[This document comes from Helena Wojtczak's English Social History: Women of Nineteenth-Century Hastings and St.Leonards. An Illustrated Historical Miscellany, which the author has graciously shared with readers of the Victorian Web. Click on the title to obtain the original site, which has additional information.]
Female Publicans, 1766-1840
The George, 120 All Saints' street
- Mary Nabbs, The Royal Oak, Oak Hill (StL) (1766-69)
- Ann Thwaites, The Anchor, 13 George street, from 1800
- Mrs Sarah Smith, The Crown, Courthouse street, 1815-1832 (A coaching inn, with stabling up to the Tackleway. "Mrs Smith deserves particular commendation and support, as being the first (with a family of seven children) to add to the accommodation of Visitors by every species of comfort, neatness, and domestic attention." Powell's Guide, 1831)
- Mrs Elizabeth Bell, The Cutter, 12 East-parade (1824-1838)
- Ann Sargent, The Royal Oak, Castle street (1825)
- Mrs James Mann, The Jolly Fisherman (no date)
Female Publicans, 1840s
- Mrs Rebecca Wood, The George, 120 All Saints' st (now a house) (b.1803, widow with two small sons, six lodgers, & two servants)
- Mrs Ann Hutchings, The Albert, 17-18 Undercliffe (St L) (now a house) (b.1806, widow with 3 small children)
- Miss Frances Burton, New Inn Beerhouse, Market place (124 All Saints' street?)
- Miss Mary Ballard, The Anchor, Mews road (StL)
- Miss Ellen Brasier, The Privateer, Wellington mews (until 1852)
- Mrs Maria Elphick, (no pub name) 25 Bourne street (b.1809, married, in business with husband)
- Mrs Sarah Gorring, The Wheatsheaf Inn, Bohemia terrace (until 1852) (extant) (b.1814, a widow one daughter & one servant)
- Miss Barbara Ticehurst, The Angel, 1, St Mary's terrace
- Miss Sheather, The Bull, Bulverhythe (until 1852) (extant)
The Bull is a seventeenth-century coaching inn built next to the ruins of St Mary Bulverhythe, a fifteenth-century church, on the main road between Hastings and Bexhill. It still exists.
Female Publicans, 1870s
- Mrs Mary Fairhall, Duke of York Hotel, Union road (StL) (closed)
- Mrs Philly Jenkins, The Tiger, Stonefield road(closed)
- Miss Harriet Perigo, White Lion, 7 St Michael's terrace (closed 1909)
- Mrs Jane Cox, The Dun Cow [or Horse?], Albion Terrace, Halton
- Mrs Elizabeth Palmer, The Norman Hotel, Norman road east (St L)
- Miss Elizabeth Payne, Terminus Hotel, Bopeep, West St Leonards(extant)
- Mrs Mary Heathfield, The Stag Inn, 15 All Saints' street(extant)
- Mrs Elizabeth Green, Green's Family and Commercial Hotel, Havelock road(closed)
- Miss Mary Semark, St Leonards Arms, 6 London road (St L)(closed)
- Frances Hope, The Forester's Arms beerhouse, 6 East-parade
- Elizabeth Cull, The Old House at Home Beerhouse, 44 All Saints street
- Mary Ann Ray, The Hastings Arms, 2 George street
- Mrs Charlotte Wenham, The Duke of Cornwall, Old Post Office-passage (joint licensee with husband)
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