I remember Catherine was a sympathetic older sister in and Walter was an abusive father in Hillary Mantel’s novel Wolf Hall.Ĭapt. Morgan’s father-in-law Walter CROMWELL was also a brewer. ![]() Sir Richard (Williams) CROMWELL (1504 – 1544) ( Wikipedia) father Morgan WILLIAMS (1469 – ) was an ale brewer and innkeeper at Putney, a district in south-west London 5 miles south-west of Charing Cross. It is around the table that friends understand best the warmth of being together.īeer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor, Act 1īetter to pay the tavernkeeper than the druggist. Good company, good wine, good welcome make good people. Here’s to our ancestors! Without them where would be?Ī feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry.Īnd real pain to our sham friends. The name of the establishment is not necessary. The key to establishing membership is proving that your ancestor was licensed by the local authority to conduct the business of keeping an ordinary, hostelry, inn or hotel or licensed to sell spirituous liquors. In larger ones the taverns had names to distinguish them apart. In smaller municipalities named taverns were probably not the rule. ![]() ![]() Therefore, the majority of the “taverns” as we think of them in that time probably did not have names. In colonial times, taverns, ordinaries, pubs and other hostelries were usually kept in a person’s home and no other building existed for this purpose.
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