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PRICE FAMILY ORIGINS - Channel Islands in the 17th Century to Australia and on into the 21st Century.
I have now been successful in tracing THE PRICE FAMILY back in the mid 1600's with a Thomas Price. He originally came from Wales and he married Maria Baker, in Guernsey Channel Islands, in 1670, and their son, also called Thomas Price who married Eliza Claire and their son another Thomas Price who married Martha Solbe and their son, once again called Thomas Price 1736-1807 who in turn married Suzanne Falaise.
Our Kin Genealogicala Sketches, Pedigrees and Arms of Sundry Families - Compiled from Authentic Sources by William Collings Lukis de Guerin - Fellor of the Hugueonot Society of London - Printed by Frederick Clarke, States Arcade. 1890.
The next parcel of information is from other documentation in the Channel Islands and the England.
At the time of the marriage of Thomas Price to Susanne Falaise, the Price Family were a very important, well established, merchant family in Guernsey locally but were not as high up in Society as the family of de Guerin, so the marriage of Frederick Price to Marguerite de Guerin, an heiress, in 1785, and the marriage of their second son, Matthew Guerin Price to Caroline, Countess Raphael, MAENZA of Naples Italy, in about 1816, in Naples Italy, would have opened many doors in allowing this family, who were wealthy within their own rights, with excellent education, family connections, foresight and good business management, to be acceptable into the homes of the best society in both the Channel Islands and the mainland of the United Kingdom and also in overseas countries.
Many of the sons of the Price, Guerin and de Guerin families appear to have had their early eductions at Elizabeth College, in the Channel Islands and when reading through the enrolments of Elizabeth College it is surprising how many of the families appear to be related. It would be an interesting exercise one day to collate all of these families.
The daughters of the Price, Guerin and de Guerin families, I dare to say, were also well educated, but within their own home with a tutor engaged and then possibly their final year at one of the many girls seminary or finishing schools which flourished at the time in the United Kingdom and on the Continent.
Thomas Price 1736-1807 who married Suzanne Falaise - had six daughters and one son - Suzanne Price born 9 February 1760, she married Col. Thomas de Guérin, but we have no details of their descendants at this stage of my research.
Their last child born was a daughter, Martha Price 1766-1804 married the Rev. Nicholas Effard Robinson, and again, we have no details of their family.
Their only son Lt. Col. Frederick Price 1763-1846 who married in 1785 to Marguerite de Guérin the only child and heiress of Matthew de Guérin and his wife Marguerite Ollivier of Le Mont, Durant, St.Peter Port, Guernsey Channel Islands. They had 5 children so a little about the first 2 families of this union.
Frederick Price Jr. Colonel, RGM., 1786-1843. Frederick was a member of the First or East Regiment of Militia in the Channel Islands and we have him listed as a Lieutenant on 18 March 1803, a Captain on 2 May 1806, A Major on 10 July 1820 and a Lt.Col. on 8 June 1821 and a Colonel on 7 February 1826. Definitely a career soldier. He was married to Maria Martha Vardon and they had 14 children.
I have only a few of their children listed and researched as follows:
1a. Bonamy Price born Guernsey 22 May 1807. Professor Bonamy Price was at Rugby where his brothers Henry Price, Kennett Price and Frederick Octavius Price were students.
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