Address: 63-65, Towngate, Leyland
This public house was originally known as the Grapes but changed its name after the coronation of George IV in 1820 and remained as such until the late 1900s when it became Barristers.
I am grateful for the historical background provided by the Leyland Historical Society Website where further details of other local pubs can also be found.
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| Annotated Map of pubs in and around Towngate |
Listed landlords at the George the Fourth were Thomas Baker (1834), William Eccles (1841-54), John Hargreaves (1855), Cuthbert Cardwell (1858-65), John Whiteside (1869-1883), James Jackson (1891-1900), James Jackson Jr (1900-01) and James Watkinson (1911-17).
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| 1834 Directory |
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| 1846 Directory |
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| 1854 Mannex Directory |
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| Looking from the Cross down Towngate across what is now Tesco's Car Park |
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| 1855 Slater's Directory |
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| 1858 Post Office Directory - Cuthbert Cardwell |
Marriage: 26 Aug 1858 St Andrew, Leyland, Lancs.
Richard Sumner - full age, Sailor, Bachelor, Freckleton
Alice Cardwell - full age, Spinster, Leyland
Groom's Father: John Sumner, Sailor
Bride's Father: Cuthbert Cardwell, Publican
Witness: Thomas Cardwell; Mary Sumner
Married by Licence by: Peter Fox
Register: Marriages 1856 - 1875, Page 45, Entry 90
Source: Original register held at Lancashire Archives
Cuthbert Cardwell is shown as running the pub and a shopkeeper on the 1858 Post Office directory above. Landlords having more than one occupation was by no means unusual at this time in order to supplement their income but in Cuthbert's case he had lived locally for the preceding 20 years or so holding down an occupation of both an Auctioneer (1841) and a Grocer (1851) on Main Street/Towngate before taking over the George IV.
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| Cuthbert Cardwell 1841 Census |
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| Cuthbert Cardwell 1851 Census |
Marriage: 3 Nov 1859 St Andrew, Leyland, Lancs.
Robert Carr - full age, Finisher at the Bleach works, Bachelor, Leyland
Ann Cardwell - full age, Spinster, Leyland
Groom's Father: John Carr, Clogger
Bride's Father: Cuthbert Cardwell, Publican
Witness: Andrew Berry; Alice Sumner
Married by Certificate by: Peter Fox Curate
Register: Marriages 1856 - 1875, Page 62, Entry 123
Source: Original register held at Lancashire Archives
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| 1865 Probate Record for Cuthbert Cardwell |
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| Slater's 1869 Directory |
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| 1881 Census |
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| 1883 Probate record for John Whiteside |
Marriage: 26 Aug 1886 St Andrew, Leyland, Lancs.
John Unsworth - 25, Joiner, Bachelor, Turpin Green Leyland
Margaret Jackson - 27, Spinster, Town Gate Leyland
Groom's Father: Edward Unsworth, Horse Keeper
Bride's Father: James Jackson, Inn Keeper
Witness: James Cottam; Elizabeth Jackson
Married by Banns by: Benjamin Davies Curate
Register: Marriages 1875 - 1895, Page 131, Entry 262
Source: LDS Film 1470827
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| 1891 Census |
Marriage: 6 Apr 1893 St Andrew, Leyland, Lancs.
James Watkinson - 27, Bleacher, Bachelor, Leyland S James
Elizabeth Jackson - 25, Weaver, Spinster, Leyland
Groom's Father: James Watkinson, Deceased, Labourer
Bride's Father: James Jackson, Inn Keeper
Witness: Thomas Watkinson; Elizabeth Mercer
Married by Banns by: A Evington
Register: Marriages 1875 - 1895, Page 223, Entry 445
Source: LDS Film 1470827
James Jackson's eldest daughter Elizabeth married a local bleacher, James Watkinson in 1893 and whilst her brother James ran the pub after their father's death when he moved on in the early 1900s Elizabeth and James Watkinson took over the running of the pub and were recorded there on the 1911 census below.
Marriage: 23 Aug 1899 St Andrew, Leyland, Lancs.
James Jackson - 20, Labourer, Bachelor, Leyland
Edith Harrison - 24, Domestic Servant, Spinster, Leyland
Groom's Father: James Jackson, Inn Keeper
Bride's Father: Thomas Harrison, Driver
Witness: James Watkinson; Elizabeth Watkinson
Married by Banns by: Leyland Baldwin Vicar
Register: Marriages 1895 - 1901, Page 59, Entry 118
Source: LDS Film 1470827
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| 1900 Probate Record for James Jackson |
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| 1901 Census |
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| 1911 Census |
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| 1917 Barrett's Directory |
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