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Tudor Tavern
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Picture source: Hania
Franek |
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The Tudor Tavern was situated at 15 Fore Street.
This pub is now used as a coffee shop. |
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This building in the 16c housed the Trowbridge
Clothiers, mercers and merchant taylor (Thomas and Joan Trowbridge were
responsible for the initials TT and IT and the date 1578 on the building
facade). In the 17c the building became the grocery business of Thomas Baker
- his daughters were the 'maids of Taunton' who welcomed the Duke of
Monmouth into the town. In the 19c it was the grocery business of Richard
Turle 1777-1863, my 3x-great-grandfather - he was also described as salt and
tea dealer, tallow chandler and soap boiler. His son John Turle 1813-1891
continued the business, followed in turn by his son Richard Turle 1843-1912,
who in the 1870s moved to Beckenham in Kent where he became a wine merchant.
After that, the building was used by an antique dealer, Halliday & Son. |
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Helen Lloyd (October 2014) |
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Thomas & Joan Trowbridge's grandson
Thomas was the first Trowbridge immigrant to America, in 1636/7. He returned
to England after the death of his wife in 1641 (leaving 3 children) & before
the beginning of the Civil War in 1642, in which he fought with the
Parliamentarians. Taunton was the only Roundhead town in Somerset. |
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Richard Trowbridge (August 2022) |
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