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My thanks go to Kent Libraries and Archives - Folkestone Library and also to the archive of the Folkestone Herald. For articles from the Folkestone Observer, my thanks go to the Kent Messenger Group. Southeastern Gazette articles are from UKPress Online, and Kentish Gazette articles are from the British Newspaper Archive. See links below.

Paul Skelton`s great site for research on pubs in Kent is also linked

Other sites which may be of interest are the Folkestone and District Local History Society, the Kent History Forum, Christine Warren`s fascinating site, Folkestone Then And Now, and Step Short, where I originally found the photo of the bomb-damaged former Langton`s Brewery, links also below.


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Saturday 11 June 2022

Fishing Boat, Radnor Street c1717 - 1846

Licensees
William Baker Listed 1717
Thomas Baker c1720 c1730s
Jacob Boxer c1740s c1750s
Jeffrey Hunt c1750s 1765
Richard Boxer 1765 1773
John Boxer 1773 1776 Also Three Tuns 1741-77
John Wittingham c1792
Thomas Boorn c1808 1815
Francis Boorn c1815 c1825
Isaac Whittingham Boorn c1825 c1830
Thomas Daniels c1830 c1835
Richard Boorn c1835 
George Johncock 1846 1846 Became Packet Boat (2)


Kentish Post 24-3-1759

To be sold to the highest bidder, at the sign of the Fishing Boat, in Folkestone, on Wednesday the 28th instant, by three o`clock in the afternoon, together or separate; all those five several messuages or tenements, four whereof adjoin together, with the yards, gardens, and backsides thereunto respectively belonging, situate, lying, and being at or near a certain place called Saffron Garden, in Eastbrook, in the town of Folkestone, in the county of Kent, and are now in the several tenures or occupations of Thomas Clark, Philip Filleers, John Boxer, and William Fagg. The said messuages have been built but a few years, are brick-built, very convenient, and in exceeding good repair.

For further particulars inquire of Hen. Jordan, Attorney at Law, in Folkestone.

Folkestone Sessions Books 1765 – 1779 & 1792 - 1811

General Sessions 29-4-1765

Before John Hague (Mayor), Mr. John Jordan, Mr. William Pope, Mr. Thomas Baker, Mr. Thomas Rolfe, and Mr. John Baker.

Neat Ladd, James Francklyn, Chas. Hill, Thos. Wilton, Ambrose Dadd, Ric Boxer, Widow Jeffery, Widow Gittens, Ric Beear, Mary Gittens, and Joseph Trevillon were fined at this Session 3/4 each for having false measures in their houses, which fines were paid into the hands of the Overseers of the Poor.

Neat Ladd, George; James Francklyn, Rose; Charles Hill, White Hart; Thomas Wilton, no record; Ambrose Dadd, Chequers; Richard Boxer, Fishing Boat; Widow Jeffery, Royal George; Widow Gittens, North Foreland; Richard Beear, Three Compasses; Mary Gittens, Privateer; Joseph Trevillon, Crown.

Folkestone Sessions Books 1765 – 1779 & 1792 - 1811

General Sessions 13-12-1808

Before Joseph Sladen (Mayor), Thomas Baker, John Castle and John Bateman.

Ordered that a certificate be made to the Excise for granting a licence to Thomas Boorn to keep a public house called the Fishing Boat in this town, pursuant to the 48 Geo. III, c 143.

 Kentish Chronicle 10-11-1815 & Kentish Gazette 10-11-1815 

Death: Nov. 5, Mr. Thomas Boorn, aged 36, of the Fishing Boat public house, Folkestone.

Dover Telegraph 1-8-1835, Kentish Gazette 11-8-1835

Auction Advertisement:

For Sale by Auction, by Mr. Major (by order of the Executors of the late Mr. Richard Boorn), at the sign of the Fishing Boat, in Folkestone, on Monday, the 17th day of August, 1835, at 5 o`clock in the afternoon.

Lot 3 All that well-accustomed public house (partly Freehold and partly Copyhold) called the Fishing Boat, situate in Radnor Street, in Folkestone, and now in the occupation of Mr. Richard Boorn.

To view the premises apply to Mr. David Major, Auctioneer, Folkestone; and for further particulars and conditions of sale (which may be had ten days prior to the sale) apply to him or Messrs. Shipdem and Ledger, Solicitors, Dover.
 

Marquis Of Wellington, (Old) High Street c1813 - 1836

Licensees

Henry Chapman Listed 1817   
Edward Earl c1826 1828 
Ann Earl 1828 1830
Joseph Earl 1830 1836 To Folkestone Lugger. Renamed Earl Grey

Kentish Chronicle 10-8-1819 

Advertisement extract:

Kent. Desirable freehold inns, public houses and other estates, which will be sold by auction sometime in the month of September next, unless previously disposed of by private contract:

Lot 7: All that messuage, tenement or public house called the Marquis of Wellington, situate in the town of Folkestone, in the possession of Henry Chapman, who has had notice to quit on the 5th of January next.

For particulars and to treat for the purchase of the estates, apply personally to Mr. Hodgson, or Mr. Richard Harrison, of Sandwich; Mr. Osborn, of Margate; or to Mr. Noakes, Solicitor, Sandwich.

9th August, 1819

Kentish Chronicle 7-10-1828 

Death: Oct. 3, at Ashford, aged 50 years, Mr. E. Earl, landlord of the Marquis of Wellington public house at Folkestone.

Note: New date

Kentish Chronicle 20-4-1830, Maidstone Gazette 20-4-1830

Marriage: April 10, at St. Mildred`s Church, Canterbury, Mr. Joseph Earl to Mrs. Ann Earl, landlady of the Marquis of Wellington, Folkestone.

Note: Seems to indicate that Ann Earl took over the Marquis of Wellington following the death of Edward Earl in 1828.

Maidstone Journal 20-4-1830 

Marriage: April 10, at St. Mildred`s Church, Canterbury, Mr. Joseph Earl to Mrs. Ann Earl, landlady of the Marquis of Wellington, Folkestone.

Note: Seems to indicate that Ann Earl took over the Marquis of Wellington following the death of Edward Earl in 1828.