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Poplar index
Existed from at least 1848. At 29 Pennyfields in 1856 & earlier. Named the Diggers Rest in the 1861 census, and the Diggers Arms in the petty sessions in 1863..
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1848/John May/Beer Retailer/../../Post Office Directory
1851/John May/Beer Retailer/../../Kellys Directory
1851/John Thomas May/Beer Retailer/34/Lambeth/Census
1851/Jane Elizabeth May/Wife/34/Barking, Essex/Census
1851/John Thomas May/Son/12/Poplar/Census
1851/Mary Elizabeth May/Daughter/3/Poplar/Census
1851/Andrew Thomas May/Son/1/Poplar/Census
1851/Mary Elizabeth Nicholson/Sister, Assistant/26/Barking, Essex/Census
1856/John Thomas May/Beer Retailer/../../Post Office Directory
1861/Richard Stowell/Beer shop Keeper/60/Liverpool/Census
1861/Caroline Stowell/Wife/53/Rotherhithe/Census
1861/William Dowling/Lodger, Boilermaker/30/Rotherhithe/Census
December 1863/Peter Franks/Diggers Arms, Pennyfields, Poplar, false
measures, fined 30s/../../London Evening Standard
1869/George Gordon/Beer Retailer/../../Post Office Directory
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