Oliver Price born 1841 North Marston and family becoming Bennetts

[ciderdrinker]

Hello Everyone
I'm doing a bit of research for a friend of a friend.
I've got to Oliver Price helmet maker born 1841 at North Marston
It looks like he is the son of Josiah Mahyo and Hannah Price.

He marries 1861 at Hemel Hampstead even though on the 1861 census he is living in London.Bride Eliza Marian Leech was supposedly born 1841 Kentish Town d of William a piano forte maker but no sign of her before the marriage.
1871 they are in London together
1881 he is now a widower with a house keeper
1891 He turns into a Mr Oliver Price and moves to the East End
His dead wife meanwhile returns to live with married daughter Mary Klyen as Marian E Price.
Son William is living next door as William Bennett.
Other son George born 1866 also has turned into a George Bennett.

No deaths either for Oliver Price or Bennett or his wife Eliza Marian.

Any ideas as where Eliza Marian Price nee Leech  came from or went to ?
Why they changed their names to Bennett
What happened to Oliver Price/Bennett?

Any help appreciated.This family is proving to be something of a challenge.

Ciderdrinker

[rosie99]

There is a William Leech Piano forte Maker in St Pancras 1861
RG09 / 121 f34 p63

Daughter Mary A E Leech age 16 bn St Pancras

1851 she is Mary Ann E .  (Mary Ann is often Marian)

Parents marriage
Marriages Mar qtr 1842 
ACKFIELD    Mary Ann       
LEECH    William        St Pancras    1   241

[rosie99]

MARY ANN ELIZA LEECH    mmn ACKFIELD 
1844  Sept Quarter
SAINT PANCRAS reg dist
Vol 1  Page 319

[rosie99]

Is this the correct 1871 entry
RG10 /275 f63 p7
Oliver Price age 29 bn Swallowfield, Buckinghamshire occ Military Accoutrement Maker
Eliza 27 bn St Pancras
children
William 8
Ellen 7
George 5
Mary Ann 3
Ernest 2

[rosie99]

The 1881 states that Oliver Price is married not widowed.  Living with him are children William 19, George 15, Mary Ann 13 and a servant Margaret Shea.
RG11/326 f43 p40

That leaves to find in 1881 his wife Mary Ann / Eliza and their children Ellen 17 and Ernest 12

Probably Ernest
Death June qtr 1872   
PRICE    Ernest   
age 3   
Pancras    1b   95

[rosie99]

1891 He turns into a Mr Oliver Price and moves to the East End

1891 Bethnal Green - he is Oliver Bennett - Married - in same household is Elizabeth Harmer age 25
RG12/266 f139 p9

[wivenhoe]

London marriages with father Oliver PRICE -

PRICE Mary Ann     marr.    KLYEN Lewis    1884
18 Longvilla Rd   father Oliver PRICE, helmet maker

PRICE William Oliver marr.  (1)  DOWSETT Sophia  1884
18 Longville Rd   father Oliver PRICE, helmet maker

PRICE William Oliver marr.  (2)  GROUT Emily   1892
 father Oliver PRICE, helmet maker  (witness Oliver PRICE)

PRICE George        marr.   PALMER Eliza Ann    1889
43 Rodney Rd   father Oliver PRICE, helmet maker

[rosie99]

There is a newspaper article London Evening Standard 28 April 1882 about an 'Oliver Price Bennett' threatening his daughter Ellen.  Could this be him, another article mentions cutting off his other daughters hair with a pen/bread knife.  Both daughters were 'engaged ' to be married.

ADDED In 1881 he is not at 4 King St, Soho.  The property has multiple households

Death Mar qtr 1899   
Oliver Price Bennett
age    66   
Gloucester   RD  6a   215

[rosie99]

I've got to Oliver Price helmet maker born 1841 at North Marston
It looks like he is the son of Josiah Mahyo and Hannah Price.

Where does this information come from.  .  I see his 'brother' was Josiah Mayho Price 

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There is also mention of an illegitimate child born 25 June 1849 to a Hannah Price, the father being Josiah Mayho in the newspaper but Olivers mother Hannah Price married Shadrach Reed in 1844 and appears as such in 1851.

I think the Hannah Price mentioned in that newspaper was at H0107/1721 f778 p14 with her parents in 1851 and her probable son John E Price age 9 months though he is listed as her parents child.