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Name: Mabel Prouse
Gender: Female
Christening Date: 09 May 1899
Christening Place: Marske in Cleveland, New Marske Wesleyan, Yorks, ENG
Birth Date: 10 Apr 1899
Birthplace: Marske (near Guisbrough), York, England
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Father's Name: Samuel Prouse
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Mother's Name: Mary Ann
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Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C16406-1
System Origin: England-EASy
GS Film number: 1546292
Reference ID: item 8 p 51

As it wasn't compulsory to register a birth until the 1873, his mother probably didn't bother. Bearing in mind that you believe that his mother was 'disowned', check the nearest work house records. She may have gone there for the birth and would be recorded on the Admission and (both on the) Discharge books.

Have you managed to track down the Bishop Transcript books of parish records or were the PR destroyed before they could be compiled?

Have you found Edward Samuel on the 1851 census? Who else is in the household and what is his relationship to them?

Have you followed through with the witness names on the first MC, or are they from the bride's side of the family?

Name: Samuel Prouse
Event Type: Baptism
Event Date: 1850
Event Place: Devon
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Digital Folder Number: 004635020

I am looking for information on Samuel Prouse (1850-1932), or rather that is what he was known as, in various stages of his life he has been known as Edward (1861 census), Edward Samuel (Death Cert), Edward William Samuel (2nd marriage cert), but most of the records I've found since him being an adult have been Samuel (1st marriage cert, censuses 1881-1911) I never found him on the 1871 census.

What do I know, he was born in Ashbury, Devon in 1850 (a tiny farming village). but there is no GRO record, later census records confirm date, church records were destroyed in fire so no christening record, marriage cert, no clues here, father is unknown, he married Mary Ann Carter in Brotton, North Yorkshire in 1873, he had 13 children, and they lived in Marske, Mary died in 1920 and in 1921 he married Mary French. Samuel and his sons worked in the Ironstone mines at Skinningrove.

There is a story that Samuels grandfather disowned his mother for being pregnant and unmarried, his sons found out some years later that it was reputed he had relented and wanted contact but Samuel forbade his sons to do so, the name of the mother and grandfather are unknown.

Any information, especially Samuels mother, would be most helpful.

Many thanks.