DOG AND RAT, Shepherd Street

DOG AND RAT   #

Shepherd Street.*

Formerly 'LIVERPOOL HOUSE'

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MINE HOSTS:

1857 - 59       John Proctor   

1867                                     - mentioned in Preston Chronicle 19th January 1867,

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ANOTHER LICENSING CASE

John Proctor, landlord of the "DOG AND RAT"

beerhouse, Shepherd Street, late "Liverpool House,"

was charged with having his house open at an unlawful hour.

Preston Chronicle   19th December 1857

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ANOTHER HIGHWAY ROBBERY

........................whom they found at the

DOG AND RAT, a beerhouse in the 'Sandhole.'

Preston Chronicle   2nd October 1858

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Nags Head   #

Churchgate (now Church Street)
Believed to have been situated on the opposite side of Church Street,
from Patten House, the home of the Derby family.
It would be adjacent to the stables belonging to Patten House, and
more than likely what the name refers to.

Mine Hosts:

1815                         John Williams

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Extract from a Legal Document dated 5th September 1815

Alexander Gerrard to Charles Ambler. Lease for a year.

All that messuage or burgage and tenement with the appurtenances situate standing and being in Preston aforesaid on the south side of a certain street there called the Church Gate formerly in the possession of Agnes Patten widow deceased afterwards of Rachel Bennett widow deceased and the said Alexander Gerrard his assigns farmers or tenants formerly adjoining on the east end thereof to a messuage or burgage then late or then before the inheritance or in the possession of James Harrison of Preston aforesaid chapman deceased his undertenants or assigns but now on such east side as well as on the south side thereof to a yard passage or foot path leading out of Churchgate now called Church Street into Water Street and on the west side thereof to another messuage or burgage and premises formerly the inheritance or in the possession of Hammerton Astley Esquire deceased with the Backside Brewhouse Backbuildings and appurtenances thereunto belonging all which said premises mentioned and intended to be hereby bargained and sold are at present in the tenure holding or occupation of John Williams and occupied by him as an Inn or Public House and known by the sign of the ‘Naggs Head’
Information provided by Trevor Kirkham, Preston Historical Society......many thanks.

CROSS KEYS, Adelphi Street

CROSS KEYS   #

132 Adelphi Street
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MINE HOSTS:

1839                  Mr. Hall  - Preston Chronicle 25.5.1839

1840 - 42          Henry Seed

1846 - 54          Thomas ? Arnett (Timothy Arnett in 1851 Barratt's Directory & Oakey's 1853)

1856                  James Walmsley

1856                  John Walmsley - Change-over date: December 1856

1859 - 64          Richard Eglin

1864 - 67          John Whitehead  -  went to the 'New Legs of Man' Fishergate.

1867 - 71          Thomas Isherwood

1871 - 78          James Whiteside

1878 - 79          John Waggett  (Haggett)

1879 - 81          Mary Ann Waggett  (Haggett)

1882 - 88          Robert Aspden

1888 - 91          Sarah Aspden

1892 - 93          William Rose  --This was William Crispin Rose, ex-PNE & England goalkeeper.

1893                  William Buck Arnett

1893                  Thomas Henry Carter

1894                  William Buck Arnett

1895 - 97           Thomas Calvert

1898                  James Cartmell

1898                  William Clitheroe

1899                  Arthur Hillier

1900                  Thomas Gill

1900                  John Henry Banks

1901                  John Thomas Rothwell

1901                  Elizabeth Pennington

1904 - 04           John Chapman

1905                  Joseph Chapman - not sure where this fits in?

1904 - 10           John Iddon.  1909 owned by Bentley's Yorkshire Brewery.

1911                  Thomas Jackson  - d. 11.4.1911 aged 56 years.

1913                  Walter Noblett

1917 - 21           Abram (Abraham) Bentley

1924                  Richard H. Dickinson

1926 - 27           Edmund J. Smail

1932                  Everard Smail

1932 - 44           James Haddon Henderson  Senior

1948                  Robert Hedley

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 Preston Chronicle  25th July 1840

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Leeds Mercury  12th September 1840

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Preston Chronicle  25th November 1843

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Preston Chronicle 26th September 1846

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Preston Chronicle  10th February 1849

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Preston Chronicle  6th August 1853

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 Preston Chronicle  2nd April 1859

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R. EGLIN (late of the Bridge Inn, Penwortham)

begs to announce that he has now REMOVED to

See

THE CROSS KEYS INN, ADELPHI STREET.

Where he intends to continue to supply the BEST LIQUORS, 

and where he hopes to be re-visited by many of his former

friends, to whom he would now express his thanks for

past favours.

THE BEST WINES AND SPIRITS

FIRST-RATE ALE AND PORTER

NB. The Vaults are open every morning (Sunday

Excepted) at five am., at which time HOT COFFEE 

may be had.

Preston Chronicle  19th November 1859

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 Preston Chronicle  26th October 1861

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SELLING DURING PROHIBITED HOURS: A 10/- plus costs fine was inflicted on John Whitehead, who keeps the Cross Keys Inn, Adelphi Street, for selling during prohibited hours on Sunday, the 10th inst.

Preston Herald  16th December 1865

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 Preston Chronicle  5th August 1876

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 Preston Chronicle  13th June 1891

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 Lancashire Evening Post  17th February 1893

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 Lancashire Evening Post  18th October 1901

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 Lancashire Evening Post  10th June 1908

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 Lancashire Evening Post  22nd December 1908

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 Preston Herald  6th February 1909

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Preston Herald  20th June 1914

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 Lancashire Evening Post  24th February 1920

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Lancashire Evening Post  22nd June 1935

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 Lancashire Evening Post  29th June 1935

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 Lancashire Evening Post  4th July 1935

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 Lancashire Evening Post  15th July 1935

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 Lancashire Evening Post  18th July 1935

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 Lancashire Evening Post  29th July 1935

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Lancashire Evening Post  27th September 1935

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Lancashire Evening Post  23rd November 1935

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CENSUS RETURNS

1851

Timothy Arnett            33 years                  Victualler                 b. Preston

Elizabeth Arnett           39                           Wife                       b. Didsley  ?

Michala Arnett            16                   Daughter / Dressmaker    b. Ramsbottom

Hannah Arnett            14                   Daughter / School            b. Preston

Mary Ann Arnett        10                   Daughter / School                     do

William Buck Arnett    6                        Son / School                         do

Elizabeth Arnett          3                     Daughter / School                     do

1861

Richard Eglin              50 years                  Lic. Vict.                  b. Bolton

Elizabeth Eglin            38                           Wife                         b. Stockport

Selinor ? Eglin             22                           Daughter                  b. Bury

1871

Thomas Isherwood     46 years                 Innkeeper                 b. Bolton

Ellen Isherwood          42                          Wife                         b. Bentham, Yorks.

Ellen Alice Isherwood   15                        Daughter                   b. Chorley

Thomas Isherwood       11                        Son                           b. Preston

1881

Margaret Haggett        56 years                Lic. Vict.                  b. Preston

Eliz O'Keeffe               25                         Servant                     b. Portsmouth

1891

Sarah A. Aspden        42 years                 Publican                    b. Alton ?

William R. Aspden      13                          Son                          b. Liverpool

Thomas E. Aspden      10                         Son                                    do

Edgar Aspden               8                         Son                           b. Preston

Ada F. Aspden             6                          Daughter                          do

1901

John Thomas Rothwell  49 years              Innkeeper                   b. Littleborough

Isabella Rothwell           48                       Wife                                      do

 

1911

Thomas Jackson          56 years                Publican                    b. Crawshawbooth

Margaret Jackson        54                           Wife                         b. Preston

Nancy Ellen Brown     34                  Daughter  /  Waitress               do

Charles Cuthbert Brown  35              Son-in-law  /  Barman     b. Manchester

Elizabeth Stewart Brown 37     Charles' sister / Dom. Servant          do

John Knowles                  45                    Cotton Spinner           b. Preston

 

1921

Abraham Bentley           60 years            Publican                     b. Bradford

Mary  Bentley                57                 Wife  /  House duties      b. Preston

Annie Bentley                26             Daughter /         do                      do 

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CROWN HOTEL, Church Street

CROWN HOTEL    #

or

CROWN INN AND COMMERCIAL

[later 'OPORTO WINE STORES']

7 Church Street.

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The Crown Hotel was one of four inns that fronted Church Street

where the Arndale (Miller) Arcade now stands. After all the building  were

demolished, a new Crown Hotel was incorporated in the Arcade.

A trace can still be found [see below for photographs].

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MINE HOSTS:

1827 - 34             William Cotton    d. 2.8.1834, see below.

1834 - 41             Grace Cotton

1842 - 46             Thomas Buxton  -  came from the "Shakespeare Hotel" Strait Shambles.

1848                    John Chapman

1849 - 51             Miss Jane Chapman

1852 - 53             Ann Seddon

1853 - 54             William Mashiter (Masheter)

1856 - 58             Thomas Ambler - lived at 12 Charles Street, prior to coming to the 'Crown'.

1858 - 61             George Eastham

1861 - 65             Thomas Coulthurst - On 23.2.1862, Mary Elizabeth Kirkbride C., wife of T.C. died aged 32 years

1868 - 69             Richard Robinson

1870                    Jane Younghusband

1870 - 73             John Ladyman

1873                    Thomas Horn

1874 - 77            James Albert Tomlinson

1877 - 84             Henry Beesley 

1885 - 87            Peter Duckworth Yates

1887                    Mary Addison 

1887 - 89            Margaret Fiddler - died 19.1.1891, aged 52 years, at the "Brewers' Arms," Friargate

1889                   John Wainman

1889                   Edward Thomas Houghton

1890                   Mary Houghton

1890 - 95           Charles E. Brent

1895                   Nathaniel Miller (Owner)

1895 - 96            Thomas Bradley (Landlord / Manager)

September 23rd 1896  Licence abandoned - premises structurally altered.

1896 - 99            Nathaniel Miller

1899 - 1907        Frederick William Catterall

1910                   John Appleton

1913                   J. Seifert

1916                   Taken over by the military in October 1916 as a Records Office, but the licence was renewed. The fixtures, fittings, and wet and dry stock were auctioned in December 1916.

NOTES:   The owner in 1882 was Edward James Stanley, Quantock Lodge, Bridgewater, Somerset.

                From 1895, the premises were owned by Nathaniel Miller, Dentist, Fishergate.

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Preston Pilot  13th October 1827

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BLACKPOOL

THE FYLDE UNION COMPANY

Respectfully inform the Public that they purpose, on Monday

31st instant, to commence running an elegant LIGHT POST COACH,

from Mr. Cotton's, the Crown Inn, Church Street, Preston, to the 

LANE ENDS HOTEL, BLACKPOOL, every day (Sunday excepted).

The Coach will start from the Crown Inn Coach office precisely at

quarter before four o'clock in the Afternoon, excepting Saturdays, 

on which days it will start at Quarter past four o'clock.

Kirkham 29th March 1834

Preston Chronicle 29th March 1834

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DEATH:  On Saturday last, aged 56 years,

Mr. William Cotton, Crown Inn, in this town,

much respected.

Preston Chronicle  9th August 1834 

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THE LATE MR. COTTON

NOTICE

ALL persons to whom the late Mr William Cotton, innkeeper,

stood indebted at the time of his decease, are requested to send 

in their accounts immediately to Mrs. Cotton, Crown Inn, Preston;

and all persons indebted to the said Mr. Cotton, are requested to

pay the amount of their respective debts, to the said Mrs. Cotton.

Preston Chronicle  9th August 1834

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INQUEST:

On Saturday morning last, Thomas Leece, well-known as a 

porter, who has for some years attended the coaches, was found

dead in an outbuilding of the Crown Inn. An inquest was held the

same day on the body, before Thomas Troughton Esq., Mayor,

and a verdict of "Died by Visitation of God."

Preston Chronicle  15th November 1834

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THE ATHENAEM CLUB-ROOM

adjoining the Crown Inn

WILL BE OPENED THIS DAY

MEMBERS will be received each Evening during next week,

between the hours of eight and ten.

Subscription: One shilling and sixpence each month.

Committee Room, Saturday 2nd September 1837

Preston Chronicle  2nd September 1837

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Preston Chronicle   7th May 1842

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Preston Chronicle  11th July 1846

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Preston Chronicle   23rd June 1849

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 Preston Chronicle  12th January 1850

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Preston Chronicle  6th April 1850

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Marriage: on 10th September 1851

Mr. John Hesketh of Leyland, to

Miss Jane Chapman, of this town.

Not necessarily our Jane Chapman, but quite possibly.

Preston Chronicle 13th September 1851

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Preston Chronicle  29th December 1860

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Preston Chronicle   1st March 1862

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Preston Chronicle   5th March 1864

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Preston Chronicle   4th March 1865

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Preston Chronicle   16th February 1867

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Richard Robinson was landlord here at this time

Preston Chronicle   5th December 1868

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Preston Herald   February 25th 1871

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Preston Chronicle   18th March 1871

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Preston Chronicle   22nd July 1871

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THE ERA    3.9.1871

CROWN MUSIC HALL, CHURCH STREET, PRESTON

Proprietor: Mr. John Ladyman           Manager: Mr. J. Marsh

WANTED, to open on Monday, September 11th, 

Ladies SENTIMENTAL and SERIO-COMIC

VOCALISTS, and GENTLEMAN Comic; also a

Violinist and Pianist. None but genuine Talent need apply.

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THE  ERA   22nd October 1871

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Preston Chronicle   17th February 1872

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Longworth's Advertiser  1873

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Preston Illustrated News  23rd May 1874

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Preston Chronicle   24th May 1879

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Preston Chronicle   9th February 1889

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Preston Chronicle   16th February 1889

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Lancashire Evening Post  29th August 1895

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Preston Herald   31st August 1895

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Preston Herald   28th October 1899

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Lancashire Evening Post  26th September 1900

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It's there for all to see - but have you?
Next time you go to the Harris Museum, have a look for it.
If you'd like to know what it looked like through the doors,
click here.

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Taken from a 1914 Preston North End Match Day Programme.

Supplied by Ian Rigby, PNE Official Historian.

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CENSUS RETURNS

1841

Grace Cotton               55 years               Publican

William Cotton             15                        Son

Nancy Mayor                55                       Servant

Ellen Clarkson              41                             do                           

Mary Coward               25                             do        

Elizabeth Cockshot      15                             do

Isaac Walker                50                        Independent

1851

Jane Chapman             28 years                Innkeeper               b. Yorkshire

1861

George Eastham           36 years               Publican                 b. Clayton-le-Woods

Mary Eastham              38                        Wife                       b. Leyland

1871

John Ladyman              30 years               Lic. Vict.                b. Preston

Jane Ladyman               25                       Wife                                do

1881

Henry Beesley              54 years               Lic. Vict.                b. Woodplumpton

Elizabeth Beesley          39                       Wife                        b. Blackburn

1891

Charles E. Brent           26 years               Lic. Vict.                b. Canada

Sarah E. Brent              25                        Wife                      b. Buxton

Henry C. Brent              3                         Son                       b. Oldham

Charles E. Brent            7 months              Son                       b. Preston

1901

Frederick A. Catterall   44 years              Hotel Proprietor     b. Preston

Bridget Catterall            48                      Wife                       b. Ireland

Elizabeth Catterall         20                       Daughter                b. Liverpool

Cecil R. Catterall           19                      Son and                 b. Preston

                                                                 Hotel Manager

William P. Park            60    Boarder / J.P. County & Boro'  b. Preston

Dr. John Mannheim      26     Apprentice Engineering Draughtsman  b. Germany

Augusta Mannheim      22                        Wife of above        b. Germany

Louis E. Picken            28               Chartered Accountant    b. Clifton, Gloucester

Margaret Thornton       42                                                    b. Preston

Robert Ashhurst           74                       Solicitor                b. Liverpool

Dora Ashhurst              63                       Wife of above       b. Blackburn

Edward L. R. Hackwell  45                 Major in the Army    b. Bath, Somerset

S. Barneyy  (male)        34                                                   b. London

Charles Wilding            23               Cotton Manufacturer    b.     ?

Thirstana L. von  ?        30 (male)         Electrical Engineer   b. Sweden

Catherine L. von  ?       27                     Wife of above        b. U.S.A.

L. Gerraty                    29 (female)         Waitress               b. Preston

Elizabeth E. Clark         34                      Barmaid                        do

Ernest Fisher                21                       Barman                        do

James Burton               20                       Barman                        do

John Grogin                 19                       Waiter                  b. Rushton

Kate Murphy               18                       Pantry-maid         b. Barrow-in-Furness

Jane E. Bailey              20                       Waitress               b. Preston

Charles Hargrieves       62 widower        Boots                            do

Mary Cooney              38                       Cook                   b. Liverpool

Annie McCann            30                       Chambermaid       b. Whitehaven, Cumberland

Marion Kirk                22                       Housemaid           b. Formby

Mary E. Finley            25                       Waitress               b. Hull

Margaret Walsh          24                       Kitchenmaid         b. Limerick, Ireland

1911

John Appleton              48 years              Hotel Manager       b. Kirkham

Annie Hayton               47                       Hotel Manageress  b. Lower Washford, Somerset.

Kathleen O'Ruddy       20                       Barmaid                 b. Dublin

Mary Ellenmian            30                       Servant                  b. Bruff, Ireland

Margaret Maychell       29                       Servant                  b. West Witton

Sarah Foley                 25                       Servant                  b. Truro ? Ireland

Thomas Turner            19                       Servant                  b. Preston

Alice Bishop                33                       Servant                  b. Barnsley

Gertrude Cato             23                       Servant                  b. Liverpool

Kitty Dunne                 26                       Servant                  b. Manchester

William Banks             20                       Servant                  b. Preston

Mary Clough               25                       Hotel Book keeper b. Higheler, Harris

Annie Horton              47                       Cook                     b. Ardwick, Manchester

Mary Ellen Lomax       37                       Servant                 b. Longton, Preston

Frederick Donohue     25                       Servant                  b. Ardwick, Manchester

John Cookson             20                       Servant                 b. Preston

Margaret Churnside    20                        Servant                         do

Nant Trenavin Body    33     Captain in Regular Forces        b. Devon

Mabel Florence Body  25                       Wife                     b. Burnley

Arthur James Vavasour Durell  39  Lt. Col in Army Pay

                                                          Dept - War Office    b. Fulbourne, Cambridge

Alice Margaret Durell    36                      Wife                    b. Richmond, Yorks.Audrey

 Hilda Vavasour Durel    7                       Daughter              b. St Margaret's, Middlesex

Dudley Vavasour Durell  5                       Son                     b. Mitcham, Surrey

Hilda Wales                   28              Nursery Governess     b. Hull, Yorks.

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