Following my discovery (with the aid of Ian Preece) that my 2 x g grandmother Martha and her widowed mother Ann, named as PRICE when living in Middlesex, turn out to be Ann & Martha PREECE in Herefordshire. Martha signed her marriage certificate in Middlesex with a X, so wasn't literate, so probably her mother Ann wasn't either, so wouldn't have noticed the spelling anyway, not as written by an educated church official! I believe that Ann was the widow of Thomas PREECE, a Sawyer, named on the marriage certificate as PRICE, and that he married Ann NICHOLAS in 1826 in Shobdon Herefordshire. In the 1851 census in Middlesex the widowed Ann is living with her married sister Mary ROBB, nee NICHOLAS, and both born Kinnersley Herefordshire. Thomas was buried 16 Jul1839 in Norton Canon, and a daughter Tracy PREECE was baptised 12 May 1839 Norton Canon, and buried 31 Dec 1839 also in Norton Canon. This of course gives me the opportunity to access registration details for these three events, which would be more conclusive. Unfortunately I cannot find a birth registration for Tracy but have found her death registration in Weobley, also a possible for Thomas PREECE, but in Hereford rather than Weobley. I suppose that this could be because he didn't die at home, maybe a work related accident, while away from home. They seemed to be living at that time in Pig Street, Norton Canon. I have also found marriage registration details for sister Mary NICHOLAS to John ROBB in 1840 in Middlesex, so will include that one in my order, wow I seem to be getting somewhere in Herefordshire at last. Now what I'd like to know is anyone can connect to this NICHOLAS family in Kinnersley. I have found on the IGI a baptism of Ann NICHOLAS 2 Aug 1801 in Kinnersley, d/o John NICHOLAS & Elizabeth, also a matching one for a daughter Elizabeth in 6 May 1798. I have not found a matching baptism for Mary, she was 5 years older than Ann, although there is one for a Mary NICHOLAS baptised 10 Apr 1796 at Almeley, d/o Elizabeth, with no father named, and don't know if this can be connected. Sorry to be so long winded, I tend to be a bit 'wordy', but I would appreciate anyones thoughts on this. Kind regards, Cathy in South Australia

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_001C_01C65897.195F4DA0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=response Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cathy, In case they help, attached are the Preece entries in Norton Canon and the Nichols entries in Kinnersley from the Herefordshire Burial Index 1813 to 1839 of the Herefordshire FHS. I checked, but there are no Preece entries in Weobley. By way of caution, there are 993 Preece and 1298 Price entries out of a total 76796 in the Index so far. The Burial Index is complete from 1813 to 1839. We are working -- gradually -- through the earlier registers. Happy hunting, Alec Whitfield from North Herefordshire UK [email protected] ------=_NextPart_000_001C_01C65897.195F4DA0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; name="Preece - Price.txt"; reply-type=response Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Preece - Price.txt" Preece/Price Burials Norton Canon 1813-1839 PREECE,Jas, 23 Apr 1837, Pig St, 1 PREECE,Sarah, 5 Nov 1818, Norton, inf PREECE,Thomas, 16 Jul 1839, Pig St, 41 PREECE,Tracy, 31 Dec 1839, Pig St, 8m PRICE,Ann, 22 Nov 1835, Tump House, 47 Nicholas Burials Kinnersley 1813-1839 NICHOLAS,Eleanor, 9 May 1821, Sallies, 16 NICHOLAS,Elizabeth, 20 Nov 1825, Sallies, 67 NICHOLAS,Francis?, 7 Jun 1829, Sallies, 91, Cause of death given NICHOLAS,Mary, 9 May 1824, Sallies, 24 NICHOLAS,Thomas, 13 Sep 1822, Sallies, 83 NICHOLS,John, 10 Jun 1825, Kinnersley, 6m ------=_NextPart_000_001C_01C65897.195F4DA0--