By Linus Joseph Dewald Jr., Editor
Summer 2003 and Revised 7 Feb 2008
Update of 7 Feb 2008: This article has now been replaced by our Spring 2008 article about George Prentice of Tollesbury, Essex.
1. Alfred Prentice was b. c. 1816-17 in Goldhanger, Essex, England which lies about 10 miles east of Chelmsford
He appears in the 1861 census in Tolleshunt Darcy, Essex, which lies only about 4 miles NE of Goldhanger, as an Agricultural Labourer with his wife, Mary A., b. c. 1833, Feering, Essex. In the 1881 census Mary, without her husband, lived on Maldon Road, Private House, Tolleshunt D Arcy, Essex. Children per 1871 and 1881 census: and children:
- William Prentice, b. c. 1855, Tolleshunt Darcy, Essex. Not in 1881 census.
- Eliza Prentice, b. c. 1858, Tolleshunt Darcy, Essex.
- Alfred Prentice, b. c. 1860, Tolleshunt Darcy, Essex. Not in 1881 census.
- Alice Prentice, b. c. 1862, Tolleshunt Darcy, Essex.
- Henry Prentice, b. c. 1864, Tolleshunt, Essex
- James W. Prentice, b. c. 1868-69, Tolleshunt Darcy Essex. . . . . . [2]
- Frederick Prentice, b. c. 1874, Tolleshunt Darcy, Essex, England
Also living with the family in 1861 was George Prentice, b. c. 1819, Goldhanger, Essex. He is listed as a "Lodger" and his relationship to the family, if any, is not given. However, he may be Alfred's father (see "Who are Alfred Prentice's Parents?", below).
2. James W. Prentice, b. c. 1868-69, T Darcy (Tollesbury), Essex. James appears in the 1901 census in Farnington, Kent, with his wife, Kathleen/Kate (Sullivan?), b. c. 1869, Croydon, Surrey, and children:
- James W. Prentice, b. c. 1898-99, Altrincham, Cheshire, England. . . . . . . [3]
- Mary L. Prentice, b. c. 1900, Farningham, Kent.
Also living with the family in 1901 was Norah Sullivan, b. c. 1867, Cork, Ireland, called a mother in law.
3. James W. Prentice, b. c. 1898-99, Altrincham, Cheshire, England. He appears in WW I military death records as a Private, Grenadier Guards, 2nd Bn., who d. at the age of 20 on 27 Aug 1918, son of James and Kathleen Prentice. His memorial is found at IV. D. 20, Mory Abbey Military Cemetery. A Google search discloses the following information:
- Mory Abbey Military Cemetery, Mory, Pas-de-Calais
Mory is a village between Arras and Bapaume, and about 2 kilometres east of the village of Ervillers. Mory-Abbey Military Cemetery is 450 metres north of the village on the north side of the road to Ecoust-St Mein opposite a large farm called "L'Abbaye".
Mory village was occupied by Commonwealth troops in the middle of March 1917. It was lost after obstinate defence by the 40th and 34th Division a year later and recaptured towards the end of the following August, after severe fighting, by the 62nd (West Riding) and Guard Divisions. The German burials in a plot on the west side of the cemetery were made by German troops in March-August 1918, or by Commonwealth troops in September 1918. The Commonwealth plots were begun at the end of March 1917 and carried on by fighting units until March 1918, and again in August and September 1918, as far as and including Plot III. The graves in Plots IV and V - including many of the Guards Division, and chiefly of 1918 - were added after the Armistice from the battlefields between St. Leger and Bapaume. Mory Abbey Military Cemetery contains 619 Commonwealth burials of the First World War. 101 of the burials are unidentified but there is a special memorial to one casualty known to be buried among them. The cemetery also contains 230 German burials.
Tentatively, Alfred rentice appears to be the same person as the Alfred Prentice shown in the 1841 census Tollesbury Civil Parish, Essex, which lies only about 3 miles east of Goldhanger, Essex. Alfred, b. c. 1817, Essex, was the son of George Prentice, b. c. 1796, Essex, and his wife, Elizabeth, b. c. 1791, Essex. Other children shown were:
- George Prentice, b. c. 1821, Essex. At home in 1841. He does not appear in the 1851 or 1861 census.
- Anna Prentice, b. c. 1827, Essex.
- Amy Prentice, b. c. 1830, Essex.
- Eliza Prentice, b. c. 1834, Essex.
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