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George W Grayston, Linton7 High Street, The House Next Door, Linton
History of 7 High Street, Linton
Linton High Street OS 1901
This seems to have been the site of the brewery started around 1850 by James Grayston. Family history documents record that there was a Pothouse here where beer could be drunk and a cooperage where barrels were made. When James died in 1876 his son George William took over the business. When George died in 1909 his wife Mary Ann took over. There may have been a partnership with James Cowling (1829-1886), a publican and his son, William Mott (1866-1911) who became manager of the brewery. In 1911 William Mott committed suicide in the brewery.
James Cowling’s daughter Louisa b.1864 took over the Green Hill public house when he died in 1886 with her husband Henry Edlin.
Grayston and related families are researched in detail here:
1861 possible location
James Grayston, 33, cooper and brewer, b Linton
Eliza, 43, b Essex
George William, 9, b Linton
Fred James, 7, b Linton
John Perry, 5, b Linton
Elizabeth, 4, b Linton
Annie Julia, 2, b Linton
Rebecca Maris, aunty, 73, b Linton
1881
In 1881 there were 12 households listed between the White Hart and the Crown Inn. These were numbered 7 to 17 consecutively.
(7) Eliza Hall
(8) Thomas Simlin
(8) Martha Hazelwood
(9) Frederic Grayston
(10) Charles Butcher
(11) Eliza Nussen
(12) Robert Morley
(13) Thomas Pearson
(14) William Richardson
(15) Susannah Whiffen
(16)
Eliza Grayston, 63, brewer, b Essex
Annie Julia, 22, dressmaker, b Linton
Lilla, 15, b Linton
By 1891 Ann Julia has moved to lived with her uncle in Norfolk. But according to family history she married in 1891 a James Parlett who ran an inn in Wisbech.
(17) Thomas Suckling
1891
In 1891 there were 7 households listed between the White Hart and the Crown Inn. Unlike in 1881, these are now in 1891 all unnumbered.
Charles Butcher
Thomas Simkin
John Lambert
Joseph Seeley
Frederick Burling
Richard Morley
James Norton
G W Grayston and family, Linton 1896
Back: Nellie, George W, Mary Ann, Haddon
Front: Albert, Ernest G, Walter
In 1901 there were five households listed between the White Hart, at the south-west end of the High Street, and the Crown Hotel, just to the north.
1901
White Hart
High Street: Herbert Powell,
High Street: William Hymus,
High Street: George Cottage,
High Street: Mary E Richardson,
High Street:
George W Grayston, 49, brewer builder reg. of marriages, b Linton
Mary A, 51, b Essex
Nellie, 24, confectioner, b Cambridge
Haddon, 23, butcher, b Cambridge
Walter C, 20, joiner, b Cambridge
Ernest G, 14, carpenter, b Linton
Crown Hotel
1911 High Street, Linton
Mrs Mary Ann Grayston, 62, widow, b Essex
Nellie Grayston, 34, music teacher, b Cambridge
Haddon James Grayston, 33, butcher, b Cambridge
Ernest Gilbert Grayston, 23, chauffeur, b Linton
In 1939 Ernest G Grayston was living in Chatham, Kent.
In 1911 Nellie married Kerlogue Whiffin. He had served in the Royal Navy for 12 years and then joined the coastguard. At the outbreak of WWI he rejoined the Navy.
Nellie Grayston, Kerlogue Whiffen & child c.1915
In 1914 Ernest G Grayston joined the Army Service Corps and was a Battlefield Ambulance Driver in the British Expeditionary Force. In 1916 he was sent back to Flanders and in 1917 he was part of the force sent to Italy to open a second front in the South Tyrol.
In 1915 Ernest married Susannah Brumham from Surrey at St Mary’s Church Saffron Walden. Susannah was working by 1911 as a house maid to the manager of Little Chesterford Park and living at Rectory Farm.
Haddon was a volunteer in the Red Cross in WWI; he looked after wounded service men in the Linton ‘Manor’ Convalescent Home, [actually the former Priory.]
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