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Offline LenVin

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The Chequers Inn Cholsey
« on: Monday 15 November 10 20:51 GMT (UK) »
Hi
I was wondering if anyone has any information about The Chequers Inn which was in Horn Lane Cholsey. The publican in the 1901 census was John Howse, who is my wife’s G Grandfather. At the time of the census Bessie age 3 (our grandmother) is living at the address. Any information about the property or photographs would be greatly appreciated.
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Re: The Chequers Inn Cholsey
« Reply #1 on: Monday 15 November 10 23:05 GMT (UK) »
Len,

Slightly before your grandmother's time but

Jackson's Oxford Journal Sat Nov 28 1891 -

Edward Jerome, George Beal and Frank Rumbold were summoned for drunkeness and disorderly conduct, at the Chequers Inn, Cholsey, on the 9th inst, and Jerome was further charged with assaulting Frederick Powell - Frederick Powell and Eliza Powell, the landlady, proved the case, and Jerome was fined 7s 6d and the other defendants 6s each.

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Re: The Chequers Inn Cholsey
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 16 November 10 08:18 GMT (UK) »
Thanks Hanes
At least I know the pub existed as I cannot find any info at the moment.

Len
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Re: The Chequers Inn Cholsey
« Reply #3 on: Tuesday 16 November 10 08:47 GMT (UK) »
Here's some info for you  ;D

http://deadpubs.co.uk/Berkshire/Cholsey/Chequers.shtml

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Re: The Chequers Inn Cholsey
« Reply #4 on: Tuesday 16 November 10 09:43 GMT (UK) »
I think you can be sure that the Chequers existed:

Kelly's Berkshire Directories
1848: Thomas, Jessie, beer retailer & farmer
1854: Thomas, Jessie, Chequers & farmer
1869, 1877, 1883, 1887, 1891: Powell, Charles, Chequers inn
1895, 1899, 1903, 1905, 1907, 1911, 1915: Howse, John jun, Chequer's inn PH
1920: Howse, Martha (Mrs), Chequer's inn
1924: Paxford, Thomas, Chequers inn
1928: Jones, Percy, Chequers inn
1931, 1935: O'Brien, Thos, Chequers inn
1939: Chequers PH (Thos O'Brien)

Looks like the 'inn' was overstating things a bit!  Seems to have been a beerhouse that developed failry quickly into a pub, certainly enough to persuade Kelly's to list it by name when they were still listing beer retailers of unnamed establishments.  Licensing Registers, Petty Session records or local papers should give more info.

Kelly's stopped publishing county directories in 1939 - telephone directories (available via Ancestry) could show more recent existence of the Chequers

Also in the directories at Cholsey:
1848: Howse, Francis, farmer
1854: House, John, farmer
1869, 1877, 1883: Howes, John, farmer
1887, 1895, 1899: Howse, John, farmer, East End farm
1903, 1907, 1911, 1915, 1920, 1924, 1928: Howse, Thomas, farmer, East End farm
1931, 1935, 1939: no entry for Howse or for East End farm
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Re: The Chequers Inn Cholsey
« Reply #5 on: Tuesday 16 November 10 09:53 GMT (UK) »
Hi Heather
Martha Howse in 1920 kellys directory was brought up in The Eagle Pub in Cholsey. The 1871 census shows her father Job Neal as the publican.
 Thanks for the link very interesting.

Newburychap.
Thanks for your input. The Farmers were the publican John Howse  father & grandfather.


Regards Len
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Re: The Chequers Inn Cholsey
« Reply #6 on: Tuesday 16 November 10 14:41 GMT (UK) »
Perhaps I can add a little colour to a story I never knew.
Charles Powell sometime landlord of the Chequers Cholsey was my  great grandfather and the Eliza in the court case was my great grandmother.
Charles died just after the 1891 census. I am puzzled by  the 1877 reference  in Kellys as Charles was still a brewery employee at Wallingford in the 1881 census. Charles daughter, my grandma who I remember clearly, died in 1932 and had to me the magical christian names of Henrietta Lucy.
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Re: The Chequers Inn Cholsey
« Reply #7 on: Tuesday 16 November 10 18:33 GMT (UK) »
I am puzzled by  the 1877 reference  in Kellys as Charles was still a brewery employee at Wallingford in the 1881 census.
The 1881 entry for the Chequers gives an idea of what happened.

In 1881 Lucy Badwin is head of household that night - occupation innkeeper's wife.  Also there is Elizabeth Powell, mother-in-law, who was the widow of Charles Powell the landlord in 1871 who died in 1880 (Q4 Wallingford 2c 209). The lack of a directory between 1877 and 1883 means that landlord Baldwin does not feature.

Presumably the second Charles Powell - the landlord from 1883 on - was related in some way.
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Re: The Chequers Inn Cholsey
« Reply #8 on: Wednesday 17 November 10 17:50 GMT (UK) »
Thanks for your detailed reply
I am looking at the tree I generated sometime ago with new eyes.
Lucy Powell married a George Baldwin in 1872 so he would have been the absent Landlord in the 1881 Census. Lucy's mother present in the 1881  married the first Charles Powell 1809 when she was Elizabeth Brentford in 1829. My great-grandfather the second Charles Powell born 1833 was of course Lucy's (1845) brother. In all this discussion I have realised for the first time I now have a GG-grandfather
Thank you very much
NormanE