Held at: | Hereford Public Library |
Reference: | Local and Trade Directories H/914.244 |
Source: | Original document |
Title: | Kelly’s Directory of Herefordshire |
Place name: | Craswall |
Date: | 1913 |
Description:
Trades and professions named in Craswall include:
Beer retailer: David Watkins |
Curate: Reverend Harry Sidney Christopher [since 1911] |
Innkeeper: Hannah Gane [? Bulls Head Inn] |
Schoolmaster: Thomas Bowen |
Shopkeeper: Emma Davies |
Residents and Property named include:
Cole, | Sidney | Ruinsford |
Gane, | Elizabeth [Mrs] | Craswall Court |
Gane, | James | Pentwyn |
Gane, | Thomas | The Oaks |
Gane, | William | Upper House |
Gilbert, | David | White Haywood |
Hassall, | Samuel | Court farm |
Jenkins, | Jn. | Little Black Hill |
Jenkins, | John | The Old Public |
Jenkins, | Moses & Morgan | Middle Black Hill |
Jenkins, | Oscar | Lower Black Hill |
Jones, | Elijah | Forest Mill |
Jones, | John | Upper House |
Jones, | Samuel | New Forest |
Lewis, | William & James | The Birches |
Maddy, | James | White Oak & Old House |
Meredith, | Robert | Dukes farm |
Morris, | James | Chapel house |
Mountford, | Edward & James | The Town |
Mountford, | John | Rocky fold |
Phillips, | David | Tyboobach |
Price, | James | Abbey farm |
Prosser, | Bybe | Abraham Reeds |
Smith, | Alfred & James | Upper Black Hill |
Smith, | Arthur | The Coed |
Smith, | Thomas | Wern Wen |
Smith, | Vear | Cwm Steps |
Waring, | James | The Shawls |
Watkins, | Arthur | Llandraw |
Watkins, | George | The Rood |
Watkins, | George | Upper Cwm |
Watkins, | Henry | Gworlodevain |
Watkins, | Henry | Llanover |
Watkins, | William | Cwm Mill |
Winston, | John | Coed Major |
Yeomans, | Peter | Cwm farm |
An image of the full 1913 Kelly’s Directory entry for Craswall is given below.
Observations:
Local farmers are named. The area, population, rateable value, main crops, geology, county court and other details of the Parish are given. There is a public elementary school and two Primitive Methodist chapels. Principal landowners are the trustees of the late Henry Randolph Trafford [Lords of the Manor] and Mrs Williams. The church was restored in 1883, and there is a cockpit on the north side where ‘in the early part of this century cockfights were held on Sundays after service’. The school was built in 1876 for 90 children; average attendance 50.
This directory is not comprehensive in its coverage of all farms and commercial premises in the parish at the time. Also, in the transcribed lists of properties that are named, spellings in the original have sometimes been amended to reflect more common usage. In case of doubt please refer to the image of the original entry.
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