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The 1939 register is now available on Ancestry as well as on Find My Past and My Heritage.  Ancestry is free to use in North Somerset Libraries.  Check with your local library to see if your library has access to any of these sites.

My husband's great grand mother was a Mary Ann SYMMONS, the illegitiamate daughter of Harriet SYMMONS.  Mary Ann was christened in Berrow, Somerset on the 15th May 1831 but Harriet was born in Lympsham, Somerset in about 1812, the d/o John SYMMONS and Phoebe EDWARDS.  Any chance that your family caome from the same area of Somerset?

I think she died!  There is a burial of a Mary PARSONS, aged 35, on the 7th April 1858 at St James' Church Taunton.  Her home address is given as Coal Orchard which is the same address as Joseph PARSONS on the 1861 Census.   He didn't wait long before remarrying in July 1858.

There is also a christening of an Abraham Henry PARSONS at St John's Church, Weston-super-Mare (see our transcriptions) s/o Joseph and Mary PARSONS in August 1853 who might be the Henry you mentioned.  Unfortunately I can't see a matching birth registration.