King Harold's Head, Nazeing Common, Nazeing
Nazeing pub history index
Taken by Roys
The following entries are in this format:
Year/Publican or other Resident/Relationship to Head and or Occupation/Age/Where Born/Source.
My husband's 4G Grandfather was Robert KING, a carpenter by trade and
latterly a Brewer. He possibly came from Bishops Stortford, and settled in
Nazeing in 1767 when he became a copyholder of "Harts", or the "King Harold
's Head", Nazeing as it is known.
Robert KING acquired a great deal of property in Nazeing, and through the
minutes of the Board of Trustees of Nazeing Wood Common and the land tax
assessment returns, it is known that he actually built the present King
Harold's Head Inn together with a brewhouse in 1797. Robert was the founder
of King's Brewery, Nazeing, which was taken over by his sons, Thomas and
William KING, after his death in 1817.
Thomas KING, my husband's 3G Grandfather, was the younger of the two
brothers; he died in 1839 and his share in the King Harold's Head etc was
left to his son George KING (my husband's 2G Grandfather), who was also a
Brewer. On 18th April 1850 George KING sold his moiety of Coburg Cottage,
Nazeing (now known as Warwick House) together with his share of the King
Harold's Head to his uncle William KING for two hundred and twenty pounds.
This was probably because George KING, alas, had embezzled some money from
his sister's inheritance and the ensuing litigation ensured that this branch
of the family ended up broke and worse, without pub or Brewery! George KING
died at Nazeing in 1860, at which time the debt was passed on to his poor
son, George William KING, my husband's Great Grandfather. **
1832-3/William Benton/../../../Pigot's
1839/Richard Benton/../../../Pigot's
1840/Richard Benton/../../../Pigot's*
1845/Richard Benton/Shopkeeper/../../Post Office
1848/Richard Benton/Victualler/../../White's
1851/Richard Benton/Shopkeeper/../../Post Office
1855/R. Benton/../../../Kelly's*
1862/Richard Benton/../../../Kelly's
1867/Richard Benton/../../../Post Office
1870/Charles Charter/Carpenter/../../Kelly's
1874/Charles Charter/Carpenter/../../Kelly's
1878/James Riley/../../../Kelly's
1881/James Bge. Riley/Licensed Victualler/32/London, Middlesex/Census
1881/Maria Riley/Wife/38/Nazeing, Essex/Census
1881/George Richard Benton/Visitor/4/Enfield, Middlesex/Census
1881/John Draper/Lodger, Bricklayer/36/Royston, Hertford/Census
1881/Thomas Draper/Lodger, Bricklayers Labourer/28/Therfield,
Hertford/Census
1881/David Hutchinson/Lodger, Bricklayer/59/Litlington, Cambridge/Census
1881/James Hutchinson/Lodger, Bricklayers Labourer/17/Litlington,
Cambridge/Census
1882/James Riley/../../../Kelly's
1886/James Riley/../../../Kelly's
1890/James Riley/../../../Kelly's
1894/James Riley/../../../Kelly's
1895/James Riley/../../../Kelly's
1898/James Riley/../../../Kelly's
1899/James Riley/../../../Kelly's
1902/James Riley/../../../Kelly's
1906/Charles Smith/../../../Kelly's
1908/Arthur Cutler/../../../Kelly's
1910/Arthur Cutler/../../../Kelly's
1912/Arthur Cutler/../../../Kelly's
1914/James W. Middlemiss/../../../Kelly's
1917/James W. Middlemiss/../../../Kelly's
1922/James W. Middlemiss/../../../Kelly's
1925/James W. Middlemiss/../../../Kelly's
1929/Frederick Ashby/../../../Kelly's
1933/Frederick Ashby/../../../Kelly's
1937/Cecil Valentine Martin/../../../Kelly's
* Provided
by the Pubs, Inns and Taverns Index for England, 1801-1900
** Provided by Susan Hembury-Kellow