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Residents at this address
1832-34/John Clifford/../../../Melvilles Directory
James Burren senior (1805 - 1868), was my 3 × great grandfather; he was at
the
Blakeneys Head by at least 1843***
James Burren was described as licensed victualler at the Five Bells, St
Margarets Bank, at the baptism of his daughter Philadelphia on 16 November
1838 – source transcript of parish register for St Margaret’s church ***
1838/James Burren/../../../Wrights Directory ***
1840/James Burren/../../../Pigots Directory ***
I have not yet found James Burren in the 1841 census and don’t know when he
moved to Smithfield [nor why, since St Margaret’s Bank seems to have been a
well-off area with households of shipwrights, mariners, architects,
carpenters, etc, and Smithfield was home to one of the foulest markets in
the country – maybe he decided he was a wannabe Wetherspoon’s bar manager
:-) ], but I do know he was at St Bartholomew the Great by August 1843 when
children Rhoda born 1840 and James born 1843 were baptized ***
The 1841 census lists George Jeffrey and his family at the Five Bells,
St Margarets Bank. Levi Yard was licensee of the Full Moon beerhouse
in Five Bells Lane.
I have references for Jeffreys from 1841 up to 1847 and then his widow
Hannah Jeffrey in 1849; whilst Levi Yard was at the Full Moon from around
1841 up to at least 1858. **
1851/John Harrison/Licensed Victualler/49/Chester, Cheshire/Census ***
1851/Sarah Harrison /Wife/45/Chatham, Kent/Census
1851/Sarah Maria Harrison/ Daughter/11/Chatham, Kent/Census
1851/Elizabeth Jemima Harrison/Daughter/6/Chatham, Kent/Census
1851/Mary Till/Widowed House Servant/50/ Sheerness, Kent/Census
1851/John Harvey/ Lodger & Bricklayer/45/ Deptford, Kent/Census
1851/Jane Harvey/ Lodger’s Wife/40/Barming, Kent/Census
1851/Thomas Billinghurst/Lodger & Shoemaker/39/Westminster, Middlesex/Census
1855/H Butcher/../../../Essex, Herts & Kent Directory
1858/Henry Burgess/../../../Melvilles Directory
1862/Charles Canfield/../../../Post Office Directory
1874/William Worsley/../../../Post Office Directory
1881/William Worsley/Licensed Victualler/48/Chatham, Kent/Census
1881/Mary A Worsley/Wife/39/London, Middlesex/Census
1881/William Worsley/Son, Engine Fitter/18/Chatham, Kent/Census
1881/George Worsley/Son/16/Rochester, Kent/Census
1881/Mary A Worsley/Daughter/14/Rochester, Kent/Census
1891/William Worsley/../../../Post Office Directory
1903/Giles D Varrall/../../../Post Office Directory
1913/Edwin Albon/../../../Post Office Directory
1918/Edwin Albon/../../../Post Office Directory
1922/Edwin Albon/../../../Post Office Directory
1930/Edwin Albon/../../../Post Office Directory
1938/Wm Smith/../../../Post Office Directory
** Provided By Judy Miller
*** Provided By Chris Haines