IL Family Group Sheet for the John William Pring Carpenter Family

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Submitted by: Frank Bouley
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Husband: John William Pring CARPENTER
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  Birthdate: 22 Jun 1845 - Newton Popleford, Devonshire, England
 Death date: 28 Nov 1922 - Colorado Springs, El Paso, Colorado
     Buried: 2 Dec 1922 - Colorado Springs, El Paso, Colorado, Evergreen Cem.
     Father: Henry William Pring (1810-1858)
     Mother: Mary Ann Patch Lacemaker (1809-1863)
    Married: 15 Jul 1866 - St.John Evangeli, London, England
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Wife: Mary Jane BEER
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  Birthdate: 29 May 1843 - Iddesleigh, Devonshire, England
 Death date: 6 Feb 1906 - Colorado Springs, El Paso, Colorado
     Buried: 11 Feb 1906 - Colorado Springs, El Paso, Colorado, Evergreen Cem.
     Father: William Brook Beer Farmer (1815-1888)
     Mother: Elizabeth Tucker Thorne Dressmaker (1817-1877)
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Children
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1 M Henry William Pring
  Birthdate: 20 May 1867 - London, England
 Death date: 12 May 1926
     Buried: 22 May 1926 - Colorado Springs, El Paso, Colorado
     Spouse: Minnie Walker ( - ) Marr: 9 Sep 1896
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2 F Henrietta Jane Pring
  Birthdate: 27 Dec 1869 - London, England, , Westborne Park
 Death date: 11 May 1941
     Buried:  - Colorado Springs, El Paso, Colorado
     Spouse: William David Shemwell ( - ) Marr: 1891
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3 M William John Pring
  Birthdate: 13 Jan 1871 - London, , England, Westborne Park
 Death date: 23 Oct 1950 - Colorado Springs, El Paso, Colorado
     Buried: 28 Oct 1950 - Colorado Springs, El Paso, Colorado
     Spouse: Nellie May Galley ( - ) Marr: 10 Mar 1896 - Castle Rock, , Colorado
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4 F Elizabeth Lydia Pring
  Birthdate: 28 Mar 1873 - Sterling, Whiteside, Illinois
 Death date: 6 Jun 1958
     Buried: 10 Jun 1958 - Colorado Springs, El Paso, Colorado
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5 F Lucy Ann Pring
  Birthdate: 20 Dec 1876 - Rock Island Fall, Whiteside, Illinois
 Death date: 1930
     Buried:  - Colorado Springs, El Paso, Colorado
     Spouse: William McConnell Doctor ( - ) Marr: 22 Jun 1898
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6 M Oliver Perry Pring
  Birthdate: 17 Aug 1878 - Husted, El Paso, Colorado
 Death date: 24 Jul 1963 - Lewiston, Nez Perce, Idaho
     Buried: 26 Jul 1963 - Normal Hill Cem., Lewiston, Idaho
     Spouse: Mabel Gregory (1878-1961) Marr: 25 Jan 1900 - Galveston, Galveston, Texas
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7 M Edward Adelbert Pring
  Birthdate: 13 Dec 1880 - South Monument, El Paso, Colorado
 Death date: 24 Nov 1944 - Denver, , Colorado
     Buried: 28 Nov 1944 - Colorado Springs, El Paso, Colorado
     Spouse: Margery Faye Willett (1886-1956) Marr: 1908
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8 M Aubrey Jasper Pring
  Birthdate: 27 Feb 1883 - Husted, Colorado
 Death date: 13 Jun 1899 - Colorado Springs, , Colorado
     Buried:  - Colorado Springs, El Paso, Colorado
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9 M Arthur James Pring
  Birthdate: Jun 1887 - Husted, El Paso, Colorado
 Death date:
     Buried:
     Spouse: Eva Smith ( - ) Marr: 25 Oct 1912 -Denver, , Colorado
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Husband's General Notes
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Supposedly born at Newton Popleford is a suburb of Aylesbeare

Apprenticed to the building trades at age 15.

!Went to London in 1866 (age 21) and engaged in building trade. and built
many stores, houses, and hotels there.

!Personal Cabinet Maker for Queen Victoria.

!Came to US in 1871 and opened a small furniture factory in Rock Falls
Il.

Prings of Awliscombe by Rev. B.F. De Costa
NEHGR Jan 1887 Vol. 42 pp86-88

Deed for village of Rock Falls Illinois Page124, #324 -20 Jan, 1876
From A.R. Merrill and wife HarriettM. and L. Hapgood and Anna W. his
wife to John Pring for the sum of $350 in the Village of Rockfalls,
county of Whiteside, Ill.
The same day John Pring and wife Mary Jane resold this property, (record
# 9326) to Henry Peterson for the sum of $700.

Six other deeds for 28 May, 1875 (#1242), --7 Oct,1876,-- 21 Nov. 23,
1876, 3 Sep, 1877, 2 Sep, 1879 (this one is for ! $1 in which he received a
quit claim for property in Colorado) and 15 March 1884.
John Pring always bought and sold at profit.

!Bought land (240 Acres 15 Mi. N. of Co. Springs) in Colorado Springs and
moved there about 1876 and began ranching. During the Cripple Creek
Gold Excitement he was one of the first to go to the district and owned
the Bonnie Nell and Raven Hill mines and several others.

1851 Census for Devonshire:

!1880 Census Colorado Enum. Dist. 44 Sheet 34-line8-Vol.2 Reel T738#5
Pring, John age 36 Farmer Born England
Mary Jane age 37 housekeeper born England
Harry age 13born England
Ettieage 11"
William age 9 "
Elizabethage 7born Illinois
Lucyage 4 "
Oliver P. age 2born Colorado

!1885 Local Census for Colorado.
Pring, John age 40 born Eng.
Mary age 42 Eng.
Henry W. age 18 Eng
Henrietta age 16 Eng
William J. age 14 Eng
Elizabeth age 12 Illinois
Lucy A. age 9 Illinois
Oliver P. ag! e 6 Colorado
Edward A. age 4 Colorado

!1900 Census for Colorado-P652 T1035 (Vol 9 Ed 31 Sheet 5 line 19)
Pring, John W. Age 55
Mary age 57
Lydia age 37
Edward age 30
James age 13

1910 Census for Colorado

!Deed-1876-Rock Falls, Whiteside Co. Ill.

!Marriage Cert. # B54532 General Registry Office of London
Record # 186 15 Jul 1866
John William Pring-- Carpenter son of Henry Pring --Farmer
Mary Jane Beer-- daughter of William Beer---Farmer
Both residing at 6 Luton Terrace, London
Married in District Parish church
In the presence of Joseph Lewis and Almena Lewis
Married (after Banns) by H.H. Letchworth

!According to IGI, they were married 15 Jul 1866 at St. John the
Evangelist, Notting Hill, London, Eng.

JOHN WILLIAM PRING

John William Pring was born in Devonshire, Eng on June 22,
1545. His father was Henry Pring and his mother, Mary Ann
Patch. He was one of nine children, (John being #6! ). Below is a transcript
from Portraits and biographical records of Colorado,
P511/12.

PRINGS EVERGREEN CEMETERY IN COLORADO SPRINGS
Cemetery Records thru 1972
FROM The original listing Compiled by Athlyn Luzier
and published by the Pikes Peak Genealogical Society
LAST FIRST BIRTH DEATH BURIAL LOT#

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PRING AUBREY JOHN 27 FEB 1883 17 JUN 1899 T-K
(Bur w/John William)
PRING BABY BOY 30 JUN 1947 K
PRING EDWARD A. 13 DEC 1880 28 NOV 1944 T-K
(Bur w/John William)
PRING ELIZABETH LYDIA 28 MAR 1873 10 JUN 1958 K
(Bur w/John William)
PRING FRANK W. 1897-229 no Deathdate;
Bur w/Margaret May)
PRING HENRY WILLIAM 20 MAY 1867 22 MAY 1926 K
(Bur w/John William)
PRING JOHN EDWARD 07 DEC 1912 19 SEP 1935 K
(Bur w/John William)
PRING JOHN WILLIAM 22 JUN 1845 02 DEC 1922 T-K
(husband of Mary Jane PRING)
PRING MARGARETE MAY 1896 30 JAN 1971 -229

(Bur w/F! rank W.)
PRING MARY JANE 29 MAY 1843 11 FEB 1906 T-K

(wife of John William PRING)
PRING NELLIE M. 1877 (no Deathdate) -229

(Bur w/William John)
PRING WILLIAM JOHN 1871 28 OCT 1950 T-229

(Bur w/Nellie M.)

John W. Pring who made his home in Colorado Springs since
1897, came to this state in 1876, for the purpose of
investigating a tract of 240 acres he had previously purchased
without ever having seen the property. He found the place a
barren waste, without apparently, enough upon it to keep a
rabbit alive. All though making up his mind that he had made a
most unfortunate trade, he determined to settle here. He at once
began to cultivate and settle the land, upon which he engaged in
stock-raising and general farming. Since then he has brought the
tract under irrigation, built fences around it, and erected
substantial farm buildings, so that the place has been made one
of the best farms in El Paso County. It! is situated fifteen
miles North of Colorado Springs, on both the Santa Fe and the
Denver and Rio Grande Railroads, at Pring Station, which was
named for him. His specialty has been the raising of graded
shorthorns. Prior to his removal to Colorado Springs, he engaged
in the Dairy business and for seven years furnished the milk for
the Antlers Hotel, whose bill amounted to more than $18,000.
Shipments of milk were made over the Rio Grande road. In
addition to this place he owns farm at Gwillinville, five
miles East of Monument, where his son superintends the
cultivation of the four hundred and forty acres comprising the
estate: and he is also the owner of three other farms in the
same vicinity, all of which were improved by himself.
The Pring family is from Devonshire, England. Our subjects grandfather,
Henry Pring, owned a fine estate, ''The Rosewood",
where he spent his entire life. He was drowned one night while
fording a strea! m. His son, Henry, who succeeded to the ownership
of the estate, was killed, when forty seven years of age, by
being thrown from a buggy by a runaway horse. Henry Pring Jr.
married Mary Ann Patch, who died in Devon, her native shire. Of
their nine children, six are now living all in Devonshire
except John W., the sixth in order of birth. He was born June
22,1845, and attended the pay schools of Devon. His father died
when he was a lad of 11. Four years later he was apprenticed to
the Carpenters and builders trade in the vicinity of his home
place, and there he continued until he was 21. Going to London
in 1866, he engaged in contracting and building. With the money
bequeathed him by his father he bought property and built
eighteen residences at one time, afterwards erecting houses in different
parts of the city. In addition to the residences buiIt
for himself, he carried out contracts to build stores, hotels
and houses for others.
Af! ter having been in London for five years. in the fall of
1871 Mr.Pring came to America. and bought the Utility Works in
Rock Falls, Ill.. where he engaqed in the manufacture of all
kinds of articles in wood. After two years, however, he sold
out. Since coming to Colorado he has given his attention
principally to raising draft horses. qraded stock, and to the
dairy business, in which he has been successful. His home is now
at 318 West Kiowa Street, Colorado Springs. When the Cripple
Creek excitement began, he was among the first in that district,
and is still interested in mines there. In political views he is
a Republican. He takes an interest in public affairs, but has
always refused to accept public office.
In London, England, Mr. Pring married Miss Mary Jane Beer, daughter of
William Beer and a native of Exeter. They are the parents of nine
children, namely: Harry who lives in
Montana, William, who occupies one of his fathers ranc! hes; Mrs.
Ettie Shemwell, whose husband manages the home ranch; Lucy, wife of
Dr. McConnell of Monument, Lydia, Oliver, Edward, Aubrey, and Arthur,
who are at home.
END OF BIOGRAPHY
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Wife's General Notes
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MARY JANE BEER (THORN)

Mary Jane Beer was born on 5/29/lS43 in Idlegh, Exeter England. She met
and married John William Pring in London around 1866. The couple had
nine children and emigrated to the U.S. in l871. She died 6 Feb 1906 at
her ranch her ranch in Colorado. The compiler has a picture of her taken
in 1901.
Most of the information that the compiler has comes from his Mother,
aunts, uncles and cousins in the family. (Much of it is irroneous)

Attended Blue Cape (There was a Blue Maids School on Mary Arches
Street) School for girls in Exeter, Eng. This school was only a few blocks
from where she lived.--Here is a letter from a researcher:
Subject: Blue Maids' Hospital
Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2000 10:13:47 -0500
From: Ian Stoyle <Thorverton@compuserve.com>
Provided she lived early enough, it sounds as if your GGM was a scholar
at the Hele's or Blue Maids' Hospital in St Mary Arches, Exeter! . This was
a charity set up in the 1600s for the free board, clothing and education
of a small number of girls, who were dressed in blue. There was a
similar but better endowed organization for boys, the St John's Hospital
or Blue Boys school.
By 1851, according to White's Directory, there were only 4 Blue Girls
proper, who were "admitted at the ages of 7 to 10 years, and discharged
at 14 years of age, when they are bound apprentices .. or placed as
servants in respectable families". However, the Mistress was also
permitted to take in other scholars, who paid a small fee, as boarders or
day pupils, so there were many more girls at the school than those paid
for by the charity. Whether the fee payers wore the same uniform. I'm
not sure. There are no surviving lists of pupils for the Blue Maids
Hospital in local archives, but I imagine they were the sisters of the
boys at the Blue Boys School, who were the sons of artisans in regular
empl! oyment and small tradesmen, certainly not middle class but equally
certainly not rough working class. The Blue Boys school prospered until
the 1920s, but I can't find any reference to the Blue Maids after the
1870s.
St Mary Arches suffered a lot of bomb damage in the war and was then
destroyed by the Exeter City Council in the 1960s, so the school
buildings will no longer be there. I don't recall ever having seen a photo
of them either, though descriptions of them make them sound quite
extensive. I hope that helps.
Ian Stoyle,
Researcher, Exeter

Maynards School for Girls also known as Exeter High School for Girls,
also known as Blue Maid school for girls.

!She had one illigitimate child named "George Pool"

!She followed husband John over in 1872

Item: Mary Jane was enrolled at birth in the Blue Cape College
for girls, by her father. It had blue chip credentials and is
still in existance now.
Item: Another accoun! t says it was the Blue Bonnet school
for Young Ladies.
Item: She was a maid in waiting to Queen Victoria, her mother
Elizabeth havinq been a second cousin to the Queen.
Item: The Queen asked Mary Jane to part her hair in the
middle, a style she continued for the rest of her life.
Item: As a maid in waiting, she was taught English,
Penman*hip, Music" and Needlework.
Item: She had an uncle. David Williams who was a retired quartermaster
of the British Army and an uncle, Thomas Thorne,
who was Captain of the Queens yacht (she often sailed with him).
Item:There has even been confusion as to who her father really was.
Some accounts make the father Lord Earl R. Thorn. One account
says that Lord Thorne was father and Beer the stepfather and
that Beer was the Caretaker of Windsor Castle and that Mary Jane
was born and raised in Windsor Castle. Some accounts make it William
Beer who married Elizabeth Thorne.
Item: One account says that her mo! thers maiden name was
Elizabeth West who was widowed and married William Beer.
some of the confusion has been cleared up by recent
correspondence with a from Idaho, Ann Miller.
According to Anns records William Brook Beer married Elizabeth
Thorne about l852 (nine years after Mary Janes birth). They had a
daughter, Eliza Ellen, who would have been Mary Janes half
sister.
A letter from this compilers mother, Elizabeth Hanson (nee
Pring) says "My fathers mother was Mary Jane Beer and she was
Queen Victorias cousin on the Windsor side. It seems that when
she was very young, her father died and her mother married
again. Her step father was a commoner who adopted her, and
therein lies the difficulty in tracing. Many years ago I read
letters from Victoria to grandmother and saw an old tin type of
them, posed together. and signed by Victoria." (This, I believe was
mothers fantasy)

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SOURCES:
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Baptismal Record June 18, 1843 Iddesleigh! , County of Decon, Eng.
Mary Jane daughter of William and Elizabeth Beare of Iddesleigh

Death Cert.
File #1313 Colorado Springs, El Paso Co., Co.
Mary E. Pring of Colorado Springs
Born May 29 1843 England
Died Feb 6, 1906
Cause of death== Pneumonia
Age= 62 yr. 8 mo. 7 days
Father= William Beer Born England
Mother= Elizabeth Tucker Born England
Informant== Mrs. William D. Shemwell
Date of burial= Feb 11, 1906

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