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Sir John Barleycorn
COWGATE STREET St JAMES BEERHOUSE CLOSED pre 1894
R. HEIGHAM Brewers of Magdalen Street, as given 1845
Licensees :
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SARAH HOPSON 1818
MARIA ADAMS 1822
WILLIAM ADAMS 1830 - 1839
JAMES CARR 1842
GEORGE EMMS
according to Magistrates
1845
JAMES JOSEPH RAYNER
according to White
1845
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JOHN BELL
(age 57 in 1851 - living in Cowgate, shoemaker ?)
1856 - * 1858
ROBERT DUGDALE 1859 - 1863
JAMES MOORE by 1867
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Address also as St. James Factory Street.

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At the Coroners Inquest July 1822 :-

On Monday 8th July 1822 a skeleton had been found on Mousehold Heath.
The remains were taken to the DUKE OF YORK.
At eight-thirty in that evening the news had reached those within the SIR JOHN BARLEYCORN and one man was heard by Maria Adams to say that `She had not been buried quite two years. She was walking over Mousehold with £10 in her pocket, she was stripped naked and murdered. I had nothing to do with it, but could pick out the perpetrators.'
Some boys also said that it was not quite 18 months since they saw a man going off Mousehold with his hands and breeches bloody. Two boys had run after him but he had escaped.
The Coroner gave the opinion that the bones were those of a male, but the man who had talked of murder to Mrs Adams had been remanded to the Bridewell for further examination.
A verdict of `Wilful Murder against some person or persons unknown ' was returned.

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For sale by auction Thursday 19th January 1843 as a Free Beer House and Malting Office with Immediate Possession.
Including Cellar, Back Yard, Ten-pin Ground and convenient Malting Office and Chambers.

Licence dropped before 1894


House No. 460 on 1845 Magistrates list.