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Thank you very much Dea.

I will take a look Mel.

Can anyone else find Elizabeth Noble on the 1841 and 1851 please. She is down as a Shop Keeper on the 1861.

For ref.

Name: Elizabeth Noble
Age: 44
Estimated birth year: 1817
Relation: Head
Gender: Female
Where born: Menheniot, Cornwall, England
Civil Parish: Menheniot
County/Island: Cornwall
Country: England
Street address:

Occupation:SHOP KEEPER*************

Condition as to marriage: WIDOW*************

Registration district: Liskeard
Sub-registration district: Liskeard
ED, institution, or vessel: 1
Neighbors: View others on page
Household schedule number: 37
Piece: 1528
Folio: 5
Page Number: 6
Household Members:
Name Age
Elizabeth Noble 44
Richard Prin 69

MENHENIOT. - A serious accident occured at Wheal
Mary Ann Mine on Friday night, the 13th instant, about
ten o'clock, to Richard Prin, a miner, residing an Menheniot,
who had both hands shattered, whilst blasting a hole in
the said mine. It appears that he with another man had
set fire to their last hole for the night, and were about to
ascend, when not hearing any report of an explosion, they
returned and began boring out the hole again, Prin turning
the borer, which striking fire ignited the powder, and
caused the explosion which deprived the poor fellow of both
his hands.

Dea x

You could be right about the Church Relief.

I really do appreciate all your help.

I will keep plodding on and get back to you if I find anything of interest.

We are trying Prickles. It is so annoying when you get stuck. I know from my own experience.

If she was on her own and not with Richard on that census she may have said she was a widow to get church relief. She states she is a Wool Comber and the Richard I found was also a Wool Comber.

Mel I have checked out that Gaol Record and it's not my Thomas Prynn.

Thanks though.

Richard is a lodger with a Elizabeth Noble on a census but I can't find her on the 1851 either.

I wonder if these census are missing???

I found that 1851 census.

If it hadn't stated "Widow" I might have been more convinced.

say' she is a widow


Martha Pryn

England and Wales Census, 1851

Name Martha Pryn
Event Type Census
Event Date 1851
Event Place Menheniot, Cornwall, England
Registration District Liskeard
Gender Female
Age 67
Marital Status Widow
Occupation Pauper Wool Comber
Relationship to Head of Household Widow
Birth Year (Estimated) 1784
Birthplace Maryport, Cumberland
Page Number 3
Registration Number HO107
Piece/Folio 1902 / 23
Affiliate Record Type Household

Name: Thomas Pryn
Age: 34
Birth Year: abt 1820
Abode or Birth Place: St Wenn. Late Egloshayle
Marital Status: Married
Number of Children: 3
Occupation: Husbandman
Prison: Bodmin Gaol
Prison Location: Bodmin, Cornwall, England
Gaol Employment: Not Employed
Notes: Stealing a shirt from Thomas Brown at Egloshayle. Acquitted.
Discharged Date: 1854
Registration Number: 10690

Sorry to be a pain Dea but it's not coming up on GR either.

I will check that one out Malyon.

Martha Pryn

England and Wales Census, 1841

Name Martha Pryn
Event Type Census
Event Date 1841
Event Place Quethiock, Cornwall, England
Residence Note Quethrock Village
Gender Female
Age 50-54
Age (Original) 50
Birth Year (Estimated) 1787-1791
Registration District St German
Book Number 8
Parish Quethiock
County Cornwall
Page Number 18
Registration Number HO107
Piece/Folio 133/12
Affiliate Record Type Household

Thanks Dea

It's not on Ancestry so I will take a look on here and get back to you.

Yes thank you Mel.

The only two things I don't have is the blooming 1851 and 1841 census records.

Sooo frustrating!

I would have liked to have known more about Martha.

Have you got Thomas's marriage to Catherine Parsons? One of the witnesses is a William Pryn and Richard is down as a Labourer which cold mean in a mine.

On FMP - do you have access to it?

If not I can type it out in full.

Dea x

Can you tell me where you found that newspaper article please Dea....so I can take a look.

I will check that one out Mel.....although I don't think it's him.

Thank you for looking though.

Dea........whenever I post for help on here, it always ends up in a disaster of some kind!! :-0

Gosh I wonder if that's him!

Well, I c an't see them anywhere :-(

All I did manage to find was a little snippet from the newspaper saying that Richard had lost both his hands in a mining accident (If it is the same one?)


Menheniot. —A serious accident occurred Wheal Mary Ann Mine on Friday night, the 13th instant, about ten o'clock, to Richard Prin, miner, residing at Menheniot, who had both hands shattered, whilst blasting a hole in the said mine. It appears that he........
21 November 1857 - Cornish Times - Liskeard, Cornwall, England

Not much help I am afraid.

Dea x