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Prudence PALMER
1809 - 1864 (~ 54 years)
Has 4 ancestors and one descendant in this family tree.
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Name Prudence PALMER Relationship 
with Teresa Ann GOATHAM Baptised 25 Dec 1809 St. Andrew’s Church, Buckland Monachorum, Devon, England 
- From Dartmoor Press info
Shows Prudence Palmer as d of Oliver and Prudence
Gender Female Apprenticeship From 30 Mar 1820 to 8 Jul 1824 Burriford(?), Lamerton, Devon, England - The overseers of Lamerton Parish arranged for Prudence to become a Parish Apprentice. On 30 March 1820, at the age of 10, she was apprenticed to Richard Collins, yeoman of Burriford(?) in Lamerton Parish.
Although the intention at the outset was that Prudence was apprenticed until her 21st birthday, for some reason she was discharged on 8 July 1824.
Residence From 1833 to 1835 Ottery, Lamerton, Devon, England - When her son John was baptised and buried, and when her husband was buried.
Residence From 1841 to 1864 Rushford, Lamerton, Devon, England - Aged about 31 (though rounded down age given as 25) and a childless widow Prudence was living in the house of mason William Doidge and his wife and daughter Honour by the time of the 1841 census. I thought she might have been a domestic servant she was still with them at the time of the 1851 census when shown as a lodger rather than a servant. Surprisingly no occupation was given on either occasion. Maybe some ill health prevented her working. In 1851 Honour was shown as a seamstress.
By 1861 William and his wife were dead, but Prudence was still with Honour at Rushford. Now Honour was shown as a tailoress, Prudence as a seamstress.
Died Jun Q 1864 Tavistock Reg Dist, Devon or Cornwall, England - GRO ref: Cornelius, Prudence q2 1864 Tavistock RD 5b 258
Buried 27 Apr 1864 St. Peter’s Church, Lamerton, Devon, England [1] Siblings2 sisters Half-siblings1 half brother (family of [ - ? - ] and Prudence JUSTHAM) Half-siblings2 half brothers and 2 half sisters (family of William SMALE and Prudence JUSTHAM) Patriarch & Matriarch 
Oliver PALMER, b. Abt 1780, d. 17 May 1812, The Village, Buckland Monachorum, Devon, England (Age ~ 32 years) (Father) 
Alice NUTE, b. Abt 1758, Milton Abbot, Devon, England, d. 18 Oct 1838, Buckland Monachorum, Devon, England (Age ~ 80 years) (Grandmother) Person ID I12874 All Last Modified 26 Apr 2020
Father Oliver PALMER, b. Abt 1780, d. 17 May 1812, The Village, Buckland Monachorum, Devon, England (Age ~ 32 years) Mother Prudence JUSTHAM, bap. 12 Sep 1785, St. Andrew’s Church, Buckland Monachorum, Devon, England , d. Mar Q 1853, Plympton Reg Dist, Devon, England (Age ~ 67 years)
Other Partners: [ - ? - ] m. Between 1812 and 1818; William SMALE m. 23 Sep 1821; Richard Fox CORNISH m. 10 Nov 1839Married 11 Sep 1807 St. Andrew’s Church, Buckland Monachorum, Devon, England [2] Family ID F5050 Family Group Page | Family Chart
Family Samuel CORNELIUS, b. Abt 1804, d. Yes, date unknown (Age ~ 31 years) Married 14 Oct 1829 St. Andrew’s Church, Plymouth, Devon, England - From PR entry (image on FMP, viewed May 2013)
Samuel Cornelius and Prudence Palmer, both of the parish, married by banns, by John Hatchard, Vicar. Samuel and Prudence made their marks; witnesses Wm Worthley and James Boulter both signed.
I believe the marriage was this Prudence because the censuses show a Prudence Cornelius resident in Lamerton (1841-1861), born Buckland Monachorum, shown as a widow in 1851 and 1861. The only discrepancy is that Prudence regularly gives an age consistent with a birth in 1812/3 rather than 1809.
No children with Prudence on any census; any born after Samuel and Prudence married would be under 12 at the time of the 1841 census, but could have died in infancy OR been parish apprentices in 1841, but there are no others in Lamerton PRs, nor in any other transcriptions on FMP (as at 9 Apr 2014 - covers the CoE Parishes in the Plymouth area, where Samuel and Prudence married).
Samuel was probably also a parish apprentice like Prudence (given that his sister was born in the Poor House); although a few years older than her he would probably have been an apprentice until the age of 21 i.e. until 1825. With Prudence having been an apprentice from 1820 it could have been this that led them to meet, if they were on the same or neighbouring farms.
Children 1. John CORNELIUS, bap. 21 Jul 1833, St. Peter’s Church, Lamerton, Devon, England , d. Yes, date unknown (Age ~ 0 years)Last Modified 26 Apr 2020 Family ID F5680 Family Group Page | Family Chart
- From Dartmoor Press info
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Baptised - 25 Dec 1809 - St. Andrew’s Church, Buckland Monachorum, Devon, England 
Married - 14 Oct 1829 - St. Andrew’s Church, Plymouth, Devon, England 
Child - John CORNELIUS - 21 Jul 1833 - St. Peter’s Church, Lamerton, Devon, England Buried - 27 Apr 1864 - St. Peter’s Church, Lamerton, Devon, England = Link to Google Earth (if installed; see link below to install) Pin Legend 
Sources - [S269] Lamerton - Parish Registers (FMP data), St Peter’s Church (Lamerton, Devon), (brightsolid online publishing ltd. findmypast.com.), Burial of Prudence CORNELIUS; accessed 9 Apr 2014 (Reliability: 3).
Under heading "Burials ... Lamerton ... 1864" - "Prudence Cornelius, abode: Rushford, buried April 27, age: 52, ceremony performed by Henry J. Phillpotts(?) Vicar" - [S198] Buckland Monachorum - St. Andrew’s Church - m/f images, St. Andrew’s Church (Buckland Monachorum, Devon), Marriage of Prudence Justham; DE/REG/57873/1-18 (Reliability: 3), 26 Aug 2013.
Oliver Palmer of this Parish Bachelor
and Prudence Jetsham of this Parish Spinster were
Married in this Church by Banns
this eleventh Day of September in the Year One ThousandSeven
Eight hundred and seven by me Rd. Reed, Curate.
This Marriage was solemnized between us {The Mark X of Oliver Palmer{The Mark --- of Prudence Jetsham
In the Presence of { James Hawkins{ Mark Tucker
No. 2.