[The following information was compiled by Reg Butler (Hahndorf Historian) and has been taken directly from his computer files - created 16/06/2004]
Coach and Horses Hotels – Port Road
First Coach and Horses Hotel Port Road
pt Section 394 York township (Allotments 268-270) on the Port Road.
LINES, Oscar John 1840-1846
GREY, Edward John 1846-1848
This hotel changed its name to Halfway House Beverley, when EJ Grey’s wife, Mary Ann Grey, purchased the premises c1848.
Second Coach and Horses Hotel Port Road
Woodville pt Section 288b Hundred of Port Adelaide.
1850-1851 1st publican unknown – though perhaps Joseph Simons, then
1851-1858 Joseph Simons.
1858-1860 Mrs Joseph Simons nee Jane Catherine Carey.
SIMONS, Joseph (c1814-16/10/1857)
Born Bermondsey, Surrey, England. Died Woodville SA, at the Coach & Horses Inn, Port Road. Smith from 5 Kings Arms Court, Hickman St, Bermondsey, Surrey. Blacksmith, publican; Adelaide, Woodville. Anglican. His 10-month old daughter, Judith, had died in March 1857.
SIMONS, Mrs Joseph nee Jane Catherine Carey (c1818-9/12/1867)
Died Woodville SA, at home Port Road. Daughter of Cornelius Carey. m (2) 17/12/1860 Holy Trinity Adelaide, Nicholas Stevens.
Arrived in SA the Ship Coromandel 1837.
Halfway House Hotels – Port Road
Publicans a terrible tangle in Hoad
Old Half-Way House - 878 Port Road Woodville South (formerly Tenterden)
Hotel Founder Adolphus Valentine Wyatt 1837
Hotel history Observer 2/3/1878 p23f
Transfer publicans between 1850-1874 from Old Halfway House Tenterden to Halfway House, Beverley
MCFADGEN/MCFADYEN, Donald Feb 1850-March 1854
JOHNES, Charles March 1854-March 1855
HAYNES, Charles 12/3/1855-Feb 1856.
LOWSON, George Courtney Feb 1856-2/3/1874
HAYNES, Charles 1874
Application 22071
Halfway House - 666 Port Road, Beverley (formerly York)
Hotel Founder Oscar John Lines 1840
LINES, Oscar John publican Halfway House Port Road April 1840 - Application 217024.22
Transfer publicans between 1850-1874 from Halfway House Beverley to Old Halfway House, Tenterden
RISELY, Stocker 1850-1850
CHANDLER, Henry 1850-1855
HOLDING, Robert 1856-1857
PORTER, William Hobbs 1858-1867
LAWRENCE, George 1869-1870
REYNOLDS, William James 1870-1871
HENDERSON, James 1872-1873
LAWRENCE, George Henry 1872-1873
