Cock, High Street, Chipping Ongar
Dating from 1580
19th August 1999
Known Residents
The following entries are in this format:
Year/Publican or other Resident/Relationship to Head and or Occupation/Age/Where Born/Source.
1791/Thomas Biggs/Victualler/../../Universal British
1822/Robert Thomas/../../../Pigot's*
1823-4/Robert Thomas/../../../Pigot's
1828-9/Robert Thomas/../../../Pigot's
1832-3/Robert Thomas/../../../Pigot's
1839/Robert Thomas/../../../Pigot's
1841/Robert
Thomas/brewer/70/Essex/Census
**
1841/Mary Thomas/wife/68/Essex/Census
**
1841/Francis Ross/male servant/60/Essex/Census
**
1841/Mary Perry/female servant/19/Essex/Census
**
1841/Sarah (illegible)/female servant/25/Essex/Census
**
1841/John Mossman/[lodger] painter/30/Essex/Census
**
1841/Francis Simmons/[lodger] painter/25/Essex/Census
**
1845/Francis
Starkey/../../../Post Office
1848/Francis Starkey/../../../White's
1851/Francis Starkey/../../../Post Office
1851 Not found (Francis Starkey is a retired brewer, visiting friends, in census. He is unmarried, which makes it virtually impossible to find the pub!)
1851/Francis
Starkey/visitor, retired brewer/40/Chipping Ongar,
Essex/Census **
Here is another Starkey entry, possibly his father.High Street
1851/Henry Starkey/master
baker/70/Moreton, Essex/Census **
1851/Sarah Starkey/wife/69/High Ongar, Essex/Census
**
1851/James Starkey/son, assistant/34/Chipping Ongar, Essex/Census
**
1851/Elizabeth Starkey/sister, annuitant/Moreton, Essex/Census
**
1855/W S Mason/../../../Post Office ****
1862/Francis Starkey/Brewer/../../Post Office
1867/William Horton/../../../Post Office
1870/Mrs. Hannah Horton/../../../Kelly's
1871/Mrs. Hannah Horton/../../../Post Office
1874/William Silcock/../../../Kelly's
1878/Thomas Read/../../../Kelly's
1881/Priscilla
Prichett/Daughter, Housekeeper/19/Mile
End, London, Middlesex/Census
1881/Joseph
E. Nurse/Visitor, French Polisher/24/Soho, London, Middlesex/Census
1881/Alfred
Wyatt/Adopted Son/14/St. George East, London, Middlesex/Census
1882/Thomas Potter/../../../Kelly's
1886/Thomas Potter/../../../Kelly's
1890/Thomas Potter/../../../Kelly's
1891/Thomas
Potter/Licensed
Victualler/73/Woodham Mortimer, Essex/Census
****
1891/Charlotte A Potter/Wife/66/Southampton, Hants/Census
1891/Elizabeth A Potter/Daughter, BarMaid/36/Southminster,
Essex/Census
1891/Arthur E Potter/Son, Carpenter/34/Southminster, Essex/Census
1891/Frederick W Potter/Son, BarMan/30/Southminster, Essex/Census
1891/Ada Potter/Daughter in Law/29/Southampton, Hants/Census
1891/Frederick M Potter/Grand Son/2/Chipping Ongar, Essex/Census
1891/William Wood/Boarder, Railway Engineer Fireman/24/Stanford
Rivers, Essex/Census
1891/Ernest E Button/Boarder, Railway Engineer
Fireman/25/Suffolk/Census
1894/Peter Jackson/../../../Kelly's
1895/Peter Jackson/../../../Kelly's
1898/Peter Jackson/../../../Kelly's
1899/Peter Jackson/../../../Kelly's
1902/Peter Jackson/../../../Kelly's
1906/Walter T. Chalk/../../../Kelly's
1908/William Thomas Chalk/../../../Kelly's
1910/William Thomas Chalk/../../../Kelly's
1912/William Thomas Chalk/../../../Kelly's
1914/William Thomas Chalk/../../../Kelly's
1917/Robert Henry Filby/../../../Kelly's
1922/Mrs. Martha Filby/../../../Kelly's
1925-6/Mrs. Martha Rebecca Filby/../../../Kelly's
1929/Sydney Robert Fisher/../../../Kelly's
1933/Sydney Robert Fisher/../../../Kelly's
1937/Sydney Robert Fisher/../../../Kelly's
"I lived in Ongar in the fifties from about '56-61, and at that time the Cock was run by a lovely couple called Earl and Elsie Brooke-Footitt, he was an ex-coastal command crew member who worked for Marconi at Chelmsford whilst Elsie ran the pub. They had a son who I think was called Martin."**
* Provided by the Pubs, Inns and Taverns Index for England, 1801-1900
** Related by Alastair Ward
**** Provided by Kevan
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