Forest of Dean FHT Forum - Mrs Mormans Coffee Tavern / Coffeehouse

Mrs Mormans Coffee Tavern / Coffeehouse (reply)

slowhands — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 21:06:20 +0000

Right on the road side

Mrs Mormons Coffee Tavern / Coffeehouse (reply)

Celia61 — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 20:52:51 +0000

Many thanks, slowhands. Does your postcard show the shop/property set right by the road i.e. not set back 20 yds or so?
Cheers, Celia

Coffee Tavern / Coffee house (reply)

slowhands — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 07:12:05 +0000

I suspect Coffee Tavern is more or less equal to Coffee house.

In Victorian England, 1880s, the temperance movement tried to revive the coffee house scene in an attempt to divert the working man from the perils of drink. Modeled on the mahogany-trimmed taverns promoted by the beer industry, 'Coffee taverns,' one pamphlet stated, 'must show there are beverages as comforting as beer, that there are beverages to be bought as cheap as beer.'

Some societies, including at least two formed by miners at large pits,
met at chapels, and several, notably the East Dean Economic Benefit
Society formed at the Baptist chapel in 1854 by Timothy Mountjoy,
promoted temperance. (fn. 91) In 1877 the opening of a temperance
hotel and hall in the town was disturbed by the playing of a band employed
by a local publican. (fn. 92) The town had several coffee houses in the late 1880s. (fn. 93)
referring to Cinderford

From: 'Forest of Dean: Social life', A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 5: Bledisloe Hundred,
St. Briavels Hundred, The Forest of Dean (1996), pp. 381-389.
URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=23270 Date accessed: 19 February 2009.

Coffee Tavern Keeper (MORMAN/MORMON) Drybrook (reply)

Celia61 — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 02:32:15 +0000

Thanks slowhands. Was a coffee tavern like a tea-shop? I've not come across it before.
Cheers, Celia

Coffee Tavern Keeper (MORMAN/MORMON) Drybrook (reply)

slowhands — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 01:19:48 +0000

I'm working on the location , its in central Drybrook not too far from the George and Royal Oak and Bible Christian Chapel
but in the meantime the MORMAN family is probably here :-

http://www.forum.forest-of-dean.net/index.php?mode=thread&id=891

I have a postcard from 1910 ish showing Morman's shop east of the Cross (on High st ?) , near the True Heart, this could be the same as the 1901 entry

1901
Thomas Mormon abt 1852 Drybrook, Gloucestershire, England Head East Dean, Gloucestershire Coal Miner
Martha A Mormon abt 1863 Compton Abdale, Gloucestershire, England Wife East Dean, Gloucestershire Coffee / Tavern Keeper
Berne J Mormon abt 1895 Drybrook, Gloucestershire, England Daughter East Dean, Gloucestershire
Eli C Mormon abt 1887 Drybrook, Gloucestershire, England Son East Dean, Gloucestershire
Elsie M Mormon abt 1898 Drybrook, Gloucestershire, England Daughter East Dean, Gloucestershire
Ivy R Mormon abt 1896 Drybrook, Gloucestershire, England Daughter East Dean, Gloucestershire
Kathleen M Mormon abt 1900 Drybrook, Gloucestershire, England Daughter East Dean, Gloucestershire
Martha A Mormon abt 1892 Drybrook, Gloucestershire, England Daughter East Dean, Gloucestershire
Thomas D Mormon abt 1889 Drybrook, Gloucestershire, England Son East Dean, Gloucestershire

1891 near Royal Oak
Thomas Mamon abt 1862 Drybrook, Gloucestershire, England Head East Dean, Gloucestershire
Martha A Mamon abt 1863 Compton, Abodale Glos Wife East Dean, Gloucestershire
Eli C Mamon abt 1887 Drybrook, Gloucestershire, England Son East Dean, Gloucestershire
Henry W Mamon abt 1890 Drybrook, Gloucestershire, England Son East Dean, Gloucestershire
Thomas D Mamon abt 1889 Drybrook, Gloucestershire, England Son East Dean, Gloucestershire

Name: Martha Ann Davis
Name: Thomas Morman
Year of Registration: 1885
Quarter of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec
District: Westbury On Severn
County: Gloucestershire
Volume: 6a
Page: 484

probably this Thomas

Year: 1859
Month: Dec
Day: 25
Parents_Surname: MORMAN
Child_Forenames: Thomas
Fathers_Forenames: Cha[rle]s
Mothers_Forenames: E[lizabe]th
Mothers_Surname:
Residence: East Dean
Occupation: Miner
Officiating_Minister: James Mosley
Event: Baptism
Memoranda:
Notes: B[ible] C[hristian] Chapel Drybrook
Register_Reference: D2598 5/3
Page_Number:
Parish_Chapel: Forest of Dean Bible Christian Circuit

Coffee Tavern Keeper

Celia61 — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 01:10:36 +0000

Anyone any idea where this keeper's property might have been in Drybrook please? A Martha Mormon has this occupation in the 1901 census. Seems a bit exotic for that time.
Cheers, Celia