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Details of pub: Volk's Family and Commercial Temperance Hotel, St Dogmaels

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Address/Location: 10 Castle Street
OS Grid Ref: SN1783645705 probably
Opened: c.      
Closed: after 1896       Type: Temperance
Summary: Location based on current numbering

By 1901 Sophia Volk was listed as a Confectioner and a Widow (her husband was a confectioner. Presumably took over the business)

Notes: 1887
Listed in advertisment as local address for an insurance agent.

"MARRIAGES. VOLK—DENMAN.—On the 10th inst., at Mount Zion Baptist Chapel, in this town, by the Rev. George Hughes, Mr. Earnest Volk grocer, baker, &c., Temperance Hotel, Cardigan, to Harriet, eldest daughter of Mr. Denman 36 Pall Mall, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire." Cgn Obs 15 Oct 1887

1888
"GEORGE EADON, (From Messrs. Broadwood & Sons, London), PIANOFORTE TUNER, and MUSICAL INSTRUMENT DEALER, 11, GORSE LANE, SWANSEA. BEGS to INFORM THE musical public that he will PAY CARDIGAN another visit on or about the 23rd of Angast. All orders may be left at Mrs. Volk's, Temperance Hotel, 10, Castle-street, Cardigan, or sent to the above address." Cgn Obs 29 Sept 1888

1891 Census, 10 Castle St, St Dogmells
Sophia Volk, M, 58 Temperance Hotel Keeper + 2 grandsons. (No 12 is occ by Mary Harries, an innkeeper)
1896
Volk's Family and Commercial Temperance Hotel, Cardigan. Bill Form (handwritten notes on reverse)
Ceredigion Archives, ADX/133/63


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