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Thorpe le Soken 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 source reference.
- Case
- (d) James Smith 29 chimney sweeper and John Nicholls 49 stone-dredger
- (v) John Martin Leake
- Arson
- Thorpe
- Essex Assizes
- Ipswich Journal 6 March 1852
- Case
- (d) John Nicholls 32 labourer and William Gull 28 butcher
- (v) Elizabeth Rolph
- Theft
- Thorpe-le-Soken
- Essex Assizes
- Ipswich Journal 18 July 1846
- Case
- (d) Nathaniel Grubb and William Hellen
- (v) James Nicholson
- Theft
- Thorpe-le-Soken and Weeley
- Essex Assizes
- Ipswich Journal 13 March 1830
- Case
- (d) Walter Eley 13 labourer, Hercules Mann 21 labourer
- (v) David Hearsum and John Scott
- Burglary and receiving
- Thorpe-le-Soken and Kirby
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1860 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) Robert Felgate 43 labourer
- (v) Barnabas Pettitt
- Theft
- Thorpe-le-Soken
- 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 Smith 40 labourer
- (v) James Rolph
- Theft
- Thorpe-le-Soken
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1863 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) Joseph Bowles 19 labourer, George King 26 tinker
- (v) James Holby, Robert Sallows
- Theft and burglary
- Thorpe-le-Soken
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1864 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) George Watson 34 clerk, George Jones 43 ostler
- (v) Robert Hardy, William Nicholson
- False pretences
- Thorpe-le-Soken
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1864 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) John Wanstall 40 railway labourer
- Unnatural offence
- Thorpe-le-Soken
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1864 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) Samuel Hook 30 labourer
- (v) Julia Bertha Cotton 6
- Attempted indecent assault
- Thorpe-le-Soken
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1865 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) Henry Burnett 22 painter
- (v) George Abbs, Walter Smith
- Fraud
- Thorpe-le-Soken, Walton
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1869 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office
- Case
- (d) Bejamin Jaggard alias Benjamin Wiles Jaggard
- (v) William Edwin Bear
- Theft
- Thorpe-le-Soken
- Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1870 Q/SMc 10, page 28 Essex Record Office
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