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masons' Arms
Rotten Row (Market Street)
The Masons' Arms was a short-lived beerhouse run by Samuel Trask but, since it was a named establishment I have given it its own page. From the records it is not possible to pinpoint the location of the Mason's Arms within Rotten Row.
Rotten Row was, at the time of these records, an early name for today's Market Street and, confusingly it was also known as Reckleford. Rotten Row was named after the broad track in Hyde Park, London, still reserved for the exercise of horses.
Samuel Trask was the only licensee. He was a roper by trade and was born in Somerset around 1791. On 25 December 1820 he married Mary Sweet at Merriott, but Mary died in September 1838. Samuel married his second wife, Ann, in January 1841 in Yeovil. Although the Mason's Arms was listed in Robson's 1835 Somerset Directory, Trask was not named, although he was listed as its licensee in the 1839 Directory. In the 1841 census he was listed with his second wife, Ann, and his two sons and a daughter from his first marriage. He was listed again in Pigot's Directory in 1842 but then I lost him in the records until his death in Yeovil in December 1865 aged about 74.
licensees
1835 – Licensee
not named
(Robson’s 1835
Somerset
Directory - Beer
Houses) listed
as
Masons' Arms
but without a
location
1839 – Samuel
Trask – Beer
Retailer
(Robson’s 1839
Directory)
1840 – Samuel
Trash (sic)
(Somerset
Gazette 1840
Directory - Beer
Houses) as
Masons' Arms
1841 – Samuel
Trask – Roper
(1861 census)
pub not named
but listed in
Rotten Row
1842 – Samuel
Trask – Retailer
of Beer (Pigot’s
1842-4
Directory)
listed in
Reckleford