THE STRUGGLER, MARBLE STREET

It is known that Cornelius McNeil Stone lived in Marble Street, between Pocklingtons Walks Chancery Street off Newark Street. running through to Millstone Lane.  Number one was on the corner of Millstone Lane.

In 1841, he was listed as hosier and beerhouse keeper at no. one Marble Street.

In December 1841, Stone was assaulted by two customers, Joseph Boulter who was known to have fits when in drink, and Fred Holyoak.  They had been ‘Tom & Jerrying’ – having beer on credit in the Struggler – which they had done on previous occasions. Cornelius Stone refused to serve them after time, for which he was assaulted. Boulter was fined 7/6 or fourteen days, Holyoak 5/- or fourteen days.

1846 Stone again recorded as licensee of the beerhouse but in May 1847, Stone found himself before the bench for serving after time on a Sunday, for which he was fined 10/-.

In 1851, Stone recorded himself as beerhouse keeper and manufacturer in Marble Street.

By 1861, Cornelius McNeil Stone, now aged sixty five, had moved to the Queen Victoria in Church Gate.

In 1881, the site was occupied by Landers Quincey, Mineral and Aerated water manufactures at 1 Marble Street and 17 Millstone Lane (the Rutland & Derby was at no 15).  Oddly, apprently sharing the same premises as Quincey in the census was a Dominican Convent with six teachers and twenty scholar nuns.

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