The Saddle inn

[jgm]

Looking for some info on this pub regarding the following person,

Cornelius O Cain
Vitullar
Sunderland
Durham

How long did he have this pub,also any photographs ? much appreciated

[stanmapstone]

The Saddle Inn, High Street East, dated from 1777 to February 1918, when the licence expired. You can see it on the map at http://www.durham-images.org/public/ms/m16/m16sb5.html at the corner of Drury Lane and High Street East.
Stan

[stanmapstone]

Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette - Thursday 09 March 1899
O'Cain. - On the 9th inst., aged 53 years, Cornelius O'Cain, beloved husband of Mary O'Cain, of 3, George Street, Sunderland; late of the Saddle Inn. To be interred on Sunday; lift at 2 o'clock. Friends please accept this (the only) intimation. R.I.P.
He was in the Saddle Inn in the 1881 census, but by 1891 he was a labourer in a Shipyard, living at 3 George Street.
Stan

[jon541]

For 'Vitullar', read 'Victualler' (Collins - 'a licensed purveyor of spirits ; innkeeper')

[stanmapstone]

A  victualling house (Licensed Victualler) was one where persons were provided with food and drink, to be consumed on the premises, but not lodgings, Publican is a term for someone who keeps a public house which provides drink but does not provide food or lodgings. An Inn (Inn-keeper) was where persons were provided with food and drink and lodgings.
A Beer House was only licensed to sell beer, a Public House could also sell wines and spirits.
Stan

[jon541]

Interesting Stan - the additional precision of your definition (source?) suggests that the Collins definition is a tad woolly in defining a victualler as an innkeeper since it loses the distinction between one who offers and who doesn't offer accommodation.

[stanmapstone]

From the Oxford English Dictionary
Victualler:  A purveyor of victuals or provisions; spec. one who makes a business of providing food and drink for payment; a keeper of an eating-house, inn, or tavern; a licensed victualler.
licensed victualler, one who has a licence to sell food or drink, but esp. the latter, to be consumed on the premises

Stan

[stanmapstone]

However it could be a fancy name for a publican to give himself 
There are a number of threads on Victualler in Rootschat
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,34965
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,111312
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,282412
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,453063
Stan

[jon541]

Yes, I think that lets Collins off the hook since their definition, while naturally not as full as the OED's, doesn't differ from it.