William Tipper

205 Lower Street
57 Middle Street

205 Lower Street when it was the Windsor Castle 1855-1966 image c1955

Occupation: Butcher

Dover Telegraph and Cinque Ports General Advertiser – Saturday 06 June 1840

Not much is known about William Tipper, except that he, like his father, was a butcher. First trading in Lower Street then later in Middle Street. He married Mary Ralph in 1835 whose father, Joseph Ralph, was at one time the landlord of the Rose Inn in Lower Street.

In 1840 there is a Sale by Auction advertised in the Dover Telegraph for a Butchers shop and slaughterhouse on Beach Street that was “ …late in the occupation of William Tipper senior”  also a tenement in the Coach Yard and pasture land in  “… in the occupation of William Tipper jun.”  

William junior in 1846 signs over his estate to John Sutton of Middle Street and a fellow butcher. Just after the notice appeared in the newspaper his youngest son William died aged nine.  What happened to Ralph his eldest is not known as after 1841 no further records can be found for him. William himself suffered a long illness and died in 1853 maybe this explains why he signed his estate over to John Sutton.

Mary, his wife, stays in Middle Street before moving with her niece Schoolmistress niece to Queens Street. Mary died in West Street in 1881.

Kentish Gazette – Tuesday 17 March 1846

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