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Witham Court Cases

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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.

• Case
• (d) George Arrey
• (v) John Roger Arnold
• Theft
• Witham
• Essex Assizes
• Ipswich Journal 5 August 1816

• Case
• (d) Thomas Marchant Tomkin surgeon
• Unlicensed lunatic asylum
• Witham
• Essex Assizes
• Ipswich Journal 15 March 1862
  Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1862 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office

• Case
• (d) Mary Ffitch
• (v) Stephen Ffitch
• (w) Catherine Thurgood
• Arson
• Witham
• Essex Assizes
• Ipswich Journal 13 March 1858

• Case
• (d) Jethro Brittain (a boy)
• Throwing stones at railway engine
• Witham
• Essex Assizes
• Ipswich Journal 20 July 1861

• Case
• (d) Isaac Biggs
• (v) Mary Hearthen
• Assault
• Witham and Langford
• Essex Assizes
• Jackson’s Oxford Journal 24 March 1821

• Case
• (d) Reuben Collins 21 solicitor's writer
• (v) Hannah Stammers
• Procuring miscarriage
• Witham
• Essex Assizes
• Liverpool Mercury 17 August 1821

• Case
• (d) James Cook 16
• (v) William Green and Sarah Warren
• Arson
• Witham
• Essex Assizes
• Newcastle Courant 21 March 1829

• Case
• (d) John Saggart post-boy
• (v) Thomas Spillman
• (w)
• Manslaughter
• Witham
• Essex Assizes
• Morning Chronicle 18 March 1809

• Case
• (d) George Braziliero Standfast 22 portrait painter
• (v) Edmund Pink
• (w) Mary Denise Pink
• Assault
• Witham
• Essex Assizes
• Ipswich Journal 18 July 1846

• Case
• (d) Stephen Foster
• (v) Mary Ann Spaull
• Civil case - Breach of promise
• Witham
• Chelmsford Assizes
• The Examiner 20 July 1844

• Case
• (d) George David Morris 21
• (v) Rosalie Potter 19
• (w) Arthur Lee
• Threatening to murder
• Witham
• Witham Petty Sessions
• Llloyd's Weekly Newspaper 28 September 1879

• Case
• (d) Samuel Joseph Ashby postmaster
• (w) William Wright sub-postmaster at Terling, Sophia Gull clerk
• Theft
• Witham
• Witham Petty Sessions
• Ipswich Journal 11 July 1888

• Case
• (d) John Wakefield 29 labourer
• (v) Sara Algar and Emma Ward
• Uttering counterfeit coin
• Witham
• Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1860 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office

• Case
• (d) Thomas Savill 28 labourer
• (v) Richard Sutton Cheek
• Theft
• Witham
• 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 Trew 54 labourer
• (v) Samuel Barber constable
• Encouraging assault
• Witham
• 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 Ramsey 16 labourer, Walter Ridgwell 16 labourer, William Ives 14 labourer, Henry Hughes 18 labourer
• (v) Robert Partridge
• Theft
• Witham
• 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 Ager 18 labourer, Richard Butler 22 labourer
• (v) Frederick Hunter
• Theft
• Witham
• Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1862 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office

• Case
• (d) John King 52 carpenter
• (v) Abraham Warriker, John Lambert, David Lambert
• Theft
• Boreham, Witham
• 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 Green 28 labourer
• (v) Joseph Brand
• Theft
• Witham
• Calendars of prisoners for Essex Quarter Sessions, Essex Assizes and Special Sessions of Gaol Delivery, 1864 Q/SMc 9, Essex Record Office

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