COUNTY ARMS HOTEL #
101 Deepdale Road
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| Visiting Judges to the Assize Courts are believed to have stayed at the County Hotel. In fact, I've heard that Charles Dickens was reputed to have stayed here also. |
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MINE HOSTS:
1828 - 36 Mrs. Wilkinson (owned by the Corporation P.C. 28.11.1828)
1829 Fras. Wilkinson Lane ?
1829 Mrs. Ann Wilkinson (leased for 5 years from 1st May 1829)
1838 - 39 James Gillibrand
1841 John Longworth
1851 - 63 Richard Brown - builder.
1863 - 66 Cornelius Cardwell or Cornthwaite
1866 - 71 John Pearson - 3rd November 1866 - late-1871 (but not there at Census time)?.
See the report of a court case in November 1871.
1871 - 89 William Greenhalgh
1890 - 1901 Robert Aspden
1901 - 02 Margaret Alice Aspden
1902 - 05 Joseph Holmes
1907 - 27 Albert Burrows
1932 Thomas Nightingale
1936 - 48 Ephraim Nicholls
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Preston Chronicle 24th September 1831
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| Preston Chronicle 20th May 1837 |
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Preston Chronicle 26th May 1838
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Blackburn Standard 21st April 1852
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Preston Chronicle 14th March 1857
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| Preston Chronicle 1st June 1839 |
Blackburn Standard 21st April 1852
I think the beer-house referred to is the 'Sebastopol Inn.'
Preston Chronicle 4th December 1852*
Preston Chronicle 2nd August 1856
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DEATH: On the 19th August, Ellen, eldest
daughter of Mr. Cornelius Cardwell, brewer, Preston,
formerly of Poulton-le-Fylde.
Preston Chronicle 25th August 1866
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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the partnership
lately subsisting between us, the undersigned, JAMES HULL,
CORNELIUS CARDWELL, and WILLIAM HAYES, carrying
on business at Preston and Kirkham, as common Brewers and
Maltsters, under the style of "HULL, CARDWELL & COMPANY"
was this day duly dissolved by mutual consent.
Preston Chronicle 22nd June 1867
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BURGLARY BY BOYS - William Barker (19) and Thomas Charles Whittle (18) pleaded guilty to breaking and entering the house of John Pearson, County Arms Inn, Deepdale Road, Preston, on the 24th June, and stealing two boxes and 2lb of cigars, and 16s in money. The prisoners were committed to the House of Correction for twelve calendar months each, with hard labour.
Preston Herald 4th July 1868
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SUPPLYING
DRINK DURING PROHIBITED HOURS
John Pearson, Landlord of The County Arms Hotel,
Deepdale Road, was summoned for selling drink during prohibited hours. - P.C.
Hobson stated that about 20 minutes to 2 o'clock on Saturday morning he, in
conjunction with P.C. Irvin, visited the defendant's vaults, and found 17
soldiers and one woman getting supplied with drink. - P.C. Irvin corroborated
P.C. Hobson's evidence, and the case being proved, the Bench, inflicted the
Penalty of 40s. and costs, or one months imprisonment in the House of
Correction. - The fine was paid.
Preston Chronicle 4 November
1871
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Preston Herald - Saturday 22 March 1873
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MERCHANDISE MARKS PROSECUTION
HEAVY PENALTY AT PRESTON
Today, at Preston Police Court, before Mr. J. Brows, Esq., (in the Chair), Richard Robinson, Wine and spirit merchant, Avenham Street, was summoned for unlawfully selling, on or about April 20th, six bottles of stout to which a false trade description within the meaning of the Merchandise Marks Act, 1887, was applied, to wit, 'Guiness's Extra Stout, James Gate, Dublin."
Guiness's were in the habit of supplying a certain number of labels to persons who purchased their stout in barrels, and when those persons bottled stout as supplied to them then they could put on the label, stating that the stout had been manufactured by Guiness.
The defendant, who traded as Robinson and Son, had not had stout from Guiness's for a long time, but when their traveller was in Preston in April last he was led to purchase from Mr. Aspden of the County Arms, Deepdale Road, half a dozen bottles of stout. To each of the bottles was affixed a buff-coloured label. In the centre the figure of a sphinx, and underneath the words "Guaranteed and bottled by R. Robinson and Son, Avenham Street." Surrounding it were the words exactly similar to those on the labels supplied by Guiness's themselves, "Guiness Extra Stout, James Gate, Dublin." The case was of great importance, for it was necessary that the public should be protected.
Percy Hand, traveller for Messrs. Guiness, deposed to purchasing from Robert Aspden, of the County Arms, Deepdale, half a dozen bottles of stout, which were sealed and left with Messrs. Threlfall's traveller to send to Dublin. Messrs. Threlfall were Guiness's agents. Cross-examined by Mr. Blackhurst: He did not know whether Messrs Threlfall had instituted prosecution or not.
Mr. Beare, one of the analysts in the employ of Messrs. Guiness, said he analysed the contents of two bottles of stout sent from Preston, and found a reduction of about 5 degrees of specific gravity from the minimum of Guiness's stout. That would be equivalent to an addition of three and three-quarter gallons of water to a 52 gallon cask. The stout was not "Guiness's pure extra stout."
For the defence, Mr. Blackhurst said that the only way Mr. Robinson could account for the labels being on the bottles was through a mistake on the part of the boy whose duty it was to attach labels to the bottles. He called evidence in support of this statement.
The Bench inflicted a fine of £5 and costs, or one calendar month's imprisonment.
On Mr. Firth applying for special costs, Mr. Blackhurst, after looking at the list, styled it as "perfectly monstrous."
The Bench allowed 10 guineas.
Lancashire Evening Post 28th June 1895
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The 'Real' John Pearson
County Arms 1866 - 71
An excerpt from a talk given to a Local Family History Group, by one of his descendants:
John and Jane (Pearson) ran the Fleece Inn on St John Street Preston, they also ran the
County Arms Hotel down by Preston Prison and they often had the judges staying
there from the Assizes courts next to the Prison. It was while they were running
this hotel, that is now no longer there, that John decided to go to America to
make his fortune, it was about 1871, he was in debt and too fond of the drink.
Jane wasn’t impressed that he was upping and leaving her with the children. He
couldn’t afford to take them all and she wasn’t prepared to leave some of the
children and take the others. He said he would go and send the money back for
her to go with the family but he never did. She went back to live with her
family in Brindle and the children attended St Joseph's school for a
while.
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wanderer eventually returned in 1876 but Jane wasn’t prepared to take him back
so he went to live with his sister and was a farm
labourer.”
What a character
John Pearson was. Left the family farm, married a young chick and got his own
pub. Every night was a party night. Hosted the local victualler Stake holders and trusted by the locals. Moved up to a bigger pub. Hosted the circuit
judges... whilst having 'lock-ins' in the basement with a regiment of soldiers.
Possible larceny and prison then scuttling away to America then who knows on
his return.... I love this man!!!!!
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Lancashire Evening Post March 28th 2013
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CENSUS RETURNS
1841
John Longworth 25 years Innkeeper
Margaret Longworth 30 Wife
1851
Richard Brown 36 years Innkeeper b. Eccles / Worsley
Mary Brown 34 Wife b. Scotland (see 1861)
Richard Brown 10 Son b. Eccles / Worsley
Dinah Brown 6 Daughter b. Preston
John Brown 4 Son do
Clara Brown 2 Daughter do
1861
Richard Brown 46 years Builder & Hotel Keeper b. Eccles
Mary Brown 44 Wife b. Salop (see 1851)
Diana Brown 16 Daughter b. Preston
John Brown 14 Son do
1871
William Greenhalgh 49 years Widower Innkeeper b. Preston
Elizabeth Greenhalgh 21 Daughter do
Esther Greenhalgh 17 Daughter do
Mary E. Greenhalgh 14 Daughter do
John Greenhalgh 12 Son do
Jane Ann Greenhalgh 7 Daughter do
William Nichol 22 Son-in-law b. Scotland
Sarah Nichol 19 Daughter b. Preston
1881
1891
Robert Aspden 49 years Lic. Vict. b. Preston
Margaret A. Aspden 45 Wife do
Sarah Aspden 17 Niece do
John Aspden 15 Son do
Willie Aspden 14 Son do
Mary Ellen Aspden 13 Daughter do
Alice Aspden 10 Daughter do
1901
Margaret Alice Aspden 54 years Publican b. Preston
William Aspden 23 Son do
Mary Ellen Pratt 21 Daughter do
Thomas Pratt 26 Son-in-law/ b. Fleetwood
Professional footballer
Alice Smith 20 Daughter b. Preston
1911
Albert Burrows 47 years Licensed Vict. b. Preston
Alice Burrows 47 Wife / Assists in business do
Thomas Burrows 25 Son / Assists in business do
Grace Burrows 25 Daughter-in-law / Assists in business do
Mary Ellen Burrows 18 Daughter / Assists in business do
Albert Burrows 16 Son / Appr. Electrical Engr. do
Only 4 children still alive from NINE born to this couple.
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John Pearson was my Great, Great Grandfather and so far my skeleton in the cupboard! His wife took a protection order out against him in 1880 and she died in 1881. He married Jane Hartley in 1897 and died in 1903.
ReplyDeleteJoan
Mine Host 1828-36, Mrs Wilkinson appears to have taken over the pub after the death of her husband. "On the 5th inst., at Manchester, on his way home from the South, where he had been for the benefit of his health, Mr. Wilkinson, of the County Arms, Preston." Published in the Lancaster Gazette, Sat. 13 Oct 1827
ReplyDeleteHe may have been the Francis Wilkinson, of Ribbleton Lane End, who was buried in the churchyard at St Paul's Church, Preston on 8 Oct 1827, aged 48 years.