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At Queen Street, Troy Town in 1891
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The Morden Arms, Queen Street, Rochester, with Caroline Payne - circa 1938
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Residents at this address
1858/John Thorogood Roffway/../../../Melvilles Directory
1874/Frederick Grant/../../../Post Office Directory
1881/John F Higgins/Licenced Victualler/35/Northfleet, Kent/Census
1881/Emma Higgins/Wife/22/Upnor, Kent/Census
1881/Margaret Aldersley/Sister In Law, Barmaid/18/Strood, Kent/Census
1882/John Fry Higgins/../../../Post Office Directory
1891/J F Higgins/../../../Post Office Directory
1903/John Eugene Fouquet/../../../Post Office Directory
1913/Wm Jn Wells/../../../Post Office Directory
1918/William John Wells/../../../Post Office Directory
1922/William John Wells/../../../Post Office Directory
1930/Wm Edward King/../../../Post Office Directory
Caroline Payne (owner of Morden Arms) was my great-grandmother. My
grandfather met my grandmother there (nana was working for Caroline in the
pub). She must have been married initially to a "Peters" - my granddad was
Reginald Bernal Peters (later the owner of the White Lion in Cheriton Road).
I suspect that her first husband (granddad's dad) was killed in the war. ***
1938/Mrs Caroline Payne/../../../Post Office Directory
1941/C E Payne/../../../BT Telephone Directory [Chatham 2911]
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