First Generation

1. Richard Prince was born in 1760.¹ He died on 6 Jun 1832 in Clovelly, Devon, England.² He was buried on 13 Jun 1832 in Clovelly, Devon, England.³ He was an Innkeeper, Ship Owner. DEVON RECORD OFFICE, EXETER Devon Quarter Sessions Records Ref:62/1/49-67 Alehouse Licences DEVON BE IT REMEMBERED that on the Eleventh day of September in the year of our Lord One thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty seven the Several and Respectiive Victuallers and their Sureties hereinafter named came personally before us George Buck and Augustus Saltern Willetts and James Hamlyn. Enquiries thereof for His Majesty's Justices of the Peace and of the said County of Devon and Acting for the North Division of the Hundred of Shebbear and Hartland Hundred in the said County. And each of the said Victuallers did acknowledge themselves to owe to our Sovereign Lord King George the Third the Sum of Ten Pounds apiece and the Several Sureties for them ffive pounds apiece. And in the case of the Absence of the Victuallers then the two Sureties in the Sum of Ten Pounds each to be levied on their Goods and Chattles, Lands and Tenements. UPON CONDITION that if the said Victuallers do severally keep Good rule and Order in their respective Houses, Yards and Backsides pursuant to the Licenses to each of them now granted for One Year in such a manner as the Law in that case directs then their respective reconizances shall be void otherwise to remain in full fforce and effect. Parishes Victuallers Sureties Clovelly for John Maine Thomas Burnard, William Doidge Catherine Warmington Thomas Burnard and William Trick for Richard Prince Gerrard Hussey and John Wills for Jane Hodge Thomas Burnard and William Trick 11th September 1787. Taken and Acknowledged at Bideford before us. (signed) Aug. Salten Willetts Jas. Hamlyn Geo. Bucks 1788 - same entries 1797 - Richard Prince; sureties Michael Trace and John Bridgman 1798 - Red Lion for John Main Thomas Burnard and John Moach(?) each £10 Red Lion for Richard Prince Charles Smith and John Bale each £10 Black Horse for Henry Jewell Charles Smith and Henry Wilkinson each £10 1799 - Richard Prince sureties John Dyer and John Curtice 1800 - Richard Prince sureties George Lance and John Hutchings 1801 - Richard Prince sureties George Lance and James Elson 1802 - William Prince sureties John Dyer and Nicholas Jeffrey 1804 - Richard Prince sureties Richard Prince and William Nicholls 1805 - Richard Prince sureties John Ashton and Thomas Short 1807 - Richard Prince sureties Richard Hamlyn 1809 - Richard Prance (sic) sureties James Bailey £10 1816: No. Innkeepers Parishes £ Sureties Parishes Professions £ 8 Richard Prince Clovelly 10 Jonathan Clovelly Yeoman 10 Jewell 1818 - Richard Prince sureties the said Richard Prince £10 1821 - Richard Prince sureties John Seldon £10 No further Licences deposited at DRO

SOURCE: Mr R Craig, St Margaret's Bay, Dover JOHNS Built: Maryport 1797 Registrations: No.1, 2 March 1798, Kircudbright No.1, 18 April 1805, Pembroke No.3, 16 March 1808, Bideford (altered from schooner rig to brigantine) No.11, 15 August 1815, Bideford Recorded Port entries: Liverpool, 30 March 1798, John Callie master Chepstow, circa 1806/7 Liverpool, 28 April 1807, George Rees master Liverpool, 16 April 1808, Daniel Johnson master Recorded masters: 1808-1810 George Bryant Daniel Johnson John Marshall 3 Oct 1810 John Fisher (at London)

Gwent County Record Office Chepstow Shipping Registers 1805 Apr 28 JOHNS - registered at Pembroke; owned by George Hurlow of Pembroke, shipwwright; George Rees, master; Built at Maryport Co. Cumberland 1797;Surveying Officer William Allen, landing waiter; British built; 1 deck, 2 masts; 51 (feet) long; 15.5 (feet) breadth 'above the main Wales', depth of hold 8 feet; tons burthen 59 40/94; kind of vessel, square-sterned schooner; no gallery; no figure head.

Richard Prince and Susannah Thorp were married on 15 Sep 1787 in Clovelly, Devon, England.³ Susannah Thorp (daughter of William Thorp) was born in 1760 in Clovelly, Devon, England.¹ She was christened on 15 Aug 1760 in Clovelly, Devon, England.³ She died on 19 Sep 1835 in Clovelly, Devon, England.² She was buried on 27 Sep 1835 in Clovelly, Devon, England.³



Richard Prince and Susannah Thorp had the following children:

+2	i.	Barnet Prince.
3	ii.	Richard Prince was born in 1789 in Clovelly, Devon, England.1 He was christened on 28 Aug 1789 in Clovelly, Devon, England.3 He died on 16 Feb 1847 in Bideford, Devon, England.2 He was buried on 21 Feb 1847 in Clovelly, Devon, England.3 He was a Ship owner; Farmer. BARNSTAPLE RECORD OFFICE Bideford Register of Ships 1824-1831 Piece No. 3319S/2 22 August 1828 No.13 Bideford Name HERO Burthen 24 54/94ths Barnet Prince Master Built at Clovelly within this Port in the year 1828, as appears by the Builder's certificate dated 23 July 1828 George Colmer, Surveyor One Deck one Mast length thirty-eight feet 6 inches Breadth taken above the main Wales Thirteen feet 5 3/4 inches Depth in the Hold, six feet four inches Sloop Rigged with a Running Bowsprit, Square sterned, Carvel built no galleries no figure head Admeasured aground Subscribing owners Richard Prince of Clovelly Devon shipbuilder 32 shares Susan Prince do. spinster 32 shares Total 64 shares Registered de novo 1841 No.15 Bideford Register of Ships 1831-1843 Piece No. 3319S/3 No.15 Bideford 12 Augsut 1841 HERO 19 248/3500 tons Samuel Vine, master Built at Clovelly within this Port in the Year one thousand eight hundred and twenty eight as appears by a former Certificate of Registry granted at this Port the 22nd day of August 1828 Number 13. W.C.Burt Tide Surveyor at this Port One Deck one Mast Length thirty-six feet four tenths Breadth in midships twelve feet five tenths Depth in the Hold at Midships six feet four tenths Smack rigged with a running bowsprit square rigged carvel built no galleries no figure head Admeasured under the Act 5 & 6 Will 4c 56 Tonnage under the Act 3 & 4 Will 4c 55 = 24 54/94ths Subscribing owners Of Clovelly in the County of Devon Samuel Vine Mariner in virtue of his marriage with Susan Prince late of Clovelly, spinster Shares thirty-two - 32 Richard Prince, shipbuilder Shares thirty-two - 32 Certificate of Marriage produced to the Collr. and Comp. Change of Masters Michaelmas 1847, July 29 Thomas Bragg has now become Master Lost 1849 PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE - KEW Piece No. BT98/175 Agreements and Crew Lists Bideford 1839/40 HERO 12 voyages with coal and culm from Wales to Devon between 31st December 1839 and 30th June 1840 under Samuel Vine, Master and John Elliot (63), Mate. Owner: Rd. Prince 6 voyages with coal and culm from Wales to Devon between 3oth June and 31st December 1840 (Same Master, Mate and Owner) PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE - KEW Piece Number BT 107/160 Transcripts & Transactions, Western Ports 1818 In pursuance of an Act passed in the twenty-sixth year of the Reign of King George the Third, intituled,An Act for the further Increase and Encouragement of Shipping and Navigation Richard Prince the Younger of Clovelly in the County of Devon Ship owner having taken and subscribed the Oath required by this Act, and having Sworn that he is sole owner of the vessel called the AGENORIA of Clovelly in the Port of Bideford whereof Barnet Prince is at present the Master and that the said Ship or Vessel was built at Clovelly aforesaid in this present year and is the same vessel which is described in the Certificate of Thomas Barrow the Builder dated 14th October 1818 Death: N Devon Journal 18 Feb 1847 ------------------ The following list of names, described as having been taken "from an old parish note book", was given in Vol 4 of the Clovelly Chronicles, one of a series of scrap books held in the Library at Clovelly Court. Mr Ashton Mr Robert Ashton John Squire, carpenter Richd. Jennings, mason John Ashton, farmer James Bates, shoemaker Thomas Ashton J. Elseworthy, farmer William Heard, labourer John Heard Nicholas Jeffrey, carrier's son William Ashton, blacksmith's son James Elseworthy, farmer s son Richard Prince, jun., innkeeper John Jennings, mason James Jewell, ploughman Ambrose Curtis, mason Priscilla Jennings, mason's niece Isabela Jennings, mason's niece Betty Matthews, sempstress Betty Roberts, grocer's wife Mary Ann Heard, shopkeeper's wife Sally Kivell, carpenter's wife Eliza Jenkins, butcher's wife Bridget Jennings, mason's wife ----------------------------- North Devon Journal of 18th February reported "Another Death by Drowning": As if to verify the adage that "casualties do not come alone" a melancholy episode to the disastrous catastrophe occurred the same evening in the accidental decease of Mr. Richard Prince, aged about 55, a respectable farmer and limeburner belonging to Clovelly. The deceased had come into the market in the morning accompanied by two of his workmen, and bringing a quantity of wheat for sale, he sold his wheat and received the money (£9); he seems to have been addicted to drinking, and was in the "London Inn" on the Quay, a little before 7 in the evening, drinking with a few of his neighbours; the alarm of the omnibus going over the Quay having been given, all his companions went out to see what was the matter, leaving him alone in the room; he must have gone out soon after, because a woman saw him excessively drunk, rambling towards the edge of the Quay, who ran over to him and led him up towards Cooper Street, where she left him; he was not seen afterwards alive, but the next morning between 9 and 10, his body was found drowned outside the Quay, just opposite Bridgland-Street. The face was shockingly eaten by the rats, and in his pockets above £13 was found. The body was taken to the "Ship Inn" where an inquest was held upon it the same morning before Thos. I Pridham, Esq., coroner for the borough, when the above facts having been deposed to, the jury returned a verdict of "Found drowned". There can be no doubt that the unfortunate fellow, being greatly intoxicated, rambled over the Quay and so came by his death.
4	iii.	William Prince was born in 1790 in Clovelly, Devon, England.1 He died on 17 Dec 1797 in Clovelly, Devon, England.2
+5	iv.	Susannah Prince.