PEERS - please help!!

[jellybaby12]

I am trying to gather any information about my nan's mum. From my nan's memory she was a part of Bertram's circus and this would have been after 1931 as my nan was born then. Her name on the birth certificate I have for her is Annie Lizzie Peers but on my nan's brother's birth certificate it is Amy Peers. My nan also has a bit of information that was passed to her that she married a man with the surname Taylor.

Annie LIzzie was born in Doncaster, Yorkshire in 1906. Her mum was Lavinia (although this spelling is listed many different times as being different, from Linvine to Lovinia etc etc) and her father was Frederick Charles Peers. She had a sister called Violet May Peers and a brother called George Peers.

Any information I desperately need and any advice - I seem to have been searching for ages. I can't find out when she died or if she married as I don't know the year but also the place as Betram's was a travelling circus and so the location could have been anywhere!

Any advice greatfully received,

Gemma 

[An65]

Have u tried looking them up with surname variants?

Peers/Pears/Pearse/Pearce/Pierce etc?

[jellybaby12]

Yes I have and haven't turned anything up. I've even trawled through all of the death indexes one by one to try and locate a Lavinia Peers in them and can't find any record of her death.

[Harris in Essex]

Could this be a birth?

Frederick Charles Peers
Year of Registration: 1884 
Quarter of Registration: Apr-May-Jun 
District: Stockport 
County: Cheshire, Lancashire 
Volume: 8a 
Page: 60 

[Harris in Essex]

 

This looks like a possible marriage:

Frederick Charles Peers
Year of Registration: 1897 
Quarter of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep 
District: Doncaster 
County: Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, Yorkshire - West Riding 
Volume: 9c 
Page: 1080

Spouse = Linvine Brailsford

[Harris in Essex]

 

I have a possible marriage as it links with war time and they may have married because of the worry

1941 Q3 Reading 2c page 1468  Amy Peers = Frederick J Taylor

[jellybaby12]

Thank you so so much - I'm going to send for the marriage certificate to see whether it is the same one. I've spent absolutely ages trying to find a trace of her and came up with nothing so it's worth a shot.

Thank you once again and I'll let you know what I find out!

Gemma 

[jellybaby12]

I've just got the marriage certificate through and it is the correct one. Amy Peers married Frederick Joseph Peers on 2 Aug 1941. His occupation stated he was a gunner with the royal artillery and his number but also had next to this in brackets that he was a circus tent man! I'm so chuffed. Now I'm jsut trying to find out when she died - I've searched through all of the BMD and got some possibilities so will start to send off for death certificates of possibles.

Thanks for the advice - never would have got that if you didn't post.

Thank you so much!
Gemma

[Harris in Essex]

Glad it came up trumps.  If I see a likely death certificate I will let you know.
Regards
Jacqueline