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Residents at this address
1855/Thomas Harris/../../Post Office Directory
1859/My Ferris, Strand, Monkton street/../../Whites Directory
1865/Charles Woodford/../../../Harrods Directory
1875/Robert Scovell/../../../Post Office Directory
My great-grandfather, William Couzens, was the inn keeper at the Strand tavern, now the Solent Inn, in the 1881 census. He died in 1882 and I believe his wife Eliza became the inn keeper until she remarried in 1889. Eliza Damon was at her brothers public house, the Victoria Inn in 1861. *
1881/William Couzens/Inn Keeper/43/Ryde, Isle of Wight/Census
1881/Eliza Couzens/Wife/42/Dorset/Census
1881/William John Couzens/Son, Apprentice/16/Ryde, Isle of Wight/Census
1881/Emily Damon/Niece/20/Ryde, Isle of Wight/Census
1882, William Couzens late of the Strand Tavern Monkton street Ryde in the Isle of Wight in the County of Southampton Innkeeper who died 17 February 1882 at the Strand Tavern was granted at Winchester to Eliza Couzens of the Strand Tavern Widow theRelict.
See the Solent Inn for later entries