Census Listings
1851 Henry Gregory, age 30, is now listed as Innkeeper and Cooper (we must assume that barrel making and the brewery are in full production). He is listed together with his wife Sarah, age 20, and their two daughters Ann, age 5, and Mary Jane, age 3, and a servant Eliza Hanniford. (The “Old Inns of Chagford” informs us that Henry Gregory was John Berry’s manager.)
1861 Henry Gregory’s family now includes two more daughters, Emily, age 8, and Sarah, age 5, and his nephew George, (Harvey ?) age 13, together with two servants.
1871 Henry Gregory is still innkeeper along with his wife and daughter Sarah, now 15, and a new daughter Alice, age 8. Also living with them is Mary Hext, a servant and Henry’s niece Jessie, age 13.
1881 Henry and Sarah Gregory are still the innkeepers along with daughters Emily and Alice. Two servants are also listed, they are Alfred and Laura Setter.
Unionists rejoicing after election of their MP 1908
1891 By this time Henry and Sarah Gregory have retired and are now listed as living in Bailiff’s Hay (Bailey’s Hey). James Usher Winkfield, age 40, is now the innkeeper, described as Licensed Victualler and Farmer together with his wife Annie, age 33, and daughters Emily, age 9, Florence, age 6, son Harry, age 4, and Nellie, age 1. Also servants Ellen Hill and Bessie Bowden. Two guests are listed; they are Fleet Surgeon M.D. Brien MacDermott and his wife Eileen.
1901 James Winkfield is still the Hotelkeeper with his wife Annie and daughters Emily, Florence and Nellie, a new daughter Winnie age 6 is also listed. George Aggett is recorded as servant/groom.
1911 James and Annie Winkfield are still Innkeeper and wife. Also daughters Emily, Nellie and Winnie are recorded as assistants in the business. Son Harry is also listed as farm worker and posting, meaning a carriage driver.
By the end of WW1 horse drawn transport had largely been overtaken by motorised buses and the following advert of 1918 shows that James Winkfield is giving up the posting business. The number of carriages to be sold include three coaches to carry 22, 15 and 10 passengers, a nearly new landau, three waggonettes, two Victorias, two gigs and a wine cart. James Usher Winkfield died later that year.
The Globe had long been a Post Hotel on one of the old coaching routes across Dartmoor. It was involved with the hire and stabling of horse drawn vehicles and later as a staging point for connections to the railway stations at Moretonhampstead, Yeoford and Exeter. At first by horse drawn transport then, in the early years of the 20th century, by steam and later diesel buses.
