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1805/_ Henderson, Star and Garter, Great Peter street, Westminster/../../Holdens Directory
1809, John Henderson, Star and Garter, Peter street, Westminster/Holdens Directory
1825/Mr Henderson, Star and Garter, Great Peter street, Westminster/../../Licensed Victuallers Association
1830/Mr Henderson, Star and Garter, Great Peter street, Westminster makes a one guinea Susbscription to the Licensed Victuallers Association
1833-34/Star & Garter, Jno Henderson, 19 Great Peter street, Westminster/../../Pigots Directory
1839/James Elliott/../../../Pigots Directory *
1841/J. Elliott/../../../ Trades Directory *
1843/James Elliott/../../../Kellys Directory
1846, Star & Garter, E Hare, 19 Great Peter Street, Westminster/Post Office Directory
1848/Edward Hare/../../../Post Office Directory
1851/ Hare Edward, Star & Garter PH, 19 Great Peter Street, Westminster/../Kellys Directory
1856, E Hare, 19 Great Peter Street, Westminster/Post Office Directory
19th Aug 1860/License transfer from David Heron to Richard Samuel Jesson/../../../ The Era *
1861/Richard Samuel Jesson/Licensed Victualler/37/Deptford, Kent/Census
1861/Elizabeth Jesson/Wife/41/Stepney, Middlesex/Census
1861/Richard Henry Jesson/Son/13/Deptford, Kent/Census
1861/John Richard Jesson/Son/11/Deptford, Kent/Census
1861/Elizabeth Jesson/Daughter/10/Deptford, Kent/Census
1861/Harriet Jesson/Daughter/8/Deptford, Kent/Census
1861/Mary Jesson/Daughter/6/Westminster/Census
1861/Maria Jesson/Daughter/4/Westminster/Census
1861/Alice Jesson/Daughter/1/Westminster/Census
20th Jan 1863/License transfer from Richard Samuel Jesson to David Midgley/../../../ The Era *
10th May 1864/License transfer from David Midgley to William Chedzof Lee/../../../ The Era *
8th Aug 1865/License transfer from William Chedzoy Lee to Theophilus Rippon Evans/../../../ The Era *
1869/J Frost/../../../Post Office Directory
2nd Nov 1869/License transfer from Theophilus Rippon Evans to Robert Sutcliffe/../../../ The Era *
25th Apr 1871/License transfer from Robert Sutcliffe to William Phillips Clifford/../../../ The Era *
In 1871 at 21 Great Peter street
William Clifford, Publican, aged 29 and born in Derbyshire
Sarah Clifford, Wife aged 32 and born in Nottingham
William Clifford, Son, aged 2 months and born in Westminster
26th June 1871/License transfer from William Phillips Clifford to Sidney Joseph Silver/../../../ The Era *
23rd Jan 1872/License transfer from Sidney Joseph Silver to George Innes/../../../ The Era *
1874, Star and Garter, Boatch John, Great Peter street, Westminster, SW
DandD-1880 describes an event that happened in the Star and Garter on Boxing Day 1879. Julia was my great grandmother. ***
London Daily Chronicle 30 December 1879 : ***
THE HOLIDAYS.- There was a list of 21 charges yesterday at Westminster... one case was of a
very flagrant character. Ellen Finlay, a widow, aged 30, was charged before Mr. Partridge with
being concerned with another woman in being drunk and disorderly on licensed premises, and
assaulting Mrs. Emma Stephens, landlady of the Star and Garter public-house, in Great Peter-street,
Westminster.-Mr. W. Doveton Smyth prosecuted, and it appeared that between eight and nine on
Boxing Day the prisoner and another woman, generally thought to be her sister, entered the house
of the complainant, and asked for a Christmas-box. She refused them, and then they asked for a pot
of beer; but, knowing the prisoner, she refused to serve her, whereupon she and the other woman
commenced to clear the counter of the glasses and measures, beer and gin being thrown over the
prosecutrix, the measures not striking her by reason of the fact that she had to dodge about the bar
to avoid the difficulty of the position, and at length took refuge in the bar-parlour, and sent for
protection. She at once sent for the police, as the place was in an uproar, but when they arrived the
prisoner and the other woman had decamped. The prosecutrix was determined to do all she could to
conduct her house in a respectable manner, despite the conduct of the prisoner and others who had
annoyed her before, and whom she did not wish to enter her house again.- Prisoner was remanded,
without bail, for the apprehension of the other woman.
London Daily Chronicle 1st January 1880 ***
WESTMINSTER.
WITHDRAWL OF A PROSECUTION.- Ellen Finlay was charged on remand, and Julia Williams
brought up in custody, charged in being concerned together in assaulting Mrs. Emily Stephens,
landlady of the Star and Garter, Peter-street, Westminster, on Boxing Night. Mr W. Doveton Smyth
appeared for the prosecution and Mr. B. V. Hutchinson defended. The prisoners, it appeared, had
during the remand, expressed their contrition for what had occurred, and the prosecution was now
willing to accept an apology, and bail for their future good conduct. Mr. Partridge allowed this
course to be adopted, bound Finlay over her own recognisances in £20 to keep the peace for twelve
months, and accepted the husband of Williams for a like sum and term.
Observations:
1. Ellen's husband Henry Finley (usual spelling of name), hawker of brushes, had died of
alcohol poisoning after drinking a pint of whiskey in 15 mins in a bizarre drinking challenge
at the Royal Hotel Tap, Winchester at the end of June. Henry left behind Ellen, who had 4 young
children.
2. £20 in 1880 is equivalent to £3000 in 2024. This was an enormous amount and would have
been a strong deterrent to behave as they would not have been able to afford to pay and
would have been sent to prison.
3. Julia was 3 months pregnant. Her daughter, Julia, was born June 1880 in the Isle of Wight.
4. The Star and Garter was at 19 Great Peter Street at this time. It later moved to number 42.
5. Ellen and Julia were from a local family. Their father Charles had been born in St James
circa 1812. This part of London was the notorious slum area known as the Devil's Acre. Slum
clearance was well underway in Westminster by 1879 but nothing was done to alleviate the
poverty that existed. It just moved the people on and created more over-crowding in the
remaining areas.
6. Reading between the lines Emma/Emily Stephens doesn't seem to have gotten on with the
locals too well. Refusing to serve and prosecuting some in the name of respectability would
not have endeared her to them. The locals probably won because by the time the 1881
census was taken Mrs Stephens was no longer at the pub
1881/John Hy Halford/Licensed Victualler/35/Burnham, Norfolk/Census
1881/Wilhelmina Halford/Wife/31/Addlestone, Surrey/Census
1881/Ada Halford/Daughter/6/Middlesex/Census
1881/Gertrude Halford/Daughter/3/Middlesex/Census
1881/Josclyn Grandby/Potman/20/Brighton, Sussex/Census
1882/John Hy Halford/../../../Post Office Directory
1884/John H Halford/../../../Post Office Directory
1891/William Walker/../../../Post Office Directory
1895/Daniel Whale/../../../Post Office Directory
1899/Daniel Whale/../../../Post Office Directory
London Evening Standard 06 June 1906
Licensing Act 1904 Notice of principal meeting to discuss by the Compensation authority on the 2nd day of July 1906.
St Margarets
Star and Garter, 42 Great Peter street, Full, Alice Selina Taylor
* Provided By John Hills
** Provided By Stephen Harris
*** Provided By Anne Vincent
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