Where is/was Sough Bridge, Barnsley?

[alfindit]

Hi,

This is my 1st post, so please bear with me.

My 3rd great-grandfather, William Hawksworth, was a publican in Barnsley and ran the White Swan Inn in Queen Street from at least 1835 up until his death in 1853. However, I have found 1835 and 1837 electoral roll entries for a William Hawksworth whose residence was Sough Bridge in Barnsley Township; unfortunately, I can't find such a place on maps or through internet searches. Does anyone know where it was/is? I would be very grateful to find out.
Thanks for your time,
Al

[AlanBoyd]

Here is a map view from 1852 showing Queen Street, the Swan Inn and Sough Bridge. Looks like it is the north side of modern Peel Square?

http://tinyurl.com/bdz9eaet

Lots of pubs around there!

[alfindit]

Hi, Alan,
Thank you so much. I can't believe I couldn't see it It seems odd that the White Swan, clearly on Queen Street and said to be so on so many records, could be described as being on Sough Bridge, though it seems like that was the case here. Unless there is some other explanation... perhaps William owned property on Sough Bridge and through that gained the right to vote, but the electoral roll record clearly states Sough Bridge was his 'residence'. Still that is a great step forward, so thanks again

[AlanBoyd]

This link will take you to a transcript of a section of Baines's Directory and Gazetteer Directory of 1822. Scroll down past Silkstone to get to Barnsley. There are 23 traders whose address is Sough Bridge. One of them, under Hotels, Inns and Taverns, is Swan, Wm. Hawksworth, Sough bdg.

https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/WRY/Silkstone/Silkstone22Dry

[AlanBoyd]

and.. welcome to Rootschat!

[AlanBoyd]

Using FindMyPast address search, no hits for Sough Bridge. Peel Square first appears as an address in 1861.

[alfindit]

Thanks again Alan,

It's great to be here! I have seen that pubs list in the Barnsley Chronicle dated 1875 or so in an article about Barnsley in 1822, but it's great to see where it came from. I have much to learn, so thanks for your patience.

Yes, lots of pubs, most of them now gone. In that list, James Hawksworth at the Bull's Head is William's father and Benjamin Strutt of the White Bear is William's brother-in law, husband of Mary Hawksworth - no wonder William's Quaker wife Susan née Stead was disowned!

[AlanBoyd]

As you might expect there are lots of newspaper articles about the White Swan Inn. It seems to have made national news in 1859 when a man died after falling into a vat of boiling malt liquor. Was that after the Hawksworth era?

I can see the name mentioned in earlier articles.

[AlanBoyd]

The earliest two mentions at British Newspaper Archives:

25th August 1838, Leeds Times

ANCIENT DRUIDS' – This respectable order opened a lodge at the house of Mr. Wm. Hawksworth, the White Swan Inn, Barnsley, on Monday.

27 July 1839, Yorkshire Gazette

MARRIAGES
...
On Friday, the 19th inst., at Penistone, Mr Isaac Fox, corn miller, of Smithies Mill, to Miss Hawksworth, eldest daughter of Mr. Wm. Hawksworth, of the White Swan Inn, Barnsley.