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Brewer Street
Deal
Only mention I have found of this pub was an advert in the Kentish
Gazette of February 20-24, 1770.
Cock-fighting at the Two Brewers in Deal, February 26, 1770.
Further research shows it mentioned in Brewer Street from 1804 from
archives held at Deal library.
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Kentish Gazette, 1 June, 1774.
Cock Fighting.
At Samuel Page's, at the "Two Brewers" in Deal, on Wednesday the
15th instant June.
A Welch Main of Cocks, for a Silver Tankard of 10 guineas Value.
No Cock to exceed four pounds four ounces. The Cocks to be weighed
before dinner.
There will be a Close Pit and a good Ordinary at 1 o'clock.
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Kentish Gazette, 23 November, 1792.
Died.
Wednesday, Mrs. Wild, of the "Two Brewers" public house, at Deal.
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From Kentish Gazette 3 November 1807.
DIED.
On Saturday morning last at Deal, MR. William HUBBARD, jun.
(age 23,) son of MR. William
HUBBARD, (age 66,) landlord of the "TWO BREWERS" public-house, Deal.
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Kentish Gazette, 1 February 1820.
FREE PUBLIC HOUSE.
TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, By Messrs. WHITE (Without Reserve)
PURSUANT to an Order of his Honour the Vice-Chancellor of Great
Britain, and before the major part of the
Commissioners named and authored in and by a Commission of Bankrupt,
award and issued forth, and now in
prosecution against Matthew William Sankey, of the City of
Canterbury, brewer, dealer and chapman, at the "Guildhall
Tavern," in the said City of Canterbury, on THURSDAY the third day
of February next, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon,
subject to such conditions as will be then and there produced.
All that Leasehold MESSUAGE or TENEMENTS with the ground, out
houses, hereditaments, and premises thereunto
belonging, formerly called by the name or sign of the "Two Brewers,"
but now commonly called or known by the name
or sign of the "General Moore," situate and being in or near
Middle-street, in the town and borough of Deal, in the
County of Kent, and now or late in the occupation of William
Hubbard.
For further particulars apply to Messrs. Plummer &. Son; or, Mr. J.
J. Peirce, solicitor, Canterbury.
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From emails received July 2014.
Hi Paul,
I found your piece on the Deal Cutter Inn very interesting. Family
history research I and others have done suggests that a man called
George Hubbard (my g-g-g-grandfather) was the licensee for a time up to
1812, before being arrested and convicted in 1813 for helping an
attempted escape by a high-ranking French general who'd been taken
prisoner by the British in Spain.
Hubbard was transported for life to Port Jackson (Sydney), where he
became a member of two expeditions by explorer John Oxley to explore the
hinterland of New South Wales. Soon after that he received a pardon and
went to Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania), where he became the government
boat-builder in the north of the island and at one stage ran a pub
called the "Deal Cutter" in Launceston.
Do you have any information about Hubbard's time in Kent? If so I'd
be glad to hear it, and possibly meet you on a brief visit to the UK in
the first week of August.
He was convicted and sentenced at Salop Assizes in Shrewsbury,
Shropshire, on 13 January 1813. One of our family researchers found a
report of the trial in the local paper there, but unfortunately the last
part of the cutting had been torn away. I'm hoping to find the missing
bit in the Shropshire archives during my visit.
A report of George Hubbard's trial was published in the Shrewsbury
Chronicle on Friday, December 11, 1812. Most of it is reprinted in a
book called Tasmania Bound (ISBN 0-9752248-2-4), by Margaret Szalay, a
family history researcher who has done a lot of work on Hubbard and his
descendants (who include me).
The final part of the report is missing, as it was unreadable on the
photocopy someone provided to Margaret, and I'm hoping to find it in the
Shropshire archives during my visit.
There's a sentence near the end of the newspaper article as printed
in the book: Hubbard says he kept a public house in Deal, and that the
General, on his return to France, was to intercede for the liberation of
Hubbard's brother, who is a prisoner there.
However, as far as we know George Hubbard did not have a brother,
giving rise to speculation that he may have put this forward in an
attempt to wriggle out of the predicament he was in after being
arrested. However it's possible that the Henry you mention may indeed
have been a brother. George was born in Deal in 1790, and as far as we
know his parents were George Hubbard (b Deal 11 Feb 1760; d Deal 30 Aug
1832) and Sarah Cavell (1763-1836). That George's father was also named
George.
Regards,
Bruce Walkley
Sydney, Australia. |
LICENSEE LIST
PAGE Samuel 1774+
WILD Mrs to Nov/1792 dec'd
HUBBARD William 1804-07+ (This may well be the brother of George Hubbard of
the "Deal Cutter.")
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