SOUTH STREET BUSINESSES 1861 · Master painter Born c.1806 Epsom. Married 1833 Sarah Coope (c.1805 Hungerford, Berkshire-1878). Died 1862. Like quite a few widows in the town Sarah

SOUTH STREET BUSINESSES 1861 Brief details of residential properties are included to assist in locating the businesses on the map. Properties follow the order on the 1861 census sheets (the street was not numbered in 1861, but numbers are shown below if known). It is not always clear whether individuals were operating their businesses from their home addresses.

Extract from the 1866 Ordnance Survey Map

EAST SIDE, STARTING AT HIGH STREET END No. Proprietor Details

Charles Marks Baker and confectioner

Born c.1824 Leatherhead. Married 1851 Lucy Hewitt (c.1829 Stoke, Surrey-1894 Wokingham). By 1871 the family had moved to Hythe, Kent. Died 1875. Lucy remarried in 1875 railway signalman George Ethelbert Highsted. Children – Eliza Lucy (1852 St Giles, London-1889 Kent, unmarried); Emily Amy (1854 St Giles); Ellen Hewitt (c.1857 Blackwall); Charles James (c.1862 Folkestone); Louie (1864 Sandgate, Kent-1935?); William Joseph (1866 Sandgate); Harry George (c.1869 Hythe); Mark E (1870 Hythe-1942?).

William Hayton Labourer

Residential

Joseph Windybank Labourer

Residential

Mrs Elizabeth Tickner Widow

Residential

Mrs Mary A Tidy Widow

Residential

William Elliott Evangelical Minister

Residential

James Taylor Gardener

Residential

Robert Jacquet Retired tavern keeper

Residential

John George Wheeler Master tailor

Born c.1811 Epsom. Married 1840 Mary Adams (c.1806 Epsom-1887 Epsom). Son of Epsom tailor John Wheeler. Died 18 November 1875 Epsom. Child –John George (1842 Epsom-1914?), married Mary Jane Scott and Jane Wiggins).

David Elston Carman

Residential

James Miller Brewer’s servant

Residential

William Daniell Master tailor

See How a postcard set off some research

Henry Edwards Master painter

Born c.1806 Epsom. Married 1833 Sarah Coope (c.1805 Hungerford, Berkshire-1878). Died 1862. Like quite a few widows in the town Sarah kept a lodging house after her husband’s death, an enterprise that their daughters Sarah Ann and Emily carried on after Mrs Edwards died. Children (all born Epsom) – John (c.1834); Sarah Ann (c.1838); Arthur (c.1840-87, then of West Hill, painter, married Elizabeth Mary Moffatt); Emily (1842); Amelia (1847).

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John Atkins Solicitor

This is ‘The Shrubbery’.

Image courtesy of Bourne Hall Museum

James Chandler Snr Retired brewer

Residential

William Langley Newspaper editor

Residential

James Chandler Jnr Brewer and maltster

Born c.1816 Epsom, took over his father’s brewery in South Street. Married 1845 Elizabeth Wood (c.1816 London-1866). Died 1895, then living Ladbroke Road. Children (all born Epsom except for the first) – James Alexander (1846 Cobham-1910, tea dealer, married Sarah Alice Bell); Frank (1847-1914, clerk, unmarried); Elizabeth Sarah (1848-1902 Lewisham, married schoolmaster William Thornton Bullock); William (1850-55); Noel (1851-1936 Nottingham, engineer, married Lucy Jane Giles); Ada Caroline (1852-92 St Giles, London, married auctioneer John Frederick Bullock); Richard (1855); Henry (1857); Mary Emma (1859-1925, unmarried).

Frederick R Pentreath Clergyman, assistant chaplain and classics master at Epsom College

Residential

Robert G Hunt Secretary to clothing company

Residential

Henry Puckle Accountant

Residential

Mrs Isabella Smith Widow, cook

Residential

Walter E Everard Draper’s assistant

Residential

Edward Westwood Gardener

Residential

John Bristow Upholsterer and furniture dealer

See The Bristows of Epsom And Ewell

Thomas White Coachman

Residential

Richard Thomas Breeden (known as Thomas) Farrier

Born c.1820 Dorking. Married 1846 Martha Tomlinson (c.1820 Epsom-1861) and then in 1862 married Jane Wheeler (c.1826-98). Died 1898. Mr Breeden was still in South Street in 1871 but by 1881 had moved to High Street, Leatherhead. Son of Epsom farrier Thomas (see High Street West, North side). Children (all born Epsom) – Thomas Edward (1847-1903 Cheltenham, coachman, married Emma Woods); Arthur (c.1863-89, whitesmith); Hannah Jane (1865-1927, married William Lipscombe); Frank (c.1867-1931, carman, married Clara Ellen Ada West).

Edward Brown Master shoemaker

Born c.1827 London. Married Ann (c.1829 Clewer). Nothing further known.

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Charles Blake Master butcher

See Charles Blake of Epsom

Charles Blake

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James Hamlin The Queen’s Head Publican

Born c.1810 Nutfield. Married 1852 widow Mary Ann Freeman (c.1809 Camberwell-1894 Epsom). Date of death unknown. Mary Ann remarried widower James Elliott, a retired police constable, who had been a neighbour in South Street, in 1885.

The Queen's Head

Image courtesy of Bourne Hall Museum

Peter Melvill Army Colonel

Residential

Thomas Stoodley Coachman

Residential

Thomas Taylor Gardener

Residential

Now at Dorking Road

WEST SIDE, STARTING AT HIGH STREET END

John Ruffle/Ruffell Pork butcher

Born c.1814 Epsom. Married 1844 Mary Moore (c.1819 Buckland-1891). Mr Ruffell was in Epsom Union Workhouse from January 1897 until August 1898 and was then ‘removed to Chippenham’. Child – Ellen (c.1844 Epsom, married Charles Jay).

John Hayton Labourer

The Folly Residential

James Chapman Gardener

The Folly Residential

Mrs Mary Ann Gardom Upholsterer

The Folly Nee Fleetwood. Born c.1817 Epsom. Widow of George Gardom (See Riotous Epsom ) (c.1817-49) – married 1839. Died 1862. Children (all born Epsom) - Sarah (1835-81, christened as Fleetwood, married John Clowser); Phoebe (c.1839-1932 Epsom, christened as Fleetwood, married tile maker Frank Butcher); Georgiana (1840-1906 Epsom, married Edward Scott); George William (1841-1902, publican in Wolverhampton, married Sarah Jane Christie); John Charles (1843-85, barman, unmarried); Thomas (1845-79, publican at The Running Horse in Holborn).

George Wonham Baker

Born c.1830 Capel. Married 1855 Elizabeth Weller (c.1830 Capel-6 September 1869 Epsom). Died 5 May 1869 Epsom. After their parents both died in 1869 the children went to live with Elizabeth’s brother, retired farmer George Weller, in Reigate. Children (all born Epsom) – Ann (c.1857 Epsom-1862); Elizabeth (1858 Epsom-1935 Croydon, married draper William Dives); George (1859 Epsom-1946 Buckinghamshire, draper, married Mary Elizabeth Hawley); Sarah Jane (c.1862-1947, then living Redhill, unmarried); Emily (1866, married outfitter William Edward Gladstone Green); Samuel (c.1868-92, grocer’s assistant in Horley, unmarried).

Samuel Buggs (later Barton) Corn and coal merchant and grocer

Born c.1806 Epsom. Married 1834 Mary Wood (c.1811 Banstead-1871). Died 1881. Children (all born Epsom) – Samuel (1835-91, corn merchant in Epsom, unmarried); Mary (1836-1868, unmarried); Charles (1838-1900, provisions merchant in South Street, married Elizabeth Ede); Joseph (1840-1912 Brighton, unmarried); Henry (1841-99 Maidstone, butcher, married Eliza Frances A Phillips); Arthur (1843); William (born and died 1844); Charlotte (1845-1924 Bromley, Kent; married drug broker Frederick Joseph Johnson); Frank (1847-1915, dried fruit broker, married Mary Michelmore Adams); Emily (1849-71, unmarried); Harriet (1851-1918 Guildford, married builder Robert Wood); Maurice (1853); Walter (1856-1925 Hove, wholesale corn merchant, married Rachel Ann Groom, lived in Hove and London).

Graves 598 and 599 in St Martin’s Churchyard. 599 contains

Samuel and Mary Barton, with their daughters, Emily and Mary.

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Richard Gorard The Magpie Publican

Born c.1812 Epsom. Married 1849 Elizabeth Young (c.1812-86). Died 29 March 1882, still at The Magpie, where he was the landlord for about 30 years.

The Magpie Image courtesy of Bourne Hall Museum.

William King Medical practitioner (not practising)

Residential

Charles Langlands Builder, land agent etc

Residential See 135-137 High Street in Epsom Businesses 1911

Francis Ford Cordwainer (shoemaker)

Born c.1823 Wallingford, Berkshire. Married 1853 Mary Ann Green (c.1827 Wandsworth-1886?). Died 1888. Children – Frank (1854 Wimbledon-1931 Deptford, gas and hot water fitter, married Eliza Hayman); William (1857 Roehampton, bootmaker, married Sarah); Walter (1860 Epsom); Frederick (1864 Epsom, house decorator, married Alice Bourne, moved to Devon).

Allen Ansell Ostler

Residential

Mark Hayton Labourer

Residential

Oswald Parker Gentleman’s servant

Residential

Charles Evans Groom

Residential

Charles Fish Gardener

Residential

Now at Abele Grove

STRAY This person is listed as being at the end of the High Street, immediately before the enumerator went down South Street. However, other sources, including his own business advertisement, suggest that he was actually the first business on the western side of South Street, next to Mr Ruffle/Ruffell the pork butcher.

Edward Yalden Draper, hatter, hosier and glover

Born c.1810 Epsom. Married 1837 Sarah Hayton (c.1808-92). By 1871 they had retired to Laburnum Road. Died 12 October 1880, still at Laburnum Road. Child – James (1838 Epsom-1911 Wimbledon, married Ellen Johnstone).