Help please!

[youngtug]

Different spelling,;
Deaths Jun 1941   (>99%)
Pierce    James    87    Weston super Mare    5c   1288

[JenB]

Maybe;
Deaths Sep 1912   (>99%)
PEARCE    James B    64    King's N.    6c   411
Although the age is a few years out

I thought that looked promising, but the GRO index shows his name as James Bayliss Pearce, who can be found living in Smethwick in 1911, and was born in Liverpool.

[CassieP]

A very outside possible in 1891  in Preston

James Pearce Lodger, m. 42, Bootmaker, b Bridgewater

RG12/3442/12/17   

Thanks, much appreciated

[CassieP]

Maybe;
Deaths Sep 1912   (>99%)
PEARCE    James B    64    King's N.    6c   411
Although the age is a few years out

I thought that looked promising, but the GRO index shows his name as James Bayliss Pearce, who can be found living in Smethwick in 1911, and was born in Liverpool.

Thanks, also I've not seen that he has a middle initial anywhere.

[CassieP]

Different spelling,;
Deaths Jun 1941   (>99%)
Pierce    James    87    Weston super Mare    5c   1288

Thank you

[CassieP]

Hi CassieP,

I checked 35 Bournville Lane against the 1921 census and it appears Emma Amelia is still living there but is now the wife of Thomas Collins, do you already have this information?

No help with what happened to James Pearce of course but I’ll keep trying.

Pinetree

Thanks, yes Thomas Bagnall Collins was my mother's step-father, he and Emma Amelia adopted her in 1919.  I appreciate your help in trying to find the elusive James Pearce!

[JenB]

Presumably she said she was a widow on the 1915 marriage to Thomas Collins?

[CassieP]

Presumably she said she was a widow on the 1915 marriage to Thomas Collins?

I don't have her marriage certificate - think I'll order it, should be interesting!  As far as I know she didn't divorce James Henry Leake (I believe most people couldn't afford to divorce in those days) as far as I know she was still married to him and he died in 1952.

[KGarrad]

Probably a complete red-herring but. . . .
My grandfather's 2nd wife  was Daisy Pearce, b 1880 in Piddle Hinton, Dorset.
Parents Robert Cooper Allen Pearce (1843-1889) and Francis Susan Hann.