Looking for William Pritchard from Brighton Sussex

[LizzieL]

Assume that your starting point was this . . . . . ?

1841 HO107/1122/2/28 page 6 Black Lion Street

Wm Pritchard 40 Upholsterer nbic
Doratha Pritchard 35 Grocer bic
John Pritchard 5 bic
Caroline Elliott Female Servant bic

Just a small point
William was 35 and Dorothy 30 in 1841 (presumably rounded) .

I don't get how the son John became William 
Has a baptism been found for him.?

[[Ray]]

Lizzie, yes, I was just starting to look

As his name was William and his father was alive, to save duplication of responses in their home,
John was used to distinguish between the 2?

Maybe therefore we are looking for William John Pritchard ?

R

[avm228]

The son was baptised William Beedham Pritchard in Brighton, 5 Nov 1834.

Parents: William & Dorothy.

[[Ray]]

The trigger for emigrating could/may have been the death of his mother ?

As he would have been on his own anyway . . . . . ?

So death some time between 1851-1853 ?


Found this,
Death Jun 1863 Steyning 2b 159 Joseph Strong
 

[LizzieL]

The son was baptised William Beedham Pritchard in Brighton, 5 Nov 1834.

Parents: William & Dorothy.

Good find
That confirms his name. Dorothy's father was called John according to transcript of her marriage to Joseph Strong, so perhaps it was a nickname to distinguish him from his father as Ray mentioned earlier.

[LizzieL]

Has anyone found Joseph Strong on a census? If the 1863 death is his he should be on 3 censuses. He isn't at home on census night 1851, there is a possibility on 1841, a tailor in the Dearlove household.

added
Looks like Joseph the tailor married someone called Martha and is in Holborn, London in 1851

[[Ray]]

No not yet :-(

found this tho, in case not found yet

Dorothy Beedham
 Baptism Date:     11 Mar 1807
 Baptism Place:     Newark Upon Trent,Nottingham,England
 Father:     John Beedham
 Mother:     Dorothy

[LizzieL]

This may be a coincidence but...

Searching for Dorothy (without surname) b Newark abt 1807 in 1861 comes up with Dorothy Underwood wife of Walter living in Nottingham.
Marriage in Lambeth district Q1 1875 for a Walter Underwood and one of the two possible brides is Dorothy Strong.
So did Dorothy separate from Joseph Strong, go to live with Walter Underwood, then marry him after she was widowed?

I have found Walter in 1851 in Banbury, he says he's married but wife not with him. He is down as a visitor occ Commercial traveller

[[Ray]]

1851 Dorothy is a boarding/lodging house keeper.
Maybe they met, at some point, if he stayed with her while he was Commercial Travelling?