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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => England => Berkshire => Topic started by: LenVin on Monday 15 November 10 20:51 GMT (UK)
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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.
Len
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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.
regards
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Thanks Hanes
At least I know the pub existed as I cannot find any info at the moment.
Len
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Here's some info for you ;D
http://deadpubs.co.uk/Berkshire/Cholsey/Chequers.shtml
Dead Pubs is a brilliant site :)
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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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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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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.
NormanE
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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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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
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I have realised for the first time I now have a GG-grandfather
Thank you very much
NormanE
You're welcome.
I think you've always had 8 GG-GFs - but its nice to put a name to one of them.
Might have more of a problem with his father - Cholsey PRs. Bapt 30 Dec 1810 Charles s of Hannah Powel, b Dec 10
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Hi All
I can't believe that from just one question that we have all found long lost relations.
Thanks go to Newburychap for all the informative history of the pub
Well done Rootschat
Len
:D
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It seems that the Chequers was around until quite recently, there are numerous references to it on pub websites (like pubsulike). These sites are very often several years out of date.
As far as I can see the Chequers (12 Wokingham Wallingford Road, Cholsey) is now a curry house called Memories of Bengal.
http://tinyurl.com/33wsd3h
It is on the corner of Cross Road, behind it, off Cross Road, is a housing development (1960s?) called Chequers Place - perhaps built on land that was once part of the pub property.
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Goodness Gracious Me!!!!
I just can't imagine what my ancestors would have made of all this foreign culture
Your typo should have said Wallingford Rd
Regards
Norman E
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Your typo should have said Wallingford Rd
Corrected - thanks.
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Hello Folks
I came across this fascinating forum today and even more interesting thread like this !
Maybe you all might like to know that I am a past Landlord of said Pub.
Many happy memories which I may tell you about later, depending on how this is received.
FACT. The Chequers was on the Wallingford road just a little way down opposite the Vicarage.
I remember seeing a big Elm tree in the garden of the Vicarage from the pub door. It was later felled by a severe storm around 1982-3.
Am trying to post pics but file is 1.4 meg and max on here is 900k....help?
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Hi Victortango
Welcome to Rootschat. As you can see from my original post my Wife's Great Grandfather was landlord and after his death it was run by his widow Martha.
If you are into family history or any historical activity this is an amazing site with so many knowledgeable folk who do it for the enjoyment of their subject. Most only require a Please or Thank you to their response.
Good luck
Len
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My father was a customer in the 1950s. I remember the outside but was too young to be allowed in. My family was associated with other pubs in Cholsey too - on the other side of the bar. My great grandfather followed by my grandfather were landlords of the Morning Star and my great uncle was landlord of the Railway Hotel.
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I remember also someone locally who said he was born in the pub (upstairs)
I may be getting confused but think it was a younger lad who's father ran the pub just over the bridge in Crowmarsh Gifford ?
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I remember also someone locally who said he was born in the pub (upstairs)
I may be getting confused but think it was a younger lad who's father ran the pub just over the bridge in Crowmarsh Gifford ?
Crowmarsh is just over river bridge from Wallingford, Cholsey is a couple of miles from Wallingford on "Berkshire" side. According to my late father, pubs in Berkshire used to close at 10.30 and those in Oxon at 11.00 on Saturday nights, so at 10.31 there was a stampede over the bridge from Wallingford to Crowmarsh to get a bit more drinking time. This would have been late 1940s/ early 1950s. I expect the boundary changes in the 1970s put a stop to that.