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Hi Sue I found it in the British Newspapers section on the Find My Past site. You need a sub or credits to use it. I couldn't find anything else on this family.

I think that GR has newspapers too if you are a platinum member, I don't know if the info is the same as FMP

Wendy

Could you please tell me the website address that you got the north devon journal story up on as i cant seem to find the archives

thank you all so much for your help yet again it is much apreshated sue :-) :-)

thank you all so much for your help yet again it is much apreshated sue :-) :-)

It's just possible that Caroline was pregnant with Priscilla (if she was born in July) and that they counted her as a child.

2 curious things.
The fact that he was on the 71 census when he'd been dead for more than a year and the fact that he left 4 children but Priscilla hadn't been born yet and there were only 4 children on the 71 census. I can't see a death for another child.

Her father, Philip Gratton, probably died in an accident

North Devon Journal Thurs. 20th January 1870

Philip Gratton of Tawstock(Tavistock) while feeding a steam trashing machine, slipped from the board on which he was standing, and his left leg having been caught in the machinery it was so fearfully torn it was deemed necessary to amputate it above the knee. The operation was performed at the North Devon Infirmary where he is progressing favourably.

BUT

The North Devon Journal Thurs 3rd February 1870

The man named as Phillip Gratton who tore his leg in a trashing machine at Tutshill Farm, PILTON .......EXPIRED ON Monday at mid day....he leaves a widow and four children.....Verdict of Accidental Death....the jury very kindly gave their fees to the widow and the coroner added 2s.6d to them.

It is a long and very graphic report on his accident and how it happened.

I think it works out that he died on Monday 31st January 1870

True Margee

I am on Google chrome and forget to refresh the page when i have been off looking up things

But I won the race, Shirley, I was one minute ahead of you!

cross posted again lol :-D

Civil Registration event: Death


Name: BRIGGS, Priscilla E
Registration district: Barnstaple
County: Devon
Year of registration: 1938
Quarter of registration: Oct-Nov-Dec
Age at death: 68
Volume no: 5B
Page no: 497

Possible death:

Deaths Dec 1938 (>99%)
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BRIGGS Priscilla E 68 Barnstaple 5b 497

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1911 census transcription details for: 57 Newport Road Barnstaple

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National Archive Reference:
RG14PN13326 RG78PN772 RD284 SD1 ED10 SN77
Reg. District: Barnstaple
Sub District: Barnstaple
Parish: Barnstaple
Enum. District: 10
Address: 57 Newport Road Barnstaple
County: Devonshire
Name Relation Condition/
Yrs married Sex Age Birth Year Occupation Where Born
BRIGGS, Arthur John Head Married
19 years M 40 1871 Labourer Gas Works Blackheath London
BRIGGS, Pricilla Emma Wife Married F 40 1871 Tawstock Barnstaple Devon
BRIGGS, Edith Caroline Maud Daughter Single F 18 1893 Dressmaker Ilfracombe Devon

married 19 years i child only born

1901

RG number: RG13
Piece: 2144
Folio: 104
Page: 18
Reg. District: Barnstaple
Sub District: Barnstaple
Parish: Barnstaple
Enum. District: 12
Ecclesiastical District: Newport St John Baptist
City/Municipal Borough:
Address: 26, Victoria Street, Barnstaple
County: Devonshire


BRIGGS, Arthur J Head Married M 29 1872 Labourer At Gas Yard
Blackheath, London
BRIGGS, Prescilla E Wife Married F 30 1871
Tawstock, Devonshire
BRIGGS, Edith C M Daughter Single F 8 1893
Ilfracombe, Devonshire

Looks like she married Arthur John Briggs:

1911 England Census
about Priscilla Emma Briggs Name: Priscilla Emma Briggs
Age in 1911: 40
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1871
Relation to Head: Wife
Gender: Female
Birth Place: Tawstock, Barnstaple, Devon
Civil Parish: Barnstaple
County/Island: Devon
Country: England
Street Address: 57 Newport Road, Barnstaple
Marital Status: Married
Registration District: Barnstaple
Registration District Number: 284
Sub-registration District: Barnstaple
ED, institution, or vessel: 10
Household Schedule Number: 77
Piece: 13326
Household Members: Name Age
Arthur John Briggs 40
Priscilla Emma Briggs 40
Edith Cardione Maud Briggs 18

Married 19 years, 1 child, still living.

just a point of ref
1891
1891 census transcription details for: 13, High Street, Ilfracombe

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National Archive Reference:
RG number: RG12
Piece: 1778
Folio: 16
Page: 5
Reg. District: Barnstaple
Sub District: Ilfracombe
Parish: Ilfracombe
Enum. District: 14
Ecclesiastical District: Holy Trinity
City/Municipal Borough:
Address: 13, High Street, Ilfracombe
County: Devonshire
Name Relation Condition Sex Age Birth Year Occupation , Disability Where Born
TURNER, William Mills Head Married M 46 1845 Goldsmith
Ilfracombe, Devonshire
TURNER, Millicent Wife Married F 35 1856
Greenwich, London
TURNER, William R C Son M 9 1882 Scholar
Ilfracombe, Devonshire
TURNER, Millicent Jane Daughter F 8 1883 Scholar
Ilfracombe, Devonshire
TURNER, Walter K Son M 6 1885
Ilfracombe, Devonshire
TURNER, Mary J Niece Single F 18 1873 Drapers Assistant
Finsbury Park, London
GRATTON, Priscilla Emma Servant Single F 20 1871 Servant Domestic
Tavistock, Devonshire

Possible marriage?

Marriages Sep 1892 (>99%)
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Briggs Arthur John Barnstaple 5b 827
Condon John Barnstaple 5b 827
GRATTON Emma Barnstaple 5b 827
Lock Elizabeth Harriet Barnstaple 5b 827

Maybe the forms were given out prior to the census and details filled in. Not all would be compiled on the exact day.
If he died in the last week or so of March, it could still be feasible. The widow just 'forgot' to mention a change of circumstance when the enumerator came to collect them.

Gwyn

Curious! Her maiden name was Lock:

Marriages Jun 1859 (>99%)
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Gratton Philip Barnstaple 5B 881
Lock Caroline Barnstaple 5b 881

thanks yes i thought his death in 1871 looked funny i also got the marriage in 1879 but it is pricilla we cant find after 1891 cencus i have kooked for a marriage ,death and to see if she went adroad but no luck sue :-(