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1822/White Swan, Sarah Copley, Softs, Kirkgate/../Baines Directory
1829/White Swan, Thomas Copley, Kirkgate/../Pigots Directory
1834/White Swan, Thomas Copley, bottom of Westgate/../Pigots Directory
1857/Joseph Cliff, White Swan, Kirkgate/../../../Kellys Directory
In 1871 census at White Swan Inn, Kirkgate
Joseph Cliff, Licensed Victualler, aged 51, and born in Sandal Magna, Yorkshire
Martha Cliff, Wife, aged 53, and born in Churwell, Yorkshire
Mary Cliff, Daughter, aged 21, and born in Sandal, Yorkshire
Martha Cliff, Daughter, aged 18, and born in Sandal, Yorkshire
James Cliff, Son, aged 16, and born in Sandal, Yorkshire
Elizabeth Cliff, Daughter, aged 12, and born in Wakefield, Yorkshire
Wakefield 1886 Alehouse licences
White Swan, Kirkgate
West Riding Alehouse Licences has Walter Cordingley
West Riding Alehouse Licences has Harrop Wilson May 1 1889
1891/Harrop Wilson/Inn Keeper/31/Ossett, Yorkshire/Census
1891/Ada F Wilson/Wife/31/Cawthorne, Yorkshire/Census
1891/Rowland Wilson/Son/7/Ossett, Yorkshire/Census
1891/Maud Wilson/Daughter/5/Ossett, Yorkshire/Census
1891/David Wilson/Son/16 months/Wakefield, Yorkshire/Census
1891/George Hy Wilcock/Relative, Butcher/30/Cawthorne, Yorkshire/Census
1891/William T Williams/Boarder, Railway Clerk, Widow/38/Cowbridge, South Wales/Census
1891/Martha E Hill/Servant/23/Doncaster, Yorkshire/Census
1891/Lilian H Hill/Servant/15/Leeds, Yorkshire/Census
1893/249 Kirkgate, White Swan, Harrop Wilson/../../Kellys Directory
West Riding Alehouse Licences has Fred Hutchinson Jan 1 1896
West Riding Alehouse Licences has William Sugden Greenwood Aug 26 1896
West Riding Alehouse Licences has Jno W Howgate July 6 1898
West Riding Alehouse Licences has Isaac Young Marcg 1 1899
West Riding Alehouse Licences has Walter Lockwood Aug 2 1899
West Riding Alehouse Licences has Charles Hy Kemp July 4 1900
Wakefield 1910 Alehouse licences
White Swan Inn, Kirkgate - owned by by John Smiths Tadcaster Brewery Co Ltd
West Riding Alehouse Licences has Elizabeth Elston Miles
West Riding Alehouse Licences has Sam Speight 5 Jan 1916
West Riding Alehouse Licences has Charles Holley 1 March 1916
West Riding Alehouse Licences has Elizabeth Holley 3 Nov 1920
West Riding Alehouse Licences has Arthur Thorpe 5 Jan 1921
West Riding Alehouse Licences has William Beardshall 2 May 1923
1927/249 Kirkgate, White Swan, William Beardsall/../../Kellys Directory
West Riding Alehouse Licences has John Hemingway 4 Oct 1933
West Riding Alehouse Licences has George Newton 3 July 1935
West Riding Alehouse Licences has Mary Elizabeth Newton 6 March 1940
West Riding Alehouse Licences has Olive Thackrah 6 Nov 1940
West Riding Alehouse Licences has Ernest Taylor 4 Oct 1946
West Riding Alehouse Licences has Herbert Barker 5 Nov 1948
West Riding Alehouse Licences has John Thomas Wagstaff 7 Aug 1953