Leather Bottle, The Street, Pleshey CM3 1HJ

Pleshey pub history index

Leather Bottle, The Street, Pleshey in 1968

Kindly donated by Colleen

Leather Bottle, The Street, Pleshey in 3rd October 1999

Taken by Dawn in Kelvedon

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Recent photo taken in 2000, of the "Leather Bottle" pub in Pleshey , and The Street, Pleshey where one of my ancestors George Bohannon b1862, Pleshey, was publican from the late 1800's. ***

Residents at this address.

1845/John Dowsett/Beer Retailer/../../Post Office

1848/John Dowsett/Beerhouse Keeper/../../White's

My maternal grandmother, Ellen Brockway nee Saltmash, was born in Pleshey in 1879. Her mother was Susanna Rayment, born 1845. The father of Susanna and her 5 siblings was a local Farmer and Butcher who died in 1852 and I assume she took on the Pub as a means of supporting the family as a widow. Susanna went on to marry a cousin Rayment Saltmash and my grandmother was one of 8 children. Rayment was a shoemaker. **

1861/Elizabeth Rayment/Beershop Keeper/57/Springfield, Essex/Census*
1861/Susanna Rayment/Daughter/16/../Pleshey, Essex/Census
1861/Mary Rayment/Daughter in Law/23/Nottingham/Census
1861/Mary Elizabeth Rayment/Granddaughter/../4/Nottingham/Census

1862/Mrs. Elizabeth Rayment/Baker & Beer Retailer/../../Kelly's

1867/Mrs. Elizabeth Rayment/Baker & Beer Retailer/../../Post Office

1870/William Rayment/Beer Retailer/../../Kelly's

1871/William Rayment/Beer Retailer/../../Post Office

1874/Charles Philpott/Shoemaker & Beer Retailer/../../Kelly's

1878/Charles Philpott/Shoemaker & Beer Retailer/../../Kelly's

1881/Charles Philpott/Beerhouse Keeper/50/Pleshey, Essex/Census
1881/Louisa Philpott/55/Wife/Suffolk/Census
1881/Mary Ann Philpott/Daughter/11/Pleshey, Essex/Census
1881/Charles Philpott/Son/16/Pleshey, Essex/Census
1881/Sophia Boreham/Visitor, Sister in Law/55/Suffolk/Census

1882/Charles Philpott/Shoemaker & Beer Retailer/../../Kelly's

1886/Mrs. Charles Philpott/Shoemaker & Beer Retailer/../../Kelly's

1894/Mrs. Louisa Philpott/Beer Retailer/../../Kelly's

1898/Charles Philpott/Beer Retailer/../../Kelly's

1899/Charles Philpott/Beer Retailer/../../Kelly's

1902/George Portway/Beer Retailer/../../Kelly's

An extract from "The Pleshey Parish Magazine" October 1902 regarding the outbreak of diphtheria. 

And the Pleshey School  in 1900. ***

1908/George Bohannan/Beer Retailer/../../Kelly's

1912/George Bohannan/Beer Retailer/../../Kelly's

1917/George Bohannan/Beer Retailer/../../Kelly's

1925/George Bohannan/Beer Retailer/../../Kelly's

Obituary for George Bohannon ("Leather Bottle" Inn) :  1862 - 1927

1933/James Reeve/Beer Retailer/../../Kelly's

Note: Premises only named in 1861


* Provided by Essex Villages

** Provided by Thomas Gilbert

*** Pictures kindly provided by Ken & Bev Shakespeare

*** Information forwarded by Jan MacKinven