Held at: | Hereford Public Library |
Reference: | Local and Trade Directories |
Source: | Original document |
Title: | Littlebury’s Directory and Gazetteer of Herefordshire |
Place name: | St Margarets |
Date: | 1876 |
Description:
Trades and Professions named in St Margarets include:
Assistant Overseer: Robert Howard |
Beer Retailer: Edmund Harper |
Blacksmith: William Davies |
Butcher: James Gwilliam |
Carpenter: Edmund Lewis |
Curate: Reverend J Norton |
Gamekeeper [To HH Wood Esq]: Thomas Howard |
Innkeeper: Mary Rees [Sun Inn] |
Mason: James Lewis |
Shopkeeper: Edmund Harper, Thomas Howard |
Mentions property called:
Coed Pouth [George Jones] |
Crossway [Edmund Harper] |
Gilvah [Herbert Smith] |
Gilvah [Joseph Watkins] |
Iron Pear Tree [James Gwilliam] |
Iron Pear Tree [Mary Williams] |
Lower House [Walter Whitcomb] |
Lower Llanon [Charles Jones] |
Maireses [James Griffiths] |
Merryhurst [Thomas Evans] |
Old Farm [Thomas Fletcher] |
The Corner [John Watkins] |
Trecoediver [James Powell] |
Trevaker [Sidney Cole] |
Upper Llanon [William Howard] |
Wells Green [Theophilus Gore] |
Werm willim [William Pritchard] |
Images of the 1876 Littlebury’s Directory entry for St Margarets are given below.
Observations:
The Directory gives population, area, rateable value, types of crops, geology, election and county court arrangements and other details of the parish. Miss Rawson, Herbert Howorth Wood, William Henry Hamp and the Marquess of Abergavenny are the principal landowners. The architecture of the church [renovated in 1865-6] is described.
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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