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Details of pub: Red Lion, Cilcennin (p)

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Opened: before 1836      
Closed: before 1868       Type: Pub
Summary:
This might have closed before the Commercial opened in about 1865.
The building is in the background of a photograph of school children in the 1880s (Ceredigion Record Office).

Notes: 1836
licensee: Williams, Lewis
Petty Sessions, Aberaeron, NLW 20887, 14.9.1836
1837
licensee: Williams, Lewis
Petty Sessions, Aberaeron, NLW 20887, 30.8.1837
1838
licensee: Williams, Lewis
Petty Sessions, Aberaeron, NLW 20887, 19.9.1838
1839
licensee: Williams, Lewis
Petty Sessions, Aberaeron, NLW 20887, 25.9.1839
1840
no Petty Sessions list
1841
Lewis Williams,, head of household, publican.
Census, 1841
1841
licensee: Williams, Lewis
Petty Sessions, Aberaeron, NLW 20887, 15.9.1841, 29.9.1841
1842
licensee: Williams, Lewis
Petty Sessions, Aberaeron, NLW 13867, 31.8.1842, p. 61
1843
licensee: Williams, Lewis
Petty Sessions, Aberaeron, NLW 13867, 30.8.1843, p. 120
1844
licensee: Williams, Lewis
Petty Sessions, Aberaeron, NLW 13867, 28.8.1844, p. 181
1845
licensee: Williams, Lewis
Petty Sessions, Aberaeron, NLW 13868, 27.8.1845, p. 244
1846
licensee: Williams, Lewis
Petty Sessions, Aberaeron, NLW 13868, 26.8.1846, p. 292
1847
licensee: Williams, Mary
Petty Sessions, Aberaeron, NLW 13868, 8.9.1847, p. 337
1848
licensee: Williams, Mary
Petty Sessions, Aberaeron, NLW 13868, 23.8.1848, p. 368
1849
licensee: Williams, Mary
Petty Sessions, Aberaeron, NLW 13868, 22.8.1849, p. 405
1850
licensee: Williams, Mary
Petty Sessions, Aberaeron, NLW 13868, 21.8.1850, p. 441
1851
Mary Williams, widow, aged 60, Inn keeper
Census, 1851
1861
John Williams, aged 40, Public House and Inn keeper
Census, 1861
1868
Closed as a pub
1871
John and Anne Jenkins, labourer, [no reference to public house of publican]
Census, 1871


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