A listing of historical public houses, Taverns, Inns, Beer Houses and Hotels in Essex.
Chipping Ongar index
Dating from 1580
Cock, High Street, Chipping Ongar 19th August 1999
Residents at this address.
1791/Thomas Biggs/Victualler/../../Universal British
The licensee in 1816 was recorded on the Alehouse Recognizances as Robert Thomas, at the Cock.
1822/Robert Thomas/../../../Pigot's*
1823-4/Robert Thomas/../../../Pigot's
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
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."**
* Provided
by the Pubs, Inns and Taverns Index for England, 1801-1900
** Related by Alastair Ward