William Preece FFF

Name - William Preece
Date and place of birth 1835, Hereford
Names of parents Henry James Preece, Ann Preece nee Watkins
Details marriage - In Parish Church, St James Westminster 6 December 1857
Occupation(s) - Atmospheric Clock maker (1861 census) Upholsterer 1869 Death cert
Addresses where they lived - 18 Great Pulteney Street, Westminster in 1857, 5 University Street, Marylebone at Census 1961
Date, place and cause of death: Died of Phthisis (TB), aged 34, 7th March 1869 at 52 High Street St Giles North, Mdx.
Date and place of burial: Grave No 2317 Paddington (Willesden Lane) Cemetary

[Margaret in Burton]

Len

Do you have him on the 1841 and 1851 census as well?

Who did he marry?

[Margaret in Burton]

Just in case you don't.

Here is 1851

HO107; Piece: 1978; Folio: 228; Page: 23

and 1841

HO107; Piece 433; Folio: 51; Page: 4;

If you don't Ancestry I can send you the images (if you don't have them)

Originally Posted by Margaret in Burton

Len

Do you have him on the 1841 and 1851 census as well?

Who did he marry?

a. No
b.Emma Jones 1835-69 . She died of the same disease the following August.

Originally Posted by Margaret in Burton

Just in case you don't.

Here is 1851

HO107; Piece: 1978; Folio: 228; Page: 23

and 1841

HO107; Piece 433; Folio: 51; Page: 4;

If you don't Ancestry I can send you the images (if you don't have them)

Thank you Marg. Would be grateful.

I am nobbut a dilettante these days, gave up Ancestry and Soc. of Genealogists, and a few other contacts, when I hit 80. A couple of hours on the pc every night is my ration now.

This is a very sad tale. They were both born in the same year, in Herefordshire villages. As they left for London and married there, aged 22, in view of the social etiquette of the day it looks like an elopement otherwise they would have been married locally.

They settled in a seedy area of London, what is now known as Soho, and had two boys. Both parents died of TB aged 34 and one of the boys died too. I have been unable to trace the movements of the surviving boy, my grandfather, until he became an adult. Family lore says he ran away and ended working on the railways in India - where he did rather well for himself and became a Freemason.