Chigwell: The former King's Head public house now Sheesh (2)

Image: © Nigel Cox Taken: 29 Apr 2011

Please see Image for a description. This is the view along the A113 High Road, showing the jetties and the weatherboarding on the building. It is thought that the near building was once a separate house, now incorporated into the whole. The 1881 Census records the following inhabitants of the Kings Head :- George Basham, head, married, aged 67, born Epping, Hotel Keeper Susanah Basham, wife, aged 65, born Buckingham, Norfolk Frederick T Basham, son, unmarried, aged 35, born Chigwell, Farmer Louisa M Basham, daughter, unmarried, aged 31, born Chigwell Henry G Basham, son, unmarried, aged 26, born Chigwell, Bank Clerk Alfred Basham, son, unmarried, aged 25, born Chigwell, Innkeeper's son & barman Emma W Basham, daughter, unmarried, aged 24, born Chigwell, Assistant (Junior School) Frederick Basham, grand son, aged 11, born Bow, Middlesex, Scholar George E Jacobs, grand son, aged 5, born Bow, Middlesex, Scholar Edith Jacobs, grand daughter, aged 4, born Bow, Middlesex, Scholar Thomas Austin, servant, unmarried, aged 18, born Epping, Potman Louisa Welsh, servant, unmarried, aged 21, born Enfield, Middlesex, General Servant Elizabeth Pittman, servant, unmarried, aged 30, born Woodford, Essex, Chamber Maid Rosina Bowers, servant, unmarried, aged 28, born Great Baldingfield, Suffolk, Cook It is interesting to see that no visitors were recorded as staying overnight at the hotel, and that there was insufficient or poorly paid or too demeaning work in the hotel that meant that all bar one of the children of the hotel keeper had jobs outside the hotel. Evidently too there was another daughter of the hotel keeper who had married a Jacobs, and was either away on the night of the census or possibly who could have died. The other grandson in the family with the Basham surname could have been the child of another son who was away or dead, or possibly an illegitimate descendant of one of the enumerated children of the hotel keeper.

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