Thank you Phoenix
The period of illegitimate children and family going missing is the 1890's and early 1900's.
Having looked at where the family lived on various records they seem to be living in quite middle class or even wealthy areas of London - daughter Louisa Thrasher is found in a boarding school in Chelsea/Mayfair in the 1881 census unfortunately no records survive telling us what Louisa was being taught - servants skills, theatrical skills, middle-class home keeping skills - and why not all the girls at boarding school unless they each went for limited periods - Priscilla is a widow as Robert Thrasher died in 1879.
I think the family must have erred on the side of informality as Priscilla supports her daughters with their children without husbands.
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