The Cock Tavern, 218 High Street, Ongar CM5 9AB
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Chipping Ongar index
The Cock Tavern dates from 1580 and Richard Olliver is licensee at the Cock in 1769.
Cock, High Street, Chipping Ongar 19th August 1999
Residents at this address.
The licensee in 1769 was recorded on the Alehouse Recognizances as Richard Olliver, at the Cock, Chipping Ongar.
The licensee in 1784 was recorded on the Alehouse Recognizances as John Wood, at the Cock, Chipping Ongar.
1791/Thomas Biggs/Victualler/../../Universal British
The licensee in 1801, 1804 and 1810 was recorded on the Alehouse Recognizances as Thomas Biggs, at the Cock, Chipping Ongar.
The licensee in 1816 was recorded on the Alehouse Recognizances as Robert Thomas, at the Cock, Chipping Ongar.
1822/Robert Thomas/../../../Pigot's*
1823-4/Robert Thomas/../../../Pigot's
The licensee in 1825 was recorded on the Alehouse Recognizances as Robert Thomas, at the Cock, Chipping Ongar.
1828-9/Robert Thomas/../../../Pigot's
1832-3/Robert Thomas/../../../Pigot's
1839/Robert Thomas/../../../Pigot's
1841/Robert Thomas/brewer/70/Essex/Census **
1841/Mary Thomas/wife/68/Essex/Census
1841/Francis Ross/male servant/60/Essex/Census
1841/Mary Perry/female servant/19/Essex/Census
1841/Sarah (illegible)/female servant/25/Essex/Census
1841/John Mossman/[lodger] painter/30/Essex/Census
1841/Francis Simmons/[lodger] painter/25/Essex/Census
1845/Francis Starkey/../../../Post Office
1848/Francis Starkey/../../../White's
1851/Francis Starkey/../../../Post Office
1851 Not found (Francis Starkey is a retired brewer, visiting friends, in census. He is unmarried, which makes it virtually impossible to find the pub!)
1851/Francis Starkey/visitor, retired brewer/40/Chipping Ongar, Essex/Census
Here is another Starkey entry, possibly his father.High Street
1851/Henry Starkey/master baker/70/Moreton, Essex/Census **
1851/Sarah Starkey/wife/69/High Ongar, Essex/Census
1851/James Starkey/son, assistant/34/Chipping Ongar, Essex/Census
1851/Elizabeth Starkey/sister, annuitant/Moreton, Essex/Census
1855/W S Mason/../../../Post Office
1862/Francis Starkey/Brewer/../../Post Office
1867/William Horton/../../../Post Office
1870/Mrs. Hannah Horton/../../../Kelly's
1871/Mrs. Hannah Horton/../../../Post Office
1874/William Silcock/../../../Kelly's
1878/Thomas Read/../../../Kelly's
1881/Priscilla Prichett/Daughter, Housekeeper/19/Mile End, London, Middlesex/Census
1881/Joseph E. Nurse/Visitor, French Polisher/24/Soho, London, Middlesex/Census
1881/Alfred Wyatt/Adopted Son/14/St. George East, London, Middlesex/Census
1882/Thomas Potter/../../../Kelly's
1886/Thomas Potter/../../../Kelly's
1890/Thomas Potter/../../../Kelly's
1891/Thomas Potter/Licensed Victualler/73/Woodham Mortimer, Essex/Census
1891/Charlotte A Potter/Wife/66/Southampton, Hants/Census
1891/Elizabeth A Potter/Daughter, BarMaid/36/Southminster, Essex/Census
1891/Arthur E Potter/Son, Carpenter/34/Southminster, Essex/Census
1891/Frederick W Potter/Son, BarMan/30/Southminster, Essex/Census
1891/Ada Potter/Daughter in Law/29/Southampton, Hants/Census
1891/Frederick M Potter/Grand Son/2/Chipping Ongar, Essex/Census
1891/William Wood/Boarder, Railway Engineer Fireman/24/Stanford Rivers, Essex/Census
1891/Ernest E Button/Boarder, Railway Engineer Fireman/25/Suffolk/Census
1894/Peter Jackson/../../../Kelly's
1895/Peter Jackson/../../../Kelly's
1898/Peter Jackson/../../../Kelly's
1899/Peter Jackson/../../../Kelly's
1901/Peter W Jackson/Licensed Victualler/46/Hoxton, London/Census
1901/Annie Jackson/Wife/45/Plaistow, Essex/Census
1901/Ada Milligan/General Servant/29/Woolwich, Kent/Census
1902/Peter Jackson/../../../Kelly's
1906/Walter T. Chalk/../../../Kelly's
1908/William Thomas Chalk/../../../Kelly's
1910/William Thomas Chalk/../../../Kelly's
1912/William Thomas Chalk/../../../Kelly's
1914/William Thomas Chalk/../../../Kelly's
1917/Robert Henry Filby/../../../Kelly's
In 1920 to 1924 at the Cock Inn are Robert Henry Filby an Martha Rebecca Filby
In 1921 at the High Street, Chipping Ongar
Robert H Filby, Son, Manager Mrs M R Filbey, Licensed Victualler aged 33 and born in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
Ivy A Filby, Daughter-in-law, Home Duties aged 26 years 6 months and born in Maldon, Essex
Muriel R Burnard, Daughter, Home Duties aged 31 and born in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
Percy Burnard, Son-in-law, Motor Engineer, Engineer (Out Of Work) aged 33 years 7 months and born in Maldon, Essex
Conway Burnard, Grandson aged 2 years 8 months and born in Maldon, Essex
1922/Mrs. Martha Filby/../../../Kelly's
1925-6/Mrs. Martha Rebecca Filby/../../../Kelly's
1929/Sydney Robert Fisher/../../../Kelly's
1933/Sydney Robert Fisher/../../../Kelly's
1937/Sydney Robert Fisher/../../../Kelly's
"I lived in Ongar in the fifties from about '56-61, and at that time the
Cock was run by a lovely couple called Earl and Elsie Brooke-Footitt,
he was an ex-coastal command crew member who worked for Marconi at Chelmsford whilst Elsie ran the pub. They had a son who I think was called Martin."**
2018, The Cock Tavern, 218 High Street, Ongar CM5 9AB
* Provided by the Pubs, Inns and Taverns Index for England, 1801-1900
** Related by Alastair Ward
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