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History of Great Coggeshall >> Great Coggeshall Court Cases

Great Coggeshall 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) Anthony Patten, sen, farmer
• (v) Charles Skingley
• Theft
• Chappel and Coggeshall
• Colchester Magistrates Court
• Ipswich Journal 14 October 1848

• Case
• (d) John Colman and Henry Kitchen
• Theft
• Great Coggeshall
• Essex Assizes
• Ipswich Journal 11 March 1826

• Case
• (d) John Ardley
• (v) Francis Ruffle
• (w) Hannah Ruffle, Nathaniel Prior constable. Maria Everett, Hannah Marshall, and Thomas Quilter farmer
• Burglary
• Great Coggeshall and Earls Colne
• Essex Assizes
• Ipswich Journal 20 December 1828

• Case
• (d) James Collins
• (v) Hannah Wiseman
• Assault
• Great Coggeshall
• Essex Assizes
• Ipswich Journal 4 March 1837

• Case
• (d) Thomas Belsham 23 labourer and Job Belsham 17 labourer
• (v) Francis Fellows
• Assault
• Little Coggesgall
• Essex Assizes
• Ipswich Journal 21 March 1835

• Case
• (d)William Everett and Alfred Allen
• Failing to send child to school
• Great Coggeshall
• Witham Petty Sessions
• Ipswich Journal, 9 May 1888

• Case
• (d) Alfred Wright 33 labourer
• (v) John Kemp King
• Theft
• Great Coggeshall
• 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 Spurgeon 54 shoemaker
• (v) William Gentry Dennis
• Theft
• Great Coggeshall
• 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 Spurgeon jnr., 31 weaver
• (v) William Bryan
• Theft
• Great Coggeshall
• 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 Cowall alias Cowlin 32 labourer
• (v) Sampson Davis
• Theft
• Great Copggeshall
• 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 Smith
• (v) Alice Evans
• Indecent assault
• Great Coggeshall
• Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1864 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office

• Case
• (d) Edward Hammond 30 bricklayer
• (v) Henry Coe
• Theft
• Great Coggeshall
• 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 Nichols 33 weaver
• (v) William Gentry Dennis
• Killing a sheep
• Great Coggeshall
• Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1866 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office

• Case
• (d) Jonah Beckwith 42 labourer, Caroline Dench 40
• (v) Arthur Dursell
• Theft
• Great Coggeshall
• Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1867 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office

• Case
• (d) Arthur King 32 brickmaker
• (v) Thomas Luckin
• Assaulting a constable
• Great Coggeshall
• Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1869 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office

• Case
• (d) William Kitson 31 labourer, Alfred Kitson 34 labourer
• (v) Matthias Alfred Gardiner
• Theft
• Great Coggeshall
• Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1871 Q/SMc 10, page 32 Essex Record Office

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