59–60 Holywell Street in the censuses

1841

The 1841 census for Holywell does not give house numbers, but it is possible to deduce where people listed that year lived by examining directory entries between 1839 and 1842 and later censuses

No. 59 (Barley Mow pub)
William Brocklesby (30), farmer etc., lived here with Ann (30), Frances (55), Frances (7), Louisa (5), and David (2). Two stablemen also live with the family.

No. 60
John Jones (30), college servant, lived here with Mary Ann (20), John (2), and George (10 months). They had one female servant and one lodger.

1851

No. 59 (Barley Mow pub)
Frances Brocklesby (68) a widowed public house keeper, is listed between Nos. 58 and 59, but as she was the landlady of the Barley Mow at No. 59, her home was probably part of this pub.
William Fipps (66), an ostler, lived here at the Barley Mow (named thus and correctly numbered 59 in the census) with his lodger Joseph Trinder (24), who was also an ostler.

Presumably behind 59 & 60:
Emanuel Miles (30), a labourer in stables, lived here with his wife Ann (38) and his children Sarah (8), William (6), David (4), and James (4 months).

No. 60
William J. Merritt, a college servant, lived here with his wife Elizabeth (36). They had one servant.

1861

No. 59 (Barley Mow pub)
John Bruce (51), a Scottish-born whitesmith, lived here with his wife Elizabeth (62), and his sons Thomas (24) and Walter (22), both whitesmiths, his married daughter Mary Gibb (26), and his granddaughters Elizabeth ?Claider, Lucy Gibbs, and Agnes Gibbs. [Head of household wrongly written in the census as Bruce John]

No. 60
James Prior (40), the cook of Exeter College, lived here with his wife Hannah (43) and his mother Esther (62). They had one housemaid.

1871

No. 59 (Barley Mow pub)
John Humphreys (50), groom and publican, lived here with his wife Maria (32) and their children William (17), who was a groom, James (14), Alfred (10), and Gertrude (5). They also had a groom lodging with them.

No. 60
James Prior (49), the Exeter College cook, still lived here with his wife Hannah (57) and his widowed mother Esther (73). They had one servant.

1881

No. 59 (Barley Mow pub)
Henry Mason (27), a beerseller and groom, lived here with his father John (66), who was a groom, and his mother Ann (65), who was a dressmaker. They had a coachman living with them.

No. 60
George Newman (28), who was a college servant, lived here with his wife Julia (23) and his daughter Emily (4 months)

1881

No. 59 (Barley Mow pub)
John Peade (44), a gardener, lived here with his wife Alice (32) and his stepdaughters Alice Mason (5) and Lilian Mason (2).

No. 60
George Newman (38), a grocer & confectioner, lived here with his wife Julia (33) and their children Eunice (10), Edith (8), and Bertha (6). They had a 15-year-old servant girl.

1901

Unoccupied: the pub must have just closed.

1911

No. 59 & 60
Thomas Byles (68), a college servant, lived here with his wife Agnes (61) and their married daughter Hilda Alden (30) and her husband, the butcher Harold Alden (32). The Aldens had three children: Gwennie (5), Thomas (4), Beryl (2), and Lilian (1). The family had an American student lodging with them, and one servant.

1921

No. 59 & 60
Caleb John Richings (40), a servant of New College, lived here with his wife Ada and five boarders (four undergraduates and a research chemist.

1939 Register

Nos. 59 & 60
The college servant Thomas M. Moffatt is listed here with his wife Bertha, who was a lodging-house keeper, and their three children, plus another couple surnamed Latham.