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Census lookup1841

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Marie

Marie Report 22 Sep 2022 16:00

Looking for some help please.
Is anyone able to find a Benjamin Johns/Jones in the 1841 census please.
He would have been at the Red Lion pub in Driffield East Yorkshire at the time.
He would have been with wife Mary and daughters Sarah and Ann. He was possibly born in Pembrokeshire around 1790.
Many thanks.

safc

safc Report 22 Sep 2022 16:48

Name Benjamin Johns
Sex Male
Age 50
Event Date 1841
Event Place Great Driffield, Yorkshire East Riding, England, United Kingdom
Event Place (Original) Driffield, Great, Yorkshire,Yorkshire East Riding, England
Registration District Driffield Union
Event Type Census
Residence Note Middle Street
Birth Year (Estimated) 1787-1791
Page Number 22
Piece/Folio 1217/15
Registration Number HO107
Other People on This Record
Mary Johns
Sarah Johns
Anne Johns
Hannah Lee
Mary Lee
Jane Ward
Jane Levet
Hannah Witty
John Arksey
William Edmund
John Campbell
William Smith
Thomas Malthouse
E Lascelles, Honble
Chas Arkwright
Mary Silvester
Elizabeth Wakman
William Dunhill


"England and Wales Census, 1841," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MQPD-YXH : 7 March 2021), Benjamin Johns, Great Driffield, Yorkshire East Riding, England, United Kingdom; from "1841 England, Scotland and Wales census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing PRO HO 107, The National Archives, Kew, Surrey.

Marie

Marie Report 22 Sep 2022 16:52

Thats great, thank you so much

ErikaH

ErikaH Report 22 Sep 2022 19:35

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Maddie

Maddie Report 23 Sep 2022 12:38

freehold house middle street

in the UK, Poll Books and Electoral Registers, 1538-1893
Name: Benjamin Johns
Poll Year: 1836
Division: Bainton Beacon
Parish or Rectory: Driffield Great
County: Yorkshire

alviegal

alviegal Report 23 Sep 2022 13:08

He was there in 1831.

Coach-Houses, and other conveniences thereunto belonging, formerly in the occupation of Mrs. Mary Witty, but now of Mr. Benjamin Johns, Tenant from year to year. Also, all those Two Messuages or DWELLINGHOUSES, immediately adjoining the Inn, now in the
29 October 1831 - Yorkshire Gazette - York, Yorkshire, England

ArgyllGran

ArgyllGran Report 23 Sep 2022 16:57

POST-HORSE DUTIES.

. . . . . . . On Saturday, Sept. 6, the East-Riding Sessions House, Beverley,., before a full bench of magistrates, similar informations were exhibited by Mr. Grosvenor, against Mr. Benjamin Johns, innkeeper and licensed post-master, of Great Driffield for neglecting to enter and return, in his Stamp-office weekly account, the amount of duty for horses let to hire, the 11th and 16th of July last. Mr. Wood, attorney, appeared also in this case for Mr. Bower, and stated that he went for two penalties of each, as in the case at Scarborough. He called a gentleman from Leeds, who proved the hiring of the 11th of July. The second case was established the barkeeper and his daughter, of Sunderlandwick Gate, who proved the receipt a ticket the of July last, which was not in Mr. John's Stamp-office weekly account. Mr. Johns, in his defence, called his post-boy, William Bielby, who, upon his oath, stated, that there were only one pair of horses out on that day, and that he went with them Scarbro', —but denied being at Beverley,—when the Chairman immediately discovered.by the Stamp office weekly account, that there were three other jobs besides the one omitted, and that Beilby had himself been at Beverley, which inconsistent evidence drew a very severe censure from the Chairman. After a patient investigation and serious deliberation, the Court gave judgment, and convicted Mr. Johns in a penalty on each information, and £10 7s. costs and expenses.

Published: Saturday 20 September 1834
Newspaper: Yorkshire Gazette

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The Red Lion, sometimes referred to as "the house of Mr Benjamin Johns" also seems to have been the venue for various auctions and meetings over the years - and also before his time there.
In July 1829 it was still being referrred to as "the house of Mrs Witty". [first name Mary ]


ErikaH

ErikaH Report 23 Sep 2022 17:01

First name(s) Benjamin
Last name Johns
Burial date 09 Aug 1850
Burial place Great Driffield, York, England

ArgyllGran

ArgyllGran Report 23 Sep 2022 17:28

Benjamin took over the Inn in September or October 1831 - per Alviegals' post above, and this garbled announcement below:

... WITTY'S ASSIGNMENT
WHEREAS, MARY WITTY f or . the Red Lion Inn, in the Pari of Driffield, in the County York, Innke reat by Indentures of Lease, and of Release ' 1 ' ment, bearing Date respectively the Ist and of August Instant, assigned over all her real personal Estate to Trustees, for the , Creditors;- etU her NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN That the said Indenture of Assignment our Office for Execution by the sii4 Cred?> at that such them as shall neglect or a d the same, or signify their assent thereto, on * the first Day October next, will M , * Benefit be derived therefrom; V * the to the said Mary Witty., Estate in pay the amount their respective ' qU , es,ed to us. -eDts forthwith JENNINGS and Solicitors ir, .v„ Driffield, 30th August, 1831.

Published: Saturday 03 September 1831
Newspaper: Yorkshire Gazette


ADDED:
The Red Lion was sold a couple of months ago, and is "permanently closed" per Google:

https://woldsweekly.co.uk/2022/07/red-lion-pub-is-snapped-up/