A listing of the contents of past issues
of our Society Journal

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Issue 1 June 2003

Hubbard Pryor – Civil War Veteran
Records of an American Union army private found in the U.S. National Archives
A Slave-owners Will
The 1771 will of John Pryor, Orange County, North Carolina
The Poems of Philip Louile Pryor
A selection of verses from an early 20th century black poet
Elsie Pryor – A Slave’s Story
A former slave tells of the hardships she endured in Oklahoma
The Origin of Slave Surnames
How surnames developed among America’s Black community
Snooky Pryor – Musician (1921- )
Harmonica player James Edward Pryor of Mississippi
Richard Pryor – Comedian (1940- )
American funny-man, star of the silver screen
Prestigious Pryors – 1955
Extracts from Kelly’s Handbook to the Titled, Landed and Official Classes
Mr & Mrs Joseph Pryor
Mayor and Mayoress of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia 1928-29
The Sweet Priors of London
Looking for William and Jemima Prior
Pryor/Prior Male DNA Study
A surname project at ‘Family Tree DNA’

Issue 2 September 2003

Matthew Prior (1664 – 1721) and the Hymns of Methodism
How the poems of Matthew Prior influenced the Wesley brothers
Raymond Claims a Link to the Conqueror
A profile of Prior FHS member, Raymond Prior
Charles Prior and the Founding of Guelph, Ontario, Canada
A Canadian pioneer who helped build a town
The Prior Chair-makers of Uxbridge and Cricklewood
Discoveries made whilst researching this branch of the Prior family
Intriguing Headstone
An unusual headstone found in a Devon cemetery

Issue 3 December 2003

A Little Information of the PRIOR/PRYOR Family
Early origins of the family compiled from various sources
Pryer Family Coat of Arms
An article from 1910 dealing with a family coat of arms and family origins
The Prior Surname in Ireland
Possible origins of the surname in Ireland
Family Heraldry
A collection of coats of arms associated with the family
Horace Victor Prior (1890 – 1922): A Hero of Heroic Stock
The exploits of a man from Lewes. Sussex
A Huntingdon Connection: From Sawtry to Kersbrook and Beyond
Emigrants from Huntingdonshire to South Australia

Issue 4 March 2004

Melton Prior – War Artist (1845 – 1910)
Artist and war correspondent with the ‘London Illustrate News’
Don’t Put your Daughter on the Stage!
Lulu Pryor a young performer on the New York stage in the 1860s
The Revenge of John Prior
A son takes the law into his own hands after the murder of
his father in Georgia in 1865
Miscellaneous Items
A selection of brief references to the surname
An Attack on Reverend Edward Prior
An account of a trial at the Old Bailey, London in 1723

Issue 5 June 2004

Thomas Prior – Irish Patriot (1681 – 1751)
Anglo-Irish landowner and founder member of the Royal Dublin Society
Top Award for Prior Times
The Prior FHS wins a Guild of One-name Studies award
Abducted by Aliens!
Elusive Prior forbears
Miscellaneous Items
A selection of brief references to the surname
A Gathering of Pryors
Pryors of Cornish origins to meet for an event in Australia
A New Pryor Publication
A Lifelong Colonist: The Life and Times of
William Henry Pryor (1849 – 1924) of Australia

Issue 6 September 2004

Tragedy at Big Bay Point
Michigan Lighthouse keeper William Prior came to a sad end in 1901
A Gathering of Pryors
A report on a recent family day in Melbourne, Australia for
descendants of William Penaluna Pryor and Thomas Scholler Pryor
Elizabeth Lyddon (nee Prior)
18th century portrait of a Somerset lady
Brick Walls at Every Turn
From Cornwall to Tyneside, London, Leeds, Scotland and Leicester:
more elusive ancestors
Hepzibah Prior
Researching an unusual first name
Miscellaneous Items
A selection of brief references to the surname
Prior’s Mill, New Jersey
Jacob Prior built a tidewater mill in 1760

Issue 7 December 2004

Ben Pryor’s Ox-Wagon Journey: Port Elizabeth to Middelburg - 1859
An account of a journey across the Eastern Cape of South Africa
Tennessee Pryor Website
Data relating to the surname in Tennessee and some other US states
An American Family in England
A family on the 1871 census for Cambridgeshire
Back Issues of ‘Family Connections’ and ‘Prior Times’
A list of articles appearing in all the previous issues of the Society’s Journal