Golden Lion, High Street, Rayleigh

Kindly provided by Peter Wonnacott

The following entries are in this format:

Year/Publican or other Resident/Relationship to Head and or Occupation/Age/Where Born/Source.

1826/John Witham/../../../Essex Recognizances ****

1828-9/John Witham/../../../Pigot's

1832-3/John Witham/../../../Pigot's

From the Chelmsford Chronicle 20-Mar-1835:

11th March inst. after a short illness aged 74 years, Mr John Witham of the Lion Inn, Rayleigh, deeply lamented by his large family and numerous circle of friends, as a tender and affectionate father and husband, and as a sincerely esteemed neighbour for his ready generous acts of liberality and kindness, his loss will be sincerely regretted by very many persons who knew him. Forty years since he was the highly respectable landlord of the Bull Inn, Rochester, Kent. ***

1839/Neville Syer/../../../White's

1845/Mrs. Charlotte Syer/../../../Post Office

1851/John Ivory/../../../Post Office

1851/John Ivory/innkeeper/48/Middlesex/Census **
1851/Maria Ivory/wife/44/France (British Subject)/Census **
1851/George Ivory/son, scholar/08/St George, Middlesex/Census **
1851/Eliza Cockley/house servant/21/Rayleigh, Essex/Census **
1851/John Saward/ostler/22/Brentwood, Essex/Census **
1851/William Lodge/lodger, widower, decayed farmer/65/Hockley, Essex/Census **
1851/George Hart/lodger, marine drummer/28/Chatham, Kent/Census **

1855/R Mountain/../../../Post Office ****

1856/Nicoll Syer/../../../Post Office

1862/Neville Syer/../../../Kelly's

1867/Neville Syer/../../../Post Office

1870/Mrs. Fanny Syer/../../../Kelly's

1871/Mrs. Fanny Syer/../../../Post Office

1874/Mrs. Fanny Syer/../../../Kelly's

1878/George Deadman/../../../Kelly's

1882/William Hudson/../../../Kelly's

1886/John Francis Tucker/../../../Kelly's

1890/William Page/../../../Kelly's

1894/William Page/../../../Kelly's

1895/William Page/../../../Kelly's

1898/William Page/../../../Kelly's

1899/William Page/../../../Kelly's

1902/William Page/../../../Kelly's

1906/William Page/../../../Kelly's

1908/William Page/../../../Kelly's

1910/Mrs. Eliza Page/../../../Kelly's

1912/Mrs. Eliza Page/../../../Kelly's

1914/Mrs. Eliza Page/../../../Kelly's

1917/Joseph Howard O'Toole/../../../Kelly's

1922/Joseph Howard O'Toole/../../../Kelly's

1925-6/Douglas Francis White/../../../Kelly's

1929/Thomas L. Hardy/../../../Kelly's

** Provided by John Mead

*** Provided Keith Taylor

**** Provided by Kevan