Thomas Shackleford, Innkeeper of the Dog & Partridge, Yateley

appears in the Licences to sell beer, 1792 - 1795

Thomas Shackleford was buried on 22 March 1806, a few days after William Dunning, who also appeared in the same beer licence documents. Thomas and his wife Mary produced a family in the early 1780s. He held the last lease of the Dog & Partridge held by a private individual before it was taken over by the Reading brewer William Blackall Simonds in 1788. Thomas Shackleford is described as "of Yateley, Innholder" in the Court Books until 1799. W B Simonds kept him on as "mine host" at the Dog & Partridge until he died. The second lease of the Dog & Partridge awarded to W B Simonds in 1808 states that Widow Shackleford is in occupation.

Thomas had obtained a mortgage in Nov 1804 for £325 from the brewer for an house to which he had been admitted in 1797 called Hammonds near Wellmore Bottom. That house is probably that now known as Old Wellmore. In 1795, two years before he purchased the copyholding of Hammonds Thomas Shackleford is described as one of the two "occupiers". In 1799 Thomas Shackleford was also admitted to "All that messuage or tenement garden barn turfhouse and other edifices thereunto belonging, And also all that close or parcel of land cbe 1 acre and an half bts mol adjoining the sd messuage or tenement in Yly which are parcel of an estate called Barnards Mead and Barnards Grove"

After the death of Thomas Shackleford William Blackall Simonds the Reading brewer was admitted to this property too. This leads us to speculate that both Old Welmore and Goose Green Cottage could have been licensed at the turn of the century, supplying Simonds beer under the overall direction of Thomas Shackleford. On the other hand, since the Simonds family became bankers as well as brewers, the admissions to these two properties could well be mortgages for no other purpose than to lease to tenants.

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Original page written by Peter Tipton for the Yateley Society's 1997 Exhibition: Inns, Alehouses & Maltsters

Additional research by Richard Johnston, & Elizabeth Tipton

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