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The Ramping Cat was situated 'near the village pond. This beerhouse closed in 1887.
Bicester Herald, 23.10.1874: FIGHTING AFFRAY AT FENCOTT – In the course of a fight near Mrs. Mary Tew’s beerhouse, at Fencott, on October 3, between … Jackson’s Oxford Journal, 7.11.1874: … Mary Tew, landlady of The Cat beer-house, Fencott, was charged with allowing drunkenness in her house on the date of the preceding charge…. Jackson’s Oxford Journal, 7.11.1874: … Mary Tew, a widow, who keeps the public house at Fencott, said that the deceased came to her house … Banbury Guardian, 8.11.1874: … an agricultural labourer, James Preston, belonging to Murcott, a month since the deceased was at the Ramping Cat public-house, at Fencott, with a farmer, named John Goddard … (also in Jackson’s Oxford Journal, 7.11.1874) Oxford University and City Herald, 14.11.1874: Alleged Manslaughter By A Farmer … Mary Tew, deposed I am a widow and keep a public house at Fencott in this county.… Banbury Guardian, 4.3.1875: … Tew she kept the ‘Cat’ at Fencott, and on the 3 rd of October last the prisoner came to her house … Oxford University and City Herald, 6.3.1875: Charge of Manslaughter…. His opening statement recounted the occurrence … and called Mrs Tew, who deposed that she kept the Cat at Fencott, … Banbury Guardian, 19.10.1876: Extensions of Licenses were allowed the folliowing: … Mrs. M. Tew, The Cat, Fencott; … Bicester Herald, 20.10.1876: … allowed the following … M. Tew, The Cat, Fencott … 1881 census: Charlton-on-Otmoor, Oxfordshire [Fencott came under Charlton-on-Otmoor as far as church records were concerned] Mary Tew, Widow, age 55, beerhouse (keeper), head of household, widow, beer house (keeper), born abt 1826 Ludgershall, Bucks, and children Esau, age 17, and Edith, age 15, both born Fencott, Oxon. John Cooper still a boarder. Bicester Herald, 7.9.1887: CLOSING OF A BEERHOUSE – It was reported that Mrs. Mary Tew, who had held a license for a beerhouse at Fencott, did not intend to seek its renewal, and the house will, therefore, cease to be licensed. Buckingham Advertiser, 23.1.1892: DEATHS … January 12, at Fencott, Charlton-on-Otmoor, Mrs. Mary Tew, aged 66 years.
Shirley Martin (October 2025)
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