Duncan's Head

One measly reference.

• 1859 Directory of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight

  Edward Piper, victualler, Duncan’s Head, Hilsea.

Ok, there are a couple of near misses for the Duncan’s Head that suggest we might be looking at an error:

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Moore, Thomas (Duncan’s Head), St Nicholas st. Portsmouth

— Slater, Isaac (1852) Slater’s Royal National and Commercial Directory and Topography. Isaac Slater, Fleet Street. source

Todo

Hypothetically, if the Duncan’s Head in 1852 is the unnamed public house on the corner of St. Nicholas Street and King William’s Place in 1860/1867 then it’s been renamed to the Rose and Crown by 1861/1874. I can discount this theory by finding pre-1852 references to the Rose and Crown.

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We also have a Rodney’s Head just a little further along the road on the 1861/1874 town plan

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Piper, Edward Duncan’s Head, Copnor

Duncan’s Head, Edward Piper, Copnor, Landport

— Kelly, E.R. (1880), Kelly’s Directory of Hampshire, with the Isle of Wight, Wiltshire and Dorsetshire, Kelly & Co. Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London source

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Copnor’s a maybe. 20 years later though. Big gap.

Todo

I’ve talked to someone about this before. I need to dig that conversation out of my email. Somebody who was interested in the Five Cricketers?