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Red Lion, Market place, Pontefract WF8 1AX. 25th April 2019

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Residents at this address

Baines 1822 - Red Lion hotel, John Tute, Market place

Pigots 1829 - Red Lion, John Tute, Market place

Pigots 1834 - Red Lion Hotel (& posting house) William Arton, Market place

1837 Whites - Arton Wm. Red Lion Hotel (posting) Market place

1857 Post Office directory - Thomas Richard Dunhill, Red Lion hotel & posting house, Market place

1861/Thomas Richard Dunhill/Victualler/38/Pontefract, Yorkshire/Census
1861/Ann Dunhill/Wife/27/Pontefract, Yorkshire/Census
1861/Caroline Sudbury/Sister in Law, Assistant/33/Pontefract, Yorkshire/Census
1861/Jane Ann Ingleson/Waitress/27/Leeds, Yorkshire/Census
1861/Elizabeth Towns/Kitchen Maid/16/Pontefract, Yorkshire/Census
1861/John Waites/Boots/37/Pontefract, Yorkshire/Census
1861/Richard Brown/Errand Boy/13/Pontefract, Yorkshire/Census

1881/John Tuting Sweeting, Red Lion family & commercial hotel & posting house, ordinary daily at 1 o'clock, an omnibus to the railway station; stabling, billiards etc, Market place/../../Kellys Directory

1891/John T Sweeting/Inn Keeper, Widow/61/Ripon, Yorkshire/Census
1891/William Sweeting/Son/25/Wakefield, Yorkshire/Census
1891/Catherine Sweeting/Daughter/22/Wakefield, Yorkshire/Census
1891/Beatrice Sweeting/Daughter/20/Wakefield, Yorkshire/Census
1891/John S Sweeting/Grandson/15/Wakefield, Yorkshire/Census
1891/Henry Whitfield/Visitor/81/Wetherly, Yorkshire/Census
1891/Annie Atack/Barmaid/24/Crofton, Yorkshire/Census
1891/Emma Walson/Waitress, Widow/27/Thorne, Yorkshire/Census
1891/Jane Paley/Housemaid/24/Crofton, Yorkshire/Census
1891/Annie Howell/Housemaid/20/Chedley, Staffordshire/Census
1891/Alice Coultas/Cook/30/North Cave, Yorkshire/Census
1891/Ada Dickinson/Kitchen Maid/18/Castleford, Yorkshire/Census

1893/John Tuting Sweeting, Red Lion hotel, & farmer, Market place/../../Kellys Directory

In 1905, Alehouse Licences list William Ireland , at the Red Lion, Market place, Pontefract.

The Owner is John Smiths Tadcaster, Brewery Co Ltd, Tadcaster

Alehouse Licences list Thomas Toyne Dec 7 1903

Alehouse Licences list James Leighton Charlton, 1912

Alehouse Licences list John Godlin, April 8 1929

Alehouse Licences list 13 Jul 1939 Louis Herbert Smith

Alehouse Licences list Feb 1958 Louis Herbert Smith

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