Philip PRITCHARD. Hannah from London, LONG link ? (General)

by Jefff , West London, Middlesex, Saturday, December 06, 2014, 15:13 (3641 days ago) @ patsy

Hi Patsy,
thanks for the info abt Phillip, very helpful.

I too saw the Hannah Parsons in the Bermondsey workhouse c1841 and thought she was a possible if not a probable, until I remembered that she would/should ?? have been a Brown not a Parsons then ??, or maybe not.. so many variables. But now I wonder if the Patrick Brown link is more fiction than fact, he only seems to appear in her marriage record after all.
Re how/why she got to the FoD, as you know a great many people, particularly girls into domestic service, went t'other way via the canal/GWR mainline to find work in London thro' Paddington. Many Irishmen went there for the great canal/railway/house building projects of the 1800s. I should have posted last night my feelings were that maybe Hannah, or another relative of hers, travelled from London to Monmouth with the Blanche LONG family - judging from my quick look at the Census' the LONGS made their money while living in London before moving to Cheltenham(several LONGS thereabouts) and settling in Monmouth. I do feel they are a strong link, why else might such a well-to-do family be witnesses at Hannah's wedding (NO disrespect to Hannah but they seem to be a social-class apart) ??

Re the Etheridges too me that seemed an unsual name, so hopefully easier to trace, but if my memory serves me right the PRs show they aren't that rare in the Awre area after all ?.

A tricky one !