This series of articles formed the basis for talks presented in Cocking Village Hall in October 2023 and January 2024. It was inspired by a challenge laid down at a previous talk, and was largely sourced from the files from the Sussex Quarterly Assizes held at West Sussex Record Office in Chichester, and the nineteenth century newspapers held at the online British Newspaper Archive.
John Varndell (1805 – 1816)
The Murder of Captain Sargent (1807)
Mary Andrew (1815 – 1816)
The Kingshott family (1819 – 1851)
Thomas Purser (1822)
Harriet Cooper (1824)
William Horton, James Horton and William Pollard (1831 – 1837)
The Punishment of Children (1839 – 1895)
Henry Bulbeck (1841)
Joseph Clarke (1861)
Charlotte Rogers and Mark Marshall (1863)
P.C. Richard Denman (1864 – 1871)
Mary Ann Dudman (1864)
Drunk and Disorderly (1864 – 1894)
Elizabeth Strotton (1866)
Benjamin Shotter Challen (1867)
Other Crimes of a Sexual Nature (1872 – 1889)
The Killing of George Marshall (1876)
The Railway Comes to Cocking (1879 – 1880)
John Burnand (1879 – 1894)