The Crown Inn, Ruardean (General)

by messerschmitt , Wednesday, May 15, 2013, 22:45 (4204 days ago) @ messerschmitt

here's where I stand at the moment.

This is the information I currently have with all of the names mentioned of those who owned or lived in the Old Dairy/Dean Dairy/The Crown Inn, Ruardean

The Crown Inn

Owners and tenants. 1800-2013

in the village Caudle Lane had the Crown in 1756 - VCH
Ref: Glos. R.O., D 543, misc. deeds 1694-1876

Owner. John Davis (1) – until April 1840
Owner: Lydia & John Davis (2) from April 1840 to 31 May 1860 (when John Davis (2)), her husband died intestate)

31 November 1861, sold for £100.
Owner: Thomas Thompson, farmer (owner of Malt Shovel public house) buys the property formerly known as The Crown Inn. His wife is Jane Hannah Thompson, d. 7 May 1892.

Tenant at time of sale was John Brain (shoemaker). Previous tenant was John Hale.

Sellers
Lydia Davis of Cwmcarvan widow and relict of John Davis (2) of Cwmcarvan and her son John Davis (3). In 1892, mention is made of Thos Davis, a younger son of the sais testator.

Father, John Davis (1) was late of Great Llanthomas Farm, Cwmcarvan and died on 25 April 1840. He had died in Ruardean.

Neighbours in 1861
Bounded by a messe herefore in the occupation of Wm Okey and subsequently of John Harper but then of Mrs Jane Hannah Thompson (wife of the said Thomas Thompson) on the North a lane leading from Ruardean Street to a place called Caldwell on the west a barn formerly in the tenure of occupn of Mary Wilding and subsequently of the said John Hale but then in the occupn of Geo Watkins on the south and premises belonging to the said Geo Watkins and to the Repres(entatives) of the late John Stratford Collins Esq respively and then in the occupn of the said Geo Watkins on all other parts and sides thereof.

25 July 1892 Sold for £120
From the estate of Jane Hannah Thompson, late of The Pales, Ruardean , sold by executor James Evans of Ruardean, Gentleman, (Evans James, Bell Public House) to Mary Jones, wife of James Jones of Upper Lydbrook, and Elizabeth Bickerton of Sussex Villa, Elmers End Road, Beckenham, Kent.

Tenant: Richard Gibbs, Blacksmith – operating as such from the premises

Boundaries:
Bounded by the following: towards the North by the street , west by the Lane (Caudle Lane) and on all other parts and sides by a barn and premises belonging to George Watkins, by land formerly of John Stratford Collins and now by the said George Watkins.

Thomas Thompson’s will (13 October 1887) mentions:
All my freehold messe or dwelling house situate at Ruardean and then in the occupn of Richard Gibbs as my tenant and myself called and known as Mr Davis’s House. Together with the blacksmiths shop, stable, garden and apports thereunto adjoining and belonging and occupied therewith.

Property is mortgaged by Edwin Evans Yearsley, lawyer of Mitcheldean to Evans and Jones for £40. Mortgage witnessed by Thomas Burdock, Miller Lydbrook (Burdock Thomas, miller & shopkeeper, Waterloo mill)

Thomas Thompson died on 5 May 1891.
Jane Hannah Thompson died 7 May 1892

Jane Hannah Thompson is the niece of spinster Hannah Davis of Mitcheldean (died 6 December 1860), who leaves her all that freehold house and premises situate in the Parish of Ruardean (Pales House?)

6 December 1907 – Sold to Aubrey Bennett for £150
Sold by Mary Jones of Lydbrook and Elizabeth Bickerton of No.6 Wickham Road, Beckenham, Kent of the first part Edwin Evans Yearsley of Mitcheldean , Solicitor of the second part and Aubrey Bennett of Ruardean Woodside, butcher, of the third part for £150. (£110 split between Jones and Bickerton and £40 to Yearsley – all interest paid).

Deed signed by Jones, Bickerton, Yearsley and witnessed by Frank Sleeman, clerk to Yearsley.

Tenant Richard Gibbs, Blacksmith

Boundaries:
Property bounded by the street and Caudle lane and by a barn and premises late of George Watkins and now of William Bennett and by land formerly of Geo Watkins and now of Mrs Weaver and Tom Duberley.

6 March 1926 – Sold to Charles Edmund Knight for £650
Conveyance of a dwellinghouse and butcher’s shop in the Square, Ruardean.
Bennett’s address is given as Retired Butcher, Hill View, West End, Ruardean.
Knight’s address as Smithers Cross Farm, Ruardean, farmer and dealer.

Tenant: Richard E. Olliff.

Boundaries:
Property bounded by premises formerly of William Bennett but nor or late of John Knight and by land now or late of Mrs Weaver and Tom Duberley.

Mortgaged via Lloyds Bank ,Ross.