Pearce family

[stevenson]

Looking for Fred Pearce and Edith

the last child was born in Henley in 1911/12 called Jesse, child before that, was Gilbert born in Henley in Feb 1910.

each child had at least three names and were never known by their first name.(just to confuse me, so Fred and Edith might not be what their birth names are    )

children's names....that can be in any combination,re-using the same names.

they had a least thirteen children one girl adopted

Frederick, Jesse/Jessie ,Eric, Thomas, Cyril, Percy, Henry, Charles, Gilbert ,Roy, Reg, Leonard, Reginald ,Harold, Herbert, Bertie (he was a Butler to Winston Churchill ) Edith ,Grace,Gladys....only two girls and one had a nickname tiny.

Fred died about 1912/14and Edith remarried not long after.

Eric was born in Swindon in 1902 so Other children could have also been born  there.


Would love to find this family please

Just hoping someone can help me please,I have searched and searched and now need a fresh pair of eyes.

Steve

[Nutty1966]

Hi Steve

I had a quick look, have you seen this one

RG13 1909 16 23
30 WESTON STREET, SWINDON

FREDERICK PEARCE HEAD MAU 29 G W RAILWAY EAST HAINRELX
EMILY L DO WIFE 30 WOOTTON BASSETT
HORTENCE M DO DAU 4 SWINDON
ALICE M M DO DAU 2 SWINDON
EDWARD F DO SON 1 SWINDON
EDITH DO SISTER SINGLE 21 GEN SER DOM BERWICK BASSETT

May help or hinder 


Jane

[stevenson]

Nutty
Thank you so much

nothing will hinder on this one ,anything is most greatfully received.

Alice and Edward are not names remembered by my children's G G Grandfather and at 98 ,he can REALLY be forgiven.
 
I feel really bad not spending more time on my children's tree and I am now running out of time on this one.

REALLY need to find their family NOW please ,just need to find them.

Anything how ever small please

Frantic Steve

[Nutty1966]

Steve

Do you have any of the birth certs for this large family , what was dad's occupation - any idea?  Wonder if it could be a different spelling Pierce Pearse??? clutching at straws for you 

Jane

[stevenson]

straws is all I have at the moment

have one cert for Gilbert..Feb 1910, father Fred Pearce mother Edith Hatton......Ag lab from the marriage cert

But Gilbert says his father was called Len.....so ......was he really Leonard Frederick.


steve

[stevenson]

I have never been able to find a Hatton and Pearce marriage that fits...and changing the spellings has never helped.

always thought Ireland was hard....

any help is most welcome please, I feel really guilty not doing more before...and I know now ,I am runnng out of time.

Gilbert would like to know what happened to his mother...and I can not help him...

Steve

[Valda]

There seems to be only one possible Hatton Pearce marriage

Marriages Dec 1898 
PEARCE  Frederick Charles     Dorchester  5a 799   
MAIDENS  Frederick Charles     Dorchester  5a 799
not sure whether this is the same man with two different surnames
married either
HATTON  Jane Ellen M     Dorchester  5a 799 
or 
DUNFORD  Adelaide Elizabeth     Dorchester  5a 799   

Obviously not an Edith Hatton, but then there is this 1901 census entry.

RG13 1113 folio 39
Chilbolton Down Chilbolton  Hampshire 
Frederick C Pearce 27 Briantspuddle, Dorset,  Head  Married Shepherd on farm
Edith J Pearce  24  Croydon, Surrey,  Wife  Married
Edward Pearce  4  Dorchester, Dorset,  Son 
Herbert Pearce 2 Dorchester, Dorset,  Son   
Cyril Pearce 1 Hyde North Wareham, Dorset,  Son 
plus 2 boarders

The marriage and the census entry may not be the same people, but it does seem a possibility that they are.

A possible birth registration for Cyril

Births Jun 1900   
Pearce  Shadrick Cyril C     Wareham  5a 282

and for Herbert

Births Mar 1899   
Pearce  Harry Herbert     Dorchester  5a 313

'Edward' is more tricky because his birth, if it is the right marriage, would be before it.

Do these names seem likely for Gilbert's siblings?

Regards

Valda

[stevenson]

Valda

Thank you so much

It is the Edward that always made me put this one to a side,and they always said they were from Oxfordshire. or Hertfordshire

WILL try and ask him tomorrow when I go to the hospital .....If he knows anything else.( very hard at the moment .........I do know Edward has never came up in any conversation before.)

Gilbert Thomas Henry was born February 1910 in Henley parents Fred Pearce and Edith Hatton 3a 973 in 1910

he says his father was known as Leo and he died before 1916 as that was when he went to work(age 6) with his brother Eric in Hereford (his father had already died and his mother remarried...quite quick,,,,do not know whom she married)

I do not think it was not uncommon for a child to go to work age 6 in those days ,Gilbert was still digging an acre by hand up to a few years ago,not bad for a 96 year old.........90 years of back braking work.

can we find them

who did Edith  get married to

where is she buried...please


Steve

[Valda]

I can find no Edward birth registration in Dorset for either a Hatton or a Pearce so the name Edward has the possibility of being a red herring.
A lot of possibilities but no actual proven evidence however.
You need to try to either confirm or eliminate this family/families as a possibility. The two records don't make finding either Edith of Frederick any easier before 1901 (you would need the details from the marriage certificate) and it seems they don't help much post 1901 either.

Regards

Valda