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My Ancestors Were Hotelkeepers Here
My Great Grand Aunt Sarah Holgate, née Barnes, came here with her husband Benjamin in the 1870s to run the hotel (from Manchester). Benjamin died in 1877 and Sarah stayed in charge until sometime in the 1890s because in the 1901 census she is retired in Newquay. I am descended from Sarah's brother, George Barnes, who went to London and became a brewery manager somewhere south of the Thames (it is assumed because of census locations.) George married a girl from a very old Kent family called Caroline Wood and one of their daughters, Edith Mary Barnes (1871-1954) married my grandfather, Dr Robert Douglas Muir. So the world turns.
Guests in 1891
My gt grandmother, Eliza Catherine Bevans, and her family were guests in the hotel in 1891. Their father was the divisional carpenter at the coast guard there.
They show in the same census page as the lady mentioned in the post above/
