occupation

Bank messenger, later a publican
who also ran a coffee room

dates

Born: Sunday 23 May 1819, 12.30pm
        Banbury, Oxon

Married: Eliza PYLE, 14 Jul 1850, St Michael’s
        Cornhill, London

Died: 31 Jul 1872 in the Coach & Horses public
        house, opposite his coffee room in Pitlake,
        Croydon, Surrey

residence

Banbury, Oxon; Hoxton, London; St James, Westminster; Bromley, Kent; Croydon, Surrey

submitted by

Rodney Graham WISE (great-grandson)

website for more information

www.members.westnet.com.au/banbury

Background information

William WISE was born in Banbury at 12.30pm on Sunday 23 May 1819. His father was a town crier and gaoler and the website link above gives more details of his ancestry. William married a butcher’s daughter, Eliza PYLE, on 14 July 1850 at St Michael’s Cornhill, London. Their son William Thomas WISE, who lived in Sheerness, Kent, prepared a family tree.

In 1851, William WISE was a bank messenger living in Hoxton, London. Ten years later he was still a bank messenger but living in St James, Westminster. A decade later he was a publican at the Crown & Anchor pub, 9 Park Road, Bromley, Kent. He died in 1872 in the Coach & Horses pub, Pitlake, Croydon, opposite a coffee room and beer shop that he ran.