Family of Thomas Prentice and Mary Lungley

Husband: Thomas Prentice

  • Name:

  • Thomas Prentice

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Father:

  • -

  • Mother:

  • -

  • Note:

  • Thomas Prentice, b. 14 Sep 1794 and d. 19 Jul 1852. The Prentices were in the corn trade, and both they and the Isaacs, into which their daughter, Sarah, married, were Congregationalists. Thomas formed the firm of Prentice and Co. at Navigation Wharf, as well as running the towns gasworks they were corn and coal merchants, maltsters and dealt in chemical manure.

    From this last aspect of the business developed Messrs Prentice Brothers run by Thomas`s sons Manning III and Eustace. This company employed about 40 people in 1874 and were described as "manufacturers of dissolved bones, superphosphates & special manures". This was an industry that had been developed in the county by amongst others the Fisons and in fact the Prentice company was eventually taken over by Fisons who as we have seen the Prentices were related to by marriage. In the 1840`s Thomas left the church & joined the Plymouth Brethren.

    Source: The Prentices of Palsgrave, Bungay and Stowmarket, England and Pennsylvania, by Linus Joseph Dewald Jr.

    http://www.prenticenet.com/news/99/prentices_palgrave_england.htm

  • Birth:

  • 14 Sep 1794

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  • Death:

  • 19 Jul 1852 (age 57)

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Wife: Mary Lungley

  • Name:

  • Mary Lungley

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Father:

  • -

  • Mother:

  • -

  • Birth:

  • 23 Apr 1794

  • Lavenham, Suffolk

  • Death:

  • 10 Jun 1865 (age 71)

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Child 1: Edward Henry Prentice

  • Name:

  • Edward Henry Prentice

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Spouse:

  • Sarah Pitcairn Webb (1837-1927)

  • Note 1:

  • A company formed by the sons of Thomas Prentice was The Patent Gun Cotton Co. established about 1863 on the site that is now part of the I.C.I. factory. It was here on 11th August 1871 that an explosion occurred at 2 pm that shook the town, blowing out windows in the town and Haughley station some three miles away and being heard as far away as Diss.

    Many people were killed and injured including Edward Prentice (son of Thomas) and his nephew William who were helping to haul boxes of cartridges away from the resulting fire when a second explosion occurred killing them both. No trace of the remains of Edward were found other than a battered gold watch found later, its hands stopped at 5 minutes past three the time of the second explosion.

    Source: The Prentices of Palsgrave, Bungay and Stowmarket, England and Pennsylvania, by Linus Joseph Dewald Jr.

    http://www.prenticenet.com/news/99/prentices_palgrave_england.htm

  • Note 2:

  • 19 December 1871. The Will of Edward Henry Prentice late of Stowmarket in the County of Suffolk Merchant who died 11 August 1871 at Stowupland in the said County was proved at Bury St. Edmunds by Eustace Carey Prentice of Stowmarket Merchant the Brother one of the Executors. Effects under £10,000.

  • Birth:

  • 25 Jul 1838

  • Stowmarket, Suffolk

  • Birth fact:

  • 1838 (age 0)

  • 1838 Sep Qtr, Stow, 12/386

  • Census:

  • 1871 (age 32-33)

  • Chemical mauve manufacturer, The Limes, Ipswich Road, Stowmarket (3 daughters)

  • Death fact:

  • 1871 (age 32-33)

  • 1871 Sep Qtr, Stow, 4a/354 (aged 33)

  • Death:

  • 11 Jan 1871 (age 32)

  • Stowupland, Suffolk

Note on Husband: Thomas Prentice

Thomas Prentice, b. 14 Sep 1794 and d. 19 Jul 1852. The Prentices were in the corn trade, and both they and the Isaacs, into which their daughter, Sarah, married, were Congregationalists. Thomas formed the firm of Prentice and Co. at Navigation Wharf, as well as running the towns gasworks they were corn and coal merchants, maltsters and dealt in chemical manure.

From this last aspect of the business developed Messrs Prentice Brothers run by Thomas`s sons Manning III and Eustace. This company employed about 40 people in 1874 and were described as "manufacturers of dissolved bones, superphosphates & special manures". This was an industry that had been developed in the county by amongst others the Fisons and in fact the Prentice company was eventually taken over by Fisons who as we have seen the Prentices were related to by marriage. In the 1840`s Thomas left the church & joined the Plymouth Brethren.

Source: The Prentices of Palsgrave, Bungay and Stowmarket, England and Pennsylvania, by Linus Joseph Dewald Jr.

http://www.prenticenet.com/news/99/prentices_palgrave_england.htm

Note on Child 1: Edward Henry Prentice (1)

A company formed by the sons of Thomas Prentice was The Patent Gun Cotton Co. established about 1863 on the site that is now part of the I.C.I. factory. It was here on 11th August 1871 that an explosion occurred at 2 pm that shook the town, blowing out windows in the town and Haughley station some three miles away and being heard as far away as Diss.

Many people were killed and injured including Edward Prentice (son of Thomas) and his nephew William who were helping to haul boxes of cartridges away from the resulting fire when a second explosion occurred killing them both. No trace of the remains of Edward were found other than a battered gold watch found later, its hands stopped at 5 minutes past three the time of the second explosion.

Source: The Prentices of Palsgrave, Bungay and Stowmarket, England and Pennsylvania, by Linus Joseph Dewald Jr.

http://www.prenticenet.com/news/99/prentices_palgrave_england.htm

Note on Child 1: Edward Henry Prentice (2)

19 December 1871. The Will of Edward Henry Prentice late of Stowmarket in the County of Suffolk Merchant who died 11 August 1871 at Stowupland in the said County was proved at Bury St. Edmunds by Eustace Carey Prentice of Stowmarket Merchant the Brother one of the Executors. Effects under £10,000.