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This pub is now at 32 Crawford Place by at least 1934, previously at 1 Shouldham Stree. It was established in 1835 and rebuilt in 1894. In 2001 it was renamed the Larrik. **
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Laurie Arms, 32 Crawford Place, NW1 - in September 2007
Kindly provided by Stephen Harris
Residents at this address.
1839/Joshua Gray/../../../Pigots Directory
My 2x great grandfather Richard Hill was running the Laurie Arms with his
wife at 1 Shouldham Street Marylebone on the 1841 English Census. (He had
arrived in London early 1839 from Ranskill in Nottinghamshire where had run
the Bell Inn between about 1834 and 1838.) ***
He died at the pub on the 10 Feb 1843. His wife, Sarah, took over the
Castle Pub at 26 Castle
street now Furnival street in Oct 1843. She married William Robson in
December 1844 and they ran that pub together until William’s death in 12th
of June 1854 and Sarah remained on paying rent for that address until 1860
when a Mr. Woodcock took over.
The grub must have been good at the Laurie Arms and the Castle when Sarah
was there because in her younger years she had been head-cook for William
George Monckton-Arundell, 5th Viscount Galway at his residence Serlby Hall
in Nottinghamshire! ***
1848/Chas Rowe/../../../Post Office Directory
July 1849/Charles Rowe/Outgoing Licensee/../../Era
July 1849/Henry Gurney/Incoming Licensee/../../Era
1851/Henry Gurney/../../../Kellys Directory
1851/Henry Gurney/Licensed Victualler/23/Uxbridge, Middlesex/Census
1851/Mary Gurney/Wife/22/Goswell Street, Middlesex/Census
1851/Susan Pulgard/House Servant/23/Marylebone, Middlesex/Census
1851/Thomas Gould/Barman/16/Marylebone, Middlesex/Census
May 1851/Henry Gurney/Outgoing Licensee/../../Era
May 1851/Wm Murrell/Incoming Licensee/../../Era
1856/C Murrell/../../../Post Office Directory
1869/Charles Grinling/../../../Post Office Directory
1876/Charles Murrell/../../../Post Office Directory
1877/Charles Murrell/../../../Post Office Directory
In June 1875 at St Lukes church, St Marylebone, Robert Girling Norman, a
Licensed Victualler aged 36 at Shouldham street, marries Clarissa Ellen
Small Welham, aged 19, of the same address.
1880/Robert Girling Norman/../../../Post Office Directory
1881/Robert G Norman/Licensed Victualler/41/Stradbroke, Suffolk/Census
1881/Ellen Norman/Wife/25/Marylebone, Middlesex/Census
1881/John Norman/Son/5/Marylebone, Middlesex/Census
1881/Robert Norman/Son/2/Marylebone, Middlesex/Census
1881/Walter Norman/Son/1/Marylebone, Middlesex/Census
1881/Anna Aldans/Barmaid/21/Dickleburgh, Norfolk/Census
1881/Robert Sticlands/Barman/25/Wimbledon, Surrey/Census
1881/Horace Lovett/Potman/15/Hayes, Suffolk/Census
1881/Ann Waley/Domestic Servant/32/(B S), Germany/Census
1881/Laura Lee/Domestic Servant/15/Paddington, Middlesex/Census
1882/Robert Girling Norman/../../../Post Office Directory
(Clarissa) Ellen Norman is a widow by 1891, at the
Chester Arms, Albany Street *
1884/Hy Murrell/../../../Post Office Directory
1891/George Frederick Murrell/../../../Post Office Directory
1895/George Frederick Murrell/../../../Post Office Directory
1899/George Frederick Murrell/../../../Post Office Directory
1910/Murrell & Son/../../../Post Office Directory
I believe I have found the manager of the Laurie Arms on the 1911 Census.
**+
William Joseph Alabaster and his wife, Amelia Elizabeth Alabaster (nee
Gilbert) are listed as being manager and manageress in the licensed
victualler trade of the Laurie Arms on the 1911 Census. Their niece,
Florence Brooks, is a barmaid; there is a cook and three barmen. William was
also listed as a 'manager' on his marriage certificate and they are at the
Kings
Head, 176 Warwick Street in the 1901 Census and until about 1910. **+
1911/William Joseph Alabaster/Licensed Victuallers
Manager/45/Leicester/Census **+
1911/Amelia Elizabeth Alabaster/Wife, Manageress/42/Hoxton, London/Census
1911/William Ernest Alabaster/Son, Apprentice Motor Engineer/18/Hoxton,
London/Census
1911/Florence Brooks/Niece, Barmaid/17/Finsbury, London/Census
1911/Caroline Johnstone/Housemaid/20/Paddington, London/Census
1911/Rose Annie Tampin/Cook/30/Marylebone, London/Census
1911/George Millington/Barman/26/Westminster, London/Census
1911/Herbert henry Channing/Barman/19/Richmond, Surrey/Census
1911/George Clayton/Barman/22/Clerkenwell, London/Census
According to the British Phone Book, Mr William J Alabaster was at
The Rose & Crown in
1927. Unfortunately that was the year he died. **+
His widow, Amelia Elizabeth Alabaster is listed at The Rose & Crown, 203
Hammersmith Road in the London Electoral Registers for at least 1919 (with
her husband, of course), in 1928 (with William Lambert), and in 1930 (with
Frederick John & Victoria Ellen Abbott, Ada Pearson and Frances Woolf) and
by 1932 (with Ada Pearson and Frances Woolf). **+
1915/Robert Tuck/../../../Post Office Directory
1921/Mrs Ada Tuck/../../../Post Office Directory
1934/Albert Allen/../../../Post Office Directory
1938/Mrs Edith Allen/../../../Post Office Directory
1944/Allen Caterers Ltd/../../../Post Office Directory *+
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