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Crooked Billet, High Street, Leigh

Crooked Billet, High Street, Leigh inn sign 2001

May 2001

Taken by Michael Bundock

Crooked Billet, High Street, Leigh

Crooked Billet, High Street, Leigh 1999

19th December 1999

Taken by Stephen Parker

Known Residents

The following entries are in this format:

Year/Publican or other Resident/Relationship to Head and or Occupation/Age/Where Born/Source.

1828-9/William Wilkins/../../../Pigot's

1832-3/Jane Cook/../../../Pigot's

1839/Henry Frost/../../../Pigot's

1845/Henry Frost/../../../Post Office

1848/William Rolph Hay/../../../White's

1851/William Hay/../../../Post Office

1851/William R Hay/victualler and van proprietor/42/Leigh, Essex/Census ***
1851/Elizabeth Hay/wife/40/Prittlewell, Essex/Census ***
1851/Susannah Hay/daughter/19/Prittlewell, Essex/Census ***
1851/Eliza Hay/daughter/16/Shenfield, Essex/Census ***
1851/Elizabeth Hay/daughter, scholar/12/Shenfield, Essex/Census ***
1851/Harriet Hay/daughter, scholar/10/Shenfield, Essex/Census ***
1851/Mary A Hay/widow, mother/64/Prittlewell, Essex/Census ***
1851/William Rod/visitor, shoemaker/30/Rayleigh, Essex/Census ***
1851/Sarah Rod/his wife/27/Rayleigh, Essex/Census ***
1851/Daniel Pye/ostler/23/Rayleigh, Essex/Census ***
1851/Mary Ann Wood/house servant/18/Shoebury, Essex/Census ***
1851/Thomas Nave/lodger, labourer/20/Leigh, Essex/Census ***

1855/I. Watts/../../../Kelly's*

1861/Isaac Watts/Innkeeper/45/Thurdersley, Essex/Census**
1861/Mary A Watts/Wife/35/Rochford, Essex/Census**
1861/George Thomas/Wifes Brother, Chelsea Pensioner/33/Rochford, Essex/Census**
1861/Emma South/Domestic Servant/16/Rochford, Essex/Census**
1861/George Webb/Lodger, Agricultural Labourer/16/Batley, Suffolk/Census**
1861/Thomas King/Lodger, Agricultural Labourer/20/Courgase, Suffolk/Census**
1861/Jonathon Going/Lodger, Fisherman/40/Leigh, Essex/Census**

1862/Isaac Watts/../../../Kelly's

1867/Mrs. Mary Ann Watts/../../../Post Office

1870/John Bull/../../../Kelly's

1871/John Bull/../../../Post Office

1874/John Bull/../../../Kelly's

1878/Charles Andrews/../../../Kelly's

1881/Robert Noake/Publican/33/Leigh, Essex/Census
1881/Emma Noake/Sister/40/Leigh, Essex/Census
1881/George Osborn/Boarder, Town Crier/53/Leigh, Essex/Census

Note: Premises not named in 1881

1882/Robert Noakes/../../../Kelly's

1886/Robert Noakes/../../../Kelly's

1890/Mark Osband/../../../Kelly's

1891/Ephraim Williams/Innkeeper/53/Braintree, Essex/Census**
1891/Emma Williams/Wife, Assistant/56/Wickford, Essex/Census**
1891/Emily Williams/Daughter, Assistant/27/Black Notley, Essex/Census**
1891/Edith Williams/Daughter, Assistant/19/Vange, Essex/Census**

1894/Ephraim Williams/../../../Kelly's

1895/Ephraim Williams/../../../Kelly's

1898/Ephraim Williams/../../../Kelly's

1899/Ephraim Williams/../../../Kelly's

1902/Mrs. Ephraim Williams/../../../Kelly's

1906/William Henry Theobald/../../../Kelly's

1908/William Osborne/../../../Kelly's

1910/William Osborne/../../../Kelly's

1912/William Osborne/../../../Kelly's

1914/William Osborne/../../../Kelly's

1917/William Osborne/../../../Kelly's

1922/William Osborne/../../../Kelly's

1925/William Osborne/../../../Kelly's

1929/William Osborne/../../../Kelly's

1933/Walter Henry Main. Osborne/../../../Kelly's

1937/Walter Henry Main. Osborne/../../../Kelly's


* Provided by the Pubs, Inns and Taverns Index for England, 1801-1900

** Provided by CG

*** Provided by John Mead

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