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History of Orsett >> Orsett Court Cases

Orsett 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) Benjamin Cross 28
• (v) Samuel Newcome farmer
• Arson
• Orsett
• Essex Assizes
• Ipswich Journal 21 July 1849

• Case
• (d) Joseph Boyden
• (v) Samuel Newcome
• Theft
• Orsett
• Essex Assizes
• Ipswich Journal 13 March 1830

• Case
• (d) Maria Lee
• Forgery
• Orsett
• Essex Assizes
• Ipswich Journal 18 March 1848

• Case
• (d) William Turner 45 labourer
• Uttering counterfeit coin
• Orsett
• 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 Baker 35 labourer
• (v) Samuel Newcome
• Theft
• Orsett
• Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1862 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office

• Case
• (d) Henry Skimmings 16 labourer, Alfred Sutton 16 labourer
• (v) Sarah Marriot
• Attempted rape
• Orsett
• 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 Day 27 tailor, John Costlow 52 labourer
• Uttering counterfeit coin
• Orsett
• Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1862 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office

• Case
• (d) Charles Ansell 20 labourer
• (v) William Cowell
• Grievous Bodily Harm
• Orsett
• Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1863 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office

• Case
• (d) Edward Whiting 22 carpenter
• (v) William Robert Holly
• Theft
• Orsett
• 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 Guyver 49 labourer
• (v) John Kempster
• Arson
• Orsett
• Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1864 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office

• Case
• (d) Thomas Green alias Langham 19 tailor
• (v) George Oakley
• Theft
• Orsett
• Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1865 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office

• Case
• (d) William Perry 34 soldier 56th Foot
• (v) Isaac Davey, Alfred Henry Hunt
• Theft
• South Ockendon, Orsett
• 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 Kempster 48 labourer, Joseph Randall 42 carter
• (v) Hezekiah Hollowbread
• Theft
• Orsett
• Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1868 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office

• Case
• (d) Matilda Wilding 26 domestic servant
• (v) Orsett Union
• Theft
• Orsett
• Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1869 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office

• Case
• (d) Thomas Spankest alias Bejamin Collins 26 labourer
• (v) John Carter
• Burglary
• Orsett
• Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1870 Q/SMc 10, page 20 Essex Record Office

• Case
• (d) Felix Major 17 farm labourer
• (v) Richard Bainton, Ruth Newland
• Theft
• Orsett, Bulphan
• Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1871 Q/SMc 10, page 48 Essex Record Office

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