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Re: Polly and Patty PRIOR WOODSTOCK
« Reply #9 on: Sunday 01 August 21 15:55 BST (UK) »
Looks like Martha Ethel joined her sisters in Sheffield.

Marriages Mar 1912 
Prior    Martha E    Walters    Sheffield    9c   656

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Re: Polly and Patty PRIOR WOODSTOCK
« Reply #10 on: Sunday 01 August 21 15:56 BST (UK) »

Also a request for Polly Prior

On 1851 census in Woodstock with aunt Letitia. (The name is written as FORIS 2nd family down) This is a mistake.

Birth 1869 Woodstock

Again I can find no birth/no marriage on FREEBMD and she disappears.


Polly can be a nickname, often for either Mary or Dorothy

Is it possible that Polly is Mary Ann Prior possible daughter of James & Harriett PRIOR

surname transcribed as PRIVE

1871 Piece:   1449 Folio:   58 Page number:   15
James 28   Head
Harriett 25   Wife
Mary Anne   4   Daughter Tackley Oxfordshire

1911 Letitia Prior is Aunt to Mary Ann Prior born c 1867 Tackley, Oxfordshire

added link 1911c https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X7KC-QPD

Mary Ann Prior   Head   45   Tackley, Oxfordshire
Letisha Prior   Aunt   67   Woodstock, Oxfordshire
Dorothy Mary Prior   Daughter   14   Oxford, Oxfordshire
Margarite May Prior   Daughter   11   Woodstock, Oxfordshire
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Re: Polly and Patty PRIOR WOODSTOCK
« Reply #11 on: Sunday 01 August 21 16:03 BST (UK) »
1881 Piece:   1512 Folio:   41 Page Number:   16
John Prior   70
Louisa Prior   54
Letita Prior   41 daughter Woodstock, Oxfordshire
Mary Ann Prior   14 granddaughter Tackley, Oxfordshire

1901 Piece:   1392 Folio:   15 Page Number:   22
Letitia Prior   57 Head
Charlotte Prior   17 dau
Mary A Prior   3 Niece
Dorothy M Prior   4 dau
Margaret M Prior 1 dau

Mary A Prior age has been mistranscribed it should be age 31,
Dorothy & Margaret are Mary Anne's children
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Re: Polly and Patty PRIOR WOODSTOCK
« Reply #12 on: Sunday 01 August 21 16:14 BST (UK) »
It looks as if Mary Ann maybe the illegitimate daughter or Harriet

Mary Ann Prior Hemmings
Baptism   2 Jun 1867 Tackley, Oxfordshire
Mother:   Harriet Hemmings

HEMMINGS, MARY  ANN     - 
GRO Reference: 1867  J Quarter in WOODSTOCK  Volume 03A  Page 652

Harriet Hemmings f/a father Joseph,labourer
married on 26 Dec 1870 Bladon, Oxfordshire
Spouse:   James Prior f/a, labourer father John, butcher
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Re: Polly and Patty PRIOR WOODSTOCK
« Reply #13 on: Sunday 01 August 21 16:26 BST (UK) »
When Mary Anne's daughter Dorothy marries father named as William Henry Prior, house decorator

Dorothy Mary Prior age 30 Married on   28 Mar 1927 at Woodstock, Oxfordshire,
Spouse:   Henry Edward Winter
One witness was Margaret May Prior
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Re: Polly and Patty PRIOR WOODSTOCK
« Reply #14 on: Sunday 01 August 21 16:29 BST (UK) »
It looks as if Mary Ann maybe the illegitimate daughter or Harriet

Mary Ann Prior Hemmings
Baptism   2 Jun 1867 Tackley, Oxfordshire
Mother:   Harriet Hemmings

HEMMINGS, MARY  ANN     - 
GRO Reference: 1867  J Quarter in WOODSTOCK  Volume 03A  Page 652

Harriet Hemmings f/a father Joseph,labourer
married on 26 Dec 1870 Bladon, Oxfordshire
Spouse:   James Prior f/a, labourer father John, butcher

As Mary Ann has about 10 siblings all with James Edward b 1841 as their father I am assuming that he is the father of Mary Ann PRIOR Hemmings conceived before he married Harriet!

I have her birth certificate with no father named.


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Re: Polly and Patty PRIOR WOODSTOCK
« Reply #15 on: Sunday 01 August 21 16:33 BST (UK) »
When Mary Anne's daughter Dorothy marries father named as William Henry Prior, house decorator

Dorothy Mary Prior age 30 Married on   28 Mar 1927 at Woodstock, Oxfordshire,
Spouse:   Henry Edward Winter
One witness was Margaret May Prior

Dorothy Mary Prior. Now there's another can of worms. ;D Her father was actually William Henry Horn.

I have her birth certificate and a baptism with the name HORN!

I had a nightmare tracking her down until mum found the baptism card.

She always believed that her mums maiden name was PRIOR.

Are you still following.



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Re: Polly and Patty PRIOR WOODSTOCK
« Reply #16 on: Sunday 01 August 21 16:54 BST (UK) »
When Mary Anne's daughter Dorothy marries father named as William Henry Prior, house decorator

Dorothy Mary Prior age 30 Married on   28 Mar 1927 at Woodstock, Oxfordshire,
Spouse:   Henry Edward Winter
One witness was Margaret May Prior

Dorothy Mary Prior. Now there's another can of worms. ;D Her father was actually William Henry Horn.

I have her birth certificate and a baptism with the name HORN!

I had a nightmare tracking her down until mum found the baptism card.

She always believed that her mums maiden name was PRIOR.

Are you still following.

Just about keeping up with it all........had seen that Horn baptism looked at the GRO indexes showed her mmn HEMMINGS


Also a request for Polly Prior

Birth 1869 Woodstock

Again I can find no birth/no marriage on FREEBMD and she disappears.


Do you think then that Mary Ann Prior HEMMINGS is Polly PRIOR from 1891 census with her Aunt Letitia Prior ?


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Re: Polly and Patty PRIOR WOODSTOCK
« Reply #17 on: Sunday 01 August 21 16:58 BST (UK) »
Do you think then that Mary Ann Prior HEMMINGS is Polly PRIOR from 1891 census with her Aunt Letitia Prior ?

Not unheard of - I had an aunt who I knew as Aunty Polly - she was actually Mary.

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