I'm checking a transcription of the 1861 census of part of Sunderland for the Freecens project. I am having trouble deciphering the name of a pub. It looks like "Hosos Tavern" and has been transcribed as 'Horns Tavern'. Options include 'Hows Tavern' or 'Hoors Tavern'. The address is 164 High St and the innkeeper is Thomas Laws. Number 165 is the General Woolfe Tavern. Thirsty lot, Sunderland folk! Janice Toowoomba

----- Original Message ----- From: "janice swannell" <janices@twmba.net> To: <ENG-DUR-SUNDERLAND-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2004 4:06 PM Subject: [genealogy] [SUNDERLAND] sunderland pub > I'm checking a transcription of the 1861 census of part of Sunderland for > the Freecens project. I am having trouble deciphering the name of a pub. It > looks like "Hosos Tavern" and has been transcribed as 'Horns Tavern'. > Options include 'Hows Tavern' or 'Hoors Tavern'. > The address is 164 High St and the innkeeper is Thomas Laws. Number 165 is > the General Woolfe Tavern. > > Thirsty lot, Sunderland folk! > > Janice > Toowoomba Janice, I have bad news and good news... First the bad news: The 1881 census CDroms show the following : 164 High St. "Naval Reserve Arms" (so someone changed the name between 1861 and 1881) 165 High St. "General Woolf Hotel" 166 High St. "Waterloo Hotel" 171 High St. "Great Eastern Hotel" uninhabited Thirsty folk indeed, but...that portion of High St (East) is close to the docks, and the census also shows 120 vessels of various sizes in port at the time.....- Now the GOOD NEWS: http://www.historicaldirectories.org/ has the Slaters Commercial Directory of Durham Northumberland and Yorkshire 1855 available for online search (that might help with other transcription problems that you may have??). There, in the list of Taverns and Public Houses for Sunderland you will find "Horn, John D. Heslop, 164 High St." Same pub, different landlord.

PS. Kelly's Directory of Northumberland and Durham 1858 shows : Horns [no apostrophe] T.Laws 164 High St.