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Shenfield 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 Everitt 42 labourer and David Hunt 25 labourer
- (v) John Emery
- Theft
- Shenfield
- Essex Quarter Sessions
- Ipswich Journal 5 April 1888
- Case
- (d) James Dare and Samuel Langley
- (v) S. Gilham
- Theft
- Shenfield
- Essex Assizes
- Ipswich Journal 7 August 1824
- Case
- (d) David Day
- (v) Thomas Richard Day
- Assault
- Doddinghurst and Shenfield
- Brentwood Petty Sessions
- Ipswich Journal 19 October 1872
- Case
- (d) Thomas Foaker
- (w) Richard Turner gamekeeper
- Poaching
- Shenfield
- Essex Quarter Sessions
- Jackson’s Oxford Journal 29 January 1820
- Case
- (d) George Harris 28 chair maker, James Lake alias Marshall, Harriett Sarah Mason 20
- (v) Henry Brewer and William Bradford
- Theft
- Shenfield
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1860 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) John Smith 38 labourer, Benjamin Smith 16 labourer
- (v) George Nicholls
- Theft
- Shenfield
- 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 Stockton Barrie 19 labourer
- (v) Helen Ann Tasker
- Arson
- Shenfield
- 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 Greenhill 19 soldier 63rd Regiment Foot
- (v) Robert Piggot, James Henry Pigott
- Burglary
- South Weald and Shenfield
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1866 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) William Davis alias Daniel 30 baker, George Smnith 67 farrier, Edward Jefferson 17 gas fitter
- (v) Lavinia Hayward, Julie Cook
- Uttering counterfeit coin
- Hutton and Shenfield
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1868 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) Alfred Greenhill 21 soldier 63rd Foot
- (v) Robert Piggot and James Henry Piggot, John Cumbers
- Burglary
- South Weald, Shenfield
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1868 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) Thomas Green alias James Rainbow 22 sweep, Thomas Goat 21 farm labourer
- (v) William Beadle
- Robbery
- Shenfield
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1868 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) David Thorogood
- (v) Thomas Broyd
- Robbery
- Shenfield
- 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 Burton 18 baker
- (v) Thomas Cast, William Peagram, George Sitch
- Theft
- Shenfield, Mountnessing
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1869 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) Richard Lagden 21 hay binder, Martha Fry 20 prostitute
- (v) John Griggs
- Grievous bodily harm
- Shenfield
- 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 Clark 26 sweep, William Kemp 20 labourer
- (v) Daniel Dennis
- Theft
- Shenfield
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1871 Q/SMc 10, page 34 Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) Alfred Walter Cammell
- (v) Great Eastern Railway Company
- Theft
- Shenfield
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1871 Q/SMc 10, page 34 Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) Joseph Guy 43 labourer, William Parmenter 13 labourer
- (v) Jeremiah Hill
- Theft
- Shenfield
- 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) Joseph Hook 31 farm labourer, Walter Hook 17 farm labourer, David Hook 56 charcoal burner
- (v) Henry Lawrence
- Theft, handling stolen goods
- South Weald, Shenfield
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1873 Q/SMc 10, page 112 Essex Record Office
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