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Frating 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.
- Case
- (d) George Barry Lough
- (v) Joseph Woollard
- (w) Mary Ann Haynes
- Burglary
- Frating
- Essex Adjourned Sessions
- Ipswich Journal 20 May 1854
- Case
- (d) Alfred Pretty 16 labourer
- (v) James Wright
- Arson
- Frating
- 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 Smith 33 labourer
- (v) Rev. Richard Diffield
- Theft
- Frating
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1862 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) Joseph Smith 52 rat catcher
- (v) William Mortimer
- Theft
- Frating
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1862 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) Ann Clarke 25 hawker, Mary Ann King alias Johnson 32 hawker
- (v) Ann Cross, John Page
- Fraud
- Frating, Little Bentley
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1865 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) Joseph Rose 23 labourer, George Bugg 27 farm labourer
- (v) James Fisher, Isaac Jacons, William Threadgall
- Theft
- Frating
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1868 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
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