Pryor of Budock

[Ted Carpenter]

Help please!!!!!

I've been ploughing my way through and come to a standstill!!

The story so far..............

Edward Pryor (bpt 14/5/1797-d.9/5/1837) Illegitimate son of Rachel Williams (bpt 26/5/1776 at Budock) and Edward PRYOR (sworn father) of Budock (bpt 12/7/1775) son of Thomas PRYOR (or Prior) and Nora Davis, both of Budock, who were married at Budock on 30/11/1772.

Problem...... Cannot find any record of Edward (Snr) after the baptism of his son where he is recorded as the sworn father. (it is possible that he may have been a mariner(?) or perhaps fell foul of the law and ceased to be(?)
ALSO.... Can't get any further down the line from Thomas and Nora, the records (if they exist) evade me and I've run out of ideas!!

Can anyone shed any light, please.
Any and all help, greatly appreciated.

Kind regards

Ted Carpenter

[Ted Carpenter]

The saga continues.........................
Not sure that I can tell you a great deal more at the moment but I have found a couple of things to extend the search criteria:

Firstly it appears that Edward was probably the only child. I can certainly find no others in the OPC database and likewise on FamilySearch.

And if this is the right person then we have an explanation for an only child:-

Nora PRYOR of Budock age 81 buried 12th October 1814 at Budock

That would put her birth around 1733 which means she would have been about 39 when she married.
There are two burials for Thomas Pryor/Prior at Budock after 1775:-

Thomas PRIOR of Budock age 77 buried 3rd May 1805 at Budock
Thomas PRYOR of Budock age 52 buried 5th November 1806 at Budock

Choice of births between about 1728 for the first and 1754 for the second.

I got to thinking a little more about the age of Nora and the fact there appears to have been just one child. According to the transcript of the Budock marriage in 1772 there is no mention of either Thomas or Nora being widowed. But just because it is not written down does not mean that it wasn't so!

Part of the reason I began thinking about this was because I could not find a baptism for Nora Davis but ...................
I decided to see if there might be any possible marriages for someone named DAVIS to anyone named NORA.
Then I found this:
10th January 1764 Budock
Abraham DAVIS of Mawnan, husbandman, married Norah WILLIAMS of Budock by Licence
Witnesses - Wm. Box, Hugh Coplin

So Nora was previously married it would seem!
And that means there must be a good chance the same can be said for Thomas Pryor.

11th February 1765 Budock
Thomas PRYOR of Budock married Elizabeth PELLOWE of Budock by Banns
Witnesses - John Mitchell, Florence(?) Furniss(?)

I should think that would be a serious possibility. And an even better possibility with this:-

Elizabeth wife of Thomas PRIOR buried 23rd February 1772 at Budock age 50

And then, something to add a little spice to proceedings, this!

Thomas Prior base son of Elizabeth Pellow baptised 26th June 1757 at Budock

His age would be out by about five years but we should consider the possibility that this is the Thomas Pryor buried at Budock in 1806

and so the search goes on.............

But if anyone can share anything with me it would be greatly appreciated as I think I've just about exhausted all my sources and the works computer that I'm on has too many restrictions on what I can and can't log onto (the Military are fussy like that!!)

Ted