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History of Rochford >> Rochford Court Cases
Rochford 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) James Wilmore 17
- (v) John Terry labourer
- Murder
- Rochford
- Essex Assizes
- Ipswich Journal 17 July 1847
- Case
- (d) Alfred Hazell 17
- (v) Emma Hunt 38
- (w) Sarah Chapman and Eliza Ann Bishop
- Murder
- Rochford
- Rochford Petty Sessions
- Birmingham Daily Post 27 May 1893 and Hampshire Telegraph and Sussex Journal 3 June 1893
- Case
- (d) Sarah Sykes 70 sweetmeat seller
- (w) John Sykes
- Lord’s Day Act Offence
- Rochford
- Daily News 1 April 1884
- Case
- (d) Thomas Maguire
- (v) Mrs Bredin
- (w) Rev. Andrew Bredin
- Attempted Murder
- Rochford
- Southend Petty Sessions
- Northern Echo 22 September 1892
- Case
- (d) John Lincoln 27 labourer
- (v) John Chapman
- Theft
- Rochford
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1860 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) William Hazeldon 54 labourer
- Perjury
- Rochford
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1862 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) Thomas White 23 labourer, John Clark 22 labourer
- (v) Rochford Union Worhouse
- Damaging windows
- Rochford
- 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 Ross 19 grocer's shopman
- (v) William Bishop
- Forgery
- Rochford
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1863 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) Samuel Abrey
- (v) Walter Stock
- Theft
- Rochford
- 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 McCarthy alias Thomas Spinks 28 tailor
- (v) William Winkworth Willson
- Rochford
- Robbery
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1865 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) Daniel Beard 16 butcher
- (v) Edwin Platts
- Theft
- Rochford
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1866 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) Samuel Davis alias John Brown 44 labourer
- (v) William Perkins
- Theft
- Rochford
- 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 Abrey 15 labourer, William Perry 22 labourer
- (v) William Taylor
- Arson
- Rochford
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1869 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) John Woods 25 steam ploughman
- (v) Herbert Bush
- Manslaughter
- Rochford
- 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) Alice Frost 17 labourer
- (v) William Bishop
- Theft
- Rochford
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1871 Q/SMc 10, page 54 Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) John Robert Bollock 27 baker and grocer
- (v) William Burrows
- False court papers
- Rochford
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1872 Q/SMc 10, page 63 Essex Record Office
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