Norman Hotel

[david_russell]

Re Patricks point that suicides could not be buried in a cemetery. This was not always the case, there was another Coroners Inquest into another suicide in St Leonards at the Prince of Wales, Bohemia in 1872. The verdict was suicide and the report stated that the body was buried in the cemetery.

[SteveT]

I am resurrecting this old post as it came up on a Google search for me.

Whilst researching family history, my 2 x great grand aunt and her husband (William & Eliza Palmer) were owners/proprietors of the Norman Hotel in the mid-late 1880s. The 1861 census shows William as a hotel keeper (of the Norman Hotel) and the 1871 census shows Eliza as the hotel proprietor - she now being a widow. By 1881, Eliza had moved, she was 77 years old and presumably unable to run the establishment.
I haven't seen a copy of David Russell's book yet but wondered if he or anyone else had any information about the hotel at this time, and before & after.