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Epping 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) John Bruce publican
  • (v) William Beetham and John Conyers
  • Arson
  • Epping
  • Essex Assizes
  • Morning Chronicle 10 December 1825
  • Case
  • (d) William Frost 20 labourer
  • (v) Arthur Whipps
  • (w)
  • Theft
  • Essex Quarter Sessions
  • Ipswich Journal 5 January 1888
  • Case
  • (d) Henry George King wholesale druggist
  • Manslaughter
  • Epping
  • Epping Petty Sessions
  • Birmingham Daily Post 8 June 1878
  • Case
  • (d) Abi Joan Barton
  • Cruelty to children
  • Epping
  • Epping Petty Sessions
  • Daily News 31 January 1891
  • Case
  • (d) John Wright labourer, Sarah Wright wife, James Shepherd, and Alice Shepherd
  • (w) Emily Wright 11 and James Bowchell
  • Theft
  • Epping
  • Epping Petty Sessions
  • Illustrated Police News 3 March 1883
  • Case
  • (d) George Parker 15
  • (v) Richard Fairchild
  • Theft
  • Epping
  • Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1860 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
  • Case
  • (d) George Harris 18 hawker and George Brown alias Lewiston 19 baker
  • Uttering counterfeit coin
  • Epping
  • Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1860 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
  • Case
  • (d) George Leeks 19 labourer
  • (v) John Rose Gould
  • Embezzlement
  • Epping
  • 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 Green 46 labourer
  • (v) Charles Whipps
  • Theft
  • Epping
  • 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 Bettis 38 hay binder, John Hills 30 hay carter
  • (v) John Flowers
  • Theft and receiving
  • Epping
  • Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1861 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
  • Case
  • (d) Henry Heath 68 labourer
  • (v) William Marsh
  • Theft
  • Epping
  • Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1862 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
  • Case
  • (d) Richard Pavitt 31 labourer
  • (v) Charlotte Wright
  • Fraud
  • Epping
  • Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1862 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
  • Case
  • (d) Benjamin Roberts 16 labourer, Richard Webb 19 labourer
  • (v) George Armstrong
  • Theft
  • Epping
  • Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1862 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
  • Case
  • (d) George Parker 18 labourer
  • (v) George Hine
  • Theft
  • Epping
  • Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1863 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
  • Case
  • (d) Francis Rankin 14 baker
  • (v) Edwin Richardson
  • Theft
  • Epping
  • 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 Abrahart 21 labourer
  • (v) Ray Rushbrook
  • Assault and theft
  • Epping
  • Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1863 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office

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