old Kiddlington pub

[ozsat]

The Dogwood  -  was The Dog in Oxford Road which opened in 1936 - not the original in School Road

[Trees]

Ah that makes sense how long has the Wise been the Highwayman? Do you live in Kidlington? I need a good photograph of the Anchor/Railway/ Wise/Highwayman for my web site 
 www.mcmullin.plus.com
We did try to get one last year but found it hard to park the motor caravan on the road there, anyway its a good excuse to return its a lovely area.
Trees

[ozsat]

I live in a village next to Kidlington - I'll try and get photo for you.

The name change was earlier this month I believe - the new signs were not up recently (maybe not up yet).

[Trees]

I'll be very grateful to have a photograph please don't go out of your way though. It seems a pity to change the name apparently Frank Wise worked in the signal box by the pub for years and was a much respected Alderman. My ancestors I think had an anchor which they had near the door thus giving it the first name and this they took to the "old"dog which gave rise to the name Dog and Anchorfor a short time
I find these old public houses all have a story to tell don't they.
Have a look at my publicans on my site and see if you recognise any others
Trees

[gkhten]

Dear Trees

I've been looking at the earlier postings on this subject and I cannot understand how you ever got the idea that Mary WATTS was the daughter of a James WATTS and Ann SIMMS. She was the daughter of James WATTS & Anne DAVIS. I hold the full transcripts of all the Oxfordshire PRs and the Oxfordshire Marriage Index and can assure you that no marriage ever took place anywhere in Oxfordshire between a James WATTS & an Ann SIMMS before 1837, let alone in 1810. The marriage which is confusing you is the marriage of Thomas WATTS , to Ann SIMMS of Bicester which took place on 23 September 1810, at Bicester, St. Edburg. This couple baptised eleven children at Kidlington between 1811 and 1831, including a Mary who was baptized in 1815, but who was not the wife of Richard YOUNG.

Kind regards

Keith

[Trees]

Hi Keith, If you look at my web site you will see I have the following so I am confused by your remarks.(I can only conclude that somewhere along the line of this thread things were confused but as soon as we were able to visit the RO we were able to work out the tree now seen on our web site.)

I have 2 Mary WATTS
(from the Kidlington PR as seen in Oxford RO baptisms.
1812 Jul 19 WATTS Mary   d James / Ann
1815 Mar 5 WATTS   Mary  d Thomas/Ann   lab      John Cole Minister

James did indeed marry Ann Davies 2 Sep 1789

and their son Thomas married in Bicester
23.9.1810   
WATTS x THOMAS of Kiddington
Simms x Ann otp
Wit      Charles x Spencer      Maria Welford

MARY M Richard Young 15 DEC 1834 kIDLINGTON (FROM pr)
1834 Dec 15   YOUNG Richard      WATTS Mary   Licence
   by H D HARRINGTON Min   Wits: Wm WATTS & Hannah WATTS
William and Hannahwere the 3rd and8th children of James and Ann Mary being the youngest of their10 known children

I have not followed Mary  d of Thomas and Ann Simms if you have I would love to hear from you
Trees

[Andy_C]

Ah that makes sense how long has the Wise been the Highwayman? Do you live in Kidlington? I need a good photograph of the Anchor/Railway/ Wise/Highwayman for my web site 
 www.mcmullin.plus.com
We did try to get one last year but found it hard to park the motor caravan on the road there, anyway its a good excuse to return its a lovely area.
Trees

Well, there's a thing - my brother in law now runs The Highwayman! If you want photos there are some on the pub website: http://www.thehighwaymanhotel.co.uk and I'm sure he'd like to chat about the pub history if you called in.
Did you know that the pub has a CL, so you could stay overnight in your motorcaravan.

Yet another pub coincidence is that my brother in law's grandfather ran the Railway House Hotel (now The Cherry Tree) in Steventon (Berkshire)

AndyC

[Trees]

Hi Andy,
That is most interesting  I'd love to chat with your brother in law but even with so many pub ancestors we are a TT family! I know nobody believes it, when they know how many houses we link to It is amazing how intertwined the publican families were and how helpful the rival publicans were to each other when you look through the Victuallers Recognizance Record Book you can see how often they stood surrety one for the other.
The CL could prove useful and the menue isn't bad either. Are they planing on putting electric on to the site? I like a bit of home comforts for winter camping 
OzSat has kindly taken some  photographs for us which has solved that problem nicely. Um I dont remember if we have loaded the last update I'll check asp
Trees

[Andy_C]

Well Nick has been known to serve the of cup of tea - as well as beer They serve a good all day breakfast too!

I'm pretty sure that electric hook up is available.

AndyC