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Loughton 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) John Bacon and James Wright
- (v) David Powell
- Theft
- Loughton
- Essex Assizes
- Ipswich Journal 5 August 1816
- Case
- (d) George Williams and Edward Edwards
- (v) J.M.T. Turner farmer
- Burglary
- Loughton
- Morning Chronicle 11 December 1823
- Case
- (d) James Monk, John Land and Frederick Phipps
- Theft
- Loughton
- Essex Assizes
- Ipswich Journal 20 December 1828
- Case
- (d) Henry Dennison 25 labourer
- (v) Thomas Goodwin
- Theft
- Loughton
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1860 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) Henry Fitch 40 labourer
- (v) Samuel Sharp
- Theft
- Loughton
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1861 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) James Worthy 22 chemist
- (v) William Long Frith
- Theft
- Loughton
- 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 Parish 20 labourer
- (v) Emily Whitbread under 10
- Indecent assault
- Loughton
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1863 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) William Ricketts alias Benjamin 19 labourer
- (v) Arthur Askew
- Loughton
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1863 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) Thomas Turner 34 labourer
- Driving cart on railway
- Loughton
- 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 Attwood 28 sawyer
- (v) Edward Hase
- Theft
- Loughton
- 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 Pettit 37 labourer
- (v) William Searl
- Burglary
- Loughton
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1867 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) Lucy Smith 39 wife of Frederick Smith, Clara Smith 13
- (v) Caroline Thompson
- Fraud
- Loughton
- 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 Diggings alias Jeremiah 21 works in oil factory, John Jones alias William Osborne 19 labourer
- (v) Joseph White
- Theft
- Loughton
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1868 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) James Pearce 33 labourer, Charles Burling 35 labourer
- (v) Thomas Fletcher
- Theft
- Loughton
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1868 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) Ambrose Draper 29 horse dealer
- (v) Arthur Merryweather, Benjamin Jacobs
- Theft
- Waltham Abbey, Loughton
- 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 Raith 14 plasterer's labourer, Thomas Keetle 15 labourer
- (v) Henry Street
- Theft
- Loughton
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1869 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) James King
- (v) John Whitaker Maitland
- Theft
- Loughton
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1870 Q/SMc 10, page 3 Essex Record Office
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