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PUB LIST PUBLIC HOUSES Paul Skelton

Earliest 1853+

Staplehurst Hotel

Latest 1853-

 

Staplehurst

 

I have only found the one instance of this at present, and it being names a Hotel, I am not sure whether it had a drinks license. I also don't have an address at present.

 

Southeastern Gazette, 19 July 1853.

STAPLEHURST.

A melancholy case of suicide occurred at "Staplehurst Hotel" on Thursday, between twelve and one o’clock at noon. It appears that Mr. Richard Ashenden, the landlord of that house, had a business at Chatham, as a draper and tailor, but having: injured his head some time previous, by a fall from a chaise, it was thought a change would do him good, as he was never well long at a time, being in a nervous state for weeks and even months. On the day above mentioned a lodger heard groans proceeding from the deceased’s bed-room, when an alarm was given, and an entrance effected at the window with a ladder, when a horrible sight presented itself, deceased having cut his throat from ear to ear. The deceased was 44 years of age. and has left a wife and seven children. An inquest was held on the body on Saturday before W. T. Neve, Esq , coroner, when a verdict of "Temporary insanity" was returned.

 

 

LICENSEE LIST

ASHENDEN Richard to July/1853 dec'd

 

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