Levi Henry Nutbeem of New Fishbourne, Sussex is the man in question. Levi was baptised in Chiddingfold, Surrey in 1860 and spent his early life in Petworth, a town about 17 miles away from New Fishbourne where he is shown on the 1891 census as a “baker and confectioner”. I don’t know what prompted the move to New Fishbourne, but he appears in trade directories from 1899 up until at least 1938 (the latest directory I have available) in various combinations of baker with either grocer or post office. Perhaps he became aware of an opening in New Fishbourne and was looking to better himself – a baker is not listed specifically in any of the earlier trade directories for New Fishbourne.
The 1911 census summary places the baker’s shop very precisely between the Wesleyan Chapel and the Woolpack Inn – food for the soul, food for the body and food for mind all in a row. The Wesleyan chapel was demolished 1971 but the Woolpack is still there, although now in a more modern guise as it was rebuilt in 1937.
Levi Nutbeem and his wife Louisa (nee Soal) are listed in the 1911 together with three of their five children – their eldest son Albert Edward was an Insurance Agent and is enumerated as living next door. He also appears in a number of the trade directories mentioned above. Another son, Harold died in his middle teens.
Levi died in 1949 (preceded by his wife in 1948) and left £4079.25. Probate was granted to his son Albert Edward and daughter Louie.