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Edmund Audley Prentis of Belham, Surrey, England


Edmund Audley Prentis of Belham, Surrey, England
By Linus Joseph Dewald Jr., Editor
Spring 2009 and Revised 28 Apr 2009

Update of 28 Apr 2009: Edmund Prentis is #9.2, Edward Stevens Prentis, in our Spring 2001 article entitled Prentices of Bilton Ainsty, etc . That article now replaces this article.
Introduction: The following family information is derived from census records and and correspondence with Jean C. Noble on 27 Apr 2009.

1. Edmund Prentis, also known as Edmund Audley and Edmund Augley Prentice, was b. c. 1835-37 in Wellington, Shropshire, England, and d. 17 Mar 1914 at 9 Kiddepore Ave., Hampstead, London, age 79. His daughter, Minnie Barningham, was with him. His occupation was givenas Superintendant of Stores for the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway..

He m. Annie Crowther Weaver on 4 Jun 1856 at Christ Church, Marylebone, London. They had 5 children between 1856 and 1866. Another child, Bessie Elizabeth McArthur Prentis, appears to have been born to Annie after she had separated from Edmund. She emigrated to the US, arriving in NY aboard the "Egypt" on 4 Oct 1887 with her daughters, Annie, Emily and Bessie.

Children per Ancestry.com :

  1. Edmund (Edward) Prentis, b. 1856, Islignont, London, and d. 1928, Islington, London.
  2. Howard Crowther Prentis, b. 1858, Paddington, London, and d. 1921, New Zealand.
  3. Vincent Prentis, b. 1861, Islington, London. 1900 census in Brooklyn, NY, USA.
  4. Annie Prentis, b. 1864, Islington, London. Arrtive NY, USA, on 4 Oct 1887 aboard the "Egypt with her mother and sisters.
  5. Emily Prentis, b. 1866, Clapham, Surrey. Arrtive NY, USA, on 4 Oct 1887 aboard the "Egypt with her mother and sisters.
  6. Bessie Elizabeth McArthur Prentis, b. 1874, Greenwich, and appears to have been born to Annie after she had separated from Edmund. Arrtive NY, USA, on 4 Oct 1887 aboard the "Egypt with her mother and sisters.

Edmund was still married to Annie when he had two children by Emily Keeling who had been baptised 7 May 1843 at Newport, Shropshire to William and Elizabeth (Rogers) Keeling. Emily d. 6 Sep 1873, Merton Rd., Wimbledon, of phthisis pulmonaris.

In 1881 Edwin Prentis was using the name of Edwin Audley and living at 4 Howe St, Broughton in Salford, Lancashire with his two children (Minnie aged 11 and Edith aged 10, below). He was shown as a railway officer (in later years he appears as storekeeper) for the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway and is shown as the brother of the head of the household Clara E Howard (b. 1839, York). Jean Noble's email of 25 Apr 2009 adds the following information:

    Clara E Howard's 'maiden' name was Corbitt - not Audley or Prentis. (Her brother, Charles James Corbitt, was my (Jean Noble's) great grandfather."

In 1881 Clara had two children with her who, according to a family story, were also children of Edmund Prentis/Audley. Clara appears to have used the name of Howard for her children and when Sydney Howard married (as Sydney Stephen Howard) on 2 July 1895 at the Register Office, West Derby, Lancashire he gave his father's name as Charles Edward Howard, gentleman. Jean Noble says that she has not found a marriage between anyone named Clara to a Charles Edward Howard. In the 1920s someone told Sydney Howard his father was Edmund Prentis and he moved his family elsewhere and has never been heard of since.

Children with Clara:

  1. Sydney Howard, b. 1872 He m. (as Sydney Stephen Howard) on 2 Jul 1895 at the Register Office, West Derby, Lancashire.
  2. Mary Howard, b. 1876.

Nean Noble's email of 25 Apr 2009 comments:

    With Clara E Howard in 1881 was her sister Mary Ann Corbitt (born 1844 at 20 Spanns Buildings, St Pancras) who was shown as Mary Ann Maxair. Mary Ann Corbitt/Maxair had two children, Nina Audley Maxair born in 1879 and Edmund Audley Maxair born in 1880 and I suspect these are also Edmund's children because of the appearance of the name Audley. These two children were not with their mother in 1881 and do not appear on the 1881 census but in 1891 were with her at Camp Lane, St Lawrence, Ludlow.

The known children of Edwin and Emily were:

  1. Minnie Audley Prentis, b. 10 May 1869, 8 St. John's Hill Grove, Wandsworth . . . . . . . . . [2]
  2. Edith Audley, b. 13 Mar 1871, 1 Abyssinia Rd, Battersea. She d. 1911, Marylebone, London.

On these 2 children's birth certificates the father is shown as a commercial traveller.

2. Minnie Audley Prentis, b. 10 May 1869, Balham, Surrey, England. Minnie appears as Minnie Prentis on the 1891 census with her father at the Royal Hotel, Embankment, London.

She m. Thomas Barningham on 14 Mar 1900 in St. Pauls, Kersal, Manchester. He was b. c. 1843 and d. 1921, son of Thiomas Barningham and Sarah Breese. An Ancestor Chart for him can be found at Ancestry.com . Children:

  1. Kathleen Audley Barningham, b. 7 Jan 1901 and d. c. 1978. She m. 1st Mr. Bird. She m. 2nd Mr. Simpson.
  2. Grace Audley Barningham, b. 22 Aug 1902 and d. Dec 1982. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [3]

3. Grace Audley Barningham, b. 22 Aug 1902 and d. Dec 1982.

She m. 1st. Roly Pemberton. He d. c. 1983. They had 1 or more children, including:

  1. (son) Pemberton.

She m. 2nd Mr. Zircovitz.

Who are Edmund Prentis' Parents?

It has been suggested that the parents of Edmund Prentis were Miles Prentis and Charlotte Jones who m. 20 Aug 1836 at St. Michael, Stone, Staffordshire. Miles Prentice, a Brewer, d. of Consumption on 13 May 1838 at the Pleck Inn, Walsall, Staffordshire.

The name "Audley" seems to have had some significance to Edmund who was known to his friends as "Ted."

In the 1901 census, there 2 errors for Edmund Prentis:

  • His birthplace should have been shown as Wellington.
  • Edith's married name was "Cranstoun" and not "Wanstoun.

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