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PRIOR & TAVENER/TAVENDER

DaveHam9

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Births Dec Qtr 1853 PRIOR Sarah - Yeovil 5c 465 mmn TAVENDER

County Somerset
Place Stoke Sub Hamdon
Church name St Mary
Register type Parish Register
Register entry number 3170
Birth date 03 Aug 1823
Baptism date 17 Aug 1823
Person forename Eliza
Father forename Joseph
Mother forename Hester
Father surname TAVENDER
Person abode Stoke
Father occupation Labourer
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Qld. Death 30 Apr 1901/C04006 Prior Silvester - James Prior - Fanny - * age 79

Qld. Death 28 May 1906/C03178 Prior Eliza - Joseph Tavender - Fanny - * age 82

Too much of a coincidence so at least one of the mother's names probably an error by the informant.
 

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County Somerset
Place Stoke Sub Hamdon
Church name St Mary
Register type Parish Register
Register entry number 3085
Baptism date 09 Dec 1821
Person forename Sylvester
Father forename James
Mother forename Frances
Father surname PRIOR
Person abode Stoke
Father occupation Labourer
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County Somerset
Place Stoke Sub Hamdon
Church name St Mary
Register type Parish Register
Marriage date 13 May 1811
Groom forename James
Groom surname PRIOR
Bride forename Frances
Bride surname TAVENNOR
Notes Banns
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County Somerset
Place Stoke Sub Hamdon
Church name St Mary
Register type Parish Register
Marriage date 30 May 1814
Groom forename Joseph
Groom surname TAVENER
Bride forename Hester
Bride surname PRYOR
Notes Banns
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1841 Tavener
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MQ17-38X

The wrong family. That Eliza can be found unmarried and still with mother Ann in 1851.

County Somerset
Place Stoke Sub Hamdon
Church St Mary
Parish Register
Marriage 6 Jan 1844
Groom Silvester PRYOR
Groom age Full Age
Groom condition Bachelor
Groom occupation Labourer
Bride Eliza TAVENER
Bride age Minor
Bride condition Spinster
Bride occupation Glover
Groom father James
Groom father occupation Labourer
Bride father Joseph
Bride father occupation Labourer
 
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Several Elizas but none fit - wrong parents etc

HO107/960/7/F7/p7
Lower or North Street, Stoke under Hamdon, Yeovil
James Prior 60 Ag Lab
Fanny Prior 55
Silvester Prior 15 Ag Lab
All born Somerset.
 

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