Family of Edwin Preece & Sarah Slater

Husband: Edwin Preece

Wife: Sarah Slater

Marriage: 4 August, 1866 Burton-upon-Trent STS ENG

• Notes:
  • GRO Ref: 3 Q 1866 BURTON UPON TRENT 6b 462
  • Salem Chapel, Station Street, Burton-upon-Trent
  • According to the rites and ceremonies of the Particular Baptists
  • Edwin Preece, age 22 years, Bachelor, profession Joiner, Residence Derby Street, Burton-upon-Trent
  • Sarah Slater, age 21 years, Spinster, profession Milliner and dress-maker, residence Union Street, Burton-upon-Trent
  • Edwin's father: William Preece, Cooper
  • Sarah's father: Henry Slater (deceased), Tinman(?)
  • Witnesses Charles Sanders, Eliza Woodings
  • All signed
  • D.B. Joseph, Minister R.R. Bellamy, Registrar
  Note: Edwin is definitely only 21 here (from birth certificate). Possibly lying about age to help conceal a greater lie about Sarah's age, who from the 1881 census is only 18 or 19 at marriage (not 21 as stated).
  
• Source: Marriage entry copy held by Andrew Preece
  

Children:

• Mary Ann Preece 1867 -
• Charles Henry Preece 1869 - 1944
• Ada Preece 1871 -
• Florence Annie Preece 1873 -
• Edwin Preece 1878 -
• George Preece 1880 -
• Walter Raymond Preece 1882 -
• Arthur Harold Preece 1885 -

Note:

93 Wood Street, Burton-upon-trent
PREECE, Edwin      Head         Widower M 66 Joiner      Ledbury Hereford
PREECE, Walter     Son          Single  M 28 Labourer    Burton on Trent Staffs
PREECE, Arthur     Son          Married M 26 Coopersmith Burton on Trent Staffs 
WHITEHOUSE, Mary   Housekeeper  Widow   F 35             Burton on Trent 
WHITEHOUSE, Betsey HouseKeeper Daughter F 13 School      Burton on Trent
Arthur married 6 years, 2 children both alive
Mary 2 children, 1 alive 1 died
Edwin worked at a Brewery, Walter as a Brewer's labourer, Arthur at Motor Works
Reference RG14PN16814 RG78PN1042 RD365 SD4 ED27 SN117 

• 33 Shobnall Street, Burton-on-Trent (Civil parish Burton Extra)
• Edwin Preece is age 53 (was he fibbing - too much ties up for this to be a different person)
• Edwin Preece Widowed, Foreman Joiner (worker), Born Ledbury
• George Preece, Walter Raymond Preece, Arthur Harold Preece living at same address
• Visitors William Roberts, Alice Roberts, Thomas Roberts

Name                  Rel   Age Occupation  Place and County of Birtth 
EDWIN PREECE          Head  46  JOINER      LEDBURY HEF 
CHARLES HENRY PREECE  Son   22  COPPERSMITH BURTON UPON TRENT STS 
FLORENCE ANNIE PREECE Daur  17              BURTON UPON TRENT STS 
EDWIN PREECE          Son   13              BURTON UPON TRENT STS 
GEORGE PREECE         Son   11              BURTON UPON TRENT STS 
WALTER PREECE         Son    8              BURTON UPON TRENT STS 
ARTHUR H PREECE       Son    6              BURTON UPON TRENT STS 

Name                  Rel   Age Occupation          Place and County of Birtth 
EDWIN PREECE          Head   36 JOINER AT BREWERY   ? NOT KNOWN HEF 
SARAH PREECE          Wife   33                     BIRMINGHAM WAR 
CHARLES ROBINSON      Lodg   25 LABOURER BRICKLAYER ? NOT KNOWN STS 
ROBERT SIMS           Lodg   24 PRINTER COMPOSITOR  POTTERHAMWORTH LIN 
RICHDHY PREECE        Son    12 SCHOLAR             BURTON UPON TRENT STS 
ADA PREECE            Daur   10 SCHOLAR             BURTON UPON TRENT STS 
FLORENCE ANNIE PREECE Daur    7 SCHOLAR             BURTON UPON TRENT STS 
EDWIN PREECE          Son     3                     BURTON UPON TRENT STS 
GEORGE PREECE         Son     1                     BURTON UPON TRENT STS     

RG10/2871 Folio 58 Page 13 Sched 6
Shilton-under -[?],Penkhull, Hartshill, Stoke-on-Trent
Name             Relation Marital Age Sex Occupation          Birthplace
Edwin Preece     Head     Mar     25  M   Joiner (Journeyman) Herefordshire Ledbury
Sarah Ann Preece Wife     Mar     23  F   Joiner Wife         Warwickshire Birmingham
Ada Preece       Daur     Unm     3mo F                       Staffordshire Burton-on-Trent