HEART AND SHAMROCK, Pottery Hill

HEART AND SHAMROCK   #

Pottery Hill / Back Canal Street

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 The 'Heart and Shamrock' enjoyed an address in both Back Canal Street and Pottery Hill. It would seem that this area was a jumbled mess of back alleys.
Hope Street and Canal Street (as Kendal Street) both still exist, so you can try and figure it out for yourself!!
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MINE HOSTS:

1853                     James Rigby - not sure it was called this name in 1853?
1861                     Bridget Parker

1861                     Thomas Whiteside

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Preston Guardian  22nd January 1862

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OLD SHIP INN, 89, Swansea Terrace, Water Lane

OLD SHIP INN   #

89, Swansea Terrace, Water Lane, Preston.

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DESTRUCTIVE STORMS
Smith's, the Ship Inn, was inundated to the depth of 21 inches, being 15 inches higher than it was ever known since the house was built, which is upwards of 40 years ago. The vaulted cellar was filled nearly to the top, and several of the ale casks, and a hogshead of rum was floated into the kitchen. It was afterwards found that a large brewing-pan, fixed in the brewhouse, was actually floated out of the place.
Preston Chronicle   4th January 1834
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HOTEL ACCOMMODATION AT THE DOCKS.

James McCarter applied for a provisional licence for premises about to be reconstructed, and at present known as the Old Ship Inn, 89, Swansea Terrace, Water Lane, Preston, owned by Messrs. Benjamin Sykes, Alexander Tullis, and Alfred Edward Ashcroft. Mr. Blackhurst appeared on the applicant's behalf, and he was opposed by Mr. Smith, Mr. Oakey, Mr. Edelston, and Mr. MacDonald, Barrister, of Liverpool.

The last named appeared for the Church of England Band of Hope, Ashton, and some residents, Mr. Oakey and Mr. Edelston for ratepayers, and Mr. Smith on behalf of all the Captain's in the dock on Monday and some of the ratepayers of Ashton.

Mr. Blackhurst said that the premises were not yet ready to receive a license, but it was intended to allow the license of Lea's Virgin's Inn to drop if this was obtained, as that property would shortly have to be pulled down for town improvement. They proposed to pay a consideration for this arrangement.

The Corporation of Preston had spent about £1,000,000 on the dock, and he must say that it had exceeded his experience ration, but there was no port in England so badly off for accommodation for seafaring men. The nearest place where lodging could be obtained was the Victoria Hotel in Fishergate. There was no house they could get refreshments within one mile.

There was the New Ship Inn about 220 yards from the Old Ship Inn, but they had no sleeping accommodation.

Mr. Benjamin Sykes said, replying to Mr. MacDonald, that he did not know that the applicant was a catspaw, although he was his clerk. He had been asked many times whether there was any accommodation at the dock. Only the previous day, two Captain's had spoken to him. They told him that the port was the worst they knew for sleeping or eating accommodation. He did not know that there were six beds at the Ribble Harbour Mission.

Cross-examined by Mr. Smith, he did not know that the Captain's in dock had signed a petition against the granting of the license. They had been mis-informed. He has asked Mr. Cochrane. To get some opinions on the matter.

The house was in the township of Ashton and the borough of Preston. James Cochrane, harbour master, said it would be a convenience for persons coming to the dock if a license were granted. People went to meet the ship's, and if a fog delayed a vessel, there was no accommodation. Complaints, chiefly for want of sleeping and eating rooms, were principally from agents. He had no connection with Mr. Sykes, who had asked him to get some of the Captain's to give evidence in his case.

He  (the witness) had spoken to two Captain's the previous day, and they had signed a petition against it, in the belief that the place was to be a common drink shop. When told it was to be a hotel, they supported the scheme. Cross-examined by Mr. Oakey, he thought it would be more satisfactory. If the place had been a first-class temperance hotel.

Mr. Smith said that he thought that there had only been one case of drowning g which had been caused by drink, and Mr. Charles Martine, ship Chandler, Strand Road, said when asked to find people accommodation , he had to take them to the North Western, Victoria, or Shelley Arms Hotels. Scores of people had complained. Replying to the Bench, he did not know whether there were any bedrooms at the Wheat Sheaf on Watery Lane, and Mr. Frederick L. Livesey said he had heard many complaints of the lack of better class accommodation.

The Captain of the Norwegian barque Mentor, said he had had his boat in the bog-hole for twelve days. It had been inconvenient that there was no hotel accommodation, Kally when his wife was down. They did not want drink-houses; "they had sufficient of them down there." During 21 years at sea, he had never been to a port so badly provided with hotels as the dock at Preston. He did not think that a public-house near the dock would affect the sailors. If they wanted drink they would get it somehow.
Gabriel Ulsen, Captain of the Liberte, said they wanted a good hotel instead of the dirty ones they had now. He objected to a drinking license.
Mr. Maddon characterised the application as bolstered up with absurd evidence. The object T was to get a license for property built near the dock by Mr. Sykes. A license would double or treble the value of the property. It was not required by the neighbourhood and those frequenting it.
No Preston gentleman who had been inconvenienced had been called as a witness. Who did require the hotel? Some captain belated by a fog - some lady visitor whose husband's ship was delayed. It was a public scandal to think the Corporation of a town like Preston, for the sake of a half pence in the pound in the rates, instead of allowing a rotten license to lapse would bargain with a man like Mr. Sykes and come into court and unblushingly declare their bargain.
Mr. Blackhurst objected to this. The licenses were not rotten.
Mr. Maddon said the places were tumbling down, with Mr. Blackhurst replying that they were being taken down for town improvements.
Mr. Maddon retorted, "Well good licenses attached to rotten houses."
Mr. Oakey maintained that there was no demand for hotel accommodation at the dock, and Mr. Smith said that whatever had been asked for by either sailors or Captain's it was immediately found. The occasional visitors could not keep going an hotel of the size suggested.
The Rev. A. W. Wiseman, vicar of Ashton, objected to the establishment because there were sufficient public-house in the parish already. Another would do harm to the people. He would like one or two to be done away with.
Mr. Curwen, timber importer, said the Norwegian Captain's, with whom he was connected, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred remained on board when in dock, and their wives stayed with them. It was most dangerous to have public-house near the dock, especially to importers. There were enough drinking places there already.
John Smith, of the New Ship Inn, said he was very seldom asked for sleeping accommodation. He could put up ten beds if necessary. He was always ready to supply eatables. He had been asked about five times.
Mr. G. Phillips, missioner at the dock, said he had been at the dock for thirteen months, and sailors and Captain's generally slept on board. He had never heard any complaints about the accommodation. Before long he would have twenty rooms at the Rest.
Peter Peterson, Captain of the Veronica, did not consider the house necessary.
The application of James McCarter for a provisional grant for premises near the dock was refused.
Preston Chronicle  2nd September 1893

MARKET INN, Orchard Street

MARKET INN   #

1, Orchard Street

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This is a small portion of a map that had its origins in

the Market Superintendent's Office.

It purports to represent the situation of the Market Inn

at around 1870.

The only other evidence I've found is from the 1861 Census,

the details of which are shown below. They relate to the

address 1, Orchard Street, which the above plan appears

to confirm.

The building on the other side of Plant's Court is the

Black Horse Hotel, but it must be remembered that that

building was rebuilt in the 1890's; the rear of the old

building facing Plant's Court, now has a different shape.

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Mine Hosts:

1853                    Edward Halsall

1861                    Alice Hough

1866                    William Kenyon   (Mannex's Directory of that year)

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CENSUS RETURN

1861

Alice Hough                         39 years widow             Beer-house keeper               b. Wray Green

Elizabeth Hough                     6                                  Daughter                              b. Broughton ?

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QUEEN'S ARMS INN, North Road

QUEEN'S ARMS INN    #

9  (later 27)  North Road

3 Lord's Walk, later 5 Lord's Walk.

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MINE HOSTS:

1841                    Joseph Kendrick

1843                    James Smith (the owner)

1844                    Garneth Parker
1847                    James Smith
1849                    Mr. Kirkby

1850 - 51            William Spencer
1853                   John Holgate

1854                       ?      Holgarth   - probably the same man as Holgate, above.

1857 - 58            Christopher Townson (Townsend)

1861 - 63            Richard Baines

1863 - 69            Joseph Singleton

1869 - 70            James Wilkinson

1870 - 71            John Ryding (Riding)

1871 - 76            William Nightingale
1876                    George Catlow

1877                    James Ormerod

   ?                       John Wilcock

1881                    Miles Dent

1882                    Thomas Hayton

1883 - 86             James Greenhalgh

1886 - 87             William Eaton

1887                     Lawrence McGeer

1888 - 94             Robert Barton Fitchie

1894 - 1904         Pilkington Bamber Parkinson

1907 - 13             Richard Turner
1913 - 18             Agatha Turner  (See Amelia Crook, below. She had been at the Hoop and Crown)*

On the 19th April 1918, whilst Richard Turner and his son William were away at War, Agatha Turner lost the licence to the house.

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*I have a note that Amelia Crook was fined on the 12th November 1915,
For allowing her licensed premises to be the habitual resort of
reputed prostitutes.
Chief Constable's Report of February 1916
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Preston Chronicle  14th October 1843

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Preston Chronicle  9th October 1847
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Preston Chronicle  27th November 1847

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Preston Chronicle  1st September 1849

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 Preston Chronicle  29th May 1852
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Preston Chronicle  30th April 1853
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CHARGE OF POCKETPICKING AND
ATTEMPTING TO STAB
Thomas Richardson, a discharged soldier, was charged with picking the pocket of Henry Vernon, and also attempting to stab the officer who took him into custody on that charge. Vernon said on the previous evening he was sat at the Queen's Arms public house, in North Road, in company with the prisoner and another person. He had just received from the post office, for Robert Gornall, with whom he lived, the sum of 8 shillings.
After he had been in the Queen's Arms a short time, the prisoner put his hand in his (prosecutor's) pocket, and took out 7s 8d. He afterwards gave information to the police.
The prisoner, who is brother-in-law to the prosecutor, said Vernon came to him and asked what he should do with the 8s., and he answered that he did not care what he did with it. If he had taken any money it had been spent in the company.
David Wilkins deposed to seeing the prisoner take the money.
P.C. Edmondson said that when he went to  apprehend the prisoner at his house in Almond Row, he pulled out a clasp knife, and swore by his Maker that he would "open his bloody guts for him." The witness obtained the assistance of another policeman, and he was conveyed with great difficulty to the police station. He struck the officer several times.
The prisoner said that he was wounded in the head in the Crimea, and a little drink had a great effect on him. It was stated that there was another case of felony against the prisoner, and he was remanded to Wednesday.

THE CHARGE OF POCKETPICKING AND ATTEMPTING TO STAB A POLICEMAN
Thomas Richardson, remanded from Monday, was again placed in the dock. Mr. Townsend, landlord of the Queen's Arms Inn, North Road, stated that on Monday evening week, a person named Calvert, left a mackintosh in his care; he hung it up in the lobby and missed it on Tuesday morning last, the day after the prisoner had been in the house.
P.C. Upton said he went to the prisoner's house on the morning of Tuesday last; there was no one in. A mackintosh was burning on the fire; he saved some part of it, and produced the pieces in court. The prisoner was remanded for a week.
Preston Chronicle  24th December 1857
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Preston Chronicle 2nd January 1858
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QUEEN'S ARMS INN

TO BE LET, with immediate possession if required,

the above well-established INN, with a capital connection,

situate at the corner of Lord's Walk and North Road, in

Preston, and adjoining the Cattle Market, now in the

occupation of Mr. Christopher Townson. The stock is small

and may be taken at a valuation.

Apply on the Premises; or to Mr. PLANT,

Solicitor, Cannon Street.

Preston Chronicle  3rd July 1858

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LOST, in the neighbourhood of Ribbleton Lane on the 9th instant, a BROWN RETRIEVER DOG, answers to "Jock". Anyone having found the same will be rewarded on bringing it to the Queen's Arms, North Road, Preston. Anyone detaining it after this notice will be prosecuted.

Preston Chronicle  20th June 1863

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TO  BE  LET

ALL that well-known PUBLIC HOUSE, the

Queen's Arms, situate in North Road and

Lord's Walk, together with a Five-stalled Stable

attached, occupied by Mr. Joseph Singleton. 

The present tenant is leaving owing to commencing

a wholesale trade.

Apply at the Black-a-Moors Head Inn,

Preston.

Preston Chronicle  8th May 1869

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Preston Chronicle  6th August 1870

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Preston Chronicle  3rd March 1877

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Preston Chronicle  22nd March 1879

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 Preston Chronicle 1st October 1881

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Preston Chronicle  4th October 1890

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Taken from the P.N.E. Handbook of the 1898 - 99 Season

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During the 1st World War, both Richard Turner

and his son William were away serving in the army,

and family legend has it that the licence was lost

during that period 'for running a disorderly house'.

Can anybody add to this account? 

This information has been sent to me by

William Turner's grandson.

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CENSUS RETURNS

1851

William Spencer              26 years                       Publican                  b. Bamber Bridge

Alice Spencer                  29                               Wife                        b. Garstang

Mary Spencer                  10 months                   Daughter                 b. Preston

Frederick Pickle               11                               Nephew                 b. Gisburn

Bridget Kelly?                  23                               Servant                   b. Ireland

1861

Richard Baines                35 years                       Innkeeper                b. Blackburn

Elizabeth Baines              29                                Wife                        b. Shap

Richard Baines                 7 months                     Son                         b. Preston

Agnes Baines                  71                                Mother / Widow     b. Westmoreland

1871

John Ryding                    30 years                      Innkeeper                 b. Bretherton

Eliza Ryding                    27                               Wife                         b. Newton Stewart

Elizabeth Ann Ryding        9                               Daughter                  b. Bretherton

William Thomas Ryding  15 months                    Son                          b. Leeds

1881

Miles Dent                      44 years                      Lic. Vict.                  b. Preston

Elizabeth Dent                 45                               Wife                                 do

Miles Barton Dent           21                               Son                                  do  

Thomas Dent                   15                              Son                                   do

Mary Waters Dent          11                               Daughter                           do

Emily Sarah Dent              5                               Daughter                           do

1891

Robert B. Fitchie            36 years                      Publican                   b. Preston

Susan E. Fitchie              33                               Wife                                  do

Walter Fitchie                 11                               Son / Scholar                     do

Margaret E. Fitchie          9                           Daughter / Scholar                  do

Alice Maud Fitchie          7                            Daughter / Scholar                  do

George Fitchie                 5                               Son / Scholar                      do

Ethel Mary Fitchie           2                                Daughter                            do

Robert Barlow Fitchie     5 months                    Son                                    do

1901

Pilkington Bamber Parkinson   49 years             Lic. Vict.                  b. Blackburn

Ellen Parkinson                       45                       Wife                        b. Preston

Mary Elizabeth Parkinson        21                      Daughter                           do

Christopher Parkinson             19                      Son                                   do

William Henry Parkinson          17                     Son                                   do

Eli Parker Parkinson                15                      Son                                  do

John Parkinson                        13                      Son                                  do

Agnes Parkinson                     11                       Daughter                          do

Albert Parkinson                      9                        Son                                  do

Edith Parkinson                       7                         Daughter                          do

Charles Edward Parkinson      5                         Son                                  do

1911

Richard Turner                       45 years              Lic. Vict.                 b. Preston

Agatha Turner                        47                       Wife /                               do

                                                                          Assists in business

William Turner                        15                       Son                         b. Bolton

Annie Shorrock                      27                       General Domestic    b. Preston

                                                                                   Servant

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BULL AND BUTCHER, 20 Lancaster Road (South)

BULL AND BUTCHER   #

3 Molyneux Square  (in 1818)

later  20 Molyneux Square 1865), and then

20 Lancaster Road (South) (1873)

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 The street north of Gin Bow Entry was Molyneux Square, (later Lancaster Road South), and the area south of it, The Shambles, (again, later, Lancaster Road South.
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MINE HOSTS:

1804                  Thomas Hope

1818 - 19           George Howard   -  d. 3.3.1819, see below.

1819 - 28           Dorothy (Margaret) Howard  - d. 28.2.1828

1838 - 42           John Roe

1846 - 47           Richard Duckett   d. 22.6.1847  Aged 33 years. Son of Richard Duckett, tanner.

                                                             Died 1.11.1846, youngest daughter, Alice, aged 9 months.

1847 - 49           Mrs. Mary Duckett

1851 - 55          William Hesmondhalgh

1857                  Ralph Threlfall
1858 - 59          Thomas Wilding    d. 7.1.1859 aged 33 years.
1859                  Grace Wilding   -  widow of Thomas, above.  d. 14.2.1866 aged 36 years.

1860                  Mrs Threlfall

1861 - 63          Mrs. Grace Wilding   - see note re death, above.

1863 - 66          Thomas Draycott- came directly from the 'Shoulder of Mutton'       d. 20.3.1866 38 yrs

1866                 Betty (Betsy) Seed - married Edwin Illingworth  on 12.12.1866

1869 - 77          Edwin Illingworth

1877                 Betsy Illingworth

1881                 Thomas Westhead - went to the Regatta Inn, Fishergate Hill.

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DEATH:  On Wednesday last, Mr. George Howard,
of the Bull and Butcher public-house, Preston.
Lancaster Gazette  6th March 1819
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Lancaster Gazette   18th August 1827

Note:   The newspaper article about the killing of William Jackson by John Pilling alludes to the fact that Mr Pilling was having an inappropriate relationship with Dorothy Howard, the landlady of the Bull and Butcher pub. I can add that John Pilling fathered a child with Dorothy Howard, a widow. The child, Lawrence Howard, was baptized at St Wilfrid's Chapel on 14 Aug 1821. It’s not known what type of relationship he had with his biological father, but when Lawrence Howard was married in 1843 he named John Pilling as his father in the marriage register.
William Jackson, a tallow chandler, of 115 Church Street, was buried in St Wilfrid’s Cemetery on 10 Aug 1827, aged 46 years.
Dorothy (Carr) Howard, of Garden Street, was buried in the same cemetery on 1 Apr 1828, aged 40 years.

pp.  Glenn Swarbrick, St. Wilfrid's Historian.

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DEATH:  On Friday 28th March 1828, Margaret Howard, late of the Bull and Butcher public house in Preston. Her son, a youth aged 15 years, died on the Friday preceding.

Lancaster Gazette   12th April 1828

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LANCASHIRE MILITIA

At the Bull and Butcher public house, in Preston, Sir T.D. Hesketh

treated the staff of the Third Lancashire Militia, on the day of the Coronation ,

with a good substantial dinner, and each man with a pint of wine, with which

to drink health and long life to Her Majesty.

Preston Chronicle  30th June 1838

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Preston Chronicle  12th March 1842
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Preston Chronicle 2nd July 1842

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Preston Chronicle   31st October 1846

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Preston Chronicle   29th September 1849

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Preston Chronicle   27th October 1849

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REMOVAL

W. HESMONHALGH

In returning his sincere thanks for the kind patronage bestowed

upon him during the time he has been in business, begs to announce 

to his Friends and the Public in general that he has REMOVED from

his late premises, the "Bull and Butcher" Molyneux Square, to more

commodious premises, the "Golden Cross" Lancaster Road, where he

hopes by strict attention to his business to merit a continuance of the

favours so kindly bestowed upon him.

PS.  W.H. also begs to announce that he still continues his business as

HAY AND STRAW DEALER, and that he supplies gentlemen with

first-class Hay and Straw at wholesale prices.

Preston Chronicle   6th October 1855

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Preston Chronicle  11th December 1858

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DEATH - Yesterday, very suddenly, Mr. 

Thomas Wilding, of the Bull and Butcher Inn, 

Molyneux Square, aged 33 years.

Preston Chronicle 8th January 1859

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Preston Herald   16th May 1868

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Lancaster Gazette   1st January 1876

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Rather carelessly I've not made a note of the date for the article, but it was
between 1869 and 1877 when the Illingworths were the licensees.

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In 1877 the Bull & Butcher was owned by the Corporation

and let for £89 per annum. P.C. 4.8.1877

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The Bull and Butcher was one of the nine pubs done away

with to provide the space for the Harris Museum and Free Library.

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CENSUS RETURNS

1841

John Roe                      35 years                  Publican

Elizabeth Roe               30                            Wife

John Roe                      14                           Son

Sarah Roe                    10                            Daughter

Elizabeth Roe                 8                            Daughter                     

Margaret Roe                6                            Daughter

Mary Roe                      4                            Daughter

Frances Roe                  1 month                  Daughter

1851

William Hesmondhalgh  37 years                Victualler                  b. Blackburn

Mary Hesmondhalgh     37                            Wife                         b. Lancaster

  -formerly Duckett- 

Elizabeth Duckett            7                         Daughter                  b. Preston

Mary Hesmondhalgh       5 months             Daughter                           do

Margaret Duckett            20                          Servant                            do

Daniel Hesmondhalgh    22                           Brother                    b. Blackburn

William Moscow              19                     Servant / Carter           b. Lancashire

Jesse Hatton                       25                         Pipe Maker             b. Lancashire

May Dewhurst                   27                         Shop keeper            b. Walley (Whalley?)

1861

Grace Wilding                  30 years  widow    Publican                   b. Broughton

Thomas Brindle               36                      Engine Driver               b. Standish

Nancy Hardacre               26                          Servant                     b. Cuerden

Margaret Carrey              47                         Laundress                  b. Ireland 

1871                                                                                                                                                        Edwin Illingworth         48 years                 Innkeeper                  b. Halifax                                            Betsy Illingworth          45                          Wife                          b. Longridge

1881

Thomas Westhead       42 years                Lic. Vict.                    b. Lytham

Agnes Westhead          34                         Wife                          b. Freckleton

William Westhead         9                          Son                           b. Fleetwood

Grace Westhead           5                          Daughter                              do

Nancy Ellen Westhead   2                         Daughter                              do

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