My wife has been looking into the Price family as her ancestor is David Price (b1825), one of Joseph Price's brothers. She has David's wedding certificate which shows his father (and hence your Joseph's father) as Joseph Price, occupation waterman. This makes sense as being a waterman often ran in families. From birth records on the family search website in the Droitwich area (where most of that generation, except Joseph jr, were baptised) it seems their mother was called Mary and my wife thinks she has found Mary on the 1841 and 1851 census where she is shown as originating from Exeter, which ties with Joseph jr being baptised there. Mary is listed as married and a wife but no husband is present on either census, and to date we can't find Joseph senior on any census. This makes it hard to know where he is from.
There is a wedding of Joseph Price to Mary Ann Grigg in Exeter in 1806 and this may explain the middle name of Joseph jr's first child! The wedding record lists Joseph as a soldier. As this was during the Napoleonic wars and Exeter had a barracks this is not unusual and doesn't mean he is from Exeter originally. My wife has another ancestor from south Wales who joined the army and married in Edinburgh and had his first child in Colchester, before settling back in south Wales.
