Graham Hunter PIERCE

[cando]

Hi
 Our National Archives website has an enlistment record of interest.
It is for a man names GEORGE CONSTANTINE PIERCE, letter carrier born in Sydney about 1898.
His father GRAHAM HUNTER PIERCE is his next of kin and he lives at TURRAMURRA.
Because he is underage his parents signatures are required and his mother signs as BERTHA G (GEORGINA) PIERCE.
Later in the file, in 1917, GEORGE confesses to using an assumed name and his real surname is MASTERS.

Asworn  declaration by his father GRAHAM HUNTER PIERCE refers to his son and is dated 31/7/1917.

This is the death you refer to above.

In 1911  PIERCE,  GRAHAM H.  father JOHN mother MARGARET  SYDNEYref.  4272

Their marriage
In 1908. GRAHAM H . PIERCE to BERTHA G.  MASTERS ref. 3550

Death of BERTHA

1950 PIERCE, BERTHA GEORGINA (STRINGFELLOW)aged 71 YRS  WAHROONGAat CHATSWOOD ref. 18394

Sue
   

Is this his birth

18673/1900     
MASTERS  George C     
Father George  Mother Bertha
District Sydney  

and a sibling

28866/1902     
MASTERS  Olga R
Father George Mother Bertha   
District Sydney

There are a couple of deaths for a George MASTERS in the first couple of years of 1900's.

Cheers
Cando   

[cando]

Death of BERTHA

1950 PIERCE, BERTHA GEORGINA (STRINGFELLOW)aged 71 YRS  WAHROONGAat CHATSWOOD ref. 18394

Sue

A possible birth as there also a marriage in 1897 to a MURPHY

Births Jun 1879
STRINGFELLOW Bertha     Ecclesall B  9c/354

Cando

[cando]

Hi All,

I've NOT found Graham Hunter Pierce in Sydney NSW on the 1903 Electoral Roll in the electorates that  I've checked.  (I don't have keyword searchable access).   Presume that's why Troods has noticed a gap in the Sands directories ....   Could he have been in regional NSW, or inter-state or 'overseas'

Intriguing 

He does not appear on my NSW 1903 electoral roll at all.

Cando

[cando]

Australian Electoral Roll
1954 NSW
MASTERS George Constantine  Pacific Highway Kanwal  Farmer
MASTERS Marguerite Valinda Jane  Pacific Highway  Kanwal  HD

and his death

00469/1975     
MASTERS  George Constantine
Father George  Mother Bertha Georgina    
No district noted.

So he was using the surname PIERCE when he was born a MASTERS but his mother was Bertha Georgina STRINGFELLOW who married a MASTERS and and then George Hunter PIERCE.

Hello,

I need some information on GRAHAM HUNTER PIERCE who was born 1849 in Southwark and died in 1911 Sydney, Aus. He married Mercy Burnet (not sure if this is a surname or middle name) and they had a daughter, Emily , who died in 1918 Sydney. Thanks!

Anna Edwards

Perhaps Emily was born post 1909 limit of online birth registrations.  Perhaps someone with the later births could do a lookup.  Do you have Emily's year of birth?

Cando

[cando]

PIERCE  Graham Hunter with parents John and Margaret Ann was baptised 5 Jan 1849.

Cando

[judb]

Some mentions in the NLA digitised newspapers:

SMH 3 June 1911
funeral notice for Graham Hunter PIERCE, mentions wife Frances PIERCE (and children but no names of children), burial Waverley Cemetery

4 Sep 1950
Death notice for Bertha Georgina PIERCE, wife of Graham (Dick) Hunter Pierce, mother of George, Olga, Graham, Alma, Len, John and Roy aged 71 years.  (There are others with grandchildren and great g-children named).  Funeral notice says funeral was to Northern Suburbs Crematorium.

http://newspapers.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/home

heers, Judith

[~MERLIN~]

Perhaps Emily was born post 1909 limit of online birth registrations.  Perhaps someone with the later births could do a lookup.  Do you have Emily's year of birth?
Cando

Nothing for Emily born 1910 to 1918.

[sparrett]

We do not have GRAHAM HUNTER PIERCE snr's death registration clearly yet.

He could not have died in 1911 if he is signing sworn things in 1917 which refer to monetory installments due to his wife BERTHA from the Army. You can't forge things like that (or can you? )


Sue

[cando]

SMH 3 June 1911
funeral notice for Graham Hunter PIERCE, mentions wife Frances PIERCE (and children but no names of children), burial Waverley Cemetery

Marriage
6613/1896     
PIERCE Graham H     
MCGILL Frances A P

MI's only - Waverley Cemetery  Anglican Section 20, Row 23 Grave#5940

PIERCE Graham H  1 Jun 1911  64 years  Our father  [b.c1847]
READ? Emily Margaret  11 Oct 19??  47 years  Wife of Frank H READ

Cando