Kentish Gazette, Tuesday 12 April 1791.

To be sold probably to the highest bidder, on Thursday the 28th day of this instant April, at three o'clock, at the "Ship Inn" in Dover, subject to such conditions as shall be then and they have produced.

A messuage or tenament now used as a public house in full trade, at Paddlesworth aforesaid, called the "Red Lion," with the stables, garden, and one piece of pasture land to the same adjoining, containing by estimation 1 acre, more or less, and now in the occupation of John Sims, tenant at will, at the annual rent of £7.

Hello,

My husband's grandfather was Victor William Hopper who is shown on his baby daughter's (Victoria Kathleen) birth/death certificates as: 'Occupation: of the "Red Lion Inn," Paddlesworth Elham, R.B. Daughter of Victor William Hopper Licensed Victualler'.

The certificates are dated 8th October 1929 and 10th October 1929 respectively.

The family clearly had a turbulent time and Victor died on 8th October 1930 (from Diabetes and bronchitis) in Augusta Gardens, Folkestone. His wife (Elizabeth Louisa) was pregnant when he died and Gordon (my husband's father) was born in Oswald Road, Dover in February 1931. We believe that their 10 year old daughter, Dorothy Louisa, was also living with them at the "Red Lion."

Evidently the family were no longer living in Paddlesworth by October 1930. We are really interested to find out when the family moved to Paddlesworth and when they moved away - presumably sometime late 1929 or early 1930.

Best wishes,

Carolyn and Clare Hopper.