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Hi Martha

I have posted quite a bit of info on Henry Plews and the Plews brewery in various posts on this website. Let me know if you need any more info. Are you related to the family or did you just like the jug?

Regards
Mike

Hi Winny

The Bedale book was published last year and to date we have distributed approx £15 000 of the sale proceeds to local good causes.

Books can be purchased at a cost of £20.00 from Maynews newsagents in the Market Place or can be ordered for postal delivery from (*) and will be subject to additional postal costs.  There is an article in the book on Plews Yard in aiskew. Send me an email to mike at bedale dot com and i will forward everything i have on Plews Yard as we were unable to publish everything. hat name are you researching in the area.

Mike

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Hi Chris

What great news this is for PlewsBedale.  I have spent the last few years on and off researching this family.  I am involved in producing a book on the Bedale area, www.bedale.com/book/htm where Henry Plews founded his brewing company in 1795.  I came across David after many posting had been made by me seeking information on the family happily coincided with David venturing into his family history.  I can vouch beyond doubt that this is Davids family. 

Here's hoping it all comes to happy conclusion

Mike

Anyone any ideas as to what this may be short for?

I have an Amy, Jessie, Mary, Kate , Ethel and Eva to choose from!!  Unless of course Minnie is another!

Following research I am doing on the Plews Brewery of Bedale and Leeming Bar it has come to my attention that the founder Henry Plews, or his son, also Henry Plews, became Chief Constable of probably the Wapentake of Hang East. The exact text is as follows
 
Page 487 states
“Old Henry Plews then took the Rand,

He had to Bedale come,

Chief Constable, and wanted land,

And Brewer, he was one”

 

The notes attached to this verse state as follows; Mr Plews commenced brewing in Aiskew, and was made Chief Constable, after the death of Mr Pickering of Crakehall.  From a small beginning, and the length of forty year, successfully carried on as a common brewer. Perhaps Mr Henry Plews of Bedale can vie, for extent of business in ale, porter and malting, with any of the like concern in the North Riding.  1838, the heavy and most laborious work is done by steam. The boiler holds 16 gallons, and one cooler holds 792 gallons, besides which in use is another three  -  (My original thought was that Henry Plews commenced brewing brewing in Bedale but Hird now throws a spanner in the works on that theory!)

 

Would appreciate any info on how to trace any records on Chief Constables and also what their duties were/would be.

 

Should anyone have any info on Plews Brewery or Plews family I would welcome that also.