The 1839 Tithe map lists the Three Mariners as “The Green” but the advert below (dated 1834) gives the address as Fore Street. Looking at the Tithe map it’s possible that the Inn extended from The Green to Fore Street
The earliest record we have been able to find is in the Vestry Minutes of 1769.
Timeline
| Date | Source | |
|---|---|---|
| 30 Jan 1769 | Meeting at Half Moon that tells of Three Mariners pub leading Workhouse residents into great temptation. Quote below “Whereas it appears to the Parishioners and the same is confirmed by many years experience that the permitting a public house where the Sign of the Three Mariners has been lately kept leading into the Workhouse has been a great Temptation from time to time to the several Governors of the Workhouse and to the poor people who have been supported therein to spend their time & money in the said public house to the unspeakable injury and loss of the parish. It is therefore ordered that no recommendation whatsoever for continuing the said Three Mariners as a public house or any application relating thereto be heard or encouraged but that the same house be from and after the next Licensing day absolutely discontinued from being any longer a public house, and that proper steps be taken in the meantime for procuring another tenant for the same if the present tenant should not think proper to continue therein without carrying on the public business of selling Ale.” | Vestry Minutes |
| 1822 | Elizabeth Searle | Pigots |
| 1830 | Elizabeth Searle | Pigots |
| 1839 | Henry Goodhind | Robsons |
| 30th March 1839 | “Mary Goodhind kept the Three Mariners Cullompton, in August dined with Mrs Didham in the bar. Blampin was there, Mrs D wanted to know of Blampin whether he would appoint a day; she proposed Sunday week and all parties present were requested to attend to what she said, and she put down three half crowns on the table for brandy and water all round. Blampin was drunk that night; had often seen Mrs D tipsy, generally took brandy and water, often raw spirits. Other witnesses were called, two of whom swore they had seen the plaintiff drunk; a third however said he knew nothing against her character”. | Exeter & Plymouth Gazette |
| 1839 Tithe Map | Plot 2271 – Mariners Inn and Garden, owned and occupied by Johanna Hole | |
| 1841 Census | Johanna Hole Innkeeper Charlotte Hole 12 Ann Hole 9 Clara Hole 6 Walter Hole 18m Ann Searle 48 Barmaid Walter Searle 20 Waiter | |
| 1841-1882 | Title deeds Three Mariners Inn | Devon Records Office 74B/MT/1107-1112 |
| 1844 | Johanna Hole | Pigots |
| 1850 | John Bodley Frost | Whites |
| 1851 Census | Charles Ewens, 28, victualler, born Bridport in Dorset Joanna, 42, wife, born Cullompton Thomas, son, 5, scholar, born Cullompton Ann Hole, daughter in law, 17, barmaid, born Cullompton Walter, son-in-law, 10, scholar, born Cullompton Robert Frost, 39, Brewer, servant, born Cullompton (deaf & dumb) | Note: Joanna Hole has, by this time, married Charles Ewens |
| 1842/3 | John Bodley Frost | Whites |
| 22 Jan 1862 | Exeter Court of Bankruptcy Re C B Ewens fellmonger and innkeeper of Cullompton. This was a meeting for the bankrupt’s last examination and discharge…..The bankrupt’s wife has a separate interest in the Three Mariners, Cullompton, and the business of an innkeeper is carried on by her in that house … The bankrupt’s wife was a widow when married to the bankrupt , and had a little property which included the inn. | Exeter Flying Post |
Exeter & Plymouth Gazette: 22 January 1862