Portsmouth pubs history index
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John George Edwards, lived in the pub in 1851 according to the census of that year. He died in mid 1859. The licence seems to have passed officially to his nephew, William Marsh Jenkins, who lived with Edwards' wife, Jane Marsh Edwards (his maternal aunt) in the pub in 1861. *
In 1851 census at 39 Queen street, Portsea *
John Edwards, Victualler, aged 38, born in Portsea, Hampshire
Jane Edwards, Wife, aged 40, born in Swanage, Dorset
John Edwards, Father, Widow aged 70, born in Portsea, Hampshire
Thomas Bashshell, Visitor, Butcher, aged 43, born in Portsea, Hampshire
Charles Hill, Visitor, Tailor, aged 37, born in Portsea, Hampshire
1855/J G Edwards/../../../Post Office Directory
In 1861 census at 39 Queen street *
Jane Edwards, Public HOusev Keeper, Widow, ahged 48, born in Whitecliff, Dorset
Martha Rachael Godwin, Niece, Assistant, aged 22, born in Woolbridge, Dorset
William Marsh Jenkins, Nephew, Painter and Plumber, aged 43, born in Portsea, Hampshire
Frederick Murphy, Pot Boy, aged 13, born in Portsea, Hampshire
William died in November 1861, and a newspaper of that month has a report that the licence was passed to his father, James Jenkins. *
James Jenkins died in 1868, but before that there is a notification in the paper in 1867 calling a special session to reassign the license because the previous tenant (John Robert Jenkins) had absconded.
John Robert (earlier Robert John) Jenkins was the son of James, and therefore the brother of William. In 1866, there is an advert selling a pork butchers next door to the pub (41 Queen Street) because 'the landlord finds it impossible to run both' the pub and the butchers.
In censuses and certificates, John Robert describes himself variously as a licenced victualler and a pork butcher, the latter of which had also been his father's trade for many years.
There was no official transfer of the licence from James to John Robert so far as I can tell, but it seems probable, given that James was in his late 70s by 1861, that both the pub and the butchers shop next door were run by John Robert Jenkins from 1861-1867.
1871/Charles Davis/Publican/37/Suffolk/Census
1871/Louisa Davis/Wife/28/Kingston Portsea, Hampshire/Census
1871/William Davis/Brother/35/Suffolk/Census
1875/Charles Davis/../../../Post Office Directory
1878/Charles Davis/../../../Kellys Directory
1881/Charles Davis/Publican (Licensed Victualler)/46/Portsmouth, Hampshire/Census
1881/Alfred Hayden/Assistant/35/Portsmouth, Hampshire/Census
1885/Charles Davis/../../../Kellys Directory
1889/Charles Davis/../../../Kellys Directory
1901/Reuben T Kennett/Publican/45/Southsea, Hampshire/Census
1901/Mary A Kennett/Wife/36/Portsmouth, Hampshire/Census
1901/Jane Kennett/Daughter, Drapers Assistant/15/Fratton, Hampshire/Census
1901/Mary Kennett/Daughter/12/Fratton, Hampshire/Census
1901/Reuban T Kennett/Son/9/Soburton, Hampshire/Census
1901/Ethel M Kennett/Daughter/5/Soburton, Hampshire/Census
1901/Annie Messem/General Servant/28/Hambledon, Hampshire/Census
1901/Frank H Jones/Boarder, Leading Stoker RN/31/Usk, Monmouthshire/Census
1898/Reuben Thomas Kennett/../../../Kellys Directory
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