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Thanks to everyone for their hard work here.
Flick, thanks for your second opinion on the first name of Stanley.
Choccy, many, many thanks for the baptisms. I had the births, but I hadn't a clue which church to start with for baptisms, so this is new valuable stuff. (Charles Walter Prior was my grandad, by the way.)

I now have some certificates to get and maybe some registers to puzzle over. There might be a marriage entry in Kensal Green with badly mangled surnames - you never know. Seeing that it's happened before I won't give up hope yet.

Once more, many many thanks.

you probably have these -


Name: Charles Walter Prior
Record Type: Baptism
Date: 23 Jul 1895
Father's Name: Joseph Prior
Mother's Name: Harriett Prior
Parish: St John the Evangelist, Kensal Green
Borough: Westminster
County: Middlesex


Elizabeth Beatrice Prior Baptism 28 Aug 1895 Joseph Prior,
Harriet Prior St John the Evangelist, Kensal Green Westminster


James Frederick Prior Baptism 28 Aug 1895 Joseph Prior,
Harriet Prior St John the Evangelist, Kensal Green Westminster


Daisy Maude Prior Baptism 15 Dec 1896 Joseph Prior,
Harriet Louisa Prior St Augustine, Kilborn Westminster


Christina May Prior Baptism 30 Jan 1898 Joseph Prior,
Harriet Prior St Augustine, Kilborn Westminster

On 1891 image the child 'Stomley' is definitely not Sidney...........it is almost certainly Stanley, born Westminster

think you're probably right Flick !

Calling herself Prior when she married Lawrence is not proof that she married Prior...........probably didn't want to own up to so many children being illegitimate

Choccy,
thanks for that info. I'm glad to see she got married at least once. Still, if her daughter with Stephen was nine at the time she is obviously in no hurry. And I'm afraid that it still doesn't prove that she ever married Joseph Prior.

One other curiosity is the entry on the 1891 census - there is a child referred to as "Stornley" which I have looked at and it could be either Stanley or Sidney (the writing is very bad).. Now I can't find a candidate in the indices for this child, and he vanishes by 1901, with no apparent death certificate either.

Harriett does not give up her secrets easily!

Perhaps Joseph is Robert Prior's brother !!


EDIT :
No, scrub that, the dates are wrong way round.
The Robert Prior marriage is later than the Lawrence one.

she marries Stephen Lawrence in 1916 - bit later than she says on the 1911 census -


Marriages Dec 1916 (>99%)
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Lawrence Stephen Prior W.Ham 4a 572
Prior Harriet Lawrence W. Ham 4a 572


so she must have married Joseph Prior at some time.

Thanks for all the information. This one is quite complex and I'm afraid I had tried to simplify it. I know all of Harriett Mannal's details including her family background up to 1881.
In the late 1880's she either does (or does not) marry my great grandfather Joseph Prior - and I am definite that the name is Joseph.
He definitely dies in 1902, and she then either does (or does not) marry Stephen Lawrence (can't find a certificate for that one, either) and has at least one child with him. The other children on the 1911 census are his children by a previous marriage.
Without a marriage I can't find Joseph Prior's father (there are too many possible candidates).
I've been banging my head on this one for six years...

1911

LAWRENCE, Stephen Head Married M 58 1853 Brick Layer Middlesex Tottenham VIEW
LAWRENCE, Harriett Wife Married
7 years F 46 1865 Suffolk Chipperfield VIEW
LAWRENCE, Edith Daughter F 4 1907 Essex Tidal Basin VIEW
PRIOR, Elizabeth Stepdaughter Single F 20 1891 Cycle Tyre Maker London Sub Nth Kensington VIEW
PRIOR, Charles Stepson Single M 18 1893 Van Boy London Sub Nth Kensington VIEW
PRIOR, Frederick Stepson Single M 16 1895 Warehouse Boy Middx Willesden VIEW
PRIOR, Daisy Stepdaughter F 14 1897 London Sub Hampstead VIEW
PRIOR, Christina Stepdaughter F 13 1898 School London Sub Hampstead VIEW
PRIOR, George Grandson M 0 (5 MONTHS) 1911 Essex Leytonstone VIEW

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RG number:
RG14 Piece:
9492 Reference:
RG14PN9492 RG78PN508 RD188 SD4 ED22 SN144

Registration District:
West Ham Sub District:
Canning Town Enumeration District:
22 Parish:
West Ham

Address:
26 Rivett St Victoria Dock Road E County:
Essex

Are you sure it was Joseph ??
There could be a page mistranscribed again.


Marriages Sep 1917 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Hannan Harriett - Prior- S. Shields 10a 1245

Prior Robert - Hannan S.Shields 10a 1265

I had the same problem with two ancestors and sent for the birth cert. of one of their children. The birth was registered in the husband's surname and gave the mother's maiden name - but they did not marry until a few years later (they both committed bigamy a few years later)
Liz

I have Joseph on the 1891 census and the family together in 1901.
I have several of the children's birth cerificates starting with Elizabeth Beatrice Prior 19 oct 1890.
Father given as Joseph Prior and mother as Harriett Prior nee Mannall, but were they really married?

Birth entered twice under different page numbers

Births Jun 1867 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Mannall Harriett - Woodbridge 4a 635
Mannall Harriett - Woodbridge 4a 655

1891 just for info

Name: Harriott Prior
Age: 25
Estimated birth year: abt 1866
Relation: Wife
Gender: Female
Where born: Charfield, Suffolk, England

Civil parish: Kensington
Ecclesiastical parish: All Saints
County/Island: London
Country: England

Street Address:

Occupation:

Condition as to marriage:

Education:

Employment status: View image

Registration district: Kensington
Sub-registration district: Kensington Town
ED, institution, or vessel: 55
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members: Name Age
Harriott Prior 25
Stomley Prior 2
Beatrice Prior 5/12

1901

Name: Harriet Prior
Age: 33
Estimated birth year: abt 1868
Relation: Wife
Spouse's name: Joseph Prior
Gender: Female
Where born: Bromley, Middlesex, England

Civil parish: West Ham
Ecclesiastical parish: St Gabriel
County/Island: Essex
Country: England

Registration district: West Ham
Sub-registration district: Plaistow
ED, institution, or vessel: 63
Neighbors: View others on page
Household schedule number: 187
Household Members: Name Age
Joseph Prior 33
Harriet Prior 33
Elizabeth Prior 10
Charles Prior 8
Frederick Prior 6
Daisy Prior 4
Christina Prior 3
Robert Prior 6 Months

1891

Name: Joseph Prior
Age: 24
Estimated birth year: abt 1867
Relation: Patient
Gender: Male
Where born: Bow, London, England

Civil parish: Paddington
Ecclesiastical parish: All Saints
County/Island: London
Country: England


Registration district: Paddington
Sub-registration district: St John Paddington
ED, institution, or vessel: St Marys Hospital

Which child's birth cert do you have........your source, presumably, for Harriet's maiden name

Unfortunately Joseph died in 1902.

Have you found them on the l9ll census - this will state the number of years they have been married.
Regards, Liz