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six bells (2)
Vicarage Street
This Six Bells should not be confused with the first Six Bells - a short-lived alehouse at a different, unknown, location.
This, the second Six Bells, was a beerhouse in Vicarage Street but very little is known about it but I've given it its own page because it was a named establishment.
Sarah Sprake was born about 1785 in Yeovil and is first mentioned as licensee of the Six Bells in the beerhouses section of the 1840 Somerset Gazette directory. She was listed in the 1841 census but, not unusual for women at this time, her occupation was not listed. Living with her was her seven-year old son, Robert. Sarah was probably the widow of Robert Sprake who died in Yeovil in 1839. Pigot's Directory of 1842 listed her as a retailer of beer but by the time of the 1851 census she was living in Kiddles Lane (today's Eastland Road) off Reckleford with her son Frederick and his family. Sarah died in the spring of 1854.
licensees
1835 – Licensee
not listed
(Robson's 1835
Somerset
Directory - Beer
Houses) listed
as Six
Bells,
Vicarage Street
1840 – Sarah
Sprake (1840
Somerset Gazette
Directory - Beer
Houses) listed
as Six Bells,
Vicarage
Street
1841 – Sarah
Sprake (1841
census) listed
as Vicarage
Street
1842 – Sarah
Sprake –
Retailer of Beer
(Pigot's 1842
Directory)
listed as
Vicarage Street