PRIEST Family Lydbrook (General)

by priest , Sunday, November 18, 2007, 06:32 (6217 days ago)

I am searching for my husband's Grandmother EVELINE EVANGELINE PRIEST who was born in Lydbrook on 7th November 1885 and anything else about the family.
I have found out the following
Her Mother was Ellen Priest formerly Gwilliam nee Payne born 1842 in Long Marston and died in Lydbrook on 3.4.1898.
Her Father was John Samuel Priest born in 1838 in Coleford and died in Lydbrook on 10.4.1894. He was the Manager of the chemical works next to the Jovial Colliers P.H. In the 1891 census they were shown as living in a house between the Crown & Sceptre Inn and the Jovial Colliers Inn.
There were six children
Clara born 24.1.1871 in Bream who married Caleb Thomas on 15.7.1897 in Coleford
Charles James born 24.9.1874 in Lydbrook who married Mary Duberly on 26.3.1894 in Lydbrook
Annie born 4.1.1879 in Lydbrook
Ellen Emily born 19.11.1882 in Lydbrook who died in Lydbrook 7.3.1883 aged 4 months
Ellenor Daisy born 25.5.1884 in Lydbrook
EVELINE EVANGELINE PRIEST born 7.11.1885 Lydbrook

Father John died on 10.4.1894 in Lydbrook and his wife on 3.4.1898 in Lydbrook

All these details have been obtained from parish records. However I can find no records regarding EVELINE at all. Her information came from tracing her birth certificate.

That is all we know until Eveline who was unmarried at the time gave birth on the 3.2.1909 to a son Leonard John Priest (My husbands Father) in London Putney. Leonard was adopted we think at about 3 years old. We are now trying to find out what happened to Eveline by searching records of deaths.

Any information about this family would be so appreciated or any information about the chemical works where John S. Priest worked. We have no idea what happened to any of the younger children once orphaned.

We intend to come up to Lydbrook from Cornwall to see if we can at least locate the graves of John, Ellen and baby Ellen in the church of Holy Jesus Lydbrook. We have been trying to contact the vicar there with no success to see if there are any details of burial plots.

Any information would be so very much appreciated by us both
Alison & Brian Priest

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