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Charlotte PROWSE

Charlotte PROWSE

Female Abt 1782 - 1856  (~ 74 years)    Has 3 ancestors and 190 descendants in this family tree.


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  • Name Charlotte PROWSE 
    Relationshipwith Teresa Ann GOATHAM
    Born Abt 1782  West Teignmouth, Devon, England See the place on a map and other information about it - if available (many more will be in time); also all individuals with events at this location 
    • About 1782 and place from 1851 census though age recorded when she died suggests about 1785.
      Several Prowse families having children baptised in West Teignmouth around this time, but I have not found a Charlotte so far (looked at FMP index 1782 +/- 5 years, for all Charlot(te)s baptised in either Teignmouth, and all Charlotte Prowse (incl variants), same dates, anywhere in Devon, with some browsing of West Teignmouth PRs in case hidden by an error)
      There were a number of Prowse families in Ilsington at this time - not on FMP, but images / indexing in the members' section of the Devon FHS website - no Charlotte there.Closest found is a "Charlotte Daughter of Henry & Margaret Prowse was baptized" for 13 Apr 1777, at St Edmund, Exeter.
    Baptised 17 Nov 1782  St. James’ Church, West Teignmouth, Devon, England See the place on a map and other information about it - if available (many more will be in time); also all individuals with events at this location 
    • From PR entry (image on FMP, viewed 6 Feb 2020)
      "17th. Charlotte Prouse Base D. of Mary Peardon"

      Given the apparent absence of a baptism of a Charlotte Prouse, this would appear to be her -
      * the date fits the age given in the census;
      * the place is that given as her birthplace in the census;
      * her birth surname is close to a middle name given by her son to his eldest son (Peardon vs Pearn), the use of this surname as a middle name being otherwise inexplicable. There is further evidence of a link between the two names in that in West Teignmouth in 1793 a Mary, probably Charlotte's mother, married; in the part filled in by the curate she was 'Mary Pearn', but she signed 'Marey Peardon'. Looking at Mary's family it seems Pearn was the normal surname, Peardon possibly an error, or they were variants of the same name, Peardon perhaps used by other branches. Mary seems to have been one of 4 children of John and Susanna, John marrying with Susanna as a Pearn, both being buried as Pearns and Mary's siblings being baptised as Pearns. Only Mary was baptised as a Peardon.
    Gender Female 
    Also known as Charlotte Prouse PEARDON 
    Also known as Charlotte Prowse PEARN 
    Residence 1856  Ringmore, St. Nicholas, Devon, England See the place on a map and other information about it - if available (many more will be in time); also all individuals with events at this location 
    • At the time of her death
    Died 17 Oct 1856  Ringmore, St. Nicholas, Devon, England See the place on a map and other information about it - if available (many more will be in time); also all individuals with events at this location 
    Cause: Cancer of breast, sloughing of sacrum - many years 
    • GRO ref: Gotham, Charlotte q4 1856 Newton Abbot RD 5b 70; GRO online index shows died aged 71
      Details from death registration (GRO register entry)
    Buried 22 Oct 1856  St. Nicholas’ Church, Shaldon and Ringmore, Devon, England See the place on a map and other information about it - if available (many more will be in time); also all individuals with events at this location 
    • From PR entry (image on FMP, viewed 15 Nov 2014)
      Charlotte GOTHAM, abode Ringmore, aged 71.
    Half-siblings 2 half brothers (family of William BOWDEN and Mary PEARDON) 
    Patriarch & Matriarch
    Susanna CARSLEY,   b. Abt 1722,   bur. 20 Jan 1820, St. James’ Church, West Teignmouth, Devon, England See the place on a map and other information about it - if available (many more will be in time); also all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 98 years)  (Grandmother) 
    Notes 
    • It is surprising that Charlotte should marry as a Prowse, especially as the name passed on by her son was not Prowse but Pearn: it suggests it was her Pearn ancestors that were important to her, not the Prowses. As Prowse was given to Charlotte as a middle name it suggests that was her father's surname. Did her mother subsequently marry / live with her father? Perhaps she already was when Charlotte was born. Ten years later a Mary Pearn / Peardon who I think was Charlotte's mother married one William Bowden. Given the large number of mariners in West Teignmouth it is quite possible that Mary's Prowse partner had died. Did Charlotte then go and live with her Pearn grandparents? Or if Mary had no long-term partner before William Bowden, perhaps Charlotte had always lived with her grandparents.
      At any rate, her grandfather, John Pearn, lived until she was 21, so she had plenty of time to get to know him and for him to be an important figure in her life. It seems her son was aged only about 2 when his great grandfather died, so he cannot have known him well, and probably had no memories of him, so giving the names 'John Pearn' to his eldest son as middle names was presumably because his mother had spoken to him of John.
      Although Charlotte exceeded her 'threescore and ten' years, largish generation gaps meant that she did not live to see even her eldest grandchild born, but her son did not forget John Pearn.

      Charlotte did, though, marry as a Prowse, and moreover one of the witnesses when she married was a Thomas Prowse. So what was the place of the Prowse family in her life? Luckily Thomas had quite a distinctive signature so I am hoping I will find him as a witness or groom in other marriages and be able to work out who he was. Illegitimate children often warrant entries in poor law records. It appears there are some for Teignmouth (East and West) in the DHC, but possibly with limited sorting / indexing, so I'm not sure how practical searching them is going to be at present.
    Person ID I300086  All | All in the Goatham / Gotham One-Name Study , All subjects of the Goatham / Gotham One-Name Study
    Last Modified 13 Apr 2024 

    Mother Mary PEARDON,   bap. 18 Feb 1759, St. James’ Church, West Teignmouth, Devon, England See the place on a map and other information about it - if available (many more will be in time); also all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
    Other Partners: William BOWDEN  m. 10 Feb 1793  
    Family ID F301997  Family Group Page  |  Family Chart

    Family Thomas GOTHAM,   b. Abt 1787, West Teignmouth, Devon, England See the place on a map and other information about it - if available (many more will be in time); also all individuals with events at this location,   d. 12 Jan 1864, Ringmore, St. Nicholas, Devon, England See the place on a map and other information about it - if available (many more will be in time); also all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 77 years) 
    Banns of marriage 17 Dec 1809 to 31 Dec 1809  St. James’ Church, West Teignmouth, Devon, England See the place on a map and other information about it - if available (many more will be in time); also all individuals with events at this location 
    • From PR entry (image on FMP)
      Shows banns were for the marriage between Thomas Gotham and Charlotte Prows - no other information.
    Married 14 Jan 1810  St. James’ Church, West Teignmouth, Devon, England See the place on a map and other information about it - if available (many more will be in time); also all individuals with events at this location 
    • From PR entry (image on FMP)
      "Thomas Gotham of th Mariner
      and Charlotte Prowss both of this
      spinster, both of ^ this Parish were
      Married in this Church by Banns
      this fourteenth Day of January in the Year One Thousand Eight Hundred
      and and Ten by me Edward Durell, Offg. Minister
      This Marriage was The mark ~ of Thomas Gotham
      solemnized between Us Charlotte prowss
      In the Thomas Prowse
      Presence of Mary Nichols B Bulley"
      (B Bulley was probably the Parish Clerk as he witnessed many marriages in West Teignmouth around this time)
    Children 2 children 
    Last Modified 14 Feb 2017 
    Family ID F300029  Family Group Page  |  Family Chart

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    Link to Google MapsBorn - Abt 1782 - West Teignmouth, Devon, England See the place on a map and other information about it - if available (many more will be in time); also all individuals with events at this location Link to Google Earth (if installed; see link below to install)
    Link to Google MapsBaptised - 17 Nov 1782 - St. James’ Church, West Teignmouth, Devon, England See the place on a map and other information about it - if available (many more will be in time); also all individuals with events at this location Link to Google Earth (if installed; see link below to install)
    Link to Google MapsBanns of marriage - 17 Dec 1809 to 31 Dec 1809 - St. James’ Church, West Teignmouth, Devon, England See the place on a map and other information about it - if available (many more will be in time); also all individuals with events at this location Link to Google Earth (if installed; see link below to install)
    Link to Google MapsMarried - 14 Jan 1810 - St. James’ Church, West Teignmouth, Devon, England See the place on a map and other information about it - if available (many more will be in time); also all individuals with events at this location Link to Google Earth (if installed; see link below to install)
    Link to Google MapsChild - Eliza GOTHAM - Abt 1811 - West Teignmouth, Devon, England See the place on a map and other information about it - if available (many more will be in time); also all individuals with events at this location Link to Google Earth (if installed; see link below to install)
    Link to Google MapsChild - William George GOTHAM - Abt 1818 - West Teignmouth, Devon, England See the place on a map and other information about it - if available (many more will be in time); also all individuals with events at this location Link to Google Earth (if installed; see link below to install)
    Link to Google MapsBuried - 22 Oct 1856 - St. Nicholas’ Church, Shaldon and Ringmore, Devon, England See the place on a map and other information about it - if available (many more will be in time); also all individuals with events at this location Link to Google Earth (if installed; see link below to install)
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