SOLVED: Edwin Newcomb, b.1842, Coffee House Keeper, City of London

[jennifer c]

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Jennifer

[Yorkslass]

Hello again boleynboy,

I wondered if Edwin Newcomb had had a go at running a pub.  This pub in Loughton Essex has a list of it's publicans, and there's an Edwin Newcomb there in 1894/5.  - http://deadpubs.co.uk/EssexPubs/Loughton/hollbush.shtml

Loughton is only about five miles from Wanstead, and there don't seem too many Edwin Newcombs on the 1891 census, so it could be him?

Yorkslass

[dasgoods]

Thanks!

[dasgoods]

Here is the document that I mentioned in Post #1.

Freeman of the City of London (this has been paid for by Edwin Newcomb)

1879



Here is a photo (not dated) of (presumably) Edwin Newcomb  b.1842 with his 2x Sons (to our left), wife (to our right) and staff.

[marcie dean]

Is this the coffee house which is down the road from the railway station in london.

We used to be taken there for a drink before going on to richmond zoo and sometimes on the way back to catch the train back to bmth.

marcie

Isnt it still going and still called the coffee house. when I was a kid it was owned by Fortes

[dasgoods]

Is this the coffee house which is down the road from the railway station in london.

Marcie

I haven't the foggiest...