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Title: Pheasant Beer House.King Street.Dawley
Post by: glen11 on Saturday 27 February 16 18:37 GMT (UK)

Hello.I have just discovered an ancestor was a servant in this beer house in 1871,but cant find anything out about it.Can anyone help?Thank you.

Title: Re: Pheasant Beer House.King Street.Dawley
Post by: chempat on Sunday 28 February 16 07:18 GMT (UK)

Could you post details of your ancestor, so we can look at that 1871 census image?

Just posting link to map here:
http://maps.nls.uk/view/101594470#zoom=4&lat=3219&lon=2285&layers=BT

Thanks

Added:
From a google search:
http://www.dawleyhistory.webspace.virginmedia.com/Pubs/Dawley%20Pubs%20in%201871.htm

Title: Re: Pheasant Beer House.King Street.Dawley
Post by: Kay99 on Sunday 28 February 16 07:27 GMT (UK)

Hopefully attaching the image -The innkeeper James Rushton was born in Shifnal, Shropshire

Edit - There were a lot of beerhouses in Dawley at the time!!  http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/salop/vol11/pp111-112

Title: Re: Pheasant Beer House.King Street.Dawley
Post by: glen11 on Sunday 28 February 16 08:55 GMT (UK)

Hello,she was Jane jackson,servant,on the bottom of the list.Its not her i wanted to know about,it was the Pheasant Inn.I just wondered what sort of establishment it was.She married the same year,so might not have been there very long.Glen

Title: Re: Pheasant Beer House.King Street.Dawley
Post by: sharmar on Wednesday 09 March 16 16:20 GMT (UK)

http://www.dawleyhistory.webspace.virginmedia.com/Pubs/The%20Public%20Houses%20of%20Dawley%20in%201866%20by%20AW.%20Bowdler.htm

the above link has a photo of the Pheasant which might prove helpful :D

Title: Re: Pheasant Beer House.King Street.Dawley
Post by: glen11 on Wednesday 09 March 16 16:34 GMT (UK)

Thank You,and thats a lovely photo,it looked quite a nice place.Glen