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In recent years (2012), this pub has traded as the Pelican Inn, and since 2007 has been renamed the Market Tavern. **
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Union Inn, 2 Union Street, Stroud, Gloucestershire - in November 2012
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Residents at this address.
1853/Enoch Capner/../../../Slater�s Directory 1852-53 **
1879/John Laidlaw/../../../Post Office Directory
1881/John Laidlaw/Inn Keeper, Widow/56/Roxburgh, Scotland/Census
1881/Mary J Laidlaw/Daughter/23/Stroud, Gloucestershire/Census
1881/Sarah Laidlaw/Daughter/20/Stroud, Gloucestershire/Census
1881/Maria Laidlaw/Daughter/18/Stroud, Gloucestershire/Census
1881/James Laidlaw/Son, Assistant/16/Stroud, Gloucestershire/Census
1881/Margaret Laidlaw/Daughter/14/Stroud, Gloucestershire/Census
1881/Clara Chandler/Servant/20/Harefield, Gloucestershire/Census
1885/John Laidlaw/../../../Kellys Directory
1894/John T Owen/../../../Kellys Directory
1902/John Thomas Owen/../../../Kellys Directory
1906/Maslin Smith/../../../Kellys Directory
In 1901, Leonard James Phelps is at Ye Old Hart Hotel, St John Street, Coleford
1910/Leonard James Phelps/../../../Kellys Directory
In 1911 at the Union Hotel Union Street, Stroud
Leonard James Phelps, Innkeeper aged 48 and born in Lydbrook Gloucestershire
Sarah Phelps, Wife, Assisting in business aged 48 and born in Wordxeley Worcestershire
Ellen Maud Phelps, Daughter, Assistant in confectionery business aged 18 and born in Ruardean Gloucestershire
Wybert Leonard Percival Phelps, Son aged 13 and born in Coleford, Gloucestershire
Beatrice May Phelps, Daughter aged 5 and born in Ross on Wye, Herefordshire
1923/Leonard James Phelps/../../../Kellys Directory
1927/Leonard James Phelps/../../../Kellys Directory
1939/Leonard James Phelps/../../../Kellys Directory
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