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I have been researching Edward Sherman - coach proprietor at the Bull and Mouth / Queens Hotel. He was born in about 1776, and He married into 2-3 generations of the innholder family at the Oxford Arms, Warwick Lane. :
April 5th 1769 - Thomas Hunt is the outgoing innholder from the Angel and Crown, 112 Wood Street, according to an announcement in the Oxford Journal, 8th April 1769.
6th April, 1769 - Thomas Hunt is the incoming innholder to the Oxford Arms, Warwick Lane according to a newspaper announcement.
29th September 1792 - Thomas Hunts wife was recorded at the Oxford Arms: "Ann Hunt, Innholder, insured" / National Archives/ London Metropolitan Archives.
1794 - Widow Hunt / London Land Tax records
1796 - Thomas Lock recorded as innholder
In 1800 - widow Ann Hunt died at the Oxford Arms.
In 1802, Widow Palmer is recorded as the innholder of the Oxford Arms, Warwick Lane - being Ann's Hunt's daughter Ann who married Benjamin Palmer in 1779 at the Roman Catholic Sardinian Chapel, Lincoln's Inn twelve months before it was damaged in the 1780 London anti-Catholic Gordon Riots.
In 1803, Ann Palmer, widow, 49, married Edward Sherman, aged 27. Edward Sherman went on to become the second largest proprietor of stagecoaches in the UK, from the Bull and Mouth, Bull and Mouth Street, later the Queens Hotel, St Martin's Le Grand.
Edward Sherman is the Innholder & Carrier at the Oxford Arms between 1805 and 1852.
1805/Edw Sherman, innkeeper, Oxford Arms Inn, Warwick lane/../../Holdens Directory
1809/Edward Sherman, Oxford Arms Inn, Warwick lane/../../Holdens Directory
The 1820 and 1822 electoral register list Edward Sherman and Hunt at Oxford Arms passage at several addresses, rents of £25 and also £135 noted
The 1824 electoral register list Edward Sherman as at the stables at Bull and Mouth street
The 1830 electoral registers list Edward Sherman at St Martins le grand. Sum assessed £27.
The 1833 electoral registers list Edward Sherman at St Martins le grand. Sum assessed £72.
The 1846 and 1860 electoral registers list Edward Sherman at a Hotel in St Martins le grand. Sum assessed £56.
Ann died in 1847, aged 93 (born in 1754).
In 1849, Edward Sherman, aged 73 (born in 1776), married her spinster niece, Isabella Hunt, aged 69, the daughter of Ann's brother, Thomas Hunt Jnr.