Cuckfield Connections

Eastbourne Gazette - Wednesday 15 June 1881 CUCKFIELD. BURGLARY. —A lonely cottage on Moonhill Farm, near St. John's Common. inhabited by...

A serious case of assault has been heard at the Cuckfield Police Court, in which Mr Jeremiah Farrow, a well-todo farmer, from Old Newton,...

Brighton Gazette - Thursday 02 September 1847 CUCKFIELD. Mr Batty’s circus made public entry into this town on Monday morning, and a very...

Globe - Monday 18 September 1837 Base Ingratitude.—At the Lewes Adjourned Sessions, on Friday, Fitzwilliam Burt, aged 22, was ordered to...

Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 06 December 1932 ALLEGED THEFT OF A VICAR’S MOTOR-CAR. LONDON MAN REMANDED AT HAYWARDS HEATH. The theft of the...

Sussex Advertiser - Wednesday 30 March 1864 A soldier in a fix. Cuckfield Court —A discharged private of the 43rd Light Infantry,...

Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 01 June 1886 ALLEGED SWINDLING —CUCKFIELD. The Rev. Robert Thomas Le Ban Auketell (40), no place of abode, was...

Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 17 October 1882 A CURE FOR “PRIGGING.” To the Editor of The Mid-Sussex Times. Sir,— Your remarks in a recent...

Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 16 April 1901 Alleged "Hooliganism”—Cuckfield. Ernest Pateman (17). butcher’s assistant. Cuckfield, pleaded...

Here is a curious example of an eighteenth century 'social security' scam caused by the fear of bank failure leading to a crime of greed...

Sussex Advertiser - Tuesday 19 December 1848 Daring Theft. —On Saturday evening as Mr Martins, shoemaker, of Hurst, was on his way to...

Percy Lefroy Mapleton (also known as Percy Mapleton Lefroy; 23 February 1860 – 29 November 1881) was a British journalist and murderer....

Petersfield Express - Tuesday 04 November 1879 ATTEMPTED GARROTTING A YOUNG GENTLEMAN. —Between five and six on Saturday evening last a...

THE BRIGHTON GUARDIAN, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6. 1862. Attempted Double murder and suicide at Cuckfield —Rhoda Clark, 24, single woman, was...

Brighton Gazette - Saturday 27 August 1910 TOO WELL KNOWN. A Hove Visitor to Cuckfield. William Hobbs, of Shakespeare-street, Hove, was...

Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 23 January 1883 DEPRAVED WOMAN —CUCKFIELD Agnes Colman (48), tramp, who said she came from Norwich, was...

Kentish Gazette - Tuesday 18 February 1812 Offence. —A singular attempt to rob the public house situate at the toll gate, called Pease...

Forgery on the Bank of England Thomas Midmar, aged 47, a miserable-looking man, walking on crutches, was indicted for feloniously...

Sussex Agricultural Express - Saturday 25 January 1890 THE BURGLARIES THE CUCKFIELD DISTRICT. EXAMINATION OF PRISONERS -Yesterday Before...

Sussex Agricultural Express - Saturday 28 September 1889 CUCKFIELD ABUSING MR. K. M. BURRELL. —At the Marlborough-street Police-court,...