51 High Street
1851 Census
Henry Norkett : Retail Hatter : 54 yrs
Jemima : 46 yrs
Ann : 22 yrs
Charlotte : 20 yrs
Mary A : 19 yrs
Henry : Hatter’s Assistant : 17 yrs
Harriet : 15 yrs
Jemima : 12 yrs
William : 16 yrs
Thomas : 7 yrs
Fanny : 4 yrs
Emilie : 2 yrs
1861 Census
Henry Norkett : Retail Hatter : 27 yrs
Ann : Governess : 32 yrs
Charlotte E : 30 yrs
Jemima : Governess ; 22 yrs
Fanny : 14 yrs
Bessie Taylor : 12 yrs
1871 Census
Jemima Norkett : Hatter : 66 yrs
Ann : Hatter : 42 yrs
Charlotte : Hatter : 40 yrs
Harriet : Daily Governess : 35 yrs
Jemima : Teacher at Home : 32 yrs
Fanny : Daily Governess : 24 yrs
Emily : Assistant Teacher in School : 22 yrs
James Wallender : 6 yrs
Maria : 4 yrs
1881 Census
James Saunders : Greengrocer : 49 yrs
Mary : 46 yrs
Thomas : Labourer : 20 yrs
Jane : Dressmaker : 18 yrs
Harry : Grocer’s Clerk : 14 yrs
Frederick : 10 yrs
Jemima Norkett : Retired Hatter : 78 yrs
Ann : 52 yrs
Jemima : Governess : 43 yrs
Harry : 34 yrs
Emily : 32 yrs
Amelia : 10 yrs
Harry : 9 yrs
1891 Census
Ann Norkett : Haberdasher : 62 yrs
Charlotte E : Tea Agent : 60 yrs
Mary Ann : Costume & Mantle maker : 59 yrs
Jemima : Governess, Prep School : 52 yrs
Fanny : Governess & Teacher of Piano Music : 44 yrs
Emily : Teacher at Prep School : 42 yrs
Amelia Maria : Teacher of English Subjects : 33 yrs
Saturday 12 November 1892
For Sale
Several large-size Leopard skins, from Afghanistan; well furred, beautiful colour; to be sold, cheap.
C Norkett, 51 High Street
Hampshire Telegraph : Saturday 28 April 1900
Messrs Penney and Clark on Tuesday evening last conducted a successful sale of local freeholds at their auction Mart. The freehold properties belonging to the estate of the late Alderman J G Whitcombe were disposed of at the following prices. The business premises, No 51 High Street, let at £18 per annum, £315 ; private residence, Wishart House, 53 High Street,, £650.
1901 Census
Mary Norkett : Stamp Dealer : 69 yrs
Jemima : Governess : 62 yrs
Emily : Governess : 52 yrs
1911 Census
Philip Nelson - Ward : Captain RN : 44 yrs
Dorothy : 29 yrs
Elizabeth Horatia Anne Somerset : 53 yrs
Mary Ann Conway : Cook : 54 yrs
Theresa Ann Philips : Domestic Servant : 45 yrs
52 High Street
Hampshire Advertiser : Saturday 21 October 1837
Macintosh’s India Rubber Articles : W G Wilson of 52 High Street, begs to inform his friends and the public that a reduction of 25 per cent has taken place in the above goods, and that he has just received a very large quantity direct from Macintosh’s House, which, from arrangements he has made with them, he is enabled to sell at the same prices as the Patentee sells them in London.
The general tailoring trade in all its branches by an experienced London Cutter.
Sea bedding, portmanteaus, trunks, carpet bags, umbrellas, shirts &c..
General outfitting warehouse.
A carpenter’s workshop and large yard to let, in Penny Street.
1851 Census
William G Wilson : Draper : 62 yrs
John A Waterman : Draper’s Assistant : 23 yrs
Susan Benne : Housekeeper : 68 yrs
1871 Census
Mancel Jepps : Upholsterer : 49 yrs
Mary : 56 yrs
1881 Census
Mancel Jepps : Upholsterer : 59 yrs
Mary : 66 yrs
Louisa Durrick : General Servant : 13 yrs
James Inskip : 14 yrs
Portsmouth Evening News : Wednesday 6 July 1932
Allwin Chairs
Invalids’ furniture for sale or hire
Agents - Jepps & Co
52 High Street
53 High Street
Hampshire Telegraph : Monday 6 June 1836
53 High Street : The choicest foreign wines and spirits, British Geneva, Scotch Malt Whisky, Milk Punch, Cordials, Bottled Porter, Scotch Ales, Cider, and perry, supplied by J Milne ; who has always in Bond (direct importations) a choice selection of Port, Sherry and Marsala wines, in pipes, hogshrads, and quarter casks, on the most reasonable terms.
Navy supplied from the Bonded Warehouse. Purveyor of wines to his Majesty.
Hampshire Telegraph : Saturday 15 May 1847
Wanted : A well educated youth, as an apprentice. Apply to C Woolven, Operative Chemist, 53 High Street.
Hampshire Telegraph : Saturday 4 August 1849
Portsmouth : First rated freehold business premises, in High Street, and a compact dwelling-house in Pembroke Street, late the property of Mr John Milne, deceased.
Cook and Son are instructed to sell by auction at the George Hotel Portsmouth, on Friday August 17th, 1849, at three o’clock in the afternoon in two lots, unless previously disposed of by private contract, of which due notice will be given, all the capital extensive business premises, possessing of every convenience for a family, a splendid shop, with warehouses and yards in the rear communicating with Penny Street, having spacious lofty arched wine vaults and cellars under the greater part of the property, in the best situation, for trade in the town, being on the south side, and No 53 High Street, where some few years since an excellent business was carried on, in the wine and spirit trade, and for which they are now especially adapted.
A excellent bay windowed dwelling house with the appurtenances thereto, being No 6 Pembroke Street, in the occupation of Mr McLellan.
1851 Census
Unoccupied
1861 Census
Leopold de Lorenz : Perfumer & Hair Dresser : 40 yrs
Adelaide : 25 yrs
Florence : 7 yrs
Mary Ann Hay : House Servant : 14 yrs
1871 Census
Dinah Kemp : General Servant : 22 yrs
Ellen Maxwell : General Servant : 40 yrs
1881 Census
Joseph G Whitcombe : Pawnbroker : 50 yrs
Jane : 60 yrs
Ellen Elliott : General Servant : 17 yrs
Ellen Tremain : General Servant : 20 yrs
1891 Census
Joseph G Whitcombe : Magistrate : 58 yrs
Jane : 71 yrs
Charlotte Ayling : General Servant : 20 yrs
Harriet Burtridge : General Servant : 20 yrs
Hampshire Telegraph : Saturday 28 April 1900
Messrs Penney and Clark on Tuesday evening last conducted a successful sale of local freeholds at their auction Mart. The freehold properties belonging to the estate of the late Alderman J G Whitcombe were disposed of at the following prices. The business premises, No 51 High Street, let at £18 per annum, £315 ; private residence, Wishart House, 53 High Street,, £650.
1901 Census
John Pitman : Retired Farmer : 69 yrs
Fanny J R : 64 yrs
Annie G : 43 yrs
Alice Hibden : General Servant : 15 yrs
1911 Census
Georgina Arnold Foster : 30 yrs
Margaret Arnold : 2 yrs
Louisa Pratt : Cook : 34 yrs
Ethel Bryant : Nurse : 32 yrs
Gwendoline Jones : Housemaid : 14 yrs
Portsmouth Evening News : Friday 30 September 1932
Wanted - Cook-General, good references essential
53 High Street
54 High Street
Tuesday, May 21, 1816
54 High Street : Thomas Figgins :
To be sold by auction by Mr Denney on Tuesday, May 21st, and the following day, on the premises, all the remaining part of the stock in trade, consisting of linen and woollen drapery, hosiery, blankets, cabinet and upholstery goods &c. The house and shop to be let, either together or seperate, with immediate possession, it is well calculated for an auction mart, or any business that requires room - the premises being very extensive.
Hampshire Telegraph : Monday 5 November 1838
A collection of splendid engravings, containing Wellington and Bonaparte, at Waterloo, by Cooper and Steuben ; the Martyrs in Prison by Herbert ; Jacob’s Dream by Salvator Rosa ; the Queen by Swandale ; Last Moments of Charles 1st by Fisk ; Duke of Wellington bt Lilley ; the Great Western and British Queen Steamers &c., are now on sale at A Hinton’s, Staionery and Music Warehouse, 54 High Street
1851 Census
Alfred Hinton : Stationer & Music Seller : 38 yrs
Maria Ann : 34 yrs
Rosa : 3 yrs
Henry A : 1 yr
Charlotte Bull : House Servant : 22 yrs
Jane S Richmond : House Servant
1861 Census
Samuel Browning : Optician, Master : 37 yrs
Sarah : 32 yrs
Sarah F : 5 yrs
Elizabeth : 2 yrs
Jacob F Spencer : Fund Holder : 63 yrs
Mary A Pope : House Servant : 17 yrs
1871 Census
Mary Oakshott : Niece : 18 yrs
Louisa Perkis : Step-Daughter : 16 yrs
Edmund Bray : Solicitor’s Clerk : 21 yrs
Elizabeth Duffett : Commercial Traveller : 42 yrs
Walter Stevens : 10 yrs
Harriet Switzer : Housemaid : 28 yrs
1881 Census
Mark Frost : Retired School Master : 65 yrs
Emma : 55 yrs
Mark : Clerk in HM Dockyard : 21 yrs
William : Clerk in National Provincial Bank : 18 yrs
Edward : Mechanical Engineer : 17 yrs
Henry A : 15 yrs
Rebecca Astridge : General Servant : 18 yrs
Portsmouth Evening News : Thursday 23 July 1885
Situations Vacant : Active trustworthy woman as general servant; good home - Apply Monck’s Oyster Depot (opposite Post Office), 54 High Street
1891 Census
James Monck : Shell & Fishmonger : 47 yrs
Monday 15 August 1892
On the 14th inst., at 54 High Street, the wife of James G Monck, of twin daughters.
1901 Census
James G Monck : Oyster Dealer : 57 yrs
Ann N : 45 yrs
Winifred G : 3 yrs
Annie M : 3 yrs
Minnie M Bedford : General Servant : 17 yrs
1911 Census
James Godwin Monk : Restaurant Keeper : 67 yrs
Ann Howard : 55 yrs
Winifred Godwin : 18 yrs
Annie Maud : 18 yrs
Portsmouth Evening News : Thursday 4 September 1930
Guinness is good for you,
so are
Native Oysters
The Two Go Nicely Together
Moncks
54 High Street
Tel; 5751
Portsmouth Evening News : Friday 21 December 1951
Looking through the window of Monck’s Oyster bar, 54 High Street, just after three o’clock this morning, Pc Metcalfe saw a man lying on the floor, his face covered with blood. The Constable gained an entry and found that the proprietor, Mr Charles Watson, had fallen ln his face, injuring his nose. He had either knocked himself out in the fall or had become unconscious afterwards through loss of blood. “Mr Watson lost a fair amount before being discovered,” said a Doctor at the Royal Portsmouth Hospital this morning. Mr Watson had recovered during the night, but would probably be detained at the hospital for a week it was stated.
55 High Street
The Portsmouth Papers / High Street / 1840s
At Mr Sheppard’s (No 55), could be had his own make of “patent indian rubber, lined, wash deck, sporting and walking shoes and boots, which hw can warrant effectually to resist the damp; and ...buckskin, dogskin, and all kinds of boots and shoes shall be got up in accordance with the prevailing fashions.” This shop later became a pork butcher’, its owner, Joseph Adnams, also dealing in oysters, which he was willing to serve his patrons in his ‘respectable oyster rooms’, dispatch to any part of the kingdom.
Hampshire Telegraph : Saturday 27 March 1847
Notice : All persons indebted to the Estate of Richard Blechynden, late of Portsmouth, fish salesman, are requested forthwith to pay the respective amounts thereof to Mary Ann Blechynden, Administatrix, at 55 High Street, or at our offices, No 16 St George’s Square, Portsea, and all persons having a claim on the said Estate are desired to transmit the particulars thereof as above, without delay. Archibald Low & Son, Solicitors.
1851 Census
Susan Mitchell : Proprietor of Houses : 39 yrs
Thomas : 16 yrs
William : 14 yrs
Susan : 12 yrs
Henry : 9 Yrs
Matilda : 6 yrs
Elizabeth Warren : House Servant : 18 yrs.
1861 Census
Frederick Marshall : Wine Merchant : 43 yrs
Matilda : 37 yrs
Frederick R W : 15 yrs
Catherine M : 13 yrs
Isabella M : 11 yrs
Richard J : 9 yrs
Henry R : 8 yrs
Henrietta J : 4 yrs
Eliza Wheeler : Nurse Maid : 35 yrs
Elizabeth A : Cook : 21 yrs
Harriet Miles : Housemaid : 16 yrs
James Gill : Trinity Pilot : 33 yrs
Mary Ann : Fishmonger : 58 yrs
William Bleckynden : Pilot’s Apprentice : 19 yrs
Emily : 13 yrs
1871 Census
Betsy Monck : Refreshment House Keeper :48 yrs
Charles : Fishmonger : 20 yrs
Samuel : Fishmonger’s Assistant : 18 yrs
Bessie : 17 yrs
Leonard : 15 yrs
Emma : 13 yrs
Walter : 11 yrs
Ernest : 9 yrs
Clara Williams : General Servant : 14 yrs
56 High Street
Hampshire Chronicle : Monday 29 June 1778
To be sold by auction, by Mr Brain, on Friday the 3rd day of July next, at twelve o’clock at noon, on the premises. All that large and capital Inn and tavern, situate in the High Street, called the Fountain, being well known all through the kingdom for its extensive trade, and in every respect adapted for the reception and accommodation of the Nobility and Gentry, having large and commodious dining rooms and parlours, together with convenience for erecting and setting up forty beds, with a fine airy gallery in the yard, together with kitchens and all other necessary out-offices, with stabling for forty horses, and good granaries, and convenient spacious standings for carriages. There are excellent vaults and cellars under the whole plan. The premises to be viewed at any time before the sale, and to be entered upon immediately afterwards.
Hampshire Chronicle : Monday 9 November 1778
Peter Coveney, of the Kings Arms Inn, being desirous of accommodating in the most genteel and commodious manner those who have, or may honour him with their company, hath lately purchased that well known and capital Inn, The Fountain, in the High Street, being the house adjoining, which he has fitted up in a neat and elegant manner, and begs leave to assure the Nobility, Gentry and Others, that profit and emolument shall ever be a subordinate consideration with him to that of seeing his guests perfectly satisfied with their accommodation and treatment, and on this foundation and principle, and no ther, does he presume to solicit and hope for their notice and encouragement. NB Neat Post Chaises &c.
Salisbury and Winchester Journal : Monday 29 May 1780
This morning, between eleven and twelve o’clock, the corpse of the late Sir Charles Hardy, Commander of the Channel Squadron, was carried from the Fountain Tavern, where he died (attended by a grand procession) to Landport Gate, where the body was put into a hearse, ornamented with feathers and escutcheons, and three volliers of small arms were fired over him. The hearse then, and a mourning coach and six, in which was Peter Osborne Esq, Secretary to the late Admiral, set off for Rawlings, in Oxfordshire, where the body is to be interred.
The Victory fired 20 half-minute guns, and the late Admiral’s flag was flying half-mast till sunset. The Arrogant, Namur, Britannia, Formidable, Portland, Prince George and Royal George fired 20 half-minute guns, according to the seniority of the flag officers after the Victory had done firing.
Hampshire Chronicle : Monday 26 July 1784
To be sold by auction, by Mr Stead, on Friday the 30th day of July instant, between the hours of six and eight in the afternoon, upon the premises, in two distinct lots, by order of the Assignees of Edward Hunt, late of Portsmouth, a Bankrupt, with the several messuages or tenements, stables, outhouses, and appurtenances to the same belonging and adjoining, being all freehold, and consisting of the several particulars following;
Lot 1 : The Capital messuage or Inn, called the Fountain Inn, late in the bankrupt’s own occupation, which cost him £1800 and he has since the purchase laod out the sum of £500 and upwards, in new buildings and improvements upon the estate. The stables thereunto belonging, now let to Messrs Gray and Rogers, at the yearly rent of £10. The messuage or tenement adjoining let at £12. Another messuage and shop adjoining let at £16 4s. A piece of ground, lying between the public inn, and the two messuages in Lot 2, upon which piece of ground, two other houses might be built, with sufficient yards and offices thereto.
Lot 2 : Two new messuages or tenements, lately built by the said Edward Hunt, now let to different tenants, at several rents amounting to £18 4s.
The premises may be viewed till the time of sale, by applying to the tenants, and printed particulars may be had gratis at the Fountain Inn, and of Mr Stead, Auctioneer, Gosport.
Caledonian Mercury : Thursday 2 December 1790
“Fountain Inn”
Friday, his Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence gave a sumptuous entertainment to the Admirals and Captains at this port, at the Fountain Inn, where were present Admirals Barrington, Roddam, Elliott, and Goodall, and twenty three Captains.
The dinner was served up in a style of elegance which gave great satisfaction to the noble gents and their friends; and the wines, consisting chiefly of champagne, claret and port, circulated plentifully, and were of very first qualities.
His Royal Highness, previous to parting with his ship’s company yesterday, expressed in warm terms, his satisfaction (with very few exceptions) of the conduct of his officers, and seamen, and requested, should he be again called into service, which was extremely probable, that they would all of them follow his fortune. With three cheers, they, to a man, declared they would instantly join him, whenever they heard their services were wanted, let their situations be ever so distant.
His Royal Highness, at his own personal expense, then gave every man before the mast two complete faits of raiment, and conducted himself in every other respect like an indulgent father to the people under his command - for his princely generosity is unbounded as his rank is exalted; and there are very strong conjectures, that our seamen are indebted to him for the gracious bounty which was ordered to be paid to them in addition to their wages.
Hampshire Chronicle : Monday 21 June 1816
Fountain Inn, High Street
C Robinson takes this opportunity of returning thanks to his numerous friends, for the repeated favours he has received since he has kept the above Inn ; and confidently solicits a continuance of the ir support, as it will be his constant study to provide the best articles, at such charges as will insure their approbation.
The Rocket, that respectable light coach, continues to leave the Fountain at nine every morning ; and arrives at the White Bear, Piccadilly, at seven in the evening. The proprietors do not mean to alter, in any respect, the time, or mode of driving the above coach ; being fully assured that no other arrangement would increase the satisfaction which their present has already given.
NB CR begs to request his friends and the public, who may be travelling post, to Portsmouth, to be peremptory in the orders to the post-boys to drive them to the
Fountain ; as they do not scruple to avail themselves of every artifice, to take them to some other Inn, where their masters may happen to have a connexion.
Hampshire Chronicle : Monday 4 March 1822
During the Assizes : The public are respectfully informed, that the Portsmouth and Winchester Coach will leave the Fountain Inn, High Street, for Winchester, on Monday morning, March 4, 1822, at five o’clock, and return to Portsmouth at the same hour in the afternoon, from the Bell and Crown Inn, Winchester.
Hampshire Chronicle : Monday 5 July 1824
Married on Tuesday, at St Thomas Church, Mr Fiske, silversmith, to Mary-Anne, second daughter of Mr Nance, of the Fountain Hotel.
Hampshire Chronicle : Monday 9 August 1830
Portsmouth election took place on Monday, when John Bonham Carter, Esq., and Francis Barring, Esq., were elected, and afterwards dined with the Corporation at the Fountain Inn.
London Courier and Evening Gazette : Friday 15 October 1830
Portsmouth Theatre to be sold by auction, at the Fountain Inn, on Wednesday, 20th October, at seven o’clock in the evening. This highly desirable and advantageous freehold is admirably situated in the High Street, and is well worth the attention of Capitalists and Managers. Further particulars may be had of Mr T E Owen, Portsmouth, if by letter, post paid.
Hampshire Telegraph : Monday 6 June 1836
Safe and Expeditious Travelling from the Fountain Hotel
General Coach Office, High Street, Portsmouth, by the following well-conducted coaches’
The Independent : splendid fast coach, every morning at ten o’clock, to the Golden Cross,Charing Cross and Spread Eagle, Gracechurch Street.
The Tantivy : Original twelve o’clock coach, at reduced fares, waiting the arrival of the Ryde, Cowes, and Lymington Steam Packets, to the Golden Cross, Charing Cross and Bolt-in-Tun, Fleet Street.
The Royal William : new coach, at very low fares, every evening at seven o’clock, to the Belle Sauvage, Ludgate Hill, and Spread Eagle, Gracechurch Street.
The Star of Brunswick : fast coach, every evening at nine o’clock, to the Golden Cross, Charing Cross and Spread Eagle, Gracechurch Street.
The Defiance : To Brighton, every morning at ten o’clock.
The Celerity : To Bath and Bristol, every morning at a quarter before nine o’clock
The Oxonian : To Reading and oxford, every Monday, Wednesday and Friday morning at eight o’clock.
The Sovereign : To Winchester, every morning at half past eight o’clock.
The Union : To Chichester, every after noon at four o’clock.
Luggage conveyed on the lowest terms
Nance & Co, Proprietors
Post Horses, lock-up Coach-houses &c..
Hampshire Advertiser : Saturday 29 August 1846
Married at St Thomas’s Church, on the 27th instant, by the Rev J P McGhie, vicar, Mr Andrew Bone Hatch, miller, of of Warblington near Havant, to Miss Sussanah, daughter of Mr Thomas Dreweatt, of the Fountain Hotel.
Hampshire Telegraph : Saturday 29 September 1849
Notice is hereby given, that an adjourned general meeting of the Proprietors of the Portsmouth and Arundel Navigation, will be held at the Fountain Hotel, on Tuesday, the 9th day of October, 1849, at eleven o’clock in the forenoon precisely, to elect a Committee of Management for the ensuing year, agreeably to the Act of Incorporation.
Thomas Edgcombe, Clerk to the Company
1851 Census
”Fountain Hotel”
Thomas Drewsett : Inn Keeper : 48 yrs
Susannah : 43 yrs
Thomas : 21 yrs
Ann : 17 yrs
Charlotte : 15 yrs
Louisa : 13 yrs
Marianna : 11 yrs
Allice : 8 yrs
Caroline Hale : Housekeeper : 36 yrs
Harriet Barber : Chambermaid : 32 yrs
Agnes Hoare : Chambermaid : 36 yrs
Eliza Cormick : Housemaid : 37 yrs
Elizabeth Cullipp : Cook : 41 yrs
Jane White : Cook :19 yrs
Louisa Shien : Laundress : 36 yrs
James Dovey : Porter : 32 yrs
Andrew Winsor : Waiter : 37 yrs
William Kerr : Commercial Traveller, Tobacco : 60 yrs
Joseph Hanington : Commercial Traveller, Draper : 50 yrs
Henry Harris : Commercial Traveller : Woollens : 29 yrs
George Chapman : Commercial Traveller : Woollens : 49 yrs
Francis Cole : Landed Proprietor : 53 yrs
C Parfett : Tradesman : 46 yrs
1861 Census
William Kemp : Inn Keeper : 46 yrs
Maria : 40 yrs
William : Valuer ; 20 yrs
Henry : 17 yrs
Edward : 13 yrs
Elizabeth : 9 yrs
Rachael : 7 yrs
Allice ; 2 yrs
Mary : Barmaid ; 21 yrs
Sir H Stewart : Gentleman : 60 yrs
Lord Arthur Clinton : Royal Navy : 20 yrs
William Pitch : Clerk : 26 yrs
Sarah : 23 yrs
George Heath : Hat manufacturer : 27 yrs
Alfred Hamell : Servant : 20 yrs
Jane Patten : Servant : 24 yrs
Harriett Lambert : Servant : 34 yrs
Eliza Cooper : Servant : 43 yrs
Sarah Adams : Servant : 38 yrs
Fanny Tallett : Servant : 21 yrs
William Milligan : Servant : 17 yrs
William Salmon : 24 yrs
Mary Lovly : Servant : 19 yrs
Robert Todd : Ostler : 36 yrs
Sarah : 32 yrs
Mary : 3 yrs
Henry : 1 yr
Charles Poole : Hair Dresser : 22 yrs
James Seyer : 23 yrs
James Shutt : Ostler : 43 yrs
Phoebe Latter : 12 yrs
Frances Heath : 27 yrs
Portsmouth Times and Naval Gazette : Saturday 24 December 1870
On Monday, 2nd January 1871, Fountain Hotel, High Street, Portsmouth, sale for the benefit of the creditors of Mrs Tyler, deceased. Mr George M Beck will sell by auction, as above, on Monday 2nd January 1871, and following days, commencing each day at twelve o’clock punctually, the whole of the furniture of the above hotel, comprising billiard table, linen,plated articles, china, glass, wines, spirits, gas fittings, mangle, wringing machine, four-whell chaise, set harness, and other effects. May be on each morning of sale and catalogues (6d), obtained of the Auctioneer, at his offices, 9 Queen Street, Portsea. The hotel to let - with immediate possession. For all particulars apply to the auctioneer.
1871 Census
Thomas McCullum : Steward to Prince of Wales Club : 47 yrs
Bridget : Stewardess : 47 yrs
Louisa : Soldier’s Wife : 25 yrs
Mary Hunt : Housemaid : 18 yrs
William Dedman : Waiter : 17 yrs
Frank Paul : Waiter : 18 yrs
Sheffield Daily Telegraph : Friday 21 November 1873
The Fatal Boxing match at Portsmouth : The Coroner’s jury in the case of the man Lynch, who was killed in a boxing match at the Fountain Hotel by a man named Miller, were discharged late on Wednesday without coming to a verdict, being unable to agree.
1911
“Soldiers’ Institute”
Alice Walker : Private Means : 57 yrs
Elizabeth Anna Lyon : Private Means : 57 yrs
Sarah Burton : Housekeeper : 50 yrs
Frank : Barman : 50 yrs
Ethel Amelia Hull : Parlourmaid : 26 yrs
Emily Frances Perry : Housemaid : 25 yrs
Ada Ruth Mabel : Housemaid : 22 yrs
Emma Elizabeth Case : Cook : 23 yrs
Fanny Fanny Maid Meal : Kitchenmaid : 23 yrs
Frederick Chandler : Sgt, Royal Engineers : 39 yrs
Florence : 41 yrs
William George : 9 yrs
George Hading : 2 yrs
Eugeue Lepon : Corporal RGA : 35 yrs
Harry Braham : Optician : 29 yrs
David Devoy : Discharged Soldier : 20 yrs
Frederick Graves : L Cpl, Royal Military Police : 27 yrs
Ivan Hennessey : Sick Berth Attendant : 20 yrs
Reginald Mott : Sick Berth Attendant : 22 yrs
William Joseph Williamson : Stoker RN : 20 yrs
Arthur Wright : Stoker RN : 19 yrs
Henry George Michelmore : Gunner RFA : 39 yrs
Cecil Alexander Figgins : Pvt RMLS : 22 yrs
Gustavus Twassell : : GGM Warrant Officer : 45 yrs
Charles William Day : Night Porter : 43 yrs
Henry Taylor : CSM Army Gym : 40 yrs
Sidney Arthur Kellagher : Soldier RFA : 23 yrs
Albert John Sutton : Sick Berth Staff RN : 19 yrs
Alfred Charles H Dumbell : Sick Berth Staff RN : 19 yrs
57 High Street
1851 Census
Edwin Gatt : Wine Merchant : 28 yrs
Mary Chandler : Housekeeper : 41 yrs
Portsmouth Times and Naval gazette : Saturday 22 May 1852
Edwin Galt, importer of wines and spirits, has just bonded the following:-
Ex Europe, from Charente, some fine pale and brown brandy, in hogsheads, quarter casks, and one dozen cases
Ex Courier, from Cadiz, a large shipment of Duff, Gordons and Martines sherry wine
Ex Jeune, Charles, from Bordeaux, some fine claret for immediate bottling.
Samples of the above may be obtained from the Bonding Vaults, or at the office stores, 57 High Street
Isle of Wight Observer : Saturday 14 October 1854
Mr J Hiles
(formerly pupil of Mons Jules Benedict)
Organist of St Thomas’s
Professor of the Piano Forte, Singing &c
Attendance at Ryde weekly. Terms &c may be known by application at his residence
57 High Street
Saturday 11 June 1859
Streeter’s Wholesale and Retail Wine and Spirit Stores, 57 High Street
Guinness Extra Stout 5s 9d per dozen quarts
2s 9d per dozen pints
Allsop’s East India Pale Ale 5s 9d per dozen quarts
2s 9d per dozen pints
Ind Coope & Co’s Pale Ale 5s 9d per dozen quarts
2s 9d per dozen pints
Fine old crusted ports not to be surpassed
Best London Gin 9s 6d per Gallon
NB Smoking and Refreshment Rooms
1861 Census
George C North : Eating House Keeper : 46 yrs
Caroline : 47 yrs
Caroline : Assistant : 16 yrs
Raymond : 15 yrs
Emma : 12 yrs
Jane : 9 yrs
Rosena Down : House Servant : 18 yrs
Eliza Bewer : Cook : 28 yrs
Joseph Watson : Upholsterer : 43 yrs
John Hooker : Tailor : 46 yrs
Thomas H Fiske : Music Seller & Stationer : 73 yrs
Mary Ann ; 78 yrs
Fanny Bailey : Servant : 22 yrs
Emily Taylor : House Servant
Sarah Nock : House Servant : 18 yrs: 20 yrs
1871 Census
George North : Refreshment House Keeper : 55 yrs
Caroline : 55 yrs
Caroline : 26 yrs
Mary Bakewell : Housemaid
Hampshire Telegraph : Wednesday 2 June 1880
Petro Dreske, an Italian, was charged with stealing a coat, a vest, pair of trousers, a silver watch and other articles, the property of Raymond North, of North’s Hotel, High Street. M Gregorio Bacigalupo interpreted. On the 28th ult the articles were seen to be safe in the prosecutor’s bedroom, but were subsequently missed, and an old coat had been hung up behind the door in place of the one taken. Some days afterwards the prisoner was met by Detective Swift wearing the coat, and was taken into custody. The other property had not been recovered. Prisoner was sentenced to 14 days’ hard labour.
1881 Census
“Temperance House”
Caroline North : Hotel Keeper : 37 yrs
Raymond North : 27 yrs
Horana Buzzing : Upholsterer’s Salesman : 47 yrs
Charles Dexter : Commercial Traveller : 23 yrs
Emanuel Magness : Commercial Traveller : 37 yrs
William Robinson : Commercial Clerk : 37 yrs
Augusta Mills : General Servant : 23 yrs
1911 Census
James Samways : Master Mariner : 62 yrs
Ellen : 32 yrs
James Charles : 7 yrs
Charles Edward Leggett : Army pensioner, General Labourer : 44 yrs
Esther : 41 yrs
Dorothy : 7 yrs
Kathleen : 3 yrs
Elizabeth Eileen : 1 yr
Arthur Snook : Dyer’s Porter : 27 yrs
Frank Clarke : Commercial Traveller, Veterinary : 60 yrs
Emma Jane : 50 yrs
Caroline Pitt : Sewing : 39 yrs
Ernest Hurst : Gunner, Royal Garrison Artillery : 40 yrs
Emma : 44 yrs
William Coote : Brewer’s Drayman : 28 yrs
Esther : 25 yrs
Ernest John Chasman : Stoker RN : 22 yrs
55, 56 & 57 : 1901 Census
Soldiers’ Institute
Alice Walker : Acting Lady Superintendent, : 47 yrs
Caroline H Mansell : 48 yrs
Madeline M Harvey : 38 yrs
Frances A Welch : Housekeeper : 42 yrs
Walter Fanstone : Soldier, Pte RRR : 39 yrs
Amelia : 38 yrs
Catherine Dyer : Cook : 57 yrs
Elizabeth A Payne : Kitchenmaid : 18 yrs
Thomas Lynch : Soldier, Pvt RGR : 38 yrs
Richard Malone : Bombardier : 31 yrs
Maria M Labett : Housemaid : 26 yrs
Dora L Hankin : Housemaid : 28 yrs
John Duffy : Soldier : 20 yrs
Harry Wren : Porter : 60 yrs
John Urquhart :Soldier : 32 yrs
Daisy Lockyer : Housemaid : 19 yrs
Private Lynch : Soldier : 25 yrs
Trooper Hamilton : Imperial Yeomanry : 32 yrs
Charles Alp : Bombardier : 45 yrs
Kolk : Civil Engineer : 40 yrs
Mary J Alder : Matron of Institute : 54 yrs
Ethel Green : Assistant Matron : 23 yrs
Charles Vincent : Soldier : 53 yrs
John Heal : Soldier : 63 yrs
William George : Soldier : 55 yrs
Henry Bishop : Soldier : 71 yrs
William Williams : Soldier : 61 yrs
James Dudeney : Soldier : 74 yrs
Henry Jerrett : Soldier : 36 yrs
Samuel Weston : Soldier : 29 yrs
58 High Street
Hampshire Chronicle : Monday 23 July 1792
Mary Elizabeth Read, widow of the late Mr Read, Silversmith and Cutler, deceased, No 58 High street, begs leave to inform her friends and the public, that she intends to carry on the business of her late husband, at the above mentioned house, where every article of the silversmith and cutlery branches, may be had of the newest patterns and on the most reasonable terms. All persons having any demands on the estate of the said Mr William Read are desired to send in their accounts; and those indebted to the said estate are requested to settle the same.
The Portsmouth Papers / High Street / 1846
The Grocer’s store (No 58), now part of the Sally Port Hotel, sold the “great staple food of the E Indies, the curry, hitherto so little known in this country ... perfect as it is used in Bengal, accompanied by instructions for its application.
Hampshire Telegraph : Saturday 5 May 1849
58 High Street, very superior household furniture, shop fixtures, and effects, to be sold by auction, by Mr Law, on the premises, on Wednesday, May 9th, 1849, commencing at eleven o’clock precisely. Under an assignment, the whole of the modern household furniture, piano-forte by Broadwood, shop fixtures, and effects, of Mr S M Coombs, Tailor and Outfitter, 58 High Street.
1851 Census
Charles North : Eating House Keeper : 58 yrs
Caroline : 37 yrs
Mary M : 9 Yrs
Caroline : 7 yrs
Raymond : 5 yrs
Emma : 2 yrs
Van Buren : Play Actor : 50 yrs
Frances Weeden : House Servant : 23 yrs
Anna Barlin : House Servant : 15 yrs.
1871 Census
Charles Smithers : Tailor & Outfitter : 43 yrs
Harriet : 38 yrs
Rosa : Assistant : 16 yrs
Uriah : 15 yrs
Harriet : 13 yrs
Adalaide : 12 yrs
Eleanor : 6 yrs
Rose Davies : Dressmaker : 20 yrs
Richard Coleman : Tailor, Shop Porter : 16 yrs
Hampshire Telegraph : Saturday 26 January 1878
£12,000 (in one sum or otherwise) to be advanced immediately on freehold security at 4.5 per cent. Apply by letter or personally to Mr E T Messurier, 58 High Street.
1891 Census
Richard R Aylen : Painter : 49 yrs
James R : Painter : 24 yrs
Emily M : 48 yrs
Frederick : Painter : 19 yrs
Thomas A : Painter : 17 yrs
Emily S A : 15 yrs
Ernest G P : 11 yrs
Lilly Wilkins : General Servant : 21 yrs
1901 Census
William Clement : Retired Mariner : 51 yrs
Elizabeth : 52 yrs
Minnie : 22 yrs
Kate : 19 yrs
George : Upholsterer’s Apprentice : 15 yrs
Alfred Stares : Police Constable : 22 yrs
Amy : 25 yrs
1911 Census
Jessie Baughton : 38 yrs
John Dollimore : 11 yrs
Jessie : 12 yrs
Kate Shearing : 45 yrs
Florence : 15 yrs
Portsmouth Evening News : Tuesday 20 June 1916
Two large unfurnished rooms : Larbert range bath : rent advance : no children. 58 High Street.
Portsmouth Evening News : Saturday 14 April 1923
Furnished bedroom, near the sea. Suit gentleman; convenient for all parts.
58 High Street.
59 High Street
Census
House Uninhabited
1871 Census
Eliza Alexander : 25
Isabel 34 & Isabel Bates : 19 yrs
1881 Census
Richard H Beale : Lloyds Agent, German Consul : 39 yrs
Annie H : 38 yrs
Annie : 17 yrs
Marian : 13 yrs
Henry : 7 yrs
William : 6 yrs
Eliza Crase : Cook : 46 yrs
60 High Street
Hampshire Chronicle : Monday 5 July 1819
Valuable and extensive freehold premises, situate at the corner of High Street, and the Grand Parade, late the Portsmouth Bank, and residence of Mr W G Carter; a letter comying machine, with drawers under, a copper plate press, a spring time piece, square library table, and numerous other office requisites; together with the modern and elegant household furniture, a grand piano-forte, by Jones & Co., a square ditto, by Clementi, and an excellent chamber organ, in handsome mahogany case, has three barrels, and plays 30 tones, a pair of 12 inch globes, mounted on mahogany pillars and claws,choice old Port, Tinta Madeira, and other wines, about two hundred and fifty volumes of law and other books, including the Encyclopaedia Britannica, half hd in Russian, two hundred ounces of modern and useful plate; table and bed linen; dinner dessert and tea services, rich cut glass and other effects.
1851 Census
“Bank”
William Grant : JP & Banker : 51 yrs
Mary : 49 yrs
Mary : 14 yrs
William : 12 yrs
Kate : 10 yrs
Emily : 9 yrs
Elizabeth Forster : Governess : 21 yrs
Sarah Varling : House Servant : 43 yrs
Ann Bennett : House Servant : 54 yrs
Jane Foster : House Servant : 21 yrs
James Langhurst : House Servant : 40 yrs
1861 Census
“Bank”
William Grant : Banker : 61 yrs
Mary : 59 yrs
William : Banker : 22 yrs
Emily : 19 yrs
Francis M Eastment : Landed Proprietor : 30 yrs
Kate : 20 yrs
Eliza Trapnell : Cook : 37 yrs
Louisa Glendenning : Housemaid : 33 yrs
Henry Draper : Footman : 22 yrs
Maria Brown : Nurse : 40 yrs
1871 Census
Mary Ball : Nurse : 26
Julia Bridger : 19
Clara Churcher : Nursery Maid : 14 yrs
William Grant : Butcher, : 32 yrs
Sophie Grant : 28 yrs
Sophia : 8 yrs
Ethel : 7 yrs
William : 6 yrs
Hugh : 4 yrs
Rosalia : 3 yrs
Alan : 2 yrs
Ann Triggs : Cook : 35 yrs
Charlotte Wilkins : Housemaid : 26 yrs
1881 Census
George Long : Magistrate & Banker : 57 yrs
Mary : 35 yrs
Elizabeth : 34 yrs
Jane : 30 yrs
Ellen : 26 yrs
Charles : Banker’s Clerk : 22 yrs
Lucy : 17 yrs
William Eade : Page : 15
Eliza Crase : Cook : 46 yrs
Eliza Kill : Parlourmaid : 29 yrs
Mary Trist : Housemaid : 24 yrs
1901 Census
George Long : Banker : 77 yrs
Mary J : 55 yrs
Elizabeth : 54 yrs
Jane : 50 yrs
Lucy E : 37 yrs
Eliza Crease : Cook : 66 yrs
Augusta H Cleal : Parlourmaid : 28 yrs
Emily E Basham : Housemaid : 29 yrs
Florence M Louck : Kitchenmaid : 17 yrs
61 High Street
The Portsmouth Papers / High Street / 1839
One of the best known sounds in the High Street at this period must have been the clatter of the stage-coaches as they left with their passengers from the various picking-up points. The principal route was to London, although Brighton, Bristol, Chichester, Oxford and Winchester were also served. The coach offices at 61 High Street, the George, the Fountain
1851 Census
Henry Baker : Lodging House Keeper : 37 yrs
Susannah : 37 yrs
Ellen Davey : House Servant : 15 yrs
Stanley Slater : Lieutenant, 82nd Regt : 25 yrs.
1861 Census
John Howard : Attorney & Solicitor : 53 yrs
Eleanor : 47 yrs
Edith : 19 yrs
Catherine : 18 yrs
Martin : 9 yrs
Maud : 6 yrs
Howard B Turner : 4 yrs
Elizabeth White : House Servant : 24 yrs
Mary Balten : House Servant : 24 yrs
Mary Slagg : Nurse Maid : 22 yrs
Harriet Pratt : House Maid : 20 yrs
John Groves Jnr : Brewer, Wine & Spirits Merchant : 25 yrs
Sarah A : 25 yrs
John F : 21 months
Ann Hurst : Cook : 24 yrs
Sophia Mariner : Nurse maid ; 16 yrs
1881 Census
Henry Cockran : Tailor : 24 yrs
Blanche : Tailoress : 21 yrs
John R Wilson : Sgt Major Artillery Volunteer : 59 yrs
Charlotte C : 49 yrs
Frank H : 13 yrs
Caroline J : 12 yrs
Alice M : 10 yrs
Ada G : 8 yrs
1891 Census
John White, head, married, 45, publican, born Woolwich
Sarah White : 31 yrs
Lizzie Cross : General Servant : 15 yrs
1901 Census
Willington Henry Synge : Major General : 76 yrs
Jane : 68 yrs
George N Wadden : 24 yrs
Rose Parsons : General Servant : 18 yrs
Minnie Bell : General Servant : 25 yrs
Emily Hyde : 23 yrs
Edith Slape : General Servant : 17 yrs
1911 Census
Jane Synge : 80 yrs
Mary Young : Cook : 52 yrs
Louisa Cothell : Nurse : 38 yrs
Mabel Marsh : Nurse : 36 yrs
Portsmouth Evening News : Thursday 17 February 1916
Houses to Let : 61 High Street (near Grand Parade), 12 roomed house, bath (geyser), electric light, suitable for Naval or Military Officers. Apply 68 St Thomas’s Street
Portsmouth Evening News : Thursday 20 June 1929
Property to Let : 61 High Street, unfurnished flat, four rooms, redecorated, electric, own meter; no convenience for children. Apply 66 St Thomas’s Street
62 High Street
“Wellington Tavern”
Hampshire Telegraph : Monday 29 April 1839
The Annual Dinner of the Portsmouth and Portsea Licensed Victualers’ Association took place on Monday last, at Mr Kiln’s, the “Wellington Tavern”, and was attended by nearly 40 member sand their friends as also several members of the Gosport Association, who sat down to an excellent dinner; after which the usual loyal and other toasts were given. The statements made were very interesting to the members, as regard the establishing of this and like Associations in other parts of the kingdom. The evening was spent in harmony and good fellowship, and the company was highly pleased with the attention of the worthy host.
1851 Census
“Wellington Tavern”
George Knight : Hotel Keeper : 33 yrs
Sarah : Landlady : 34 yrs
Robert Renwick : Commercial Clerk : 32 yrs
Ann Sanford : Dressmaker : 20 yrs
David Cada : Master Mariner : 30 yrs
H H Saunders : Jeweller : 31 yrs
Jane Moon : House Servant : 33 yrs
Caroline Smith : House Servant : 28 yrs
John Pinnock : Porter : 31 yrs
1861 Census
“The Duke of Wellington”
Frederick J Squance : Victualler : 40 yrs
Mary : 39 yrs
Elizabeth Sergeant : Assistant : 26 yrs
Jane Page : Chambermaid : 23 yrs
Emily Tallan : Cook : 19 yrs
George Helby : Waiter : 15 yrs
John Kinder : Victualler : 40 yrs
1871 Census
“Wellington Hotel”
Mary Squance : Hotel Keeper : 34 yrs
Edward Bunting : Carrier’s Agent : 32 yrs
Mary : 22 yrs
Ellen Powel : Barmaid : 21 yrs
Ellen Russell : Cook : 36 yrs
William Wilkinson : Waiter : 18 yrs
Philip T Antill : Clerk : 37 yrs
George B P Fellowes : Midshipman, RN : 17 yrs
Thomas E Evans : Civil Engineer : 32 yrs
1881 Census
“Wellington Hotel”
Mary J Damp : Hotel Manageress : 40 yrs
Ellen Chestle : Assistant : 15 yrs
James : 12 yrs
Charlie : 9 yrs
George : 6 yrs
1891 Census
“Wellington Hotel”
Henry Knight : Hotel Keeper : 38 yrs
Annie : 29 yrs
Henry E : 12 yrs
Leonard G G : 5 yrs
Edwin C Guy : R N Seaman : 24 yrs
Edith A: 21 yrs
1901 Census
Mary A Mullaney : Hotel Proprietress : 44 yrs
Mary E : 24 yrs
Alice Clark : 18 yrs
Daisy Mullaney : 13 yrs
Thomas : 11 yrs
Mary Ann Towner : 26 yrs
Arthur : 1st Class Petty Officer : 28 yrs
Ethel Reddell : General Servant : 20 yrs
Edwin Colebrook : Leading Stoker RN : 21 yrs
Arthur N Craven : 2nd Class petty Officer : 26 yrs
1911 Census
“The Wellington”
Charles Edward Stocker : Licensed Victualler : 33 yrs
Edith : 30 yrs
John Charles Alfred : 4 yrs
Edward Wright : Waiter, Officers’ Mess : 49 yrs
63 High Street
Hampshire Chronicle : Monday 12 September 1791
Medicine Act ; 25th ; George III
At Donaldson’s Medicinal warehouse (licensed by Government), No 63 High Street, may be had the following patent and approved medicines &c., invented and prepared by the medical men possessed of superior abilities and science, for the relief and cure of various maladies affecting the human frame ; Warranted genuine from the respective proprietors and patentees.
Adam’s specific solvent, a safe and certain cure the stone and gravel. The infallible or specific tasteless ague-essence.
Anti-acid lozenges, for the heart-burn, sourness of the stomach, &c..
A fresh and genuine supply of Maredent’s celebrated Antiscorbutic Drops, by Norton & Hayman ; of such approved and infallible efficiency in all scophulous, ulcerous, and scorbutic, complaints, that the first of cures performed by them makes a volume of itself. Price, six shillings a bottle.
The Asiatic Tooth Powder, 2s 6d the box
The Balsamic Corroborant, for nervous disorders, rheumatisms &c., Price 10s 6d a bottle
Baume de Vie, a foreign remedy for all pains of the stomach and bilious complaints.
Baxley’s Genuine Blacking cakes, for making a beautiful shining liquid blacking. Price 6d each cake.
Bennet’s Specific Lotion, for a certain disorder, prepared, by affidavit, with a particle of mercury. Price 10s 6d a bottle
Berkenhout’s Read Vegetable Nankeen Dye, and Vegetable Chinese Liquid Blue, at one shilling each, with directions for its use. The genuine is never sold for less.
Betton’s British Oil, for external and internal bruises.
Cephalic Snuff, for the headache &c>>
Chilblain Wash, a certain cure
Chinese Liquid Balm, for restoring decayed hair after fevers &c..
Chinner’s Specific Pills, for the gout and rheumatism.
The Ohio Paste, an excellent preserver and restorer of beauty. Price 2s 6d a box.
Cornewell’s Oriental Cordial, for the gout and gravel, and for all bilious complaints. Price 5s a bottle
The Real Chemical Opedeldock, for sprains, bruises, chilblains &c., also for rheumatisms, palsy, burns, scalds, and all stiffness of the joints. 1s 9d a bottle.
Corn-Salve, an efficacious remedy for corns and chilblains.
Dawson’s Pectoral Lozenges, for colds and coughs.
Denham’s infallible antiscorbutic, which at once using totally eradicates the itch, throughout everso long standing ; and is a certain and safe method of cure for the leprosy, and all scrophulous complaints, ?etters, ringworms, irruptions in the face, scab, or breakings out in any part of the body. Price 2s 6d a bottle.
The Devonshire Tooth Powder, Thirteen pence, halfpeeny per box
The Devonshire Tooth Tincture.. Price 1s 9d a bottle.
Dewdney’s most incomparable buff composition powder, for cleaning leather breeches,, which, with very little trouble, always keep them the same as new. Price 2s the box.
Madame du Barre’s Tooth Powder, In boxes at one and two shillings each.
The Embrocation, for old sprains, bruises and rheumatisms, relaxation of the nerves, rickety children, and all other weaknesses. Five shillings a bottle.
The Genuine American Spruce, for the improvement of malt liquor Price 2s 6d the pot, with directions for making it into beer. A pot at 2s 6d will make 20 gallons.
Essence of Coltsfoot, for coughs, difficulty of breathing, asthmas, consumptions &c..
Faick’s Universal Cerate, an excellent preparation for the cure of sores, ulcers, and cutaneous eruptions ; also for cancers. Price 1s the box.
Fothergel’s Universal Medicine for Nervous Complaints, At 22s - 11s 6d and 5s the bottle.
Gutta Salutaris, or Royal anti-venereal drops ; They also cure the most inveterate scurvy, fistula, dropsy, rheumatism, fravel, and all obstructions incident to single or married women. In bottles at 22s - 11s 6d - 5s 5d and 2s 9 each.
Godbold’s Vegetable Balsam, a foreign remedy in all consumptive cares, and in the scurvy, asthma, &c., price 17s a pint, or £1 12 6d the quart, duty included.
The Infallible German Corn-Plaster, one shilling and threepence a box, duty incuded.
Godfrey’s celebrated compoting cordial, for the cholic, gripings &c..
Gowland’s Lotion, for clearing the complexion,and removing all eruptions in the face or skin. Price 5s 3d the pint bottle.
Greenhough’s Tinctures, for cleaning the teeth, and for curing the toothache. Price thirteen and a half pence a bottle.
The Hannayan Specific, or infallible preventive wash, for a certain disorder. In packets of 2s 9d each
Hemett’s Essence of Pearl, and pearl dentifrice, for the teeth and gums.
Hibernian Snuff, for disorders of the head
Hill’s Pectoral Balsam aof Honey, for coughs, colds and asthmas.
Hill’s Essence of Water-Dock, for the leprocy, scurvy &c.
Hill’s Tincture of Valerian, for all nervous disorders.
Hill’s Canada Balsam, for weakness and relaxations for either sex.
Hill’s Elixir of Bardana, for the gout, rheumatisms.
Hill’s Tincture of Centaury, for all disorders of the stomach
Jackson’s Asymatic candy, an effectual remedy for coughs and shortness of breath, Price thirteen and a half pence a box, duty included.
Jackson’s Infallible Ointment for the Itch
Dr James’s Analeptic Pills, a foreign remedy for the rheumatism, gout and all kinds of bilious disorders.
Dr James’s celebrated Fever-Powders
Justmont’s most admirable lip-salve, for curing chaps and swelling of the lips, and for making them of a sweet and beautiful red. Price one shilling the box.
Ladies Improved Sticking Plaster
La Blache’s Military Drops. a most infallible remedy for the scurvy, leprocy, King’s Evil, and all cutaneous disorders, herediray of acquired.
Leak’sPills, for the venereal disease, scurvy &c.. In boxes at 2s 9d each
Dr Lobb’s Family Tincture, for a lost appetite, gout, fever, sore throat &c..
Lozenges of Tolu, for tickling coughs, colds, hoarseness &c., price thirteen and a half pence a box.
Nailor’s British Ointment for Corns, which gives ease in a few hours.
Norris’s Drops, for fevers of every denomination, sore throats, agues, bilious complaints
Oranges Restorative Drops, for colds, coughs, asthmas.
Orange’s Antiscorbutic Drops, for the scurvy, and all disorders arising from foulness of blood.
Orange;s Stomach Pills, for the rheumatism, and disorders in the stomach and bowels
Pomade Divine, or Divine Pomatom, for all sorts of contussions and sores. In glasses at 3s each
Radcliffe’s Famous Purging Elizir, for the scurvy, dropsy, surfeits, and all gross and vicious humours
The Hampshire Miller’s Rat Powder, an infallible remedy for destroying rats, water-rats and mice. In packets at 2s 6d each with directions
Rymer’s Cardiac Tincture, for all disorders of the head and stomach, lowness of spirits, indigestion,gout, &c., in bottles at 2s 9d - 5s 3d - 11s 6d each
The True Essential Saly of Lemons, for discharging ink-spots, iron-moulds &c., out of lace and linen of any kinds. Also for making punch, lemonade, jellies &c.c price 1s the box.
Sandwell’s Issue Plasters, which stick without filetting
Dr Smyth’s Restorative Drops, a certain remedy in all cases of female weakness, debility or decay. In bottles at 11s and a guinea.
Dr Smyth’s Specific Drops, a radical cure for a certain disorder, in all its stages. Price 2s 9d and 5s 4d a bottle
Dr Solander’s Sanative English Tea, for inward wastings, consumptive habits and obstinate coughs. In parcels at 2s 9d each and canister at 10s 6d
Spa Elixir, for debilities, weaknesses, or relaxations, in either sex
Spilsbury’s Drops, for all maladies arising from impurities in the blood. In bottles at 5s each and 31 2s
Steel’s Oil, for consumption fits
Story’s Worm Destrying Cakes
Stoughton’ Cordial Elexir, for disorders of the stomach
Trowbridge, or Golden Pills of life and beauty. for female complaints.
Vandour’s Pills, for lowness of spirits, hypochondriac and all nervous complaints
Velno’sVegetable Syrup, for the scurvy, consumption,and palsy. Price 11s 6 d a bottle
Venus’s Vegetable Bloom, the nurturer and restorer of youthful beauty
Venus’s White Bloom Powder, for the face, neck and arms
Dr Waite’s celebrated worm medicine, in the form of gingerbread nuts, which at this moment are performing most astonishing cures in every part of the kingdom. Thirteen and a half pence per packet.
Walker’s Jesuits Drops, a most safe, certain,elegant, and effacacious cure for every specied and stage of the venereal disease &C.. Price 2s 9d per bottle, with directions for us in every distinct complaint.
Ward’s White Drops, for the scurvy
Dr Watson’s Compound Balsam of Amber, for coughs, asthmas, spitting of blood and consumptions. 2s 9d a bottle or seven bottles for 16s 6d
White’s truly-celebrated Fever Drops,a most miraculous and immediate cure for fevers in general and all feverish complaints, colds, chills, sore throats, &c.. Price 2s 6d and 4s 6d large bottle.
Winch’s Bitter Pills,for the stomach and bowels,and all bilious complaints, and which are found an admirable restorative and and comforter of the stomach after hard drinking and irregularity of living.
Young’s Curious Fish Sauce, In half pint bottles at 1s 6d each - This is the trueessence of anchovies
Scott’s and Hooper’s Pills, Dalby’s Carminative, Glass’s Magnesia, Daffy’s Elixir, Bateman’s Drops, Fryer’s Balsam, Gritlin’s Tincture, Essence of Peppermint, and all other articles of the class.
genuine Perfumeries from London. Printing and Bookbinding elegantly executed.
Hampshire Telegraph : Monday 21 November 1831
Mr Lewis respectfully informs those Ladies and Gentlemen who intend commencing a course of lessons in writing, short-hand, or arithmetic, that no new pupils can possibly be admitted after Wednesday 30th day of the present month (November).
Teaching rooms at 63 High Street
Hampshire Advertiser : Saturday 27 November 1841
Died, on the 20th instant, after a short illness, Mr William Donaldson, formerly a respectable printer and stationer, High Street, and proprietor and publisher of a newspaper, then called the “Portsmouth Gazette” which he commenced in the year 1780
1851 Census
Henry Sargeant : Painter (emp 3 men) : 53 yrs
Sarah : 51 yrs
Elizabeth : 17 yrs
Arthur : 14 yrs
1861 Census
Henry Sergeant : Painter, emp 3 men & 1 boy : 63 yrs
Sarah : 61 yrs
Arthur : 24 yrs
Vincent Vappalardo : Consul for Italy : 47 yrs
Fanny Craighill : House Servant : 28 yrs
Hampshire Telegraph : September 1868
To Painters, Glaziers and others to be let, at a low rental, the house, no 63 High Street, in which a painter’s and Glazier’s business has been carried on for the last 25 years. Apply to Mr Crew, 28 High Street.
1881 Census
Rose Crook : Tailoress : 30 yrs
Edwin M : 5 yrs
William Knowles : Leading Stoker RN : 32 yrs
Matilda : 28 yrs
William : 8yrs
Matilda : 5 yrs
Alice : 3 yrs
Henry : 1 yr
Harriet Perrin : Seamstress : 40 yrs
Hubert T : Draper’s Porter : 15 yrs
Harriet : Domestic Servant : 14 yrs
Samuel Sargeant : Plumber & Painter : 48 yrs
Matilda : 48 yrs
Samuel : Skilled Labourer HM Dockyard : 21 yrs
Henry : Painter’s Apprentice : 16 yrs
Alfred : Painter’s Apprentice : 14 yrs
Alice : 11 yrs
William : 7 yrs
Jessy : 5 yrs
Cecelia : 3 yrs
Arthur : House Painter : 44 yrs
1891 Census
Samuel Sargeant : Painter : 60 yrs
Matilda : 58 yrs
Alice S : Domestic Servant : 22 yrs
William : Painter : 19 yrs
Cecelia : 14 yrs
Elizabeth Smythe : 38 yrs
Helen : Teacher at Military School : 16 yrs
1901 Census
Charles Bristow : Waiter : 62 yrs
Jane : 64 yrs
Thomas S Jones : Bookmaker :31 yrs
Jane : 39 yrs
Elizabeth : 6 yrs
Thomas S : 4 yrs
1911 Census
George Tulett : Skilled Labourer, Boiler Shop, Dockyard : 39 yrs
Jessie : 34 yrs
Jessie Georgina : 10 yrs
Winifred Doris : 9 yrs
William Alfred : 7 yrs
Irene May : 5 yrs
Henry Fraser : Gunner RGA : 36 yrs
Lucy : 31 yrs
Lily Chamberlain : 35 yrs
Lily Fraser : 2 yrs
John Chamberlain : under 1 month
Ernest Gallagher : Seaman : 26 yrs
Matilda : 22 yrs
Ernest : 2 yrs
Portsmouth Evening News : Saturday 6 June 1925
By order of the Executors of Mr G J Bevis, deceased, Thursday next, 11th June 1925, sale by auction of good paying freehold properties, on with vacant possession. Robson and Hall will sell by auction at their property mart, 63 Elm Grove, at 6.30 o’clock in the evening the following - 63 High Street, of 20 ft frontage, and comprising deep DF shop, side private entrance, shop parlour, 5 bedrooms, 2 attics, upstairs kitchen with larbert range, drying room, wash-house, wc, and yard. Let at 11a 6d weekly exclusive
64 High Street
Hampshire Chronicle : Monday 22 April 1776
At Wilkes’s Wholesale Staffordshire Warehouse, 64 High Street, is sold all sorts of fine cream coloured and white Staffordshire ware, as cheap as at any pottery in Staffordshire, adding carriage and the risk of breaking : and as there is kept a great stock of every article, it will be the interest of any shopkeeper to apply at this warehouse as he may have a large or small quantity on the shortest notice, and not be encumbered with a large unsaleable stock.
Table sets at £1 11s 6d to £7.
Sells all sorts od glass at the same price as at any Glasshouse, and give three-halfpence per pound for broken flint glass, or sixteen shillings per hundred delivered at Portsmouth.
Apothecaries phials sorted at 8s 6d Green ditto at 6s 6d per gross, and all sorts of Gallipots.
A great quantity of quart and pint mugs, made by the Standard, for beer and cyder.
Monday 1st August 1831, Hampshire Telegraph
Messrs W A Penley : Miniature Artists
Saturday 9 January 1847, Hampshire Telegraph
1843 : 64 High Street : Crook, Son and Diaper : Auctioneers
1844 : 64 High Street : Crook, Son and Diaper : Auctioneers
1845 : 64 High Street : Crook, Son and Diaper : Auctioneers
1847 : 64 High Street : Crook, Son and Diaper : Auctioneers
1851 Census
Vincent Pappalando : Consul : 40 yrs
Sarah Hookey : Servant : 33 yrs
1871 Census
Charles Book : Office Manager : 40 yrs
Ellen : 36 yrs
Ellen : 9 yrs
Sarah : 6 yrs
Mary A : 3 yrs
1881 Census
Charles Southwell : Confectioner : 36 yrs
Eliza : 43 yrs
Alice M : 9 yrs
Charles W : 7 yrs
Louisa A : 5 yrs
Ernest W : 2 yrs
1881 Census
“Old Guard House”
James Robjohns : Sgt, RA : 48 yrs
Eliza : 49 yrs
Florence : 12 yrs
Tuesday 26 September 1882
General Servant - One who thoroughly understands plain cooking
Apply Monck’s Oyster Bar, 64 High Street
1891 Census
Alfred John Martin : Tailor : 60 yrs
Mary Hartnett : Housekeeper : 41 yrs
Bertie : 9 yrs
1911 Census
John Howe - Shortle : Collector, Corporation : 45 yrs
Lily : Saleswoman, Boot Trade : 35 yrs
Mary Smith : 24 yrs
Richard Charles Gibbs : Shipwright Pensioner : 74 yrs
Edith : 71 yrs
65 High Street
1851 Census
David Levy : Army Agent : 52 yrs
Rebecca Childs : General Servant
1861 Census
David Levy : Gentleman : 62 yrs
Rebecca : 21 yrs
Jane Luckhurst : Housemaid : 24 yrs
Eliza McConnell : Wife of an Artillery Man : 29 yrs
Eliza M : 3 yrs
Alfred : 1 yr
Bridget Dougherty : Wife of an Artillery Man : 20 yrs
Robert : 34 yrs
Saturday 19 March 1864, Portsmouth Times and Naval Gazette
The People’s Church
Now Gathering under Jethro
Dimond, 65 High Street - Price Sixpence
1871 Census
William Richardson : Clerk to Cork Factory : 49 yrs
Isabella : 52 yrs
Ellen M : 17 yrs
Harriet Lamb : Nurse : 38 yrs
Samuel Sargeant : Painter & Glazier : 39 yrs
Matilda : 37 yrs
Samuel : 11 yrs
Harriet : 9 yrs
Henry : 6 yrs
Alfred : 5 Yrs
Alice : 1 yr
Oswold Secconi : Musical Instrument Maker : 31 yrs
Susan : 33 yrs
William : 1 month
Portsmouth Evening News : Thursday 5 December 1878
Found - A Greyhound. Owner can have same by paying expenses. If not claimed in a week will be sold. 65 High Street
1881 Census
Quied Cecconi : Musical Instrument Maker : 42 yrs
Susan : 45 yrs
Lauro : 11 yrs
William : 10 yrs
Lauro : Professor of Music : 73 yrs
Michelina : 58 yrs
1891 Census
L. Cecconi : Retired Regt Bandsman : 84 yrs
M : 70 yrs
J : Musical Instrument Maker : 52 yrs
L. Musical Instrument Maker : 22 yrs
1901 Census
J Cecconi : Musical Instrument Maker : 62 yrs
L : Musical Instrument Maker : 32 yrs
M : 79 yrs
1911 Census
Quinto Cecconi : Musical Instrument Repairer : 72 yrs
Laure : Musical Instrument Repairer : 41 yrs
66 High Street
Hampshire Telegraph : Saturday 15 May 1847
George Stebbing, Sen., of 66 High Street, Optician and Mathematical Instrument Maker to Her Majesty the Queen, Her Majesty’s Dockyard, and the Royal Yacht Squadron, &c., grateful to all his friends for the kind support he has received for upwards of forty five years, begs to state he has disposed of his business to Mr Samuel J Browning, who also has had eight years experience in one of the largest manufactory business in London. G Stebbing Sen trusts the same liberal patronage he has received will be continued to his successor.
Mr Stebbing has to require all outstanding accounts be paid as early as possible, at 66 High Street.
Samuel J Browning begs leave to acquaint his friends and the public, that he has taken the business of Mr George Stebbing, Sen, 66 High Street, and trusts by strict attention to the same to merit and receive the same support so liberally bestowed on his predecessor, during the last forty five years.
1861 Census
John Davies : Beer Retailer : 36 yrs
Harriett : 35 yrs
Mary Ann Young : 57 yrs
Samuel : 14 yrs
Toni Gibbs : 18 months
John Camble : Labourer : 30 yrs
Richard Harman : Shoe Maker : 25 yrs
Catherine Wilson : Dressmaker ; 19 yrs
Thomas Crowthorn : Sailor : 20 yrs
Charles Thomson : Sailor ; 20 yrs
Mary Brown : Singer : 22 yrs
1871 Census
“Duke of Devonshire”
David Grad : Soldier of the 28th : 33 yrs
Hannah : 18 yrs
William : 7 yrs
Prudence Germany : Beerhouse Keeper : 36 yrs
John : 9 yrs
Albert : 7 yrs
Henry Massey : Soldier of the 28th : 28 yrs
Mary : 22 yrs
Harry : 3 yrs
Sarah : 1 yr
John Rogen : Soldier of the 28th : 28 yrs
Mary : 24 yrs
Thomas : 3 yrs
John : 1 yr
George Miller : Soldier of the 28th : 40 yrs
Jane : 30 yrs
John Edmunds : Soldier of the 28th : 16 yrs
Robert Foster : Pensioner : 28 yrs
1891 Census
Martha Lodder : Beerhouse Keeper : 63 yrs
Louie Westfield : Dressmaker : 16 yrs
Jessie Lodder : Dressmaker : 16 yrs
Henry W Walker : Chief Gunner’s Mate : 31 yrs
Emma : 30 yrs
William J : 6 yrs
Archie H : 6 months
William Frompton : Navy Pensioner : 67 yrs
William Bendall : Navy Pensioner : 64 yrs
Thomas Hughes : Seaman RN : 24 yrs
Henry Wilson : Brewer’s Packer : 20 yrs
1901 Census
James Cassidy : Labourer, General : 56 yrs
Amelia : Machinist, Underclothes : 62 yrs
James : Soldier : 34 yrs
Edward : Labourer, General : 34 yrs
William : Soldier : 30 yrs
Annie : Machinist, Underclothes : 28 yrs
Samuel : Sailor : 26 yrs
Jane : Dressmaker : 38 yrs
Annie Lees : 35 yrs
Ellen : 14 yrs
William : 6 yrs
Margaret : 2 yrs
1911 Census
Judith Mahony : Laundress : 49 yrs
Mortimor James : Porter, Carrier’s : 18 yrs
George Jenkins : Canteen Waiter : 55 yrs
Ellen : Seamstress : 46 yrs
Ellen May : 14 yrs
Annie Josephine : 9 yrs
Edward Alexander : 6 yrs
Frederick William : 4 yrs
Ida Weekes : 25 yrs
James : 6 yrs
John : 4 yrs
George : 2 yrs
Olive : 10 months
John Lander : Tailor : 43 yrs
Ada M : 34 yrs
Cecelia E A : General Servant : 14 yrs
John T : 13 yrs
Albert G : 10 yrs
Ada M : 5 yrs
Charles A : 3 yrs
Mary Jane Foster : 60 yrs
George Oakley : Foreman, General Carter : 24 yrs
67 High Street
Hampshire Telegraph : Saturday 1 December 1849
William Litchfield, licensed victualler, at the ‘Bell’ in High Street, was charged with having his house open between twelve and one o’clock on Sunday morning. Convicted and fined 10s and costs.
1851 Census
William Litchfield : Licensed Victualler : 29 yrs
Elizabeth : 28 yrs
Frederick : 5 yrs
Elizabeth : 3 yrs
Alfred Harry : 1 yr
1861 Census
“Bell Tavern”
Richard Millman : Victualler : 39 yrs
Eliza : 41 yrs
Rose Davies : 10 yrs
Louisa Millman : 5 yrs
Eleanor James : 19 yrs
Daniel Duall : Sawyer : 27 yrs
1871 Census
“Bell Tavern”
William R Dash : Licensed Victualler : 55 yrs
Eliza : 51 yrs
Louisa Millman : Dressmaker : 17 yrs
Margaret Newman : General Servant : 16 yrs
Thomas Norris : Tailor : 24 yrs
1881 Census
“Bell Tavern”
William Daish : Licensed Victualler : 65 yrs
Eliza : 61 yrs
William Holloway : School Master RN : 23 yrs
Arthur Yates : School Master : 22 yrs
George Martin : Shipwright : 31 yrs
Thomas Taylor : Shipwright : 35 yrs
Charles Smithers : Tailor : 53 yrs
Rose Sadler : General Servant : 19 yrs
1891 Census
“Bell Tavern”
Benjamin J Carter : Shipwright & Licensed Victualler : 65 yrs
Ellen : 50 yrs
William Webb : 11 yrs
William H Rowe : Naval Pensioner : 45 yrs
Mary Ann : 32 yrs
1901 Census
Catherine Smith : Licensed Victualler, Pub : 48 yrs
Thomas V : Clerk : 22 yrs
Florence : 19 yrs
Alice J : Milliner : 16 yrs
Catherine : Milliner : 15 yrs
Violet M : 12 yrs
Harriet M : 11 yrs
1911 Census
“Bell Tavern”
Richard Cambria Ford : Licensed Victualler : 50 yrs
Harriett : 50 yrs
Albert Cambria : Barman : 25 yrs
William Canada : Seaman : 18 yrs
Florence Beatrice : 13 yrs
Douglas Arthur : 11 yrs
Dundee Evening Telegraph : Wednesday 26 March 1924
Mrs Amy Blake (68), of Washington Road, Landport, fell dead in the Bell Tavern, High Street, Portsmouth.
68 High Street
Hampshire Telegraph : Monday 24 December 1838
George Sherwood wishes to dispose of, on reasonable terms, his well established business in the gun and watch-making line (principally in the gun business), stock not very extensive.
Also, his Billiard Rooms, with superior tables, one slate, quite new, either with or without the freehold premises, 68 High Street, Portsmouth
An early application is requested, being about to enter another business.
1851 Census
George Sherwood : Gun Smith : 46 yrs
Margaret : 56 yrs
Thomas : Apprentice : 17 yrs
Charles Bailey : Hatter : 35 yrs
Sarah : 34 yrs
Sarah : 14 yrs
Jane : 12 yrs
John : 7 yrs
Charles : 5 yrs
Helen : 1 yr
Hampshire Telegraph : Saturday 6 August 1859
To Let : A beer-house, in a good neighbourhood. For further particulars apply to Mr C A Bagent, 68 High Street, opposite Victoria Pier
1871 Census
“Greyhound”
James Loring : Beerhouse Keeper : 38 yrs
Maria : 32 yrs
Maria E : 16 yrs
Selina A : 4 yrs
1881 Census
Henry Heath : Corn : 43 yrs
Ann : 45 yrs
Kate : 8 yrs
Hampshire Telegraph : Saturday 2 August 1890
Mr Thomas King (of the firm King and King), is instructed to sell by auction, at an early date, in lots, the following ;
68 High Street
1901 Census
Charles Palmer : Grain, Corn Merchant : 53 yrs
Harriett : 52 yrs
Sydney : Seaman RN : 24 yrs
Arthur : Telegraphist at PO : 17 yrs
Mabel : 15 yrs
Frank : 14 yrs
Ada : 12 yrs
1911 Census
Charles Palmer : Corn Dealer : 62 yrs
Harriett : 61 yrs
Frank : Railway Clerk : 24 yrs
Ada : Dressmaker : 22 yrs
Kate : Shop Assistant : 19 yrs
Frederick : Electrical Assistant : 17 yrs
69 High Street
1851 Census
Charles Hall : Eating House Keeper : 30 yrs
Ann : 32 yrs
Charles : Sail Maker : 18 yrs
Wingbotham : 16 yrs
Agnes : 14 yrs
Ellen : 10 yrs
1861 Census
William Hayward : Clerk, H M Customs : 28 yrs
Jane : 31 yrs
William : 2 yrs
1871 Census
Refreshment House
Harriett Saunders : Eating House Keeper : 46 yrs
Harry : 16 yrs
Sarah : Assistant in Business : 15 yrs
William Corby : Discharged Soldier, Out of Employ : 36 yrs
1881 Census
Elizabeth Elcock : Eating House Keeper : 53 yrs
Oskar Schulze : Watchmaker : 23 yrs
George : Labourer : 31 yrs
Rose Brown : Needlewoman : 18 yrs
John : 3 months
1891 Census
Charles Pound : Fisherman :54 yrs
Ann : 57 yrs
George : Fisherman : 21 yrs
Maud : 17 yrs
Edward : 14 yrs
Edith : 9 yrs
1901 Census
Charles Pound : Fisherman : 64 yrs
Ann : 61 yrs
Maud McDougall : Sweet Business : 27 yrs
Edward Pound : Fisherman : 24 yrs
Edith : 19 yrs
William Avenell : 12 yrs
Benjamin McDougall : 3 yrs
1911 Census
Charles Pound : Fisherman : 74 yrs
Ann : 72 yrs
70 High Street
Hampshire Chronicle : Monday 18 May 1818
Established Hat Business to be let, and entered upon immediately, all those premises, now in full trade, situate at the lower end of the High Street, in the occupation of Mrs Wilkes, about to retire from business. Every particular may be learnt by applying to Mrs Wilkes - letters post paid.
Hampshire Telegraph : Monday1 February 1830
John Bailey, Hatter, Cap Maker and Laceman, opposite the King’s Stairs, 70 High Street, late assistant to Mrs H Wilkes (who has declined business), for a series of years, begs most respectfully to acquaint the Nobility and Gentry, Gentlemen of the Navy and Army, his friends, and the public generally, that he has commenced business on his own account; and from the very long experience he has had in the above line, has enabled him to select such goods as he can with confidence recommend; and most respectfully solicits a portion of that patronage and support so liberally bestowed by his late employer.
1851 Census
Frederick Duddelle : Retailer of Beer & Hairdresser : 37 yrs
Harriet : 39 yrs
Henry : 12 yrs
Jane Ballard : Dressmaker : 20 yrs
William King : General Servant : 17 yrs
Hampshire Telegraph : Saturday 3 November 1860
Preliminary Announcement to Brewers, Capitalists & Others
Mr G M Beck begs to announce that he is favoured with instructions from the Executor of the late James Dabbs Esq, deceased, to sell by public auction, at his sale rooms, 176 Queen Street, on Thursday, November 22nd, 1860, at seven o’clock in the evening, in Lots, the following;
70 High Street
1861 Census
Richard Wareham : Greenwich Pensioner : 41 yrs
Eliza : 39 yrs
James Read : Shipwright : 21 yrs
Eliza : Milliner : 18 yrs
Emily : 9 yrs
Charles J Gower : Captain, RM : 20 yrs
John Lipscombe : Cook & Pastry Cook : 67 yrs
James Norris : 21 yrs
Harry Jones : 11 yrs
1871 Census
John Barons : Tobacconist : 67 yrs
Sarah : 66 yrs
Elizabeth Hills : General Cook for Family : 38 yrs
Mary M Legg : Assistant in Business : 36 yrs
Emily J Bowyer : 10 yrs
Matilda J Hill : 2 yrs
1881 Census
Elizabeth Hill : 47 yrs
Matilda : 12 yrs
1891 Census
Victoria Pier Toll House
William Henry Morgan : Pier Master : 53 yrs
Louisa : 47 yrs
Louisa M : 23 yrs
Fanny : 16 yrs
Harry : 11 yrs
Kelli : 7 yrs
Arthur: 7 yrs
Frank : 4 yrs
Albert : 2 yrs
1901 Census
Henry Burn : Tobacconist (Manager) : 46 yrs
Mary A : 39 yrs
Henry W : Clerk (Auctioneers) : 19 yrs
Florence : Dressmaker’s Assistant : 16 yrs
Leonard G : 10 yrs
1911 Census
W J Cottrell : Licensed Waterman : 47 yrs
E A : 35 yrs
N J : 9 yrs
A R : 1 yr
71 High Street
Hampshire Telegraph : Monday 6 June 1831
71 High Street - To the Nobility, gentry, &c., of Portsmouth and its surrounding neighbourhood, W J Hay takes this opportunity of returning his sincere thanks for the extensive and liberal patronage which they have conferred on him during his establishment of business, and begs leave to acquaint them he has now completed his chemical laboratory, and as every article will now be made on the premises, and under his own personal attention,can assure them of procuring every chemical preparation genuine, and on the most advantageous terms. Patent Medicines, Perfumery &c..
NB - Articles procured from his establishment are labelled, and have the address of W J Hay, Chemist, upon them.
Hampshire Telegraph : Monday 16 March 1840
To Let - Apartments situated No 71 High Street; enquire of Mr Campbell, Resident Dentist, who has removed to 133 High street. late the residence of J Howard Esq., Town Clerk
1861 Census
John R Wilson : Staff Sgt, Suffolk Artillery Militia : 39 yrs
Sarah : 28 yrs
Emily Kate : 5 yrs
Fanny : 4 yrs
John R : 2 yrs
Annie G : 2 months
Charlotte : Dressmaker : 37 yrs
1871 Census
William Hooper : Book Binder, Bookseller : 53 yrs
Caroline Witcher : 32 yrs
Joseph J : Apprentice to Book Binder : 18 yrs
1881 Census
George Cook : Tailor & Outfitter : 46 yrs
James : Tailor : 18 yrs
Roxina : 10 yrs
Netta : 7 yrs
Sarah Silverthorne : Governess : 21 yrs
1891 Census
John Joliffe : Pork Butcher : 53 yrs
Emily : 52 yrs
George R : Sgt Royal Artillery : 29 yrs
Laura : Shop Woman : 20 yrs
Ada B : 12 yrs
1901 Census
Emily Joliffe : Butcher’s Shopkeeper : 62 yrs
Laura Camp : 30 yrs
Ada Joliffe : Clerk (Business) : 22 yrs
Eva Camp : 7 yrs
Richard Watson : Superintendent (Baths) : 41 yrs
Alice S : Matron (Baths) : 36 yrs
1911 Census
Thomas Henry Sykes : Newsagent : 32 yrs
Jane E : 33 yrs
Dorothy A P Mitchell : 9 yrs
Thomas C W Sykes : 2 yrs
Annie E Silvester : 39 yrs
Florence Taylor : Servant : 14 yrs
72 High Street
William Wilkes : 1816
Returns his sincere thanks to his friends in the Navy, and the public in general, for the very liberal support he has experienced : and begs to inform them that it is his intention to quit business, and that the whole of his extensive stock of ironmongery, cutlery, braziery, oils, glass, earthen-ware, &c will be disposed of at or under prime cost. The house, and old established trade to let. All persons having any claim or demand, are requested to send in their accounts, that they may be adjusted, and all persons indebted are requested to pay the same.
Monday 13 October 1817
Waterloo House
Sutton and Stone respectfully inform their friends and the public, that the above premises will be opened on Thursday next, the 16th inst, with an extensive and fashionable assortment of linen drapery, haberdashery, hosiery, lace and furs, the whole of which are just purchased for cash, and will be sold at a very small profit, as they are determined to make it a cheap ready money warehouse. Bath cloaks in great variety.
Hampshire Chronicle : Monday 20 November 1820
Waterloo House : Winter Fashions
Sutton & Stone respectfully announce a second delivery of winter fashions, which they are now selling for ready money, at very reduced prices. Navy blue ladies cloth, so much for its beauty and colour; furs, from the most eminent importers, consisting of muffs and tippets, with flounces to match, finished in the very first style, and at prices never before heard of ; one hundred pieces of cottage stuffs, from one shilling per yard ; about twenty pieces of coloured bombazine, calculated for strong wear, only eighteen pence ; poplins and tabinets ; figured lustrings for handsome pelisses and superior evening dresses, rich and dark blue silk velvet ; cloth mantles, from five shillings each ; a variety of silk scarves and shawls, an imitation of India ; a few of a novel description, manufactured from the Lapland seal, combining warmth and softness with elegance of appearance, only to be had at their house.
Witney blankets, furniture dimity, counterpanes, and Marseilles quilts, as usual, at the wholesale price.
No 72, at the end of High Street, towards the Isle of Wight, Nov 18, 1820
Hampshire Chronicle : Monday 14 April 1823
Waterloo House : Spring Fashions
Sutton and Stone are introducing a very fashionable striped spring silk, twenty four shillings the dress; rich silks also in every shade of colour; a very beautiful white figured hymeneal Gros de Naples, much admired for its elegance and taste of pattern; Chintz Muslin, in variegated colours, for the present season; most superb robes and dresses in Moravian Work, of a very superior description, in book, Mull and Jaconet Muslin; worked trimmings and flounces, in great variety; handsome ribbons, silk handkerchiefs, gloves, and stockings; several thousand yards of thread lace, in remnants, at half price.
Families furnishing will do well to purchase at their house, having at this time an unrivalled assortment in every description of article, calculated for domestic purposes ; four bales of very handsome couterpanes and Marseilles Quilts of all sizes, particularly cheap; table linen in general abundance; sheeting of every kind, such as they can warrant; furniture dimity in bold patterns, and of the wide width; blankets; several pieces of carpeting, in small patterns, of the very best quality; two hundred pieces of Nankin left, worth seven shillings, selling at four and sixpence; parasols in new make, good and cheap.
Their profit being so very small, the whole must be sold for ready money
Two doors from the New Semaphore, No 72, at the end of High Street, towards the Isle of Wight.
Hampshire Telegraph : Monday 1 February 1830
Died : On Sunday last, Mrs Sutton, mother of Mr R Sutton, Draper, High Street
1871 Census
John Latter : Upholsterer, emp 1 man & 1 lad : 52 yrs
Caroline : 49 yrs
George J : Upholsterer’s Apprentice : 19 yrs
Lewis A : Upholsterer’s Apprentice : 18 yrs
Augustus : 16 yrs
Francis : 13 yrs
Harriett J : 11 yrs
Matilda Dugdall : Teacher of Music : 51 yrs
Harriett : 37 yrs
1891 Census
Richard W Beale : Lloyd’s Shipping Agent : 49 yrs
Marian H ; 23 yrs
Rich J W : Shipping Clerk : 22 yrs
Henry M : Bank Clerk : 17 yrs
William H : Shipping Clerk : 16 yrs
Tom : 11 yrs
Mary C : Domestic Assistant : 58 yrs
1901 Census
Richard W Beale : Lloyd’s Agent & General Shipping Agent : 59 yrs
Cecelia R : 33 yrs
Marian H D : 33 yrs
Tom : House Carpenter : 21 yrs
Charles J : 3 yrs
Mary C : 67 yrs
Clara L V Duke : Housemaid : 18 yrs
1911 Census
Richard Ward Beale : Lloyd’s Shipping Agent : 69 yrs
Celia Ruth : 44 yrs
Marian Herdenarsh : 44 yrs
Tom : House Carpenter : 32 yrs
Charles John : 13 yrs
Mary Charlotte : 81 yrs
Eliza Lawrence : General Servant : 16 yrs
73 High Street
1851 Census
Maria Bubb : 55 yrs
Maria : Milliner : 30 yrs
Amelia : Milliner : 28 yrs
Mary : Governess : 26 yrs
Henry : 25 yrs
William : Builder : 24 yrs
Elizabeth : 22 yrs
Thomas : Apprentice : 16 yrs
Ann Salter : Charwoman : 66 yrs
William Tyhurst : Mariner : 38 yrs
Ann Wright : Glass & China Dealer : 45 yrs
1861 Census
William Bubb : Carpenter & China Man, emp 3men & 2 boys : 31 yrs
Maria : 29 yrs
Eliza North : 13 yrs
Portsmouth Times and Naval Gazette : Saturday 1 June 1861
Under Deed of Assignment for the benefit of the Creditors
Marvin & King are instructed by the Assignee of Mr W Bubb, China and Glass Merchant, to sell by auction, on the premises on Thursday and Friday, June 6th and 7th, 1861, commencing each day at 12 o’clock punctually, the whole of the stock in trade, comprising handsome stone china dinner and dessert services, Worcester and Staffordshire china dessert, breakfast, tea, coffee and dejeneur services, sets of jugs, toilet services, ornamental items in groups, vases, &c fashionable cut glass in decanters, water carafes, water and claret jugs, tumblers, goblets, champagne and other wine glasses,, and numerous articles forming the stock of a china and glass merchant.
May be viewed on the morning of sale, when catalogues may be had on the premises, or of the Auctioneers, 148 Queen Street, Portsea.
1871 Census
James Norris : Cook & Pastry Cook : 31 yrs
Eliza : 27 yrs
James : 4 yrs
Eliza : 3 yrs
Mary Ann : 1 yr
James Chapel : Porter to Pastry Cook : 18 yrs
Emma Grant : Nursemaid : 13 yrs
Edward Tesler : Chelsea Pensioner : 50 yrs
Ann : Charwoman : 40 yrs
Alice : 11 yrs
Robert : Organ Builder : 47 yrs
Mark Noble : Organ Builder : 53 yrs
Raymond North : general Clerk : 25 yrs
Edmund Chain : 16 yrs
Bailey Ralph : : General Clerk : 29 yrs
Saturday 5th January 1878 - Portsmouth Evening News
Norris’s Old Established Hotel
Comfort and Economy at NORRIS’S
Old Established hotel and dining rooms near the Portsmouth Pier - 73 High Street, Portsmouth
Caterer for public dinners, teas and suppers &c
James Norris having taken the old established hotel in the High Street, for many years known as the United Service Hotel but more recently called the Grosvenor, and the house having been thoroughly repaired and renovated, he begs to inform his friends and the public generally that he intends shortly to open the same, under an entirely new system of management.
1881 Census
Henry Tipping : Engineer & Ship Builder : 41 yrs
Caroline : 33 yrs
Henry : 13 yrs
Caroline : 11 yrs
Ada : 5 yrs
Lillian : 3 yrs
Arthur : 1 yr
Harriet Evans : General servant : 17 yrs
1891 Census
Warrant Officers’ Club House
Frederick W Harding : Army warrant Officer : 33 yrs
Eliza : 34 yrs
William F : 7 yrs
Mary : 6 yrs
Christopher H : 4 yrs
Kathleen F : 2 yrs
Jane Noonan : 17 yrs
1901 Census
Alma V Tavanyar : 33 yrs
Alma : 11 yrs
Mabel : 9 yrs
Edward : 6 yrs
Lionel : 2 yrs
Rosina A Percival : 28 yrs
Ethel M : 2 months
Herbert R King : Baker’s Assistant : 15 yrs
Kate Heath : 31 yrs
John : 12 yrs
Linda : 9 yrs
Agnes : 6 yrs
Elizabeth Small : 60 yrs
1911 Census
Alfred henry Dromgoole : Collector, HM Taxes & Excise : 49 yrs
Emma Granfield : 53 yrs
Elizabeth Louisa Stock : General Servant : 30 yrs
74 High Street
Monday 16 January 1804
Meredith
Woollen and linen draper, tailor, haberdasher, hosier, slop seller, hatter, paceman, glover.
Respectfully begs to inform the gentlemen of the navy, army, his friends etc, he has entered in the hat line, and that he has just received from the manufacturers a large assortment of choice and fashionable beavers, of every description , which he is enabled to tender on the most reasonable terms, and can warrant them for neatness and durability.
Monday 1 September 1817
Wanted, an apprentice, to a grocer and tallow-chandler.
For particulars, enquire Mr S Mills, 74 High Street
Hampshire Chronicle : Monday 4 March 1822
Coals : W B Watson, No 74 High Street, has now delivering at the Quay - a good and rubbly cargo of Russell’s High Main Coals, at 34s per Chaldron, for ready money. They will be four or five days delivering
Monday 12 December 1825
Book, Stationery, Music and Navigation Warehouse
Samuel Mills, is taking leave of the inhabitants of Portsmouth and neighbourhood, expresses his grateful thanks to his friends and the public for the many favours they have conferred on him during a period of 30 years. Having engaged in another concern in London, he begs to announce that he has disposed of his stock and business in Portsmouth to Mr D B Price, whom a long acquaintance enables him to recommend with the fullest confidence for a continuance of the patronage with which he has himself been so long honoured.
D B Price feels it his duty, in the first place, to express his grateful sense of the favours conferred on him during the time he has been engaged, solely in the printing business in St Thomas’ Street. He purposes in a few days to remove his stock of types and machinery to 74 High Street and trust that he shall be enabled to execute the orders of his friends and the public with the same care and punctuality which have so often been honoured with their approbation. He most respectfully solicits from the highly respectable and numerous customers of Mr Mills continuance of their patronage, assuring them that no exertion shall be spared to merit their favours by attention, fidelity and promptitude.
DBP in order to fulfil engagements into which he has entered with Mr Mills, for payment in cash at an early period, has determined to offer the principal part of the present stock at very reduced prices. 2000 volumes of books, including about 100 on Anatomy and medicine, and a variety of miscellaneous articles, are now ready for inspection.
Saturday 10th May, 1845, Hampshire Telegraph
(opp the Grand Parade) : J. Treakell : Music Warehouse
1851 Census
Joseph Treakell : Music Seller : 50 yrs
Mary : 57 yrs
Emma : : 30 yrs
Sarah : 29 yrs
James : Shop Man : 28 yrs
Margaret : 26 yrs
Deliah : 24 yrs
Joseph J : Music Teacher : 37 yrs
Mary Stubbington : General Servant : 22 yrs
1861 Census
Samuel Soloman : General Dealer : 46 yrs
Julia : 31 yrs
Celia : 9 yrs
Moses : 4 yrs
Frances J : 4 yrs
Rosetta L : 10 months
Thomas Brocklebank : Ship’s Smith : 36 yrs
Mary : 38 yrs
1871 Census
Sarah Spencer : Optician : 14 yrs
Henry Mills : Retired Grocer : 54 yrs
Samuel J Browning : Optician, Unemployed : 47 yrs
Sarah : 48 yrs
Sarah : 15 yrs
Elizabeth : 12 yrs
James : 9 yrs
Mary Ann Makell : General Servant : 39 yrs
1881 Census
Samuel Browning : Optician : 57 yrs
Sarah : 52 yrs
Sarah : 25 yrs
Elizabeth : 22 yrs
Spencer : Optician : 19 yrs
Henry Mills : Retired Grocer : 64 yrs
Mary Nicholls : General Servant : 39 yrs
Portsmouth Evening News : Thursday 23 July 1885
Defective sight tested and accurately suited at Spencer & Co’s (only practical optician in the borough), 74 High Street, (opposite the Grand Parade). Field Glasses, telescopes &c.. Established 90 years.
Monday 6 December 1886
Spencer and Co : Opticians
Failing and defective eyesight tested and accurately suited at the only Practical Opticians in the Borough. Spencer and Co, 74 High Street - opposite Grand Parade.
Portsmouth Evening News : Tuesday 1 April 1890
Wanted : Girl (respectable) as general Servant. Good character indispensable.
74 High Street
1891 Census
Samuel J Browning : Nautical Instrument Maker : 69 yrs
Sarah F : Optician, Brass Pounder : 62 yrs
Sarah F : 35 yrs
Elizabeth : 32 yrs
Spencer : Optician, Brass Pounder : 29 yrs
Laura Fever : General servant : 17 yrs
Portsmouth Evening News : Thursday 5 March 1891
Failing or defective eyesight tested and accurately suited. Spencer & Co only practical Opticians in Portsmouth. Established 80 years. 74 High Street (four doors from Victoria Pier).
Portsmouth Evening News : Saturday 27 February 1892
Wanted - A girl (respectable) as general servant. 74 High Street
1901 Census
Sarah F Browning : Shop Keeper (Opticians) : 72 yrs
Spencer : Optician : 39 yrs
Elizabeth : 42 yrs
Mary Nichols : Servant : 59 yrs
Sarah F Bartlett : 45 yrs
Chelsea H : 6 yrs.
1911 Census
Elizabeth Browning : Optician : 52 yrs
Spencer : Optician : 49 yrs
75 High Street
Portsmouth News and Naval Gazette : Saturday 2 August 1851
Piano Fortes
At J Treakell’s Music Warehouse, 75 High Street, opposite the Grand Parade
Elegant in Mahogany, rosewood or zebra, 6.75 octave (warranted) ... 25 guineas
Highly finished mahogany, rosewood or zebra 6.75 octave (warranted) ... 28 to 35 guineas
A large assortment of second-hand cottage, square, and square pianos, varying from 10 to 20 guineas
The best harp, guitar and violin strings; and all the newest music as soon as published.
Agents for Wheatstone’s Patent Concertina, and concertina music.
Lessons given on the piano forte and singing.
1861 Census
Joseph Treakell : Music Seller : 70 yrs
James : 37 yrs
Dinah : 34 yrs
Eliza Edwards : 28 yrs
Maria Oxford : 21 yrs
1871 Census
Joseph Treakel : Music Seller : 80 yrs
James : 47 yrs
Dinah Creber : 45 yrs
James : Pianoforte Tuner : 42 yrs
Elizabeth Allford : Servat : 22 yrs
Hampshire Telegraph : Saturday 3 August 1878
Treakell and Creber’s
new and choice stock of Painofortes, American organs, and Harmoniums by all the best makers, fron 18 to 200 guineas. For sale, hire or on instalment principle. Tuners from Broadwood’s and Collard’s. “Sterndale House” 75 High Street, Portsmouth
1881 Census
James Cleall : Music Seller : 23 yrs
James Creber : Painoforte Maker : 52 yrs
Emma : 34 yrs
Lely : 13 yrs
Emily Harris : General Servant : 51 yrs
Joseph Treakell : Retired Shipwright : 90 yrs
James Treakell : Gentleman : 58 yrs
Portsmouth Evening News : Monday 25 February 1889
One penny each - 1,565 pieces of slightly soiled songs, pieces, duetts, etc.. Treakell, Creber & Storry, 75 High Street
1891 Census
Emma Creber : 34 yrs
Lely : 13 yrs
William Livesay : Colonel, Infantry : 52 yrs
Portsmouth Evening News : Wednesday 25 April 1894
Comfortable, large, nicely furnished apartments, close to sea, in best of sandown, IoW. Terms very moderate. For terms and particulars, 75 High Street.
1901 Census
Georgina M White : Own Means : 76 yrs
Bertha Hana : 23 yrs
Alice Chandler : Parlourmaid : 24 yrs
Florence White : Cook : 20 yrs
1911 Census
Emily West : Useful Maid : 23 yrs
Florence Farray : Parlourmaid : 28 yrs
76 High Street
Hampshire Telegraph : Saturday 12 June 1847
A considerable quantity of paper hangings, advertised for sale by auction, not being sold, Mr J N Robinson is directed by the owner to offer them by private sale at a very low price. To be viewed at the Auctioneer’s Office, 76 High Street.
1851 Census
John Day : Linen Draper : 36 yrs
Sarah : 37 yrs
William Cakebread : Assistant in Shop : 24 yrs
Elizabeth Wilkins : General Servant
Anna Barnes : 3 yrs
Hampshire Telegraph : Saturday 3 November 1860
Preliminary Announcement to Brewers, Capitalists & Others
Mr G M Beck begs to announce that he is favored with instructions from the Executor of the late James Dabbs Esq, deceased, to sell by public auction, at his sale rooms, 176 Queen Street, on Thursday, November 22nd, 1860, at seven o’clock in the evening, in Lots, the following;
76 High Street
1861 Census
Mary Ayre : 25 yrs
Maria Gray : 24 yrs
Caroline F Bigsby : Governess : 46 yrs
1871 Census
Mark Westcott : 26 yrs
Emily : 23 yrs
George : 3 yrs
Edgar : 2 yrs
Elizabeth Rottenbury : Annuitant : 56 yrs
Adelaide Cooper : Servant : 16 yrs
1881 Census
William Kerby : Tobacconist : 61 yrs
Sophia : 60 yrs
Saturday 17 July 1886
£20 - Genuine - Confectioner’s and Tobacco business, doing good trade, Rent £22
For particulars apply 76 High Street
1891 Census
Henry Noble : Confectioner : 58 yrs
Mary : 58 yrs
Henry : 26 yrs
Edward : Wheelwright : 23 yrs
1901 Census
Thomas B H Long : Steam Engine Maker & Fitter : 28 yrs
Ann E : Confectioner, Shopkeeper : 29 yrs
Richard B : 1 yr
Charlotte Matthews : Mother’s Help : 25 yrs
1911 Census
Thomas Bradley Haywood Long : Flour & Dry Goods Packer : 37 yrs
Richard Bradley : 11 yrs
Alice Jane Pervin : Housekeeper : 38 yrs
77 High Street
1851 Census
William Grossmith : Pastry Cook : 55 yrs
Frederick : Pastry Cook : 25 yrs
William Day : Journeyman : 42 yrs
James Paul : Apprentice : 20 yrs
Mary Green : Shop Woman : 59 yrs
Fanny Hearn : General Servant : 24 yrs
Hampshire Telegraph : Saturday 3 November 1860
Preliminary Announcement to Brewers, Capitalists & Others
Mr G M Beck begs to announce that he is favored with instructions from the Executor of the late James Dabbs Esq, deceased, to sell by public auction, at his sale rooms, 176 Queen Street, on Thursday, November 22nd, 1860, at seven o’clock in the evening, in Lots, the following;
77 High Street
1861 Census
George W Vick : Tailor, emp 1 man & 1 boy : 34 yrs
Annie : 31 yrs
Emma F : 9 yrs
Louisa Rodley : House Servant : 19 yrs
1871 Census
Unoccupied
1881 Census
George Harnes : House Decorator : 31 yrs
Kesia : 29 yrs
Harry : Painter’s Apprentice : 17 yrs
Edith Loker : 9 yrs
James Snape : Egg Merchant : 32 yrs
Julia : 24 yrs
George Trace : Saddler : 22 yrs
1891 Census
George F Robinson : Book Binder : 29 yrs
Charlotte : 60 yrs
Margaret : Book Sewer : 36 yrs
1901 Census
George F Robinson : Bookbinder : 36 yrs
Mary : Housekeeper : 47 yrs
1911 Census
George Forrest Robinson : Bookbinder : 46 yrs
Margaret : Housekeeper : 57 yrs
78 High Street
1861 Census
Roderick Fraser : Outfitter : 49 yrs
Sophia : 19 yrs
Roderick : 15 yrs
Ellen Bury : 17 yrs
1881 Census
Roderick Fraser : Outfitter : 69 yrs
Roderick : Outfitter : 34 yrs
Emma Wallinger : General Servant : 17 yrs
1901 Census
James Cleall : Musician : 36 yrs
Hugh Turner : Seaman, RN : 19 yrs
Rhoda Ford : 39 yrs
78 & 79 High Street
Hampshire Telegraph : Saturday 15 May 1847
Wanted : A respectable young man, with exceptional references. Apply to Mr Coles, Linen Draper, High Street.
1851 Census
Caleb Coles : Mercer : 44 yrs
Sarah : 41 yrs
Anna B : 19 yrs
John : Shop Man : 17 yrs
Bertha : 1 yr
Frederick Bicknel : Apprentice : 13 yrs
Sarah Robbins : Nursemaid : 24 yrs
Priscilla Austen : Housemaid : 21 yrs
Caroline Chase : Cook : 27 yrs
Hampshire Telegraph : Saturday 24 July 1858
To be let, with immediate possession, those desirable business premises, Nos 78 and 79 High Street. For particulars, enquire at Mr Dudley’s, High Street
Portsmouth Times and Naval Gazette : Saturday 27 May 1865
King & King ( late Marvin & King) are instructed to sell by auction on Wednesday, 7th June, 1865, at seven o’clock in the evening - those important business premises, 78 and 79 High Street, in the occupation of Messrs Fraser and Davis, and the excellent family residence, 4 Grand Parade, occupied by Mr H Garratt
1871 Census
78 & 79
Roderic Fraser : Naval Outfitter : 58 yrs
Roderic : Naval Oufitter : 25 yrs
Roderic : 4 yrs
Ruth Ridge : Servant : 27 yrs
Elizabeth Longford : Servant : 13 yrs
1911 Census
78 & 79 High Street - Victoria Nurses Home
Helen Grant Cumming : Matron : 38 yrs
Annie Budd : Assistant Matron : 32 yrs
Lily Thompson Fitzgerald : Nurse : 38 yrs
Antoinette Christine Van Ham : Nurse : 25 yrs
Emma Bentling : Nurse : 28 yrs
Susana Eveleen Malone : Nurse : 24 yrs
Emily Stuart : Nurse : 35 yrs
Vinnie Clarke : Nurse ; 25 yrs
Mary Jane Pickerel : Nurse : 32 yrs
Blanche Bowden : Cook : 29 yrs
Edith Jane Jerrard : Housemaid ; 22 yrs
Hilda Louisa Sadler : Kitchenmaid : 20 yrs
79 High Street
1891 Census
Robert W Hooker : Police Constable : 40 yrs
Emma H : 44 yrs
Edith A : 13 yrs
1901 Census
Unoccupied
80 High Street
Hampshire Chronicle : Monday 13 April 1818
“No 80 High Street”
Erasmus Jackson respectfully begs leave to inform his friends, and the public in general, that he intends enlarging his present premises, to afford greater and more convenient facilities to conduct his business, he has removed to the shop lately occupied by Mr Belam, where he intends selling off the whole of stock at reduced prices, the greater part of which will offered at prime cost.
Among the variety of other articles, the following will be offered at prices which it is presumed will be found worthy the attention of the public;
Pelisse Cloths, printed calicoes and cambrics, furnitures, furniture and other dimities, bed ticks, sheetings, blankets, couterpains and quilts, lustres and poplins,, bombazeens & bomanets, silk shawls & scarves, a large assortment of thread laces, irish linen and home bleached cloths, dipaer and damask table linen, muslins of evert description &c..
EJ requests to observe that he intends keeping, as usual, a variety of fancy articles suited to the spring trade, so that his friends will find themselves as well accommodated during the sale, as at any other period. But as it is his intention to open his new shop with a new and fashionable assortment of goods, the whole present stock, whether new or otherwise, will be offered at the lowest price possible
1851 Census
Joseph Dudley : Silversmith : 70 yrs
Ann Elizabeth : 65 yrs
Sam Edmund : Silversmith : 30 yrs
Janrack : 37 yrs
G Martha : 25 yrs
Mary Ann Neate : 45 yrs
Harriet Watts : General Servant : 28 yrs
Jane Adams : General Servant : 24 yrs
1861 Census
Joseph Dudley : Silversmith : 75 yrs
Ann Elizabeth : 70 yrs
Eliza Jane : 40 yrs
Georgina : 31 yrs
Louisa Hughes : 36 yrs
Constance : 11 yrs
Dudley : 4 yrs
Eliza Fayser : Cook : 26 yrs
1871 Census
Samuel Dudley : Silversmith & Jeweller : 51 yrs
Elizabeth : 47 yrs
Edmund : Apprentice : 15 yrs
Florence : 14 yrs
Alice M : 11 yrs
Eleanor A Wardle : 21 yrs
Mary M Pratt : General Servant : 18 yrs
Benjamin Dudley : Jeweller : 44 yrs
1881 Census
Samuel Dudley : Jeweller : 61 yrs
Elizabeth : 57 yrs
Marcia Newman : General Servant : 25 yrs
1891 Census
James Grant Dudley : Watchmaker & Insurance Agent : 35 yrs
Amy Alice : 10 yrs
Emma Jarret : Domestic Servant : 18 yrs
1901 Census
George Gutteridge : Retired Farmer : 64 yrs
Maria : 63 yrs
George H : Sea Estate Agent : 29 yrs
Sidney : Carriage Builder : 22 yrs
Kate Hatcher : Servant : 30 yrs
1911 Census
Eunice Elkins : Private Means : 74 yrs
Rose : Private means : 34 yrs
81 High Street
Hampshire Telegraph : Monday 16 March 1840
To Parents and Guardians : Wanted, a youth of good education and obliging manners, as an apprentice in a general Draper’s shop (the son of a Dissenter will be preferred) he will be treated in every respect as one of the family - premium thirty Guineas - Letters addressed to G S, prepaid, to the care of Mr Harrison, 81 High Street, will be duly attended to.
Hampshire Telegraph : Monday 11 January 1841
Printed by William Harrison, for the proprietors, at his residence, 81 High Street, Portsmouth, and published by him at the same place.
Hampshire Telegraph : Saturday 3 November 1860
Steam Printing Establishment
Hampshire Telegraph Office
81 High Street
Harrison & Co now possess every facility for executing by Steam Power, printing of every description, in any quantity, and at the shortest notice
1861 Census
Alicia Harrison : Newspaper Proprietor, emp 18 hands : 64 yrs
Hannah H : 37 yrs
Henry A : Pay Clerk, H M Dockyard : 30 yrs
Jemima Evesit : Housemaid : 32 yrs
Eliza Shelley : Cook : 32 yrs
1871 Census
Alicia Harrison : Proprietor of Newspaper : 75 yrs
Harriett : 47 yrs
Sarah Andrews : General Servant : 42 yrs
Sarah Andrews : General Servant : 39 yrs
Jessie : General Servant : 13 yrs
1891 Census
Herbert Hoare : Brewer’s Manager : 36 yrs
Mary : 29 yrs
Alice M : 3 yrs
Cecil : 11 months
Rose Hart : Nursemaid : 16 yrs
1901 Census
Herbert K Hoare : Brewer : 46 yrs
Mary J : 37 yrs
Alice M : 12 yrs
Dennis J : 9 yrs
Eva D : 8 yrs
Grace : 7 yrs
Horace : 5 yrs
Lillian : 11 months
1911 Census
Herbert Hoare : Brewer : 56 yrs
Mary Jennie : 47 yrs
Alice May : 22 yrs
Cecil Roderick : Engineer, Sub Lieutenant, RN : 20 yrs
Eva Daisy : 18 yrs
Grace : 16 yrs
Horace : 14 yrs
Lilian : 10 yrs
Olive Kate : 4 yrs
82 High Street
Hampshire Telegraph : Saturday 29 September 1849
Mr J Mosely, Surgeon Dentist, acquaints his patients and the public generally of Portsmouth, the Isle of Wight, and vicinities, that he will be in attendance on Thursday next, the 4th ins., and may be consulted at Mr Lemmon’s, 82 High Street.
1851 Census
David Lemmon : Ironmonger : 50 yrs
Charlotte : 45 yrs
David William : Ironmonger : 25 yrs
Charles Graves : Captain, 82nd Regt : 33 yrs
Emily : 30 yrs
Adelaide North : 20 yrs
Charlotte Gloyn : General Servant : 24 yrs
1861 Census
Thomasin Elkins : Proprietor of Houses : 63 yrs
Matilda : 34 yrs
Edna : 32 yrs
Julian : Naturalist : 30 yrs
Charles : 29 yrs
Eunice : 30 yrs
Albert G : 4 yrs
Robert R : 3 months
Sarah : 28 yrs
Alice F T : 4 yrs
Ada F L : 14 months
1871 Census
Thomasin Elkins : Exclusively Shop Keeper : 75 yrs
Matilda : 45 yrs
Edna : 43 yrs
Julian : 42 yrs
Horatio C : Jeweller & Tobacconist : 40 yrs
Emma : 40 yrs
Albert G : 13 yrs
Thompson E : 8 yrs
Minnie R : 4 yrs
1881 Census
Horatio Elkins : Antique Dealer : 48 yrs
Eunice : 47 yrs
Albert : 24 yrs
Emma : 18 yrs
Minnie : 15 yrs
Matilda : Antique China Dealer
1891 Census
Richard E Ireland : Dealer in Antique China : 61 yrs
Edna : 56 yrs
Matilda Elkins ; 55 yrs
Eunice : 59 yrs
Albert G : Imbecile : 34 yrs
Thomas E : 29 yrs
Minnie R : 29 yrs
1901 Census
Richard Ireland : Dealer in China : 88 yrs
Emma Elkins : 70 yrs
George : 40 yrs
Emma : 30 yrs
Rose : 25 yrs
1911 Census
William Fittisene Sells : Lieutenant, RN : 30 yrs
Alice Augusta : 40 yrs
Barbara Adela Bayley : 20 yrs
Edith Sylvia : 17 yrs
William Anthony : 2 yrs
Olive : 2 yrs
Ellen Morgan : Cook : 67 yrs
Gertrude Prestridge : Parlourmaid : 31 yrs
Jane Brookbanks : Housemaid : 31 yrs
Ethel Peacock : Nurse : 24 yrs