Rose & Crown, Copthall Green, Waltham Abbey

Waltham Abbey pub history index

Also known as the Crown

Formerly the Rose & Crown, Copthall Green, Waltham Abbey. About 1903 it changed and became a Temperance Hotel and forest retreat. Today it is Copped Hall Green Farm (2013).

Kindly provided by Dolores Dilley

The following entries are in this format:

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

1841/John Spurgen/Ag Labourer & Victualler/30/Essex/Census ****
1841/Mary Spurgen/../20/Essex/Census
1841/Arthur Spurgen/../60/Essex/Census

1848/John Spurgen/../../../White's

1862/? Osborne/../../../Kelly's

1865/J. Osborne/../../../Kelly's*

1867/John Osborne/../../../Post Office

1870/Mrs. Mary Osborne/../../../Kelly's

1871/Emma Coborn/Licensed Victualler, Widow/51/East Indies, British subject/Census ****
1871/Maria Nottage/General Servant/22/Epping, Essex/Census
1871/George Wood/Servant, Ag Labourer/24/Waltham Abbey, Essex/Census
+ Boarders

1874/Mrs. Mary Osborne/../../../Kelly's

1876/Mrs. Mary Osborne/../../../Kelly's*

1878/Mrs. Mary Osborne/../../../Kelly's

1880/William Gregory/../../../Kelly's*

1881/William Gregory/Licensed Victualler/60/Epping, Essex/Census
1881/Emma Gregory/Wife/60/Stone, Buckingham/Census
1881/George Gregory/Brother, Agricultural Labourer/46/Epping, Essex/Census
1881/Samuel Hawk/Brother, Agricultural Labourer/24/Essex/Census
1881/William Skinner/Brother, Agricultural Labourer/35/../Census
1881/William Lookhall/Boarder, Labourer/60/Epping, Essex/Census
1881/Ann Gilbert/General Domestic Servant/49/Burnt Pelham, Hertford/Census
1881/Henry Gilbert/Ostler/18/Burnt Pelham, Hertford/Census

1882/William Gregory/../../../Kelly's

1885/Frederick Seymour/../../../Kelly's*

1886/Frederick Seymour/../../../Kelly's

18 October 1889/John Ellis/Outgoing Licensee/../../Chelmsford Chronicle ****

Oliver Jonathan Webster is earlier at the Crown, in Harlow. ****

18 October 1889/Oliver Jonathan Webster/Incoming Licensee/../../Chelmsford Chronicle ****

1890/Oliver Jonathan Webster/../../../Kelly's ****

1891/Oliver J Webster/Publican/34/Writtle, Essex/Census ****
1891/Alice Webster/Wife/26/St Pancras, Middlesex/Census
1891/Henry G Webster/Son/10/Stondon, Essex/Census
1891/Kate Webster/Daughter/11/Stondon, Essex/Census
1891/Rosa Webster/Daughter/8/Stondon, Essex/Census
1891/Frank Webster/Son/7/Ingrebourne, Essex/Census
1891/Henrietta Webster/Daughter/6/Hockley, Essex/Census
1891/Walter F Webster/Son/1/Waltham Abbey, Essex/Census
1891/Alice May Webster/Daughter/4 months/Waltham Abbey, Essex/Census
1891/Allen G Hicks/Brother in Law, Private in Army Reserve/40//Census
1891/Annie G Heathcote/Sister in Law/20/Stratford, Suffolk/Census
1891/Sarah A Page/General Servant/17/St Pancras, Middlesex/Census

Oliver Jonathan Webster is next at the Blacksmiths' Arms, Thornwood Common, North Weald Bassett until about 1899; and then a Licensed victualler at the Duchess of Kent, 179 Morning Lane, Hackney by the 1901 census. ****

1894/William Wederell/../../../Kelly's

1895/William Wederell/../../../Kelly's

1898/William Wederell/../../../Kelly's

1899/W. Wederell/../../../Kelly's

1901/James Skennerton 56, licensed victualler, born Wanstead, Essex/Census ***
1901/Mary Ann, wife, 59, born Clerkenwell, London
1901/James Skennerton, son, 26, general labourer, born Woodford, Essex
1901/David Skennerton, son, 19, railway clerk, born Chingford
1901/Steven Skennerton, grandson, 5, born Clerkenwell, London
1901/John Skennerton, grandson, 4, born Clerkenwell, London

1902/Thomas Simmons/../../../Kelly's

* Provided by the Pubs, Inns and Taverns Index for England, 1801-1900

*** Provided by Jenny Roberts

**** Provided by Ellen Heaps