The Prossors of Cashel, Portsea, Southampton, Wellingborough, Caistor, Manchester and Liverpool

Our oldest Prossor ancestor is JOHN PROSSOR, of Cashel, Tipperary, Ireland. Because of the difficulty in researching Irish families, we know very little about him.

1 Our John Prossor married PRUDENCE MAX in 1778. They had seven children:

ANN (b 1783), PRUDENCE (b 1786), SARAH (b 1787), JOHN (b 1788), ANTHONY (b1792, Cashel, d Nov 9, 1872, South Stoneham, Hants), MARGARET (b 1794) and SAMUEL (b1796).

2 By the late 1820s, both Anthony and Samuel are in England, and both marry into the BAKER family of Portsea, Hampshire. To some extent, they seem to work in or complement the business of provisions merchant from their father-in-law GEORGE BAKER (See Baker family on www.bramhill.net and Mary Baker's will)

By 1841, Anthony and his family have moved to Bernard Street, Southampton. Anthony and his wife MARY BAKER have seven children:

3 ANTHONY GEORGE (b July 27, 1832, Portsea, bpt April 24 1833, St Mary's Portsea; died Jun 9, 1896, Macedon, Australia. He went to Australia very early in life and in 1864 was working as a farmhand in Buninyong, Victoria. He married Selina Cooper in 1864 and they had three children - Joseph, and twins John Cooper and Mary Ann, born in Daylesford. More about this Anthony.

HARRIETT (b Nov 7, 1835, Portsea) Married long-standing family friend Charles J Phillips in Dec 1856 in Southampton. Charles J Phillips might have been a Prossor family servant according to the 1841 census. There are various references to him as a merchant and tea dealer. Both Harriet and Charles are buried at Peartree Cemetery, Southampton, although Charles remarries after Harriet's death. Charles's gravestone is grander than the memorial tablet commemorating the Prossor family. Charles and Harriet had one son, Charles E Phillips, born in Hampshire in 1864.

LOUISA FINLAYSON (b July 24, 1837, bpt Jun 1, 1838; died April 1, 1861).

EMILY (b Dec 1839 in Southampton. Died March 16 1836)

HENRY (b Sept 30, 1841 in Southampton, d Feb 28, 1928, Liverpool). Henry is my great grandfather.

FANNIE LOUISA ENID (b Aug 21, 1843, Southampton). Married Fred Kent and had one daughter, Evelyn. Either Fannie, Fred or Evelyn said to have died in an East End or Essex tram accident in the early 1900s.

MARY aka POLLY (b Dec 22 1846, d May 15, 1885)

As mentioned previously, Anthony's brother SAMUEL married Mary Baker's sister HARRIETT HANNAH (b Sept 15 1809, bpt Nov 27 1810, St John's Portsea) on June 18 1831 at St Clement, Westminster and seemingly again on Oct 15, 1831, at St Mary's, Portsea. Their first child GEORGE BAKER PROSSOR was born on July 8, 1831 in Portsea. They also had a daughter, Harriet Pyne Prossor, b Oct 8 1833 in Portsea; she died on May 7, 1884. Kae Lewis is investigating this line.

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