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History of Ingatestone >> Ingatestone Court Cases

Ingatestone 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) William Welton and Mary Charlotte Field Lorken
  • Murder
  • Ingatestone and Chelmsford
  • Essex Assizes
  • Ipswich Journal 7 December 1844
  • Case
  • (d) Jonathan Henry Price dissenting minister and Priscilla Riffell 20
  • (w) G. Wilkinson farmer, Sarah Ruffell, John Guy station master, Henry Knight ostler
  • Deserting an infant
  • Woodham Ferrers, High Roding and Ingatestone
  • Essex Assizes
  • Daily News 20 July 1849
  • Case
  • (d) Edward Southgate 31 labourer, John Porter 59 labourer
  • (v) Right Honourable William Bernard Lord Petre
  • Theft
  • Ingatestone
  • 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 Reynolds 22 labourer
  • (v) William James
  • Theft
  • Ingatestone
  • 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 Flanagan alias Fitzgerald soldier 12th Lancers
  • (v) Charlotte Havers
  • Burglary
  • Ingatestone
  • Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1863 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
  • Case
  • (d) John Coleby 15 servant
  • (v) D Shearman
  • Theft
  • Ingatestone
  • Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1864 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
  • Case
  • (d) Alfred Blake 28 painter
  • (v) Josiah Smith
  • Fraud
  • Ingatestone
  • 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 Phillips 15 horse dealer
  • (v) William Edwards
  • Theft
  • Ingatestone
  • Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1866 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
  • Case
  • (d) George Warren 16 labourer
  • Unnatural offence with a mare
  • Ingatestone
  • 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 Rutland 22 carpenter, Henry Guy 18 carpenter
  • (v) Sabino Piazintini
  • Robbery
  • Ingatestone
  • 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 Turner Hawker
  • (v) William Spitty Reeve, Francis Brazier Martin
  • Theft
  • Ingatestone
  • Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1870 Q/SMc 10, page 3 Essex Record Office
  • Case
  • (d) Walter Richardson 20 blacksmith
  • (v) Peter Augustus Sewell
  • Grievous bodily harm
  • Ingatestone
  • Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1870 Q/SMc 10, page 3 Essex Record Office
  • Case
  • (d) James Haycock 30 farm labourer, Joseph Shipman 30 bricklayer's labourer
  • (v) Eliza Harvey
  • Fraud
  • Ingatestone
  • Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1870 Q/SMc 10, page 24 Essex Record Office
  • Case
  • (d) Samuel Bannister 35 railway porter
  • (v) Great Eastern Railway Company
  • Theft
  • Ingatestone
  • Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1871 Q/SMc 10, page 41 Essex Record Office
  • Case
  • (d) James Smee 22 farm labourer
  • (v) Richard Thorogood
  • Fraudulent conversion
  • Ingatestone
  • Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1871 Q/SMc 10, page 58 Essex Record Office

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