| BRIXHAM RESIDENTS LISTED IN THE UNIVERSAL BRITISH DIRECTORY c.1794 |
The Universal British Directory of Trade, Commerce & Manufacture was issued in separate volumes over a period of 7 to 8 years between 1791 and 1798. As the different volumes were published, updates and alterations were made so that no listing can be specific to a single year but rather, to the final years of the 18th century. No street locations were given for the traders. The original spelling has been retained. |
"Brixham is a large village, situated on the Western side of Torbay; it employs above one hundred sloops, and a great number of small boats, in its fishery. The fish is mostly sent to London, Bath, Bristol and Exeter. Government has lately built a wharf, and conveyed the water to it, for the purpose of watering the men of war and merchant vessels.
At this place, the Prince of Orange, and the Dutch that attended him, landed on the 5th of November 1688. Here is a well, called Ley well, a natural curiosity, as it ebbs and flows several times in the space of an hour, for eight hours together, about an inch and an eighth, though sometimes it intermits. Torbay is a fine bay, situated about five miles to the Eastward of Dartmouth, formed by two capes; that to the East, by the name of Bob's Nose, and that to the Westward is called the Berry Head. This bay is so capacious that it would contain all the Navy of Great Britain. There is a cart that comes to Brixham from Exeter on Tuesdays and Fridays, and returns thither on Wednesdays and Saturdays.
The following are the names of the principal inhabitants:" |
CLERGY Shepherd Rev. Francis
PHYSICIANS Baddeley, William, Surgeon & Apothecary Lyde, Philip, Surgeon & Apothecary
TRADERS ETC. Adams, John, Butcher Archer, Nicholas, Carpenter Austin, James, Tailor Arthur, Henry, Shoemaker Adams, Christopher & Co, Fishmonger Ash, William, Woolcomber Browse, George, Carpenter Bully, William, Blacksmith Bird, John, Brewer Bird, John, Sailmaker Bird, William, Baker Bartlett, Christopher, Maltster Burt, Thomas, Tide Waiter* Baker, John, Exciseman Blatchford, William, Basket maker Bickford, Thomas, Grocer and Linen Draper Crowte, William, Shoemaker Clarke, Henry, Carpenter Churchward, Thomas, Blacksmith Coyde, William, Shoemaker Clarke, Henry, Tide Waiter* Cally, Samuel, Maltster Clark, William, Baker Clarke, William, Cooper Cruise, Richard, Woolcomber Collier, William, Schoolmaster Davis, Samuel, Shoemaker Davis, Elizabeth, Innkeeper - The Bell Elliot, James, Tailor Efford, Jonathan, Tailor Efford, Jonathan, Innkeeper - Ring of Bells Eames, William, Tide Waiter* Eames, William, Baker Frogwell, Richard, Blacksmith Furneaux, Robert, Shoemaker Furneaux, John, Shoemaker Fox, Samuel, Sailmaker Farrant, William, Woolcomber Gibbs, William, Shipwright Guy, William, Sailmaker Gilliard, John, Tinman and Brazier Hyne, John, Carpenter Hammick, Honniwell, Blacksmith Heath, John, Tailor Hamlyn, William, Baker Hamling, William, Mason Hunt, Christopher, Grocer & Linen Draper Hill, John, Linen Draper Hoare, Henry, Butcher Humphrey, Bartlett & Co., Fishmongers Jordan, Christopher, Carpenter Kerswell, Richard, Tailor Kendrick, Samuel, Shoemaker King, William, Schoolmaster Lillycrap, John, Tailor Lambswood, John, Shoemaker Lakeman, Elizabeth, Milliner Moses, Samuel, Hellier** Matthews, Samuel, Shipwright Matthews, Henry, Shipwright Maddick, Nicholas, Tailor May, Elizabeth, Baker Monk, William, Baker Motherell, Richard, Butcher Martin, John, Mason Nichols, John, Tailor Neck, Edward, Tailor Nowel, Joseph, Baker Oxenham, William, Ironmonger Pomeroy, James, Chandler Pridham, Ann, Linen Draper Pugh, Thomas, Basket Maker Peters, George, Cooper Pomeroy, Roger, Tide Waiter* Petheridge, ? , Tide Waiter* Paddon, Richard, Sail Maker Pridham, William, Innkeeper - Jolly Sailor Parsons, John, Tailor Philip, John, Hellier** Randle, Mary, Grocer & Linen Draper Reed, Thomas, Innkeeper - The Star Reeve, Constance, Innkeeper - The Anchor Rawlin, Thomas, Shoemaker Richards, William, Shipwright Rowe, Thomas, Tailor Roper, John, Carpenter Rennalls, George, Shipwright Randle, John, Hellier** Sanders, George, Butcher Stokes, Ann, Linen Draper Smart, John, Hatter Sharland, John, Mason Spark, Richard, Cooper Small, Thomas, Glazier & Painter Sims, Philip, Innkeeper - Rising Sun Skerdon, William, Carpenter Scoble, John sen, Carpenter Scoble, John, jun.,Carpenter Scoble, William, Blockmaker Sparke, Robert, Carpenter Turpin, Alice, Baker Underhay, John & Co. Fishmonger Underhay, John, Innkeeper - King's Arms Wood, William, Taylor Wheaton, William, Shipwright Webber, John, Tide Waiter* Way, Henry, Innkeeper - Waterman's Arms Winsor, Samuel, Basket maker Wotton, George, Mason Yandall, Faithful, Glazier & Painter |
| * Tide waiter was the old name for a Customs inspector. He waited on the tide to collect duty on goods brought in.
** A Hellier or Hillier was a roofing tiler. |
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31 July, 2009
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