PROSSERS OF WEOBLEY

[Puffcat]

Woops I realised I had not searched long enough for the younger children and found :

Susan Amelia bapt 28/2/1836
Hannah Maria bapt 10/3/1833
Thirza bapt 1//8/1825.

Wonder if Ann/Anna is Hannah Maria  - or this another Hannah named after first one b in 1809 died ?

Still a huge family  - lucky to have agood job like a blacksmith

[Puffcat]

I spotted an Eliza Jones marrying a Joseph Prosser at Webley in 1840 - is this a Prosser relative ?

[underwing]

Thanks for all this wonderful information. 

Yes Eliza Jones did marry Joseph Prosser.  Do not have the dates with me at present but if you are interested, please let me know.

Clarrie.

[underwing]

Stephen Jones Jr. came to Australia mid 1800s and settled in the Windsor area of NSW.  We have never been able to establish under what circumstances.  He and Ann had two more children but he died before the last one was born.  Tragically Ann herself was drowned some years later and the family all moved to Queensland.  Again we have never been able to establish a reason for the move but the family seems to have remained in Queensland ever since, around the Rockhampton and Townsville areas as pastoralists and farmers. 

[Puffcat]

Do you have a date when Stephen Jnr emigrated ?
Is he on the UK 1861 census ?

Do you have the details of the children born in Weobley and Kington ?

[underwing]

Below are the names of his children as recorded on the 1841 and 1851 Census that someone has kindly found for me.

He migrated between 1847 and 1852 when his son Albert Price Jones was born.  Later in 1857 Elizabeth Annie Jones was born. He died in July 1857 before she came into the world which is really sad.

This must be the marriage you mentioned -

Eliza Jones and Joseph Prosser June 1840 Weobley Vol 26 Page 401


Heres Stephen Junior in 1841 -
HO107/426/25 Folio 4 Page 2
White Hill, Weobley, Herefordshire
Stephen Jones 25 Engineer All born in county
Anne 20
George 2
Martha 3mo

1851 HO107/1978 Folio 350 Page 25
Ross Road? Hereford St Martin, Herefordshire
Stephen Jones 28 Millwright Weobley
Ann 33 Weobley
George 12 Weobley
Martha 10 Weobley
Stephen 8 Kington?
Mary Ann 6 Kington?
Arthur 4 Kington?

Regards
Catherine 

[Puffcat]

He is down variously as a millwright, and engineer and a machine maker so he was higly skilled by the sound of it. Perhaps he was tempted to take his skills to a new country where they would be appreciated instead of living in a rural economy where the weather and the price of corn and foodstuffs decided so much.