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Yorkshire (West Riding) / Re: Bulls Head Inn, Dale Street, Ossett
« on: Tuesday 17 January 12 23:04 GMT (UK) »
Hi all, another Bull's Head spinoff... William Saxton is in my tree. At 1881 spring census he was listed as an Innkeeper at Bank Street. Bull's Head is named on Bank Street on 1893 map, but no pubs down Dale St - were there two, or did part of Dale St become Bank St? He died in 1889 the year after he gave up the pub. By 1891 his widow Harriet Walker is back on rag sorting. I have a photo of daughter Ada Saxton > Ada Gawthorpe c.1907. If you have details on any of these folks I'd be pleased to hear them.
Actually I came here looking for Joshua Swallow. My gggrandad Arthur Clayton was an overlooker at Bottomfield Mill (mungo). The story goes that the mill passed to some spinster sisters the Misses Ward (dtrs of Joseph Ward) who gave over the business to him. His dtr-in-law used to tell me that he was a drinker and couldn't hold it together (must have caused some family resentment given the opportunities in the Great War boom). However I found out today that Arthur was trading as "Joshua Swallow & Son" at nearby Paleside Mill with some chap called Fawcett until this partnership was wound up in 1915. So maybe Joshua Swallow and his son William Andrew Swallow had had to give up their family business. In 1899 Wm A was executing his mother's will as if there would be creditors against it (London Gazette) but he was still in business until at least 1901 - census shows him lodging near the mill while his wife Mary had moved to Low Laithes.
Actually I came here looking for Joshua Swallow. My gggrandad Arthur Clayton was an overlooker at Bottomfield Mill (mungo). The story goes that the mill passed to some spinster sisters the Misses Ward (dtrs of Joseph Ward) who gave over the business to him. His dtr-in-law used to tell me that he was a drinker and couldn't hold it together (must have caused some family resentment given the opportunities in the Great War boom). However I found out today that Arthur was trading as "Joshua Swallow & Son" at nearby Paleside Mill with some chap called Fawcett until this partnership was wound up in 1915. So maybe Joshua Swallow and his son William Andrew Swallow had had to give up their family business. In 1899 Wm A was executing his mother's will as if there would be creditors against it (London Gazette) but he was still in business until at least 1901 - census shows him lodging near the mill while his wife Mary had moved to Low Laithes.