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In the 1770-1780 Masonic Lodges listing, the Crown, Bow Lane is the meeting place of the Castle Lodge, and apparently constituted on the January 22nd 1724
As Elizabeth Reader is listed for both the Crown Tavern and the Crown Tap at 73 Watling street in 1865, I am presuming these premises are attached. All the census data is for 7 Bow lane. There are two consecutive entries in the 1841 census for St Mary Aldemary, both listed as Watling street. One of these is clearly the Tap.
A listing of historical London public houses, Taverns, Inns, Beer Houses and Hotels in St Mary le Bow parish, City of London.
Residents at this address
Alexander Boote, Crown Tavern, Bow lane, Cheapside - Wakefields Directory 1794 - brewers, wine & brandy merchants
1809/Jos Hulme, Crown Tavern, Bow lane/../../Holdens Directory
1811/William Whitfield, the Crown Tavern, Bow lane/../../Holdens Directory
1822/William Whitfield, Crown Tavern, 7 Bow lane, Cheapside/../../Pigots Directory
1825/Mr Whitfield, Crown Tavern, Bow lane/../../Licensed Victuallers
Association
1829/Stephen Symonds, Crown tavern, 7 Bow lane/../../Robsons
Directory
1832/S Symonds, Crown tavern, 7 Bow lane, Cheapside/../../Robsons
Directory
1833-34/Stephen Symonds, Crown Tavern (Commercial), 7 Bow lane, Cheapside/../../Pigots Directory
1836/John Reader, Crown Tavern, 7 Bow lane/../../Pigots Directory
1836/John Hull, Crown (Tap), 73 Watling street/../../Pigots Directory
1841/Mrs Elizabeth Baker, Crown, 73 Watling street/../../Post Office
Directory
1841/John Reader/Licensed Victualler/45/../Census
1841/Elizabeth Reader/Wife/43/../Census
1841/John Reader/Clerk/16/../Census
1841/Ester Wilson/Female Servant/40/Middlesex/Census
1841/William Merry/Waiter/31/../Census
1841/Nathan Dalton/Boots/45/../Census
1841/Mary Furman/Cook/31/../Census
1841/Mary Durrant/Chambermaid/20/../Census
1841/Harrott White/Housemaid/16/../Census
1841/George Firman/Independent/28/../Census
1841/Elizabeth Baker/Victualler/30/../Census
1841/Ann Dodd/Independent/35/../Census
1841/George Climber/Potman/20/Middlesex/Census
1843/Mrs Elizabeth Baker, Crown, 73 Watling street/../../Post Office
Directory
1842/John Reader, Crown tavern, 7 Bow lane, Cheapside/../../Robsons
Directory
1843/John Reader, Crown tavern, 7 Bow Lane, Cheapside/../../Post Office
Directory
1846/Thomas Lord, Crown Tap, 73 Watling street/../../Post Office Directory
1848/Joseph Rowe, Crown Tap, 73 Watling street/../../Post Office Directory
Morning Advertiser 20 September 1847 - Transfer of Licenses
Crown, Bow lane, to Elizabeth Reader, widow and executrix of John Baily, the late occupier
1848/Mrs Elizabeth Reader, Crown tavern, 7 Bow Lane, Cheapside/../../Post Office Directory
1851/Richard George Statham, Crown Tap, 73 Watling street/../../Post Office
Directory
1851/Mrs Elizabeth Reader, Crown tavern, 7 Bow Lane, Cheapside/../../Post
Office Directory
1851/Elizabeth Reader/Tavern Keeper, Widow/53/Oxfordshire/Census
1851/Elizabeth Reader/Daughter/16/Bow, Middlesex/Census
1851/Emma Challis/Barmaid/23/Bath, Somerset/Census
1851/Thomas W Walcott/Porter/16/Somers town, Middlesex/Census
1851/Mary Ann Crosswell/Cook, Widow/40/../Census
1851/Harriott Lamb/Chambermaid/23/Bow, Middlesex/Census
1851/John Hartwell/Visitor/49/Yorkshire/Census
1851/Jos P Brown/Visitor/44/Corfe Castle/Census
1851/William Price/Visitor/26/Herefordshire/Census
1851/Peter Trufitt/Visitor/22/Middlesex/Census
1851/Christopher Hone/Visitor/56/../Census
1853/John Nesmyth, Crown Tap, 73 Watling street/../../Post Office Directory
1856/Mrs Ann Lunn, Crown, 73 Watling street/../../Post Office Directory
1861/Elizabeth Reader/Hotel Keeper (5 servants), Widow/61/Oxfordshire/Census
1861/Alice Bricknell/Housemaid/24/Wycombe, Buckinghamshire/Census
1861/Ann Godferry/Cook, Widow/45/Dublin/Census
1861/James Egglington/Waiter/42/London/Census
1861/John Hellard/Potboy/14/Cork/Census
1861/Ann Elizabeth Evens/Barmaid, Widow/39/Yorkshire/Census
1861/John Darbyshire/Lodger, Commercial Traveller/43/Bury, Lancashire/Census
1861/Mary Darbyshire/Lodger/38/Liverpool, Lancashire/Census
1862/Mrs E Reader, Crown Tap, 73 Watling street/../../Post Office Directory
1865/Mrs Elizabeth Reader, Crown Tavern, 7 Bow lane, Cheapside & Crown Tap,
73 Watling street EC/../../Post Office Directory
1869/Mrs E Reader, Crown Tap, 73 Watling street/../../Post Office Directory
1871/Mrs E Reader, Crown Tap, 73 Watling street/../../Post Office Directory
1871/Eliz Reader/Inn Keeper, Widow/70/Whitfield, Oxfordshire/Census
1871/Thomas Griffith Evans/General Practicioner/31/Pembrokeshire/Census
1871/Joseph H Leech/Son in Law, Warehouseman/44/Chelmsford, Essex/Census
1871/Eliz Leech/Daughter, Lady/33/London, Middlesex/Census
1871/Thomas Henderson Donaldson/Grandson/8/New York, US/Census
1871/Mary Donaldson/Grand Daughter/5/Birmingham/Census
1871/Nelly Donaldson/Grand Daughter/3/London, Middlesex/Census
1871/George William Jobdan/Waiter/23/St Andrews Holborn/Census
1871/Charles Easter/Porter/19/London/Census
1871/Margaret Tidy/Servant/37/Cornwall/Census
1871/Margaret Burns/Cook/30/Ireland/Census
1871/Eliza Beald/Barmaid/19/Whittick, Leicestershire/Census
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