Tuumble
Tuesday 24th August 2010 11:50pm [Edited]
Peterborough
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Following a century of being a family of apparent binge drinkers, one of my ancestors opened the 'Orbell Temperance Hotel and Coffee Rooms' in Sudbury. It's now a pub.
http://longmelfordinn.co.uk/
Here are a couple of news reports of champion family drinkers...
February 2nd 1864 - Charles Moss Orbell, a farmer of Brook Hall, Foxearth, was charged with being drunk and riotous in Cross Street, Sudbury, in the early hours of the 15th. On several previous occasions he has been charged with being drunk and disorderly. Superintendent Sachs and Sgt Chambers said they saw defendant knocking on the door of a house beside the Bull Inn in Church Street in the early hours of the morning, they told him it was a private house but he carried on. He was very drunk and on passing through Ballingdon he went to a house where many young people were at a party, the young ladies were very much frightened and sent for the police. The magistrates said they would have committed him to prison but as his mother was very ill he would be fined 50s.
August 25th 1874 - At an inquest on Oliver Orbell aged 24 it was found he died from intemperate living, he was lodging at the George Inn, Sudbury, and lived on a private income.