Tara,
Thanks very much for that last piece of information. And thanks to everyone else who has come in and contributed on this thread (relatives of yours, if quite distant in some cases!): I have now to my satisfaction pinpointed where Muriel Gawler HOLLAND-PRYOR fits in...
She was sister to your great-grandpa Pomeroy, the subsequently eminent military man. Their father, bearing the same name, your gt-gt-grandpa, was indeed a wine shipper or merchant. And his father, your gt-gt-gt-grandpa was a John Gawler PRIOR a merchant who perhaps diversified in other commodities as well as wine.
Looking again at the marriage certificate of 1904 for the Registry Office in Paddington, one of the witnesses was a Clarissa HOLLAND-PRYOR, who presumably must have been the Clarissa (nee SODEN) whom you mention, mother to Muriel Gawler and her brother Pomeroy the soldier, and she was of course your gt-gt-grandmother.
Muriel, b.circa 1875, must have got her middle name of Gawler from her own grandfather John Gawler PRIOR.
By the way, the address given by the bride on that day on 20th July 1904 was 62, Talbot Road, Paddington, and perhaps this might ring significant bells within your family.
Many thanks for all this,
regards, keith
