Isaac Risbridger was the landlord of the Jolly Waggoners pub in Beggars Hill, Ewell at the time of the 1861 census. It had a large half-moon pull-in with a horses' water trough at one end. A detached brick and slate building. with a bar, tap room, living room, scullery, wash house and WC, with an outside urinal. There was a cellar in the basement. Upstairs there were four bedrooms and a dressing room. Outside there was an old timber and tiled shed which had once been a stable for four horses. It was well used by carmen stopping for a break in their journeys. The pub was demolished in 2002.

Ten years later aged 62 Isaac was registered in the 1871 census as a beekeeper.