Bull, 62 High Street, Newmarket

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Bull, Newmarket

Bull, Newmarket

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1791/Wakefield Chamber/../../../Directory

1811/Mr Granger/../../../Directory

1844/Thomas Smith/Black Bull/../../Directory

1869/Robert Moody jun/../../../Directory

1891/Robert Simpkin Jacob/../../../Directory

My great great grandfather is Charles Stephenson. In the 1891 census Charles Stephenson is shown as a Publican and Baker at the Carpenters Arms in Lower Station Road, Newmarket. His wife Emily Stephenson (my great great grandmother) was the daughter of James and Lucy Holcomb, who had been landlords of the Jolly Brewer, Ferdinand Street, Camden Town; and Lucy Holcomb was, in turn, the daughter of Ambrose Frost who was landlord of the White Swan in Exning.  *

In the 1901 Census Charles and Emily Stephenson are still on Lower Station Road, Newmarket, and he is still a licensed victualler. I am assuming that he was still at the Carpenters Arms, but this is not established. *

I also have a press report from the Cambridge Independent Press, Friday 4 January 1907, page 2 column 5, reporting the trial of Joseph Smith, a stableman who was charged with stealing a turkey of the value of 18 shillings from a game dealer. The evidence of one of the witnesses is reported as follows:
Charles Stephenson, landlord of the "Horse Shoe" Inn, Old Station-Road, Newmarket, deposed that Smith came into his house on December 24th, a little after 6, with a turkey which he offered for sale. Prisoner said three had been sent him. He left one at his lodgings, and the other he had sold to Mr Whitehurst. Witness did not purchase the turkey then, but about an hour later he purchased it for 8s. Susequently he handed the turkey to the police. He believed what prisoner said at the time, for he knew that stablemen received presents of this description. *

So we can definitely say that Charles Stephenson was the landlord of the Horse Shoe on Christmas Eve 1906. *

Charles and Emily went on to take over the licence at the Bull Hotel after their son William (known to my mother as "uncle Wal"; but actually her great uncle) went to France to do his bit in 1916 or 1917; and after Charles died in 1919 Emily continued as landlady of the Bull until 1933 (she then retired to Chieveley, where she died in 1936). I believe you already have these details - but you may not have associated them with C Stephenson of the Horse Shoe, nor made the inter-generational links with the Holcombs of the Jolly Butcher and the Frosts of the White Swan. *

William Charles Stephenson, who was landlord of the Bull in 1916, had been born in 1888; so he probably felt the need to go and "do his bit" in France. His father Charles James Christopher Stephenson appears to have taken over as landlord. *

1911/William Charles Stephenson/Hotel Proprietor/33/Newmarket, Cambridgeshire/Census *
1911/Ethel Maud Stephenson/Wife/27/Mildenhall, Suffolk/Census
1911/Albert Edward Green/Servant/23/Newmarket, Cambridgeshire/Census
1911/Lilian Obee/Servant/23/Stratford/Census

1916/William Charles Stephenson/../../../Directory

Emily Cass Stephenson (my great great grandmother) was the grand daughter of Ambrose Frost of the White Swan, Exning. (Ambrose Frost had a daughter Lucy, who married James Holcomb, son of Anthony Holcomb, the bailiff at Chippenham Hall, who lived to be 98 and was feted as Chippenham's oldest resident when he died in 1890. James and Lucy Holcomb moved to London where they had two daughters, and kept a beer house called the Jolly Butcher. James died young, and the family moved back to the Newmarket area, where Lucy went into service and the two daughters lived with their grandparents. Emily Holcomb went to live with Ambrose and Lucy Frost at the White Swan in Exning. She subsequently married Charles James Stephenson, and they kept the Carpenter's Arms in Station Road Wood Ditton / Newmarket. Charles James Stephenson died in 1919).  William Charles Stephenson was my great great uncle; which makes him the SON of Charles James Stephenson and Emily Cass Stephenson (nee Holcomb) ... so what we actually see at the Bull in the early 1920s is a mother succeeding her son!! *

Stephenson Charles James Christopher of the Bull Hotel Newmarket Cambridgeshire died 20 November 1919 Probate London 12 March to Emily Cass Stephenson widow Effects £1320 0s 4d *

Emily Stephenson then ran the hotel until 1933 (she died in 1936). *

1925/Mrs Emily Cass Stephenson/../../../Kellys Directory *

1933/Mrs Emily Cass Stephenson/../../../Kellys Directory *

1933/Edward Jas Andrews/proprietor/../../Directory


* provided by Jeremy Burrows

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