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Jane

Jane Report 27 May 2005 07:55

Hi Can anyone tell me if and how i can find any information on publicans in Yorkshire? Is there a list of publicans available as i dont know which pub he worked in? Thanks for your help Jane

Julie

Julie Report 27 May 2005 10:01

Hi Jane Yorkshire archieves should hold Alehouse Licence records, im not aware of them being on the net. Jules

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}((((*> Jeanette The Haddock <*)))){ Report 27 May 2005 10:04

Hi Jane I'm not sure if there's a list as such although you may be able to pick up snippets by Googling. Do you have your ancestors occupation given as a publican on a census? One of my ancestors was down as a publican on the 1881 although the address he was living at wasn't a pub. So I had a look in a trade directory for the nearest year available to 1881 - it was the 1879 for East Yorks. And there he was listed as the landlord of the Grapes Inn at Filey, not far from where he was living in 1881. When I was Googling I discovered a couple of snippets that said his wife had been the landlady at the Cross Keys and Kings Head in Nafferton. So on my next visit to the CRO I asked if they had any sort of records for those pubs. To my delight they had the licensing records for them running up until 1900. Form this I was able to establish that they had moved to Nafferton and taken over the license at the Cross Keys just after the 1881 census and he was the landlord until his death in 1891, and then his wife took over. She then moved on to the Kings Head in 1894 and was the landlady until she remarried in 1900 when her new husband took over the license. Jeanette x

Jane

Jane Report 27 May 2005 13:49

Hi Jeanie, Jeanette and JUlie Thanks for your help. Unfortunately i've just received what i thought was my Johns marriage cert and it was wrong. I think that my John gray is more likely to be a farmer than a publican. Thanks again i will have to start looking for him again. All the best Jane