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KING WILLIAM INN DOCKING index
THE GREEN SMITHDON HUNDRED FULL LICENCE
SMITHDON, DOCKING & BROTHERCROSS LICENCE REGISTERS PS 13/4/1 & 2 ( 1949 to 1975 )
BULLARDS   
WATNEY MANN    
CHEF & BREWER    
BRENT WALKER 03.1988
PUBMASTER    
Licensees :
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JOHN LAKE 1836 - 1846
BUCKINGHAM STRINGER (37) 1851
MARY ANN STRINGER 1854
JAMES HIGH 1856 - 1869
JOHN SMITH
& railway carrier
1871 - 1896
Mrs ANN SMITH 1900 - 1904
FRED DYKE 1908 - 1916
ROBERT SOFTLEY 1922 - 1929
BURNELL BETTINSON 1937 to 1957
DORIS MAUD PENHALL 03.06.1957
DAVID WILLIAM STEVENSON 06.10.1969
ERNEST GURNEY ( Guiney ? ) 08.12.1969
ROGER HAROLD CROSS 03.12.1973
   
Docking - 07.07.1996
July 1996

KING WILLIAM IV 1836 & 1879

Original site was opposite.
Rebuilt after 1932 on the site of the VICTORIA.

Sign displayed in 1970's was painted by Thirtle.

Rachel Smith - pre 1898
Rachel Smith standing at the front door of the original King William.
The photograph was taken at some time before her marriage in 1898.


The wedding of Frederick Dyke to Rachel Smith - 1898
The 1898 wedding photograph of Frederick Dyke and Rachel Smith, taken in the rear garden of the King William.
John Smith is at the extreme left and Ann Smith is at the extreme right.
Thanks to Rita McIver for the information and photographs of her grandfather, Frederick Dyke.