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Darwin Correspondence Project

Edward Harris

1825/6–97

Publican. Proprietor of the King’s Head Tavern, 15 Broad Street, Bloomsbury, London, 1863–81. Owner of a trained cockatoo that performed there. Licensee of the Duke of York, 53 London Road, Twickenham, Surrey, 1891.

Sources

Census returns of England and Wales 1871 (The National Archives: Public Record Office RG10/341/80/36), 1881 (RG11/321/123/13), 1891 (RG12/1026/31/15)

England & Wales, national probate calendar (index of wills and administrations), 1858–1966, 1973–95 (Ancestry.com, accessed 22 February 2017)

England, select births and christenings, 1538–1975 (Ancestry.com, accessed 11 November 2015)

Land and Water, 7 December 1872

UK Pub History (http://pubshistory.com/LondonPubs/StGeorgeBloomsbury/KingsHead.shtml, accessed 24 February 2016)

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