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Monday 30 January 2012

BLACK-A MOOR'S HEAD, Lancaster Road

BLACK-A-MOOR'S HEAD   #
Chadwick's Orchard
Lancaster Street
Ormskirk Road  (this could be erroneous)
Lancaster Road
175 Lancaster Road South
92 Lancaster Road
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The above changes have occurred because of alterations to the
name of highways over the years.
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The leaded light that the PC brigade find distasteful - hard to believe really!! - personal comment.

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MINE HOSTS:
On Saturday 1st January 1831, the Preston Chronicle carried an advertisement stating that this "new" inn was TO LET:  "THE BLACKMOOR'S HEAD"See below.
1831 -32           Mr. Pemberton
1833 - 34          Mr. Park
1837                 Mr. J. Heatley
1838 - 45         Thomas Ashcroft     d. 11.7.1845 aged 38 years.
1845 -              Mary Ashcroft - wife of Thomas.
1850 - 51         Thomas Smith
1853                 James Smith - wife, Mary, died 4th December 1856, aged 59 years.
1854                 William Smith
1857 - 73         George Smith
1875                Elizabeth Smith
1875 - 83         Daniel Ashcroft   (Auctioneer and owner)
1881                David Ashcroft  (Daniel still named in Court papers)
Oct 1883 -       George Wilson.  PNE footballer.  Presumably just a manager of the pub?
Feb. 1884  License transferred from Cllr Ashcroft to Charles Smith (Traveller) Preston Chronicle 23.2.1884.
1884 - 86         Henry Smith
1887 - 88         Mark Bilsborough
1888 - 89         James Sharrock
1889                William Barnes
1890 - 92         James Trainer (Trainer was the goalkeeper in the P.N.E. Old Invincibles Team)
1895 - 1901     Daniel Ashcroft Jnr.
1902                John Cave   * See below re: Cave family.
1904                John Chadwick
1907                Edward Watt
1910                F.E. Dickinson
1913                Joe Spencer
1917                Thomas Hall
1926 - 27        George Barton
1927                Herbert Leo Walsh
1928 - 36        Charles Holland
1940 - 46        John Carter
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TO INNKEEPERS AND PUBLICANS
TO BE LET
FOR A TERM OF YEARS
A NEW PUBLIC HOUSE, or INN, in Lancaster Street, Preston, called the
"BLACKMOOR'S HEAD".  with the Brewhouse, Stables, Yard, and
extensive conveniences attached.
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The building is quite new, and are most substantially built, the house is 40 foot
wide in front to Lancaster Street, and 60 foot deep, and contains on the ground 
floor, two parlours, Bar, and Snug-kitchen, Back Kitchen, Brew-house, &c.

First floor: Dining Room 44 feet long, one large sitting room, two bedrooms and 
store room. Second floor: Seven bedrooms and a large Barrack-room, the entrance
to which is unconnected with the house. The Cellars and Vaults are very capacious.
The Yard is 50 feet long by 20 deep, and contains excellent Stabling and Cattle Pens.
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They have been constructed more immediately for the accomodation of Commercial 
Travellers, Farmers and Clubs.
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Apply to Mr. William Park, on the premises.
Preston Chronicle  1st January 1831
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On 22nd February 1831 Mr. Pemberton, retail-brewer, Chadwick's Orchard,
was fined in the mitigated penalty of 40s., plus costs, for keeping his house open
after the hours prescribed by the Act.
Preston Chronicle  26th February 1831
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Preston Chronicle  6th August 1831
    
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 Preston Chronicle – 8th October 1831 

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"NELSON'S VESSELS"
Sail regularly on their appointed days - TUESDAY, THURSDAY and SATURDAYS
From the George's Dock Basin, LIVERPOOL, with GOODS only
FOR PRESTON.
For particulars of Freight, apply to JAS. M NELSON, 4 George's Dock Gates,
Liverpool;  or to THOMAS ASHCROFT, Blackamoor's Head Inn, Preston.
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The vessels have no connection with other Carriers to Preston; and Shippers 
will please direct per "NELSON'S BOATS," to prevent delays and mistakes.
Preston Chronicle  1st March 1845  
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Preston Guardian  19th July 1845
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DEATH: On Thursday last, Mary, wife of James Smith, of the Black a Moor's Head Inn, in this town, aged 59. She suffered under a severe indisposition for many years previous to her death; yet the indomitable energy, perseverance, and industry, which characterised her through life, were retained till within a short period of her demise.
Preston Chronicle  6th December 1856
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Preston Chronicle 1st October 1859
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"ERA"  13th January 1861
TO BE LET - the large Wooden CIRCUS on
CHADWICK'S ORCHARD, PRESTON,
with Stabling.
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Apply to George Smith,
Black-a-Moor's Head Inn, Preston.
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TO BREEDERS OF PIGS, - The purest and best BLACK BOAR in England is kept at the Black-a-Moor's Head, Preston.
Preston Chronicle   12th November 1864
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 Preston Herald   22nd November 1873
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 There's something about an image that brings everything to life. Meet Daniel Ashcroft,
b. 1833.
See the next two 'clippings' where he is mentioned.
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Daniel Ashcroft, Hon. Secretary of the "PRESTON & DISTRICT HIDE, SKIN, AND FAT COMPANY LTD" have their FIRST SALE at the  Blackamoor's
on the 3.12.1875.

Preston Chronicle 10th April 1880



Preston Chronicle  20th November 1875
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Preston Herald   20th May 1876
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 Preston Chronicle  30th September 1876
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FOR SALE BY AUCTION
Tuesday next, September 18th, Preston.
60 MOUNTAIN PONIES FOR SALE
Specially selected and the best lot that
has been offered.
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TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION BY MR. DANIEL ASHCROFT,
Horse and Cattle Salesman, in his Sales Yard at the Black-a-Moor's Head, Lancaster Road.
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60 MOUNTAIN PONIES
Just arrived, per steamer, direct from Iceland, These 
ponies are between 12 and 13 hands; all young.
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Also, a lot of Splendid fat ICELAND SHEEP,  will
be offered on or about September 26th.
Preston Chronicle   15th September 1877

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Preston Chronicle 14th June 1879




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 Preston Chronicle  25th February 1882
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Preston Herald  10th January 1883
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"ERA" 5.3.1887
WANTED, Good Tenor or Baritone Vocalist, to act as Chairman for respectable Harmonic Room.
Must be able to read music.
To good man permanent situation.

Apply, H. SMITH, Proprietor, Black-a-Moor's Head Hotel, Preston
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Manchester Courier 5th July 1893
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Another version:
SEQUEL TO A BREACH OF PROMISE ACTION.
H.A. Taylor, a solicitor's clerk, applied yesterday, at the London Bankruptcy Court, for an order for discharge. It appears that the bankrupt, who formerly resided at Barrow, at 19 years of age became engaged to the petitioning creditor, Miss Elizabeth Head, of the Clack-a-Moor's Inn, Preston. She, in June 1892, brought an action for breach of promise against him, which he settled by giving three promissory notes at three, six, and nine month for £75. This, and the costs formed the only debt.
The Registrar pointed out that for a man to engage himself at the age of 19, when he was an infant, was no promise at all, and yet it was said he had committed a breach of promise. How could he listen to such a suggestion? The only offence he could listen to that he had in giving these promissory notes at the time he was only getting 27 shillings a week contracted a debt without the means of paying the same, and assets not equal to 10 shillings in the pound. 
On these grounds the discharge will be suspended for the minimum period of two years.
Bradford Daily Telegraph    1st November 1893
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 Preston Herald   28th March 1894
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 Preston Herald   7th March 1903
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 29th 1903.
BLACK-A-MOOR'S HEAD HOTEL, PRESTON.

SPECIAL SALE of 50 HORSES, CARRIAGES, 40 Sets of HARNESS, 20 Sets of RUBBER-TYRED WHEELS; STCK of SADDLER and HARNESS MAKER, &c.
R. BENNETT and SON, F.A.I.
Will hold a SPECIAL SALE before the FAIR WEEK as above.
Included in this Sale will be 15 IRISH HORSES and COBS, specially imported for this Sale.
Further Entries can be made at the Repository, Black-a-Moor's Head Hotel.
Lancashire Evening Post   21st December 1903
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GREAT HORSE FAIR WEEK
Fourteenth ANNUAL SALE,  BLACK-A-MOOR'S HEAD HOTEL STABLES, Preston
MONDAY, TUESDAY, & WEDNESDAY, January 4th, 5th, & 6th.
R. BENNETT and SON, F.A.I.
Will again conduct this Annual Sale of 300 HORSES.
Entries should be made at once to ensure good position in Catalogues.
Further Entries can now be made at the Repository, Black-a-Moor's Head Hotel; or Stanley Auction Mart, Lancaster Road, Preston.
Lancashire Evening Post   21st December 1903
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MONDAY, January 4th, 1904, BLACK-A-MOOR HOTEL REPOSITORY, PRESTON.
Important to Brewers, Farmers, Carriers, Tradesmen and others.
20 HIGH-CLASS SCOTCH CART and VAN HORSES and IN-FOAL MARES.
BENNETT and Son, F.A.I., have again received instructions from Mr. H. Grieg, Melton Place, to Sell by Auction 20 SCOTCH CART HORSES and MARES, aged 5 to 7 years old, 15-2 to 16-2 hands high; a grand lot. All sold sound, wind and eyes, and good workers; on two days trial.
Lancashire Evening Post  2nd January 1904
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BENNETT'S REPOSITORY, BLACK-A-MOOR HOTEL, PRESTON
MONDAY next at One o'clock
WEEKLY SALE of 40 HORSES, COBS, and PONIES, CARRIAGES, HARNESS, Carts, Lurries, &c. Further Entries can now be made.
BENNETT and SON. F.A.I., Auctioneers.

IMPORTANT UNRESERVED PEDIGREE HACKNEY SALES, by 
Mr. W. BAINBRIDGE.
TUESDAY, May 10th, 1904, about
SIXTY HIGH-CLASS PEDIGREE HACKNEYS, the property of Alfred Nuttall, Esq., Billington Stud, Langho, and Messrs. R. and P. Hartley, Balderstone, Blackburn, to be held for the convenience of buyers near Langho Station, at the BILLINGTON STUD.
They comprise 14 BROOD MARES, seven Three-year-olds, eight Two-year-olds, 10 Yearlings, 17 Harness Mares and Geldings, one Stallion.
On View May 5th and 6th. Sale at One o'clock.
Lancashire Evening Post  7th May 1904
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ON SALE, rubber-tyred RALLI CAR; in splendid condition; with rubber mats and lamps; suit horse from 15 to 16 hands. Apply: Osler, Black-a-Moor's Yard, Lancaster Road, Preston.
Lancashire Evening Post   11th July 1910
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Thomas Roberts, 19, carter, pleaded guilty to stealing 6s 2d and five packets of cigarettes, the property of Frederick William Dickinson, landlord of the Black-a-Moor's Head Inn, Preston. Mr. Stanley, prosecuted - In sentencing him to three years' detention in a Borstal institution, the Chairman said Roberts had been convicted at Manchester, Bury, and Birmingham. He was of idle and criminal habits, and associated with persons of bad characters.
Lancashire Evening Post   3rd August 1910
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 Preston Herald   13th December 1913
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Following a ludicrous claim that the hotel's name was 'racist' this reply was sent to
the Lancashire Evening Post.
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THE CAVE FAMILY OF PRESTON: PUBLICANS, POLICE - AND OTHERS
A number of us have pub licensees, brewers and maltsters in our Cave family trees, so I was interested to find the website ‘Pubs in Preston - Preston’s Inns, Taverns and Beerhouses - One man’s attempt to recreate Preston’s 19th-century social life and times’. Its creator, Stephen Halliwell, has traced the life and times of hundreds of public houses and their occupants, in the Lancashire town of Preston.
The search facility revealed two Caves who were licensees in Preston -
1869-1874 - Samuel Cave (with Thomas Turner), the Fylde Tavern
1893-1894 - John Cave, The Glover Street Tavern
1897 - John Cave, The Wellington Inn
1901 - John Cave, The Exchange Hotel
1902 - John Cave, The Blackamoors Head
From just these two names has emerged an extensive and very interesting family tree. There appear to have been no other Caves in Preston at the time – always helpful in following a line – and almost without exception they stayed in the town.
Firstly, censuses indicated that Samuel and John were father and son. Samuel Cave was born in Preston in 1801 to Sarah Cave, no father was named, and he married Mary (maiden name not known). In censuses from 1841-1871 Samuel is described as M.S. (manservant), coachman, servant, and cabdriver. Census data doesn’t describe either Samuel or John as licensees, but there is sufficient evidence to indicate that they are the same people. Perhaps their time in the licensed trade was short and did not coincide with the census, or maybe they had multiple occupations. In May 1874 the Preston Guardian reported that Samuel Cave, landlord of the Fylde Tavern, was summoned for selling drink during prohibited hours, but the case was dismissed.
Samuel and Mary had at least seven children – Samuel (1833), Ann/e (1835), Isabella (1837), Sarah (1841), William (1844), Richard (1846) and John (1852). Because of the original link with the licensing trade I was initially concerned with John, the youngest, but the other siblings have also proved interesting.
John Cave (1852-1927)
In 1871 John was aged 19 and a footman (out of work). The Lancashire Record Office website also lists a John Cave who served with the police from 1871-1873, and information in a later newspaper report confirms that this was the same person.
On 11 February 1880 at St Peter’s Church, Preston, John was married to Lucy Watson, the daughter of the late William Mason, a publican. Lucy was a widow and had a small daughter Eliza Alice. Before her marriage to John, Lucy had lived with her aunt and uncle who were publicans at the Fox and Goose Tavern; and the Fox Street Tavern (later the Exchange Hotel). At the time of his marriage John was a Sanitary Inspector, also referred to as Inspector of Nuisances, and it appears that he was responsible for what we would now call weights and measures, or trading standards. Tragically, Lucy died the following year. Her daughter, Eliza Alice, later married a doctor and had three daughters. In 1883 John married Alice Foster, daughter of the late Richard Foster. They appear not to have had any family.
We know a little more about John from local newspapers. In 1878 the Preston Guardian reported a case where John Cave, inspector of nuisances, gave evidence in a case of adulterated milk. The case was proved and the defendant fined 40s. with costs. In 1880 the council minutes reported that John Cave, inspector of nuisances, had applied for an increase in salary. This was shortly after his first marriage to Lucy. The application was ‘referred to committee’ and the outcome not known.
At the end of 1892 there was considerable local press coverage about ‘The Slink Meat Traffic in Preston – Startling Disclosures’ and ‘Reorganisation of the Sanitary Dept.’ Slink meat was a term used to describe diseased meat which was unfit to eat, and as Sanitary Inspector John Cave was responsible for monitoring this traffic in the town. Some allegations state that slink meat was moved out of the area for onward sale, with the Sanitary Inspectors receiving ‘tips’ from farmers for this service, and that although S.I. Cave and his colleague had been in post for 20 years the service was negligent and corrupt, and that Preston had the highest death rate of any town in England. Probably largely in consequence, it was proposed that John Cave’s employment be terminated as part of large-scale reorganisation. However other members of the corporation spoke out in strong defence of the two Sanitary Inspectors, and a letter from John Cave was submitted. Again, it is not obvious exactly what the outcome was, but it seems likely that John Cave’s employment with the Corporation ceased, and that he then became licensee of the pubs mentioned above.
In the 1901 census John aged 45, was ‘living on own means’ with Alice, 40, at Lauderdale Street. By 1911 John and Alice, were aged 54 and 50, had been married for 27 years, and John was hotel manager at the Boreatton Arms Hotel, Baschurch, Staffs. John died aged 75 in 1927, having returned to Preston, and left the not inconsiderable sum of £3,749.4s.1d. to his widow Alice.
The Daughters:
Sarah Cave (m. Thomas Turner)
Sarah, b. 1841 is listed as a cotton weaver at home with her parents in 1861 census. In July 1861 at St John’s Church Preston, Sarah married Thomas Turner (b.1837, son of Richard Turner). In 1861, prior to his marriage, Thomas was a policeman but by 1871 Thomas was a beer house keeper – another link to the licensed trade. Presumably he was the joint landlord of the Fylde Tavern with Samuel Cave in 1869-1874. By 1881 he had become a corn dealer, then a farmer. Sarah and Thomas stayed in and around Preston and had 11 children of whom 8 were surviving in 1911. Two of their sons were butchers. Sarah and Thomas both lived into their 80s.
Ann(e) was born c. 1835 and married John Hunt in 1846. They had two sons, James (b. 1864) and Richard (b. 1869), and four daughters – Mary, Sarah Ann, Ruth, and Elizabeth Ellen. This was a family mainly employed in the local cotton industry – John was a cotton yarn dresser, Ann a cotton weaver, and their daughters all followed them as weavers. James aged 17 was an apprentice coach builder.
Isabella Cave (m. Hugh Ashcroft)
Isabella Cave (b. 1837) was a cotton weaver in 1861, at home with parents. In 1871, after a little bit of detective work, I found her in the guise of Bella Ashcroft (nee ‘Kay’) living in Mount Street, Preston at an address between parents Samuel and Mary, and brother William. Neither Isabella nor her husband Hugh, a farmer’s son, were literate – they signed the marriage register with a cross - and so the name had apparently become corrupted. It is curious that neither her brother or father, who were present at their ceremony, noticed the mistake, and father Samuel’s name was also mis-spelt. By 1881 Isabella and Hugh had two daughters and two sons, in 1901 Isabella, now widowed, was a lodging house keeper.
Samuel Cave (Jnr.) (1833-1912) and his son William Henry Morgan Cave (1862-1942)
Returning to the Cave brothers, Samuel (Jnr.) is unusual in this family as he was ‘the one who moved away’ from Preston. He married Mary Morgan in July 1857 at Trinity Church Paddington. They had two sons, as well as other children. Samuel was a bank messenger. By 1901 he was widowed and had returned to Preston to live with his younger brother Richard.
Samuel and Mary’s eldest son, William Henry Morgan Cave (b. 1862), is the one who can be said to ‘have made good’. In 1881 he was clerk to an accountant, his brother Frederick (b. 1865) being clerk to an agent. In 1885 William married Elizabeth Randall in Peckham, daughter of a toy merchant. In 1891 and 1901 William H.M. and Elizabeth were in Deptford and in 1911 in Brockley, SE London, with their son Henry Randall Cave (bc 1884) and two daughters, Grace (bc 1891) and Mary (bc 1896). As the oldest grandchild of the Preston Cave clan, William was fortunate to inherit money from his father Samuel (Jnr.) in 1912 (£634.1s.6d) and from his (childless) uncle Richard who left him £1,976.8s.6d in 1929. William H.M. was a stocks and shares dealer at the Stock Exchange and he died in September 1942 in Haywards Heath, leaving £22,461.4s.1d to his eldest son, Henry Randall Cave, who was a member of the Stock Exchange. Henry Randall Cave had served in the Great War from August 1914 to March 1918, when he was discharged because of wounds following service overseas, and awarded the Silver War badge. From 1916, this was given to men of serviceable age who had been honourably discharged due to wounds or sickness and was worn with civilian dress to prevent accusations of cowardice.
William Cave (1844-1933)
William Cave was the second son of Samuel Cave Snr. and Mary. William married Alice Miller in Preston in April 1870, and their children were all born in Preston – James Miller (1871), Mary Ann (1872), Samuel R. (1875) and Edith Isabella (1877). In 1881 and 1891 William was listed as a police sergeant and police inspector, but his earlier and more exciting career was discovered from the Lancashire Daily Post. In April 1930 on the occasion of his Diamond Wedding anniversary, and three years later, his obituary in 1933, his early life was described as “an adventurous lifetime of 65 years in which he – left school at 9; ran away to sea at 14; joined the Army at 15; was in a mutiny at 16; fought the Maoris at 17, and joined the police force at 24”. The newspaper reports:
Willie Cave had been an errand boy, a grocer’s assistant, and a plumber before he made up his mind to run away to sea at 14. So he went to Liverpool, and after wandering about the docks for a day and a night, fell in with a recruiting party. The recruiting sergeant bought him over for a shilling, kept him in bed a week to ‘stretch’ him, and then giving his age as 18 enlisted him in the 65th Foot, the Royal Bengal Tigers. After 12 months in Ireland they were sent out to New Zealand to assist in quelling the Maori rebellion. The troop ship took four months to reach Auckland, and during the voyage the soldiers mutinied, owning to a shortage of fresh water. Mr Cave spent six years in New Zealand fighting the Maoris, and he took part in the battle of Rangariri on 20 November 1863... where between 300 and 400 British soldiers were killed ... At 24 Mr Cave left the Army and joined the Preston borough police force ... rose to the rank of inspector, and retired after 26 years’ service.
Since then Mr & Mrs Cave have jogged along comfortably. For the past 22 years they have acted as caretakers ... in Lune-street, Preston, and there they live in a cosy little kitchen right in the heart of the town, yet tucked away from the noise and bustle of modern traffic.
William Cave’s 1933 obituary begins “Old Billy Cave has not lived to see the spring. The doyen of Preston police inspectors died this morning ... but a month ago he posed for a photograph with the five oldest police pensioners in the town”.
In 1893 William Cave was named in a case where an ‘absent’ landlord was accused of harbouring an officer on duty, although William Cave, an officer with nearly 25 years’ service, was allegedly searching the premises for suspected intruders. The landlord was convicted and fined £5 but it is not clear, from the lengthy and wordy reports, how this affected P.I. Cave. Later reports imply that he continued to serve in the police force.
Richard Cave (c. 1846-1929)
Richard married Susannah Fielding in 1879. Susannah was from Dolphinholme, Lancs., and they may have met when Richard worked in Salford as a servant to the Dean of Manchester, as it is recorded in the 1871 census that Susannah’s sister Nancy was also a servant there. Prior to this in 1861 Richard, aged 14, had been a footman. By 1881 he was a prison warden and appears to have followed this occupation until he appears as a pensioner, retired warden, in 1911. Richard and Susannah had no children but I view them as a kind couple - in 1901 they shared their home with Richard’s widowed brother Samuel, who had returned from London, and also Susannah’s sister Nancy who had not married. In 1887 Samuel Cave Snr., Richard’s father, had died at their home where he too may have been living after his wife died in 1880.
Having started to look for links with pubs in this family, they have proved to be of much broader interest – and there is more to find. For anyone with local knowledge of Preston, it would be easy – and fascinating – to trace where this Cave family lived and worked, often moving short distances around a small number of streets, and would provide a great family history trail.
There are still a number of Caves listed in Preston today and I wonder if they are descendants? I would like to know if anyone else has followed this interesting line, which I have been able to trace in the area for over a hundred years. Nearly all of the information in this study is sourced through mainstream genealogy websites; from the Cave FHS Table NZ, and the excellent Lancashire Online Parish Clerk website. I am especially grateful to Steve Halliwell of ‘Pubs in Preston blogspot’ for his help and interest.
Wendy Wright
'from the Cave Family History Society Newsletter, April 2013'
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CENSUS RETURNS
1841
Thomas Ashcroft                35 years                 Publican
Mary Ashcroft                    30                         Wife
Thomas Ashcroft                 9                           Son
Daniel Ashcroft                   7                            Son
Joseph Ashcroft                  4                            Son
Anne Ashcroft                     2                           Daughter
Agnes Jolly                        15                           Servant
Betsy Seed                         15                           Servant
Elizabeth Ingleby               70                           Independent
Benjamin Burslem             40                           Butcher
Bridget Burslem                30                                        

1851
Thomas Smith                    39 years                 Innkeeper              b. Clayton
Esther Smith                       38                          Wife                              do
Ann Rawcliffe                    41                          Servant                          do
Michael Smith                    50                          Hostler                  b. Fulwood
              
1861
George Smith                     38 years                Inn and Livery        b. Claughton
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Betsy Smith                        38                         Wife                      b. Bonds
James Smith                       65                         Father                    b. Claughton
Jane Sawyer                       22                   House Servant             b. Bonds
Joseph Hall ??                    24                         Son???                  b. Cottam

1871


1881
David Ashcroft                  47 years                Publican and           b. Preston
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Mary A. Ashcroft              33                        Wife (2nd?)             b. Wray
Mary Ashcroft                   25                        Daughter                 b. Preston
Thomas Ashcroft               21                        Son                                 do
Jane A. Ashcroft                18                        Daughter                         do
Elizabeth E. Ashcroft          16                        Daughter                b. Haighton
Daniel Ashcroft                  13                        Son                        b. Preston
Annie Ashcroft                    8                         Daughter                b. Haighton
Alfred Ashcroft                   7                         Son                                 do

1891
James Trainer                    28 years               Manager                b. Wrexham
Alice Trainer                      27                       Wife                       b. Bedford
James Trainer                     4                         Son                        b. Bolton
Beattie Trainer                    2                         Daughter                b. Preston
Maud Trainer                     10 months            Daughter                       do
Alice Swarbrick                 29                        Barmaid                b. Lancaster
Mary Stirzaker                  25                         General Servant    b. Garstang
Ellen Manning                    17                         Servant / Nurse    b. Newcastle-upon-Tyne

1901
Daniel Ashcroft                31 years                Lic. Victualler         b. Preston
Margaret E. Ashcroft       31                         Wife                       b. Longridge
Daniel E. Ashcroft             2 months              Son                        b. Preston
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    Well researched and very insightful, thank you. The Ashcrofts are my descendants and it is nice to find out the history concerning the Black-A-Moor head which still survives to this day near me, in Preston.

    Kind Regards,
    Grant Taylor.

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    1. Many thanks, Grant. I'll be launching the site officially in about a week.
      If you can contibute any snippets of information about your family or any of the inns, taverns, or beerhouses on the site, it will always be appreciated.
      Are you aware of the Ashcrofts being at other premises in Preston?

      Kind regards, Steve H.

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  3. Hiya l was looking up the history of the blackamoor head hotel. We are researching our family tree. We know that my mothers aunty ( and l presume uncle) ran the blackamoor in Preston all we know is that my mother was born in 1926 and used to go and stay with them every year she must have been a teenager so it must have been about 1937 or thereabouts. We only know that she had a cousin who lived there called Amy be grateful if you could help thanks

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    1. There is a gap in my knowledge from 1936 to 1940.
      If you write to me on srh.steve@aol.co.uk and give me some names to go on, I'll see what I can find that will help you. I'm happy to do so.
      Steve H

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