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1878/Edwin Andrews/Beer Retailer/../../Post Office
1881/Edwin Andrews/Builder & Innkeeper/40/Chelmsford, Essex/Census
1881/Eliza Andrews/Wife/37/Felstead, Essex/Census
1881/Charles Andrews/Son/12/London, Middlesex/Census
1881/John Howland/Lodger, Agricultural Labourer/16/Felstead, Essex/Census
I am related to William John Drain. Who was a local hero mentioned in the news clippings of 1894. The White Hart in Felsted is mentioned briefly in one of the clippings as a proposed destination for the medal ceremony, as the owner of this pub was related to the William John Drain. - I believe it was John Drain. *
Also. My actual granddad, Percival Ernest Drain died while working in his own pub in 1965, it was in the the Red Lion pub in waterfall, Waterhouse, Staffordshire. *
1890/John Drain, Beer Retailer, Felsted/../../Post Office
1891/John Drain/Beerhouse Keeper/59/Southminster, Essex/Census **
1891/Ellen Drain/Wife/58/Burnham, Essex/Census
1891/Ada Drain/Daughter/17/Burnham, Essex/Census
1895/John Drain, Beer Retailer, Felsted/../../Post Office
Evening Star 17 October 1895 - A Felsted Postman sent to Prison
William Dansie Perry (18), letter carrier, of Felsted, pleaded guilty to stealing 43 tame fowls, the property of Mrs Kate Drake, of Woods Farm, Felsted, and also to three other counts charging him with detaining letters, belonging to the Postmaster-General.
In all 65 birds were taken; sometimes one went and sometimes hald a dozen. They were housed in a field away from the prosecutrixs house. Prisoner subsequently disposed of the to Edward Weaver, a dealer; Percy Porter, the sone of a higgler; and to John Drane, landlord of the WQhite Hart, Felsted.
Perry was sentenced to six calendar months imprisonment.
In 1899, a John Drain is a beer retailer at the Wharf, Springfield, in Essex. This is likely to be the King William IV.
In 1901, Harry Ernest Dowsett is at the White Hart Inn, Village, Felstead, Dunmow but is at the Chequers by 1911.
In 1901, Harry Ernest Dowsett is at the White Hart Inn, Village, Felstead, Dunmow
Harry E Dowsett, Licensed victualler & house decorator aged 33 and born in Great Waltham, Essex
Edith Dowsett, Wife aged 35 and born in Coleshill, Berkshire
Henry S Dowsett, Son aged 7 and born in Walthams
* Provided by Jeff Drain
** Provided by Phil Collins
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