Held at: | Hereford Public Library |
Reference: | Local and Trade Directories |
Source: | Original document |
Title: | Kelly’s Directory of Shropshire and Herefordshire |
Place name: | St Margarets |
Date: | 1885 |
Description:
Trades and professions named in St Margarets include:
Blacksmith: William Davies |
Butcher: William Powell |
Innkeeper: John Thomas Reece [Sun Inn] |
Mason: James Lewis |
Parish clerk: James Lewis |
Shopkeeper: Thomas Howard |
Vicar: Reverend Fred Trefusis Wybrow |
Mentions property called:
Coedpoath [George Jones] |
Fair Oak [John Kedward] |
Gilvaugh [James Price] |
Llanon [Thomas Harris] |
Lower House [Caroline Whitcomb] |
Lower Llanon [Joseph Hughes] |
Murryhurst [Thomas Evans] |
Tanhouse [Alford James] |
The Corner [Thomas Watkins] |
Trecandever [James Powell] |
Trevaker (?Trefecca) [Hannah Cole] |
Wern Willim [William Pritchard] |
An image of the full 1885 Kelly’s Directory entry for St Margarets is given below.
Observations:
Local farmers are named. The area, population, rateable value, main crops, geology, county court arrangements and other details of the Parish are given. The architecture of the church is described. Miss Rawson of Nidd Hall, Leeds is [Lady] Lord of the Manor; she and Herbert Howorth Wood and the Marquis of Abergavenny are chief landowners.
This directory is not comprehensive in its coverage of all farms and commercial premises in the parish at the time. Also, in the transcribed lists of properties that are named, spellings in the original have sometimes been amended to reflect more common usage. In case of doubt please refer to the image of the original entry.
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