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CHEQUERS GREAT FRANSHAM Index
BEESTON ROAD
HIGH GREEN
LAUNDITCH HUNDRED BEERHOUSE 
later FULL LICENCE
CLOSED by 1954
MITFORD & LAUNDITCH LICENCE REGISTER 14.09.1795 & PS 12/5/1 & PS 12/5/2 (1901 - 1975)
MORGANS  
BULLARDS  
Licensees :
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JOHN JARVIS 1795
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JOHN CLAXTON 1836
MARY SIZELAND
age 60 (widow)
1841
WILLIAM DUNGER 1845 - 1846
WILLIAM RAMM 1850
THOMAS COOK
age 32 in 1851
& excavator
1851 - 1856
ROBERT MANN
age 33 in 1861 (railway platelayer)
Wife Sarah age 40 in 1861 given as running the beerhouse
Died Q1 1891 - age about 62
1858 - 1890
Charged Wednesday 1st August 1866, along with wheelwright Alfred Frost, of allowing a mare and an ass to stray on the public highway. Since the animals had escaped from a field each of the defendants were fined 6d with 6s costs.
ROBERT MANN junior
Age 35
1891
THOMAS FOX
(given 1891 as a wheelwright age 50 - no mention of being a licensee)
Died Q4 1901 - age 62
1892 - 1901
Mrs SARAH FOX
(Died December 1925 - age 81)
by 1901
CHRISTMAS BURTON by 1907
FREDERICK SEWTER 11.10.1907
SHADRACH WILLIAM SMITH 27.11.1908
WILLIAM PAGE
Age 39 in 1911
15.04.1910
WILLIAM HOWARD 14.11.1924
MAUDE MABEL HOWARD 12.04.1929
GEORGE WILLIAM HALL
Died Q4 1944 - age 73
07.02.1930
HANNAH MATILDA HALL
Died Q1 1953 - age 82
24.11.1944
HAROLD DAVEY SEMMENCE 06.02.1953
JOHN EDMUND JURDON
(Canary & Linnet)
02.07.1954



The licence registers state that a house called the
CHEQUERS became the
CANARY & LINNET (Little Fransham)
2nd July 1954.

Today `The Old Chequers' the house exists as a private dwelling on the road from Little Fransham to Great Fransham.

The Licence of the CHEQUERS was transferred to premises that became known as the CANARY & LINNET.