Sandersons at the 'Railway Hotel'

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Mark and Phoebe

Sanderson family archive

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Phoebe at Railway Hotel 1911

Sanderson family archive

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Postcard image to Sanderson's 1912 address side

Sanderson family archive

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Postcard image to Sanderson's 1913 address side

Sanderson family archive

Railway Hotel

Mark (Sanders)¹ was born in 1839 at Sutton St Edmund in Lincolnshire. Phoebe Johnson was born 26 November 1846 at Guyhirn in Cambridgeshire.

In 1867, Mark and Phoebe married at Guyhirn.

Landlord and landlady

After leaving farming in 1904, Mark moved to Deeping St James to become the landlord of the ‘Chestnut Horse Inn’. In May 1908 the licence was not renewed ¹ and the building was sold.
Stamford Mercury, 29 May 1908
‘Notice is hereby given, that the Compensation Authority for the above area, having decided at their Principal Meeting held on the Twentieth day of May, 1908, to Refuse the Renewal of the Licences of the premises specified below, …… “Chestnut Horse,” Deeping St. James, Alehouse Licence, Licensee Mark Sanderson, Registered Owners – Messrs. G. and H. R. Hunt, Brewers, Stamford.’

The family moved in 1908 to ‘The Railway Hotel’, Helpston, another establishment owned by Hunt’s Brewery.  The account of spirits register gives the first date for Mark Sanderson as 15 July 1908 when he received spirits from G. & H. R. Hunt of Stamford and this appears to end on 16 January 1915.  Kelly’s trade directories of 1910 and 1914 record Mark as landlord of ‘The Railway Inn’.

On the Census of 1911, Mark was listed as Inn Keeper at ‘The Railway Hotel’ – living with Phoebe his wife and 4 children, boarders, visitors and his niece (granddaughter), Lillian.

Family post

Two postcards sent to the Sanderson’s are held in the family archive. The first one was posted in 1912 from Peterborough, to Phoebe, from her son Earnest. The second was posted in 1913, from their son Charles and his wife Emma whilst on holiday near Great Yarmouth.

Leaving the Railway Hotel

Mark died in December 1914. In 1916, Phoebe along with her daughter and family, moved to the Royal Oak beer house on Woodgate.

Sources
1 Mark was registered in the name of Sanders at his birth. On the first postcard dated 1912, his son is spelling the surname Saunders. As was the case in many cases in the 1800s and 1900s – name variations appear on family records.
With thanks to The British Newspaper Archive
Census records – Ancestry.co.uk