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Great Waltham 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) Thomas Wakeling 60
(v) Thomas Poole farmer
Threats to arson
Great Waltham
Essex Assizes
Morning Chronicle 12 December 1823

Case
(d) John Gowers
(v) Frederick Olive
Murder
Great Waltham
Essex Assizes
Ipswich Journal 18 March 1843

Case
(d) Martha Prior 37 labourer‘s wife
(v) Her infant
Murder
Great Waltham
Essex Assizes
Ipswich Journal 18 March 1848

Case
(d) James Gowers
(w) Walter Clark
Assault
Great Waltham
Chelsmford Petty Sessions
Daily News 9 September 1882

Case
(d) John Terry labourer, Mosiah Mead labourer, Samuel Mead labourer, and John Tilley labourer
Breach of Poor Law
Great Waltham
Chelmsford Petty Sessions
Jackson’s Oxford Journal 30 May 1829

Case
(d) William Day 60 labourer
(v) Thomas Monk
Theft
Great Waltham
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 Moore 29 labourer
(v) Thomas Buck and Joseph Sheldrake
Theft
Writtle and Great Waltham
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 Rank 32 labourer
(v) Charles Hawkes
Theft
Great Waltham
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 Boltwood 27 painter, John Henry Rolfe 32 marine store dealer
(v) Thomas Speakman
Theft
Great Waltham
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 Hance 45 butcher
(v) William Lucking
Embezzlement
Great Waltham
Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1864 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office

Case
(d) Henry Prior 34 whitesmith
(v) Bejamin Simon Snow
Receiving
Great Waltham
Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1867 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office

Case
(d) William Sams 33 farm labourer
(v) Alfred Skill
Theft
Great Waltham
Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1868 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office

Case
(d) Michael William Cosgrove alias Coslow 34 labourer
(v) Thomas Boultwood
Theft
Great Waltham
Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1869 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office

Case
(d) Robert Saffell 19 blacksmith
(v) Thomas Burr
Theft
Great Waltham
Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1869 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office

Case
(d) Henry Winter 36 painter
(v) Elizabeth Mead
Burglary
Great Waltham
Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1870 Q/SMc 10, page 8 Essex Record Office

Case
(d) James Finch 20 labourer
(v) John Fulcher, John Milbank
Theft
Great Waltham, Pleshey
Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1871 Q/SMc 10, page 31 Essex Record Office

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