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Grays Thurrock 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) Charles George Smith 45 labourer and Ada Smith
(v) George Henry Freeman
Burglary
Grays Thurrock
Essex Assizes
Ipswich Journal 5 August 1887

Case
(d) Samuel Ramsden and Henry James Limeburner
(v) John Syer
Burglary
Grays
Essex Assizes
Ipswich Journal 23 July 1825

Case
(d) George Turp
(v) Major Rasch
Slander
Grays
Grays Petty Sessions
Aberdeen Weekly Journal 27 July 1895

Case
(d) John Linn bricklayer
Theft
Grays
Grays Petty Sessions
Birmingham Daily Post 21 February 1887

Case
(d) Isaac Johnson 28 labourer
(v) Isaac Day
Theft
Grays Thurrock
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 Wicks 23 engineer and Theodore Wicks 25 silk dresser
(v) Alfred Sturgeon and David Montague
Theft
Grays Thurrock and Leigh
Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1861 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office

Case
(d) John Manstree 30 watchmaker
(v) John Reddington
Fraudulent conversion
Grays Thurrock
Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1861 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office

Case
(d) Thomas Bryant 18 labourer
(v) Mary Ann Lazell 6
Attempted rape
Grays
Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1862 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office

Case
(d) William Ford 61 labourer
(v) Samuel Mulley
Theft
Grays Thurrock
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 Brown 22 blacksmiuth, Susannah Harvey domestic servant
(v) Sir Samuel Morton Peto
Theft
Grays Thurrock
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 Bartholomew Fox 50 waterman
(v) Arthur Horncastle
Theft
Grays Thurrock
Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1865 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office

Case
(d) Edmund Johnson 20 bricklayer, John Perrin alias Dale 38 stone mason
(v) William Cottis
Theft
Grays Thurrock
Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1865 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office

Case
(d) Sarah Ann Isaacs 17 domestic servant
(v) James Potter
Theft
Grays Thurrock
Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1866 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office

Case
(d) Isaac Johnson 36 labourer, William Offord 34 bargeman
(v) Gray's Chalk Quarries
Theft
Grays Thurrock
Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1867 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office

Case
(d) John Harrington 40 labourer, Eliza Harrington 34 charwoman, Mary Barry 19 works in lead factory
Uttering counterfeit coin
Grays Thurrock
Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1867 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office

Case
(d) Douglas Callendar
Theft
Grays Thurrock
Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1869 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office

Case
(d) Joseph Atkins 24 labourer, Thomas Rayfield 25 brickmaker
(v) James Seabrooke
Theft
Grays Thurrock
Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1869 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office

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