Thanks for suggestions, hope that helps and appreciate your help.
I hope we are helping - the wrong spellings initially probably didn’t help in the searches.
You have mentioned large amounts of money being left after death. Arthur’s father also left a substantial amount of money so you would assume these people are very respectable.
I have followed your various posts with interest but hesitated to broach the subject of prostitution. I notice it has been mentioned elsewhere re the area.
It may well be though that Priscilla was involved with the scenario you recall re births/baptisms and illegitimacy.
Yes we have thought about prostitution, the family were also theatrical when actresses were considered being just a step above a prostitute, but some actresses marry into the aristocracy, some have illegitimate children with an allowance, some ex-actresses run boarding houses for theatre companies to protect the reputation of younger actresses.
Priscilla's husband Robert Thrasher died in 1879 Strand, London.
Priscilla May Thrasher born 1840 (as Pope) Sudbury, Hartest, is found as a widow in 1881 with her daughters Eliza, Alice and Ruth working as a cook, daughter Louisa is in a boarding school nearby run by Christ Church Schools, Matron Catherine Poet, presumably a charity school as most of the girls are born in that area of London and mostly their mother are widows.
Priscilla has changed her name to Triplow/Torplow in 1891 census daughters Eliza, Louisa and Ruth are with her working as dressmakers, Alice is away working in a coffee shop - Eliza's illegitimate daughter Violet Jezard born 1890 Kensington is not listed on the census - the family have changed their name after her birth.
Daughter Alice has son Horace Thrasher in 1893 Fulham, the family change their name to Jezard after his birth - Alice and Horace later change their name to Courtenay.
By 1895 Priscilla is able to buy 133 Finborough Road at auction (London Evening Standard 1895 auction) and is known as Mrs May Jezard by 1899 in the Post Office Directories. Would a cook/dressmaker be able to afford to buy a property, her husband Robert had not left an estate. Could the fathers of Violet and Horace be giving an allowance to Eliza and Alice or to their mother Priscilla so they keep quiet about the chiildren: Horace was rumoured by the family to be an illustrious member of the aristocracy a person of considerable note. There are prostitutes in Finborough Road according to the Charles Booth Survey in 1899. Could Priscilla have been a madam then?
Priscilla Jezard (Thrasher) dies in 1900, Strand, London, widow of John Jezard, dying at Charing Cross Hospital, Ellen Jezard is her daughter in law on the death certificate, John and Ellen can also not be traced. 133 Finborough Road in the 1901 census is empty, daughter Alice Thrasher born 1871 St Giles London is now known as Grace Courtenay living at 13 Finborough Road living on own means (sale of 133 Finborough Road, allowance from the father of her illegitimate son Horace Thrasher now known as Horace Courtenay and living in a girls boarding school in Southend with illegitimate cousin Violet).
According to the Charles Booth Survey the addresses the Thrasher family live in (from what you can look up on family history sites and the certificates we have ordered) are middle class to upper class respectable areas of London.
