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Title: John Henry Courtney early 1906 consett
Post by: tracym on Thursday 27 July 17 20:04 BST (UK)
Hi

Looking for any information on my partners great great grandad, we know he had a cafe on middle street ( any photos or any hints on where to find these would be great)

Which online directories would we need to look at to gather any information?

tia
Title: Re: John Henry Courtney early 1906 consett
Post by: stanmapstone on Thursday 27 July 17 20:58 BST (UK)
Quote from: tracym on Thursday 27 July 17 20:04 BST (UK)
Which online directories would we need to look at to gather any information?

tia

See   Historical Directories of England & Wales  http://specialcollections.le.ac.uk/cdm/landingpage/collection/p16445coll4

Stan
Title: Re: John Henry Courtney early 1906 consett
Post by: stanmapstone on Thursday 27 July 17 21:08 BST (UK)
In the 1901 Census he is a Coffee House Keeper, Temperance Refreshment Rooms.

Stan
Title: Re: John Henry Courtney early 1906 consett
Post by: keyboard86 on Thursday 27 July 17 21:10 BST (UK)
Hi just wondering if in 1901 he was the John Hy Courtney 34 occ Temperance ? Rooms Keeper b Hexham with wife Lizzie 32 and family at Nill/Mill Street, Consett?
Census ref RG13/4670/123/37
Keyboard86

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Title: Re: John Henry Courtney early 1906 consett
Post by: keyboard86 on Thursday 27 July 17 21:21 BST (UK)
Hi again, for information, he could well be the John Courtney 24 occ Cocoa Room Assistant b Hexham with parents James/Priscilla in 1891?
Census ref RG12/4199/98/22
Keyboard86
Title: Re: John Henry Courtney early 1906 consett
Post by: stanmapstone on Thursday 27 July 17 21:28 BST (UK)
In the 1902 Kelly's Directory he is shown as "Courtney John Henry, refreshment rooms, 22 Middle Street. This Directory is not on the Historical Directories Site, I have a CD of it.

Stan
Title: Re: John Henry Courtney early 1906 consett
Post by: stanmapstone on Thursday 27 July 17 21:33 BST (UK)
This is the Google Street View of 22 Middle Street. https://goo.gl/maps/i4BWoy5VWax  Mark Wilkinson Photography Address: 22 Middle Street Consett County Durham DH8 5QJ.

Stan
Title: Re: John Henry Courtney early 1906 consett
Post by: tracym on Thursday 27 July 17 21:47 BST (UK)
Hi

yes this is the correct John Henry  :)

we struggled reading the census to what his occupations were.

Wasn’t the temperance movement about the abstinence from alcohol?
Title: Re: John Henry Courtney early 1906 consett
Post by: keyboard86 on Thursday 27 July 17 22:29 BST (UK)
Hi again John Henry Courtney dies 1906 aged 40, the trading of the cafe appears to have been taken over by the sister of Lizzie, Margaret Coulson Single 30 b Newcastle on Tyne
Keyboard86
Title: Re: John Henry Courtney early 1906 consett
Post by: stanmapstone on Friday 28 July 17 08:17 BST (UK)
Quote from: tracym on Thursday 27 July 17 21:47 BST (UK)
Wasn’t the temperance movement about the abstinence from alcohol?

Yes it was

For more details see http://www.classiccafes.co.uk/History.html
But in the 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.'

Stan