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Woodboy, 2 Fleet Street, Leicester

Leicester pub history index

Directory of Pubs in the UK historical public houses, Taverns, Inns, Beer Houses and Hotels in Leicester, Leicestershire.

Residents at this address

1878/Charles Bodycot/../../../Wrights Directory

1881/Charles Bodycot/Beer House Keeper/62/Leicester/Census
1881/Mary Bodycot/Wife/62/Coventry, Warwick/Census
1881/Charlotte Bodycot/Daughter, Machinist Shoe Trade/21//Census
1881/Maria Bodycot/Daughter, Barmaid/19/Leicester/Census
1881/Charlotte Maria Higginson/Grand Daughter/4/Leicester/Census
1881/James Higginson/Leather Currier/25/Leicester/Census
1881/Selina Bosworth/Fitter (Shoe Trade)/19/Leicester/Census

1887/Edward Malpas/../../../Wrights Directory

1899/James Burke/Beer Retailer/../../Wrights Directory

A distant relative James Halford was the Beerhouse Keeper at the Woodboy in Fleet Street, Leicester when he died in 1905. His Probate record reads:
HALFORD James of the "Woodby" inn 2 Fleet-street Leicester beerhouse-keeper died 18 November 1905 at 115 Jarrom-street Leicester. Administration Leicester 4 December to Edith Halford, widow. Effects 128 pounds 10 shillings.
I am not sure how long he had been there, he married in 1903 but I do not have a copy of his marriage certificate. At the time of the 1901 Census he is recorded as a barman at his parents pub, the Gladstone Arms. In the 1911 census, his widow Edith Halford was a servant at the Crown & Cushion in Belgrave Gate, Leicester, run by William Judkins and his wife Sarah Ann. *



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