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Hatfield Broad Oak 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) David Borcut and Joseph Trigge
  • (v) James Speller shopkeeper
  • Burglary
  • Hatfield Broad-Oak
  • Essex Assizes
  • Morning Chronicle 10 March 1825
  • Case
  • (d) James Dodd 28 farmer, John Dodd 28 farmer and William Coe 24 servant
  • Theft
  • Hatfield Broad Oak
  • Essex Quarter Sessions
  • Freeman’s Journal and Daily Commercial Advertiser 23 January 1839
  • Case
  • (d) Henry Moreton 17 labourer
  • (v) Alfred Hockley
  • Burglary
  • Hatfield Broadoak
  • Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1860 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
  • Case
  • (d) Alfred Hockley 42 farmer
  • (v) Matilda Staines
  • Indecent assault
  • Hatfield Broad Oak
  • Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1863 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
  • Case
  • (d) Daniel Isaac Deller 18 labourer
  • (v) Sarah Mundle
  • Theft
  • Hatfield Broad Oak
  • 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 Saltmarsh 26 labourer, William Harrington 21 labourer
  • (v) Samuel Biggs
  • Grievous bodily harm
  • Hatfield Broad Oak
  • Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1865 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
  • Case
  • (d) George Jarvis 29 labourer
  • (v) William Sapsford
  • Theft
  • Hatfield Broad Oak
  • Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1866 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
  • Case
  • (d) William Smith 19 sailor
  • (v) Harrison Challis
  • Robbery
  • Hatfield Broad Oak
  • Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1866 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
  • Case
  • (d) James Sweeting 22 labourer
  • (v) George Porter
  • Theft
  • Hatfield Broad Oak
  • Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1866 and 1867 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
  • Case
  • (d) George Rose 17 carter, John Rose 51 carter
  • (v) Edward Henry Cogswell
  • Theft and receiving
  • Hatfield Broad Oak
  • Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1868 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
  • Case
  • (d) Henry Saunders 17 farm labourer, John Cook 14 farm labourer
  • (v) Alfred Hockley
  • Burglary
  • Hatfield Broad Oak
  • Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1868 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
  • Case
  • (d) Charlotte Burls 53 charwoman
  • (v) William Sullins
  • Theft
  • Hatfield Broad Oak
  • Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1868 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
  • Case
  • (d) Charles Saggs 27 farm labourer
  • (v) William Sullins
  • Theft
  • Hatfield Broad Oak
  • Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1868 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
  • Case
  • (d) Ann Waterman 15 servant
  • (v) Mary Ann Green
  • Theft
  • Hatfield Broad Oak
  • Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1868 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
  • Case
  • (d) John Griggs 49 labourer
  • (v) Charles Challis
  • Theft
  • Hatfield Broad Oak
  • Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1869 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
  • Case
  • (d) George Thompson alias Datz 25 sailor
  • (v) William Pain, William Baker Nicholls, Francis Whitworth, John Newell
  • Burglary
  • Hatfield Broad Oak, Latton, White Roding
  • 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 Church 21 farm labourer
  • (v) Jonathan Edmunds
  • Theft
  • Hatfield Broad Oak
  • 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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