The family of Samuel Prosser and Emma Davies
(2xGreat Grandparents)

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  His Parents:   Her Parents:
  William PROSSER   Thomas DAVIES
  Margaret   Maria LLEWELLYN
Samuel PROSSER  Emma DAVIES 
Married   14/09/1857, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Bd   Bd  
Bp  29/08/1831 Hay, Brecon Bp  24/02/1837 Hay, Brecon
Dd   Dd  10/12/1913 New Malden, Surrey
Bur   Bur  
Occ Book Agent / Druggist Occ  
  
 Their Children:
 1   Samuel George Reese  Bp 16/10/1859
 2   Edward Llewellyn  Bd  26/05/1861
 3   Emma Helen  Bp  10/07/1864
 The Children of the marriage of Charles Goodwin to Emma Davies:
 1   Lucy Mary  Bd  1870
 2   Louisa Alleyne Catherine  Bd  1873
 3   Marion Annie  Bd  1878
         

 

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

A marriage announcement was published in the Hereford Times on Saturday 3rd October 1857 and also in the Hereford Journal on Wednesday 7th October 1857:-
"Sept. 14, at Baltimore, Maryland, U.S., by the Rev. Mr. Hughes, D.D., Mr. S. Prosser to Emma, daughter of the late Mr. Thos. Davies, all of Hay, Breconshire."

Samuel appears on page 327 of the 1858/59 Woods Baltimore Directory as "Proper Samuel, Book Agent, 127 n Fremont"
Samuel also appears on the 1860 Woods Baltimore City Directory as "Prosser Samuel, Book Agent, 355 Franklin".
He has not been found on the Baltimore directories for 1864, 65, 67, 68, 70, 73 & 76

Samuel Prosser died before 1880 ( ref.marriage certificate of Samuel George Reese & Ellen Kirk). On this certificate his occupation is recorded as "Druggist".

THE CHILDREN AND SECOND MARRIAGE

Edward Llewellyn and Emma Helen were both baptised in Hay on 10th July 1864. The record shows that Edward was 3 years old and Emma was 13 months. A report in the Staffordshire Sentinel newspaper (14/08/1869) shows that Edward died at Finney Green, Madeley on 4th August 1869 aged 8 years. He was buried at Madeley, All Saints on 6th August 1869.

Emma Prosser nee Davies next appears on the 1871 census in Amersham, Bucks. living with Charles Goodwin and with the name Emma Goodwin. Daughter Helen is with them together with a daughter Lucy Mary Goodwin aged 9 months.

Emma Prosser (nee Davies marries Charles Goodwin on 27th Sept. 1879 at St John's Church Bognor. He is 40 years old, bachelor and his profession is "Inland Revenue". Emma is also 40, widow.

Emma and Charles had two other children - Louisa Alleyne Catherine (birth reg Q1 1873) Hampstead Middlesex and Marion A. (birth reg Q2 1878 Uxbridge)

 

 

CENSUS INFORMATION (For more detailed census info click on link)

 Census Samuel Prosser Emma Davies
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