Here are lists of Licenced Victuallers for the Belper region. I was most interested to find that a STRUTT of BLACKWELL (Antony Strutt) was a licenced Victualler in 1577 seeming to confirm the statements about the Strutt family being Malsters (I am referring to William Strutt, the husband of Martha Statham of Shottle.)
Belper Victuallers
Names listed for all years from 1753 to 1776.
| John | ALBRIGHT |
| Issac | ALSOP |
| John | ALSOP |
| Samuel | BALL |
| Joseph | BARBER |
| Jacob | BERKIN |
| Issac | BIRKIN |
| James | BIRKIN |
| William | BLOUNT |
| Thomas | BONNINGTON |
| Charles | BRIDGES |
| Thomas | BRIDGES |
| Charles | BRIGGS |
| Abraham | BROWN |
| Jos. | CROFT |
| Robert | DORMAN |
| John | FROST |
| Joseph | GLEW |
| Roger | GLEW |
| John | HALL |
| Lydia | HALL |
| Sam. | HARRISON |
| Sarah | HARRISON |
| Widow | HARRISON |
| William | HARRISON |
| Jane | HUTCHINSON |
| John | HUTCHINSON |
| Robert | JACKSON |
| Susannah | JACKSON |
| Henry | LANE |
| Thomas | LANE |
| Widow | LANE |
| Arthur | LOW |
| John | MILNES |
| John | MILWARD |
| Richard | MILWARD |
| Hannah | OLDFIELD |
| John | OLDFIELD |
| Benjamin | RICE |
| Widow | SCRAGG |
| John | SIDDALL |
| Widow | SIMMS |
| William | SIMPSON |
| Joshua | STORER |
| Hannah | STREET |
| Henry | STREET |
| Samuel | STREET |
| Widow | STREET |
| James | SYMES (SIMMS) |
| John | WAGSTAFF |
| Gervas | WALKER |
| Jarvis | WALKER |
| Jonas | WALKER |
| Joseph | WALKER |
| Elizabeth | WARD |
| Vincent | WEBSTER |
In addition to the above names, an Excel chart (downloadable from this link) shows which year each Publican registered a new or ongoing licence. It demonstrates how the licence passed from husband to wife (widow) and to the sons.
Alehouses in 1577
Much earlier, in 1577 to be exact, the list of "such as kepe Taverns and Ale Howsys" already included some names associated with this project. In Belper there were five taverns (for fewer than a hundred houses). Listed as Inn-Keepers were:
- John Bradshaw
- Widow Stret
- John Gyte
- Edmund Andrew
- Thomas Smyth.
Nearby, in Heage were:
- Garman Hill
- Henry Bunting
- John Thornsworth
- John Both
- William Ellyot
- Olyver Chetham
- Widow Ashburn
And in Hazelwood, Turnditch and Windley were:
- Richard Key
- Nicholas Bromley
