Little Dunmow Pub

[samhuzz]

Hello

I've received the birth certificate for one of my folks, and at time of registration his parents were living at a pub they kept at Brook Street, Little Dunmow. This was in 1866. Does anyone have any idea what this pub would be, and does it exist today? It's a funny question, but it might just help solve a mystery for me!

Thanks Sam

[t mo]

hello sam
i,ve just done a google st view look at brook st lt dunmow and there are no pubs now a couple of houses are pos for an old pub in fact there,s nothing much in brook st at all just a few houses it,s a dead end just goes to a farm by the look of it the nearest pub is the flitch of bacon in the street which leads off brook st
trevor

[samhuzz]

Hi again Trevor

I'm drawing a bit of a blank with the Little Dunmow part of the mystery! I am looking for a William Curson, who was supposedly a beerhouse keeper living in Brook Street, Little Dunmow in 1866. He was supposedly married to a Priscilla Chandler, but I can't find anything out about William or his marriage to Priscilla. I have a feeling he didn't exist, I don't know why.

Thanks, Sam

[t mo]

whato sam 
as you say nothing shows re a marriage , whats the story behind this little saga then ?
trevor

[findem]

Hi,

The title Beerhouse Keeper has me wondering if it was one of those set ups where people legally sold beer from a house, rather than a Pub.

Regards.

[t mo]

that makes sense finem regarding the location of the st being a dead end you wouldn,t get much passing trade  well done for that 
trevor

[vabbott]

Hi There

I have found a William Cursons listed as a Beer retailer 12/10/1872 at the Brewery Tap 73 st James Street Walthamstowe (Essex Brewery tap)

Could be him

Ronnie

[keldon]

who was supposedly a beerhouse keeper

This may help as to what was a beerhouse.

http://quezi.com/6717

[samhuzz]

Hi Trevor,

I am trying to find the father of my ancestor, Mary Jane Curson. I can't find her birth so I've ordered her brother, Henry's birth certificate, and it gives the father as William Curson, Beerhouse Keeper and his mother's address as informant is Brook Street, Little Dunmow. The mother, Priscilla (nee Chandler), Henry, Mary Jane and a sister Elizabeth are together in the 1871 census. The family (or just the mother!) moved around a lot as she was from Framlingham, Suffolk, had Mary Jane in the London area (Chelsea or Battersea depending on which census you look at!), Henry in Little Dunmow and then another daughter in Leics. Oh and in between all that the family are in Rushall, Staffs in the 1871 census. I wouldn't believe it all if it wasn't such a rare name and the places of birth weren't the same!

Anyway, that's the mystery behind the question, hope I haven't bored you all to tears! I think you all may be right about the house to legally sell beer from, thinking about it, I had an ancestor that did the same in Leicester.

Vabbott, I think that well could be William Curson, I think I may have found him on a census as a Travelling Wine Merchant.

Thanks very much

Sam