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History of Little Waltham >> Little Waltham Court Cases

Little 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.

• Case
• (d) Thomas Moore 30 labourer
• (v) Maurice William Bird farmer
• Arson
• Little Waltham
• Essex Assizes
• Ipswich Journal 9 March 1844

• Case
• (d) Amelia Inners and Sarah Inners
• (v) Eliza Joslin and Susannah Joslin
• Assault
• Little Waltham
• Chelmsford Petty Sessions
• Morning Chronicle 25 January 1832

• Case
• (d) William Cook 14 hawker, Samuel Richardson 12 labourer, Arthur Key 13 errand boy
• (v) John Poulton and Ann French
• Theft
• Little Waltham and Chelmsford
• Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1860 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office

• Case
• (d) Julia Kelly wife of Edward Kelly 43, Elizabeth Davis 37 hawker
• (v) Josiah Gosling
• Theft
• Little Waltham
• 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 Thomas Sams 20 farm labourer, William Brown 18 farm labourer
• (v) William Everett, William Bott
• Theft
• Little Waltham, Bloomfield
• Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1870 Q/SMc 10, page 17 Essex Record Office

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