Mary PRICE - Getting closer?
I swear to you that I really have tried to find Mary PRICE on the 1871 census before! Or maybe I just dreamed I did? After all, I may well have just seen the PRICE name and headed for a dark place to lie down :)
Still, I have today found the PRICE family on the 1871 census, living at 48 Hatton Wall, Saffron Hill, Finsbury, London. On Ancestry, the Civil Parish is described as "Ely Rents and Hatton Garden and Saffron Hill" which may be appropriate as number 48 Hatton Wall has a number of families living in it as well as the PRICE family. Perhaps it is some kind of rental apartment?
The entry for number 48 starts on the previous page of the census. There's the GUIDETTI family, consisting of Pietro and Margaret GUIDETTI and their five children, the STABLES family, headed by the widow Mary A STABLES with six members of her family, five children and one daughter-in-law and also the AMBLER family headed by the widower William AMBLER with his three sons.
The PRICE family itself is as follows on the 1871 census (Reference is RG10; Piece: 376; Folio: 27; Page: 47)
William PRICE Head Mar 40 Drover (the place of birth is dittoed from the previous entry and I think it is just "Surrey" but it could be "Surrey, Lambeth")
Mary PRICE Wife Mar 33 Middlesex
Mary PRICE Dau Unm 16 Servant (Dom) Surrey
William PRICE Son 10 Scholar Surrey
Martha A PRICE Dau 9 Scholar Middlesex
The fact that William PRICE's occupation is a drover, as per Mary PRICE's marriage in 1876 is very favourable that this is the right one even though her place of birth is adrift for what she gives later in life, if it is her! However, since Martha was born in Middlesex, as a family they haven't been in Surrey for a significant part of Mary's life. Perhaps Mary gives Holborn because that's the area she remembers growing up in?
I was surprised that I didn't find more families with a Mary PRICE with a father called William PRICE to be honest!
As an aside, I wonder how many drovers were actually living in London in 1871? Such a 'rural' occupation and yet I guess animals needed to be herded into the areas like Smithfield market from the surrounding countryside. Something to investigate further!
Still, I have today found the PRICE family on the 1871 census, living at 48 Hatton Wall, Saffron Hill, Finsbury, London. On Ancestry, the Civil Parish is described as "Ely Rents and Hatton Garden and Saffron Hill" which may be appropriate as number 48 Hatton Wall has a number of families living in it as well as the PRICE family. Perhaps it is some kind of rental apartment?
The entry for number 48 starts on the previous page of the census. There's the GUIDETTI family, consisting of Pietro and Margaret GUIDETTI and their five children, the STABLES family, headed by the widow Mary A STABLES with six members of her family, five children and one daughter-in-law and also the AMBLER family headed by the widower William AMBLER with his three sons.
The PRICE family itself is as follows on the 1871 census (Reference is RG10; Piece: 376; Folio: 27; Page: 47)
William PRICE Head Mar 40 Drover (the place of birth is dittoed from the previous entry and I think it is just "Surrey" but it could be "Surrey, Lambeth")
Mary PRICE Wife Mar 33 Middlesex
Mary PRICE Dau Unm 16 Servant (Dom) Surrey
William PRICE Son 10 Scholar Surrey
Martha A PRICE Dau 9 Scholar Middlesex
The fact that William PRICE's occupation is a drover, as per Mary PRICE's marriage in 1876 is very favourable that this is the right one even though her place of birth is adrift for what she gives later in life, if it is her! However, since Martha was born in Middlesex, as a family they haven't been in Surrey for a significant part of Mary's life. Perhaps Mary gives Holborn because that's the area she remembers growing up in?
I was surprised that I didn't find more families with a Mary PRICE with a father called William PRICE to be honest!
As an aside, I wonder how many drovers were actually living in London in 1871? Such a 'rural' occupation and yet I guess animals needed to be herded into the areas like Smithfield market from the surrounding countryside. Something to investigate further!
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