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EPSOM BUSINESSES 1911

23 High Street, Epsom
‘Devon House’
Current Occupier (2013) Betfred – Bookmaker

Above: Parkville House Flats

Occupier in 1911 George James Beams
Bootmaker (‘The Anatomical Bootmaker’)
Details of 1911 Proprietor Born 1848 Epsom; married 1869 Louisa Eliza Hurssey (c.1848-75), then in 1876 married Elizabeth Ayling c.1841-1906 and in 1907 married Edith Annie Lizzie Chambers c.1864-1945.

Children (all born Epsom) – Edith Louisa, born 1870, married Herbert Richard Darlison, emigrated to USA 1905, died 1964 Toledo, Ohio; Annie Elizabeth 1872-1929, unmarried; Frederick George 1873-1955, boot factor, married Mary Ann Austin.

Father (also George) was a market gardener. George Junior had another shop in Bridge Street and later at 6 East Street; he was also an Epsom councillor and on the Epsom Board of Guardians for many years.

Died 6 January 1919, still living at Devon House.

Go to the 1913 Map of Epsom High Street