John & fellow Kingsclere listers, I am making this enquiry because I know from the 1851 census that following the early deaths of Sarah Ann's parents - David PRISMALL 1796-1850 and his wife Mary FUCE 1800-1847 - that the younger children of David & Mary were brought up by other members of the larger family. Sarah Ann was taken in by Robert SMITH and his wife Prudence who was the younger sister of Mary (nee) FUCE (the mother of Sarah Ann PRISMALL). This is clearly identified on the 1851 census - HO.107/1684/224/13 When David PRISMALL married Mary FUCE on 1st March 1824 at St Mary, Kingsclere it seems it might have been a shot-gun affair as their eldest son was christened that same day (but not forgetting the burial on 3rd January 1924 of John Prismall FUCE aged seven weeks). Certainly the witnesses at the marriage of David and Mary were John FUCE and Ann FUCE - was John her father and what the relationship of Ann to the happy couple? When Richard SMITH married Prudence FUCE more than seven years after that of her sister on 16th May 1831 the witnesses were William SMITH and Ann FUCE - do we know what was the relationship of Richard and William? Unfortunately Sarah Ann PRISMALL had left her Aunt's home by the 1861 census and I have not found her in that census, so we next meet her at her wedding at St Marylebone Church in London on 28 June 1863, she was married to William Henry SMITH, of Full Age & of Marylebone (statements he shared with Sarah!); William Henry shared both his full name & his occupation with his father so I feel that dad was one of the witnesses but I cannot identify the other who signed as Mary Eliza BALDWIN. I have found a Marylebone family in 1861 with a father, age 60 born 'Gloster' and son William SMITH age 26 (and like his mother) born Marylebone (RG9/87/21/42). Both stated their occupations was 'gardener', I suppose in those times that change of occupation in little more than two years was possible. Anne (mother) was aged 50 and she had a younger son Thomas age 24 whose occupation is not clear. I am sure that William and Sarah went out to the USA where she appears in Eureka Township, Montcalm county, Michigan on the 1870 census in the household of Sarah's brother Samuel PRISMALL who had reached Michigan probably 15 years before the 1870 census but had been married about ten years to an English girl so also there was also a son of 9 born in Michigan. Sarah SMITH was recorded age 28 with an occupation of domestic, whilst William was aged 35 a 'Day Laborer' (in US farming communities the equivalent of our 'Ag. Lab.'). That is the last event I have traced for Sarah but I have a possible ID for William on the 1880 census where he is aged 45 a labourer working in a Glue Factory (Paris township, Kent county, Michigan) with a 'tick' in the 'married' column (rather than in the 'divorced/widowed' column). I have further developed the family of Samuel PRISMALL but my main thoughts were concerned with identifying (hopefully) the SMITH family when and where it has impinged on KINGSCLERE. Best wishes Peter PRISMALL Researching worldwide PHILO and PRISMALL