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History of Great Baddow >> Great Baddow Court Cases
Great Baddow 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 Campion labourer, Charles Coote labourer and Joseph Saveall labourer
- (v) Elizabeth Ashfield shop owner
- (w) Sarah Moore, Joseph Ruffle publican, James Gilby ploughman, John Grave Brett farmer, George Tirmis constable, George Mayhew, and James Brown labourer
- Burglary
- West Hanningfield, Great Baddow and Galleywood Common
- Chelmsford Petty Sessions
- Morning Chronicle 4 November 1829
- Case
- (d) John Hills 21 labourer
- (v) Sarah Leslie 40
- (w) Thomas Ramsey
- Rape
- Great Baddow
- Essex Assizes
- The Hull Packet 7 August 1832
- Case
- (d) Samuel Newcomb and Charles Newcomb
- (v) Mary Harris
- Attempted Murder
- Great Baddow
- Essex Assizes
- Morning Chronicle 10 August 1829
- Case
- (d) John Hall 50 carpenter and builder
- (v) Alfred Barker and William Rayment
- Theft
- Danbury and Great Baddow
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1861 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) Charles Mills 42 labourer
- (v) William Symonds
- Theft
- Great Baddow
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1861 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) George Francis 17 labourer, William Edwards 29 labourer, James Harris 22 labourer, Stephen Lett 25 labourer
- (v) James Albra and Lazarus Banks
- Theft and assualt
- Chelmsford and Great Baddow
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1862 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) John Thoimpson 18 lanchashire weaver
- (v) Henry Scotcher and James Tyler
- Theft and burglary
- Great Baddow and West Hanningfield
- 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 Haisman 24 tailor
- (v) Samuel Walker
- Theft
- Great Baddow
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1863 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) Walter Tyler 21 labourer
- (v) Richard Hutley Crabbe
- Theft
- Great Baddow
- 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 Simons 40 baker
- (v) Henry Pain
- Theft
- Great Baddow
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1865 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) Mary Smith 40 wife of Thomas
- Uttering counterfeit coin
- Great Baddow
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1866 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) Henry White 20 news vendor
- Fraud
- Great Baddow
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1868 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) Benjamin Wilks 59 rag dealer
- (v) Arthur George Rayner
- Theft
- Great Baddow
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1869 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) Charles Brazier alias Edgar Charles Brazier 16 carpenter and engine driver, Cornelius Oddy alias William Eve 29 shoemaker
- (v) Sophia Brazier
- Burglary
- Great Baddow
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1869 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) John Barrett alias James Oggans 22 bricklayer's labourer
- (v) Frederick William Parke
- Theft
- Great Baddow
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1869 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) Walter Bird 25 labourer
- (v) Robert Rudlin, Ann Beckett, William Beckett
- Fraud
- Great Baddow
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1869 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) James Pilgrim 33 rope maker
- (v) Robert Edwin Rudlin
- Theft
- Great Baddow
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1870 Q/SMc 10, page 14 Essex Record Office
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