| Husband: | Thomas Prentice (1794-1852) | |
| Wife: | Mary Lungley (1794-1865) | |
| Children: | Edward Henry Prentice (1838-1871) | |
| Marriage | 18 May 1819 | |
| Name: | Thomas Prentice | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Father: | - | |
| Mother: | - | |
| Birth | 14 Sep 1794 | |
| Death | 19 Jul 1852 (age 57) | |
| Name: | Mary Lungley | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Father: | - | |
| Mother: | - | |
| Birth | 23 Apr 1794 | Lavenham, Suffolk |
| Death | 10 Jun 1865 (age 71) | |
| Name: | Edward Henry Prentice | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Spouse: | Sarah Pitcairn Webb (1837-1927) | |
| 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 |
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.
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