Priscilla Bee and her sister, Mary, were presented to the Anglican Church (Church of England), on April 17, 1806, in Northleach, Gloucstershire, England, to be baptized. Priscilla was very close to her sister, all of her life. Mary was likely the older child, by a year.
When Priscilla Bee was joined in wedlock to Thomas Joynes, on December 4, 1833, with her sister looking on, it was probably among the most blissful days of her life. She must have been truly happy. However, that is not how the story was to end.
Priscilla was one of the few children of John Bee and Sarah Marchant, that made it to adulthood in a world that had been filled with cholera the year before. There had been an international epidemic.
John Bee was a carpenter. He had married Sarah Marchant and raised their children in Northleach, Gloucestershire, England. Priscilla was one of their last children to leave home. The family knew Thomas Joynes; future son-in-law, for he was also a Northleach resident by birth.
The census for 1841, confirms Priscilla Joynes living with her parents: John Bee, 70, and Sarah, 65. On closer examination, court records show a Thomas Joines / Jones, was first imprisoned in 1837, for larceny, a term of 5 months. Sometime after that, another imprisonment for 7 years.
Priscilla went to work on the outskirts of Gloucester. By 1851, she is on her own, a shop keeper. No children were shown in the 1841 census or the next one. In 1861, now 54 years old, Pris appeared to be living in her own residence on her sister Mary's, property. She is known as a good seller of hand clothes.
Her circumstances get dire the following decade (1871). Priscilla, now a widow, according to the records, is living in an alms house, being supported by the town's charity. Whether her cottage was equipped with a kitchen or toilet, is unknown. Her support must have been adequate, for she lived at least another 20 years, passing after 1891 at Dutton Hospital.
When Priscilla Bee was joined in wedlock to Thomas Joynes, on December 4, 1833, with her sister looking on, it was probably among the most blissful days of her life. She must have been truly happy. However, that is not how the story was to end.
Priscilla was one of the few children of John Bee and Sarah Marchant, that made it to adulthood in a world that had been filled with cholera the year before. There had been an international epidemic.
John Bee was a carpenter. He had married Sarah Marchant and raised their children in Northleach, Gloucestershire, England. Priscilla was one of their last children to leave home. The family knew Thomas Joynes; future son-in-law, for he was also a Northleach resident by birth.
The census for 1841, confirms Priscilla Joynes living with her parents: John Bee, 70, and Sarah, 65. On closer examination, court records show a Thomas Joines / Jones, was first imprisoned in 1837, for larceny, a term of 5 months. Sometime after that, another imprisonment for 7 years.
Priscilla went to work on the outskirts of Gloucester. By 1851, she is on her own, a shop keeper. No children were shown in the 1841 census or the next one. In 1861, now 54 years old, Pris appeared to be living in her own residence on her sister Mary's, property. She is known as a good seller of hand clothes.
Her circumstances get dire the following decade (1871). Priscilla, now a widow, according to the records, is living in an alms house, being supported by the town's charity. Whether her cottage was equipped with a kitchen or toilet, is unknown. Her support must have been adequate, for she lived at least another 20 years, passing after 1891 at Dutton Hospital.
Priscilla Bee and her sister, Mary, were presented to the Anglican Church (Church of England), on April 17, 1806, in Northleach, Gloucstershire, England, to be baptized. Priscilla was very close to her sister, all of her life. Mary was likely the older child, by a year.
When Priscilla Bee was joined in wedlock to Thomas Joynes, on December 4, 1833, with her sister looking on, it was probably among the most blissful days of her life. She must have been truly happy. However, that is not how the story was to end.
Priscilla was one of the few children of John Bee and Sarah Marchant, that made it to adulthood in a world that had been filled with cholera the year before. There had been an international epidemic.
John Bee was a carpenter. He had married Sarah Marchant and raised their children in Northleach, Gloucestershire, England. Priscilla was one of their last children to leave home. The family knew Thomas Joynes; future son-in-law, for he was also a Northleach resident by birth.
The census for 1841, confirms Priscilla Joynes living with her parents: John Bee, 70, and Sarah, 65. On closer examination, court records show a Thomas Joines / Jones, was first imprisoned in 1837, for larceny, a term of 5 months. Sometime after that, another imprisonment for 7 years.
Priscilla went to work on the outskirts of Gloucester. By 1851, she is on her own, a shop keeper. No children were shown in the 1841 census or the next one. In 1861, now 54 years old, Pris appeared to be living in her own residence on her sister Mary's, property. She is known as a good seller of hand clothes.
Her circumstances get dire the following decade (1871). Priscilla, now a widow, according to the records, is living in an alms house, being supported by the town's charity. Whether her cottage was equipped with a kitchen or toilet, is unknown. Her support must have been adequate, for she lived at least another 20 years, passing after 1891 at Dutton Hospital.
When Priscilla Bee was joined in wedlock to Thomas Joynes, on December 4, 1833, with her sister looking on, it was probably among the most blissful days of her life. She must have been truly happy. However, that is not how the story was to end.
Priscilla was one of the few children of John Bee and Sarah Marchant, that made it to adulthood in a world that had been filled with cholera the year before. There had been an international epidemic.
John Bee was a carpenter. He had married Sarah Marchant and raised their children in Northleach, Gloucestershire, England. Priscilla was one of their last children to leave home. The family knew Thomas Joynes; future son-in-law, for he was also a Northleach resident by birth.
The census for 1841, confirms Priscilla Joynes living with her parents: John Bee, 70, and Sarah, 65. On closer examination, court records show a Thomas Joines / Jones, was first imprisoned in 1837, for larceny, a term of 5 months. Sometime after that, another imprisonment for 7 years.
Priscilla went to work on the outskirts of Gloucester. By 1851, she is on her own, a shop keeper. No children were shown in the 1841 census or the next one. In 1861, now 54 years old, Pris appeared to be living in her own residence on her sister Mary's, property. She is known as a good seller of hand clothes.
Her circumstances get dire the following decade (1871). Priscilla, now a widow, according to the records, is living in an alms house, being supported by the town's charity. Whether her cottage was equipped with a kitchen or toilet, is unknown. Her support must have been adequate, for she lived at least another 20 years, passing after 1891 at Dutton Hospital.
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