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Southminster 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) Thomas Scudder publican
- (v) Thomas Newman
- Theft
- Southminster
- Essex Adjourned Sessions
- Ipswich Journal 23 May 1846
- Case
- (d) Mary Ann Thew and William Riches dealer
- (v) George Thew
- Adultery
- Essex Assizes
- Morning Chronicle 10 December 1825
- Case
- (d) Elizabeth Belcham 22
- Murder
- Southminster
- Essex Assizes
- Ipswich Journal 20 July 1844
- Case
- (d) William Gibbons, deputy sexton
- Unlawful exhumation
- Southminster
- Lachingdon Petty Sessions
- Llloyd's Weekly Newspaper 31 October 1897
- Case
- (d) John Grimwood 16 labourer
- (v) George Attenborough
- Arson
- Southminster
- 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 Blow alias Benjamin Hatton 21 rag and bone collector
- (v) William Groom
- Theft
- Southminster
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1861 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) Maurice O'Connell 25 soldier R.A. and labourer
- (v) Adelaide Whatnell
- Rape
- Southminster
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1862 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) Robert Offord 24 carpenter
- (v) James Robinson, William Page, William Eley
- Theft
- Southminster
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1865 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) Alfred Thomas Gordon 30 musician
- (v) Frederick Wade
- Theft
- Southminster
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1866 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
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