Boar's Head, Monmouth

Is there still an inn in Monmouth called The Boar's Head. I've tried to Google it but cannot find it. It was there in June 1868 as some of my relatives came back from the USA for two months and stayed there. If so is there any way of finding out who it belonged to. She was a widow but had many relatives in the Forest of Dean and I am wondering why she would stay at an inn/hotel rather than with family but it could be a member of the family might have owned it. Her name prior to marriage was Adams/Addams.

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I've not come across a recent Boar's Head in Monmouth ( thats not to say an historic one did not exist for a period of time !) Druids Head is about the closest :-)

I have come across a Boars Head [Yard] in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire.....

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Thanks for this, it states Monmouth. I will need to start looking through trade directories for the time.

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it states Monmouth

Very often people refer to the County of Monmouthshire just as Monmouth and miss the shire part out.

Similar to Gloucester and Gloucestershire. Many people for instance have posted messages on this forum and mentioned Gloucester Archives when in fact the correct name is Gloucestershire Archives.

There are also probably hundreds of records quoted on this forum as being in Monmouth when what is meant is Monmouthshire.

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Hi
I found this information in the book "The pubs of Monmouth, Chepstow and the Wye valley" by Heather Hurley

The Boar's head dated from the late 18th century and it was licenced to Matthew Wilde in 1822. It was auctioned by the mortgagees in 1863 and continued to trade until the 1870 when Miss Sarah Roberts was the landlady.

Looking at a map in the book the pub appears to have been fairly near the top of Monnow street on the left as you go up the street.

Hope this is helpful

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Thank you, yes this is very helpful and I appreciate all the effort you have put into solving the mystery for me!

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1871 Census, Monmouth, St Mary - District 2a
Monnow Street (Page 25 of 40)

Boars Hd. Inn

Sarah ROBERTS - Head unmarried age 23 Publican -born Denbighshire, Llangollen
Henry HEAVEN - Brother-in-law - Widw age 39 Agent, born Staffordshire, Gnosall (died age 39 - 1872 Monmouth)
Harriet E ditto - Niece age 11 - born Manchester
Maud M - ditto - Niece - age 6 - born Cheshire, Sale Moor

(James PHILLIPS next door as per the 1861 census - running the Kings Arms Inn)

(On the 1881 Census, Harriet and Maud HEAVEN, moved back to Barton St Mary, Gloucester to live with their Grandfather Samuel HEAVEN, age 78, Retired Officer of the Inland Revenue, born Gloucester)

1861 Census - Monmouth, District 2
Monnow Street

William WILDE - 43 Innkeepr, born Monmouth
Ann WILDE - wife - age 38
Mathew WILDE - brother, aged 36 Butcher
Sarah Ann McCarthy - Servant, age 20 - born Ireland
Isaac BOUCHER, visitor, age 36, Licenced Hawker - born Wilts, Chippneham
William TOMKINS - 61 - Yeoman, born Herefordshire
John WILCOX - age 38 - Tailor

1851 Census, Monmouthshire, Monmouth District 2d - Page 20 of 30

Monnow Street

Matthew WILDE - married age 67, Vitualler, born Monmouth
Margaret WILDE - wife - 66 - born Monmouth
Emma WILDE - daughter age 34, Drefs Maker - born Monmouth
William WILDE - Son - unmarried age 32 - Butcher, born Monmouth
Matthew WILDE - son unmarried age 28, Butcher, born Monmouth
Ellen WILDE - daughter - age 24, Drefs Maker - born Monmouth
Ann OAKS - Servant, unmarried age 30, General Servant, born Monmouth Landoga
Edward MATTHEWS - Lodger - unmarried age 31, Tailor, born Monmouth

District 2d

Monmouth Parish all that part of the Parish of Monmouth which lies to the west of Monnow Street Ward, from Monnow Bridge to Mr Edward Phillips

1841 Census, Monmouth, District 2 - Page 7 of 14

Monnow Street

WILDE - family

Matthew - 55 - Publican - all born in County
Margaret - 55
William - 20 - Butcher
Matthew - 17
Emma - 22 Drefsmaker
Ellen - 14

May be my x Grandfather made their shoes ?

1841 Census, Monnow Street - south side

James JARRETT - age 65 - Shoemaker
Martha JARRETT - age 20 - My x Grandmother
Elizabet JARRETT - 15

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Thank you for all this. Not one of these names seems familiar so it might just be that it was the most convenient hotel to stay, or it could be that these might be related to her on another side of the family. (The person who stayed there was the widow of my relative but I think she may also have been distantly related to him as well e.g. second or third cousin. In the previous generation someone with her surname married someone in my family. I have not proved a link between the two Addams' but it's likely.) It was a convenient place to stay though so its location makes sense.

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The Key family of Glos/Tewks. ties directly to the Heaven family mentioned on this forum. (viz Samuel Heaven marr. Eliza Key 1824 Glos) You have helped move my research on this branch forwards and if i can help in return i should be pleased to do so.

Antony Key

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Thank you for this, I have revisited this now that a new posting has come onto the site. I have looked again at the names of people at The Boar's Head now that I have more family history under my belt and there is a very, very, slight possibility that the servant: Sarah McCarthy may have been related to someone who married into another branch of the family i.e. Morgan Pritchard branch but there is no link made as yet. Thank you also to the person who put the recent posting on this site for showing his level of appreciation.

The person who wrote the letter about where the relative was staying was a Catholic Priest who was based at the RC Church at Monmouth (Fr. Abbot) and it is likely that she stayed near to the church probably to be able to see people she knew easily. The Boar's Head is likely to have been a very respectable place to stay as she was an upstanding member of her community with lots of contact with nuns and priests in the USA in her town and housekeeper for a doctor. She had also come to England to pick up an inheritance when her brother died and it was a substantial sum for the time. It certainly enabled her, a widow and her child to make a return journey to England from Poughkeepsie in New York, no mean feat in those days!

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