (v) Weller Girling
- Burglary
- Elmstead
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1871 Q/SMc 10, page 38 Essex Record Office
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