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History of South Shoebury (Shoeburyness) >> South Shoebury (Shoeburyness) Court Cases
South Shoebury (Shoeburyness) 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 Key 13 labourer
- (v) Walter Tillingham
- Grievous bodily harm
- South Shoebury
- 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 Verriour 22 clerk
- (v) Dale Knapping
- Embezzlement
- South Shoebury
- 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 Froud 39 blacksmith
- (v) John Leach
- Theft
- South Shoebury
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1862 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) William Collings 18 grocer's shopman
- (v) William Gower
- Theft
- South Shoebury
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1863 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) Isaac Purkiss 68 labourer
- (v) John Grose Creeper
- Theft
- South Shoebury
- 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 Slocombe
- (v) John James Stevens
- Theft
- South Shoebury
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1864 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) James Elldridge alias Eldred
- (v) Henry Howe
- Theft
- South Shoebury
- 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 Brown 26 grocer's shop-man
- (v) Charles William Pearce
- Embezzlement
- South Shoebury
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1865 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) Thomas Eve 15 groom
- (v)William Strahan
- Theft
- South Shoebury
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1866 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) Thomas Johnson 24 soldier, James Stibbard 29 Royal Artillery, Michael Byrnes 29 Royal Artillery
- (v) Dale Knapping and William Henry Knapping
- Theft
- South Shoebury
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1867 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) John Cullen 43 soldier Royal Artillery
- (v) William Alp
- Wounding a horse
- South Shoebury
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1868 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) Richard Miller 28 labourer, John Wise 29 labourer
- (v) Henry Golding
- Theft
- South Shoebury
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1869 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) Eliza Mann 30
- (v) Henry Howard
- Receiving
- South Shoebury
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1870 Q/SMc 10, page 25 Essex Record Office
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