Wife Elizabeth (46) plus 3 working children + 2 school children + 1 Lodger + 1 servant at home. No numbers stated on the early census but seems to be at this number along the street. (According to "Old Redditch Pubs" by Alan Foxall Thomas Crow was the Beer Seller here and these premises were known as the "Turf Tavern" and Thomas was the licensee 1850-1860 and then it became the "Fleece Inn"). Thomas died in 1861.
Wife Catherine (43) + 1 niece Catherine Ballard (16) + 1 servant + 4 travellers at home. On the 1871 census James and Catherine were staying with their niece Catherine Ballard, Innkeeper of the Fleece Inn and they were in Evesham Street. James was the licensee of the Fleece Inn 1861-1864.
Catherine had her Uncle James Oakley (47) Farmer who was the licensee of the "Fleece Inn" 1861-1864 + Aunt + 2 cousins at home. Catherine was the licensee 1868-1871. She was living with her Uncle James on the 1881 census at 37 Evesham Street.
Wife Emma (31) plus 6 children + 1 servant + 1 boarder at home. On the 1871 census he was a Farmer and Beerhouse Keeper at the "Royal George", 29 Evesham Street. John was the licensee of the "Fleece" in 1881. On the 1891 census he was the Inn Keeper of the Rose & Crown in Feckenham and was the licensee there 1889-1892 and then at the "Crown Inn", Astwood Bank 1893-1894. In the 1880, 1884, Kelly's Directory he was Farmer at "Round Radford" Alvechurch. John died 11th January 1899 and was living at the "Rose & Crown", Portway, Solihul.
Wife Lizzie (30) plus 2 small children + 1 servant at home. John was the licensee of the "Fleece Inn" in 1892. On the 1881 census John was classed as Farmer of 343 acres Thorpe Lodge Southwell, Nottinghamshire.
John William Lewis Bennett
Wife Catherine (Pinfield) (55) plus 1 daughter a dressmaker at home. John was the licensee of the "Fleece Inn" 1896-1903. On the 1911 census they lived Unicorn Hill, Redditch and John was a Bacon Factor.
William Richardson was the licensee of the "Fleece Inn" 1912-1921.
In the 1940 Kelly's Directory The Fleece was at 63 Evesham Street. David was the licensee of the "Fleece Inn" 1922-1926.
In the 1936 Kelly's Directory it was at the same address. In the Midland Counties Trade Directoty for 1948/49 A. Turner was classed under Ladies & Children's Outfitters, 59 Evesham Street.
Ladies Hosiery, Lingerie & Wools