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Research & Transcription by Maureen Moore

Burton Latimer residents before
Northampton Assizes

Prisoners at the Assizes

Date Person Details Outcome
11 August 1837 Jesse Dicks, 18, Shoemaker. Charged with having at the Parish of Burton Latimer feloniously stolen a knife of value 6d the property of John Humphrey. To be imprisoned and kept to hard labour in the House of Correction for 1 week and then discharged.
Rev. Jas Hogg, Clerk. 

11 August 1837 Jesse Dicks, 18, Shoemaker. Charged with having at the parish of Burton Latimer feloniousley stolen a handkerchief the property of John Patrick. Pleads guilty, but ordered not to be sentenced on this indiscressent.
Rev. Jas Hogg, Clerk.

Rendered 5 July 1855 Joseph Eady, Labourer Stealing 2 horse shoes, the property of John Eady at Burton Latimer.
Pleaded guilty of Larceny.
Imprisoned with hard labour for 7 days in the House of Correction and to be once privately whipped.


Ann Eady Feloniously receiving said horse shoes knowing them to be stolen. Aquitted by Larceny.

27th October 1856 Joseph Clipstone
Once before convicted of felony and twice before convicted.
Stealing 1 yard of carpet , 2 lbs of Wollen Yarn and 6lbs of Worsted Yarn the property of Thomas Tarn at Burton Latimer on 23 October 1856. Guilty of larcency as a servant , imprisonment with hard labour for 18 months in the House of Correction at Northampton.

7 January 1857 Henry Dunkley, Shoemaker. Stealing one pair of leather boots the property of William Sharpe at Burton Latimer on the 3 January 1857 Not Guilty of Larcency, Once before convicted of felony.

7 May 1857 William Hill, Labourer,
alias Henry Corbett.
Once aquitted for felony
Stealing one pair boots, one pair of shoes and other aricles , value £4, the property of Samuel Patrick at Burton Latimer on December 6 1856, Imprisonment with hard labour for 3 months in the House of Correction at Northampton.
Also stealing a silver watch value £2, the property of Samuel Hull at Burton Latimer on December 6 1856.  Imprisonment with hard labour for 3 months in the House of Correction at Northampton.
To commence at the expiration of the first sentence.


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