Mary PRICE ..... or is she someone else?
PRICE is such a wonderful name to research. Much the same as SMITH! So, having found William and Mary PRICE on the 1871 census with children, Mary, William and Martha A, I thought I would trawl through the births registered to each name for around the time periods that I thought they were born using freebmd.org.uk and then look each one up on the gro.org.uk website to get the mother's maiden name linked to each birth registration. Having found all this data and put in into a spreadsheet, you can then sort on the mother's maiden name to see if any family groupings emerge. This has worked a treat for me when looking for SMITH births. So, as a starter, I carefully looked at the ages for each child on the census and came up with a first guess for likely birth dates and places. As I know the ages (and birth places for that matter!) given on the census can be out, I added a year either way. Looking at the information on the census ( William and Mary PRICE on 1871 census ), I ...