PEARCE OF DAVIDSTOW AND WARBSTOW
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family is included in Ronald Ames Hill, The
Pearse Families of Davidstow and Warbstow in Cornwall
(Star, Idaho, 2013).
The
surname of the family was typically spelt Pearse in the early generations. More
recently, Pearce became common.
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PEARCE
1 THOMAS PEARSE of Davidstow, Cornwall,
yeoman, died on 20 August 1620.[1]
He married on 17 June 1583 at Lesnewth, MARY
BETENSON.[2]
Children of Thomas and Mary (Betenson)
Pearse:
i DEWNES PEARSE, d ca 1655;[3]
m RICHARD PEARSE.[4]
ii KATHERINE PEARSE, bur 4 May 1664,
St Juliot;[5]
m JOHN FRENCH.[6]
iii WILLIAM PEARSE of Davidstow,
gentleman, b ca 1590,[7]
d 1 Feb 1638/39;[8] m
ca 6 Apr 1622, ELIZABETH CAREW.[9]
iv DEGORY PEARSE of Davidstow, yeoman,
d 1656;[10]
m 24 Mar 1620/21, Lesnewth, SUSAN BLAKE.[11]
2 v JOHN PEARSE (bur 1668); m MARY.
vi MARGARET PEARSE; m ca 1621, JOHN
SALTREN.[12]
2 JOHN PEARSE of Trewinnow,
Davidstow, gentleman, was buried on 28 September 1668 at Davidstow.[13]
He married MARY.[14]
Children of John and Mary Pearse:
i MARY PEARSE, b ca 1623,[15]
bur 16 Mar 1696/97, St Ive;[16]
m ca 4 Jan 1647/48, JOHN SALTREN.[17]
ii DEGORY PEARSE of St Stephen by
Launceston, tanner, bur 13 Oct 1676, St Stephen by Launceston;[18]
m ELIZABETH MARTEN.[19]
3 iii WILLIAM PEARSE (bur 1682); m JANE.
iv JOHN PEARSE.
v THOMAS PEARSE of Tresmeer, bur 25 Mar 1706, Tresmeer;[20]
m 1660, MARGERY HAYNE.[21]
vi HENRY PEARSE, d ca 1664.[22]
vii JANE PEARSE.[23]
viii RICHARD PEARSE of Altarnun,
yeoman, bur 6 Aug 1697, Altarnun;[24]
m MARY.[25]
3 WILLIAM PEARSE of Warbstow,
gentleman, was buried on 27 March 1682 at Warbstow.[26]
He married JANE.[27]
She died ca 1684.[28]
Children of William and Jane Pearse:
i JOHN PEARSE of Davidstow,
gentleman, d 1688;[29]
m 12 Feb 1678/79, St Clether, ANN TREDWEN.[30]
ii JANE PEARSE, bur 7 Jul 1711, Warbstow;[31]
m 3 Oct 1682, Warbstow, RICHARD SCADDAN.[32]
iii CHRISTIAN PEARSE; m 26 Oct 1682, Warbstow, JAMES HARRIS.[33]
iv ELIZABETH PEARSE, bap 18 Dec 1663, Warbstow.[34]
v WILLIAM PEARSE, bap 2 Mar 1665/66,
Warbstow.[35]
vi ALICE PEARSE, b ca 1667,[36]
bur 3 Feb 1744/45, Warbstow.[37]
4 vii RICHARD PEARSE (bur 1731); m MARY
DRINNICK.
4 RICHARD PEARSE of Youlton, Warbstow, yeoman, was buried on 26 June 1731 at Warbstow.[38]
He married on 18 June 1701 at Warbstow, MARY
DRINNICK,[39]
daughter of Richard and Jane Drinnick (see here). Mary was
baptised on 22 November 1670 at South Petherwin and
buried on 3 February 1720/21 at Warbstow.
Children of Richard and Mary (Drinnick) Pearse:
i MARY PEARSE, bap 6 Apr 1702, Warbstow;[40]
m(1) 31 Oct 1721, Warbstow, WILLIAM TOM;[41]
m(2) 12 Jul 1736, Warbstow, JOHN FINEMORE.[42]
5 ii RICHARD PEARSE (1703-ca 1777); m
MARY RUNDLE.
iii WILLIAM PEARSE, bap 26 Nov 1706, Warbstow,[43]
bur 13 Aug 1708, Warbstow.[44]
iv JANE PEARSE, bap 15 Sep 1709, Warbstow.[45]
v JOHN PEARSE, bap 19 Aug 1712, Warbstow.[46]
vi WILLIAM PEARSE, bap 2 Jul 1717, Warbstow,[47]
bur 31 Jan 1732/33, Warbstow.[48]
5 RICHARD PEARSE of Warbstow,
yeoman, was baptised on 9 November 1703 at Warbstow[49]
and buried ca 1777 at Warbstow.[50]
He married on 21 February 1736/37 at Whitstone, MARY
RUNDLE,[51]
daughter of Henry and Jane (Cawsey) Rundle (see here). Mary was
baptised on 18 April 1706 at Week St Mary and buried on 7 May 1782 at Warbstow.
Children of Richard and Mary (Rundle)
Pearse:[52]
i JOHN PEARSE of Warbstow, bap 21 Nov 1737, Week St Mary.[53]
ii RICHARD PEARSE, bap 26 Dec 1739, Warbstow,[54]
bur 30 May 1745, Warbstow.[55]
6 iii HENRY PEARSE (1742-1827); m
THOMASINE HOLMAN.
iv THOMAS PEARSE of Warbstow, yeoman, bap 23 Dec 1744, Warbstow,[56]
bur 31 Aug 1816, Warbstow;[57]
m 6 Jun 1773, Warbstow, ELIZABETH BROAD.[58]
v RICHARD PEARSE of Warbstow and Tresmeer, bap 8 May
1748, Warbstow,[59]
bur 7 Jan 1792, Tresmeer;[60]
m 15 Jun 1773, Warbstow, MARY WILCOCKS.[61]
6 HENRY PEARSE of Downinney,
Warbstow, yeoman, was baptised on 22 June 1742 at Warbstow[62]
and buried on 24 April 1827 at Warbstow.[63]
He married THOMASINE HOLMAN,[64]
daughter of John and Rebecca (Trethouan) Holman (see here). Thomasine
was baptised on 26 December 1747 at Warbstow and
buried on 15 September 1806 at Warbstow.
Children of Henry and Thomasine (Holman)
Pearse:
7 i JOHN
PEARCE (1767-1851); m SUSAN MARTIN.
ii THOMASINE PEARCE, bap 22 Apr 1770,
Warbstow,[65]
bur 8 Sep 1848, Tresmeer;[66]
m 6 Mar 1792, Warbstow, JOHN JOHNS.[67]
iii RICHARD PEARCE, bap 2 Aug 1772, Warbstow.[68]
iv MARY PEARCE, bap 24 Dec 1775, Warbstow,[69]
bur 23 Feb 1813, Warbstow.[70]
v REBECCA PEARCE, bap 6 Jun 1779, Warbstow;[71]
m 28 Dec 1802, Warbstow, WILLIAM PROUT.[72]
vi ELIZABETH PEARCE, b Warbstow, bap 10 Aug 1783, Warbstow,[73]
d 13 Jun 1851;[74] m
29 Oct 1818, Warbstow, THOMAS PEARCE.[75]
vii JENNY PEARCE, bap 2 Jun 1787, Warbstow,[76]
bur 18 Oct 1787, Warbstow.[77]
viii JENEFREDE PEARCE, bap 22 Aug 1790, Warbstow,[78]
d 9 Nov 1848;[79] m
1 Jan 1818, Warbstow, WILLIAM SMITH.[80]
7 JOHN PEARCE of Downinney,
Warbstow, agricultural labourer, was baptised on 2
March 1767 at Warbstow[81]
and died on 19 February 1851 at Werrington.[82]
He married on 27 March 1788 at Warbstow, SUSAN
MARTIN,[83]
daughter of Robert and Rebecca (Edwards) Martin (see here). Susan was
baptised on 15 June 1766 at Werrington and died on 9 January 1838.
Children of John and Susan (Martin)
Pearce:
i JANE PEARCE, b Warbstow,
bap 12 Jan 1789, Warbstow,[84]
d 30 Jan 1865, St Thomas by Launceston;[85]
m 30 Mar 1837, East Stonehouse, WILLIAM JONES.[86]
8 ii HENRY PEARCE (1791-1867); m MARY
VEAL.
iii TRISTRAM PEARCE of Launceston and
Boyton, labourer, bap 21 Jan 1795, Warbstow,[87]
bur 17 May 1844, St Thomas by Launceston;[88]
m 22 Nov 1820, Ashwater, MARY CLIFTON.[89]
iv JOHN PEARCE of Ashwater,
agricultural labourer, b Warbstow, bap 13 Aug 1798, Warbstow,[90]
d 9 Sep 1878, Ashwater;[91]
m 30 Nov 1824, Ashwater, ANN BASKERVILLE.[92]
v ELIZABETH PEARCE, bap 18 Apr 1802, Warbstow,[93]
bur 6 Jul 1802, Warbstow.[94]
vi RICHARD PEARCE of Bloomingdale,
Illinois, farmer, bap 27 May 1804, Warbstow,[95]
d 11 Nov 1862;[96] m
3 Apr 1834, Boyton, MARY PARNAL.[97]
vii THOMAS PEARCE of Bloomingdale,
farmer, bap 20 Sep 1807, Warbstow,[98]
d 11 Jul 1880, Bloomingdale;[99]
m 19 Apr 1841, Marhamchurch, ELIZABETH SAUNDERCOCK.[100]
viii CHARLES PEARCE of Bloomingdale,
farmer, bap 12 Aug 1810, Warbstow,[101]
d 5 Feb 1892, Elgin, Illinois;[102]
m 1837, East Stonehouse, MARGERY (PHILP) HEARD.[103]
8 HENRY PEARCE of Northcott Hamlet and
of Willestrew, Lamerton,
agricultural labourer, was born at Warbstow, baptised
on 18 December 1791 at Warbstow,[104]
and died on 31 July 1867 at Lamerton.[105]
He married on 8 January 1817 at Luffincott, MARY
VEAL,[106]
daughter of John and Elizabeth (Brown) Veal (see here). Mary was born
at St Giles on the Heath, Devon, baptised on 3 July 1791 at St Giles on the
Heath, and died on 25 July 1860 at Lamerton.
Children of Henry and Mary (Veal) Pearce:[107]
i ELIZABETH
PEARCE, b St Giles on the Heath,[108]
bap 20 Apr 1817, St Giles on the Heath,[109]
d 3 May 1884, Bristol;[110]
m(1) 11 Sep 1840, Bedminster, JOHN MASTERS;[111]
m(2) 30 Oct 1855, Bristol, GEORGE HENRY WESTLAKE, div 1876.[112]
ii MARY PEARCE, b Northcott Hamlet,[113]
bap 26 Jun 1819, Boyton,[114]
d 21 Apr 1898, Tavistock;[115]
m 4 Mar 1849, Independent chapel, Tavistock, WILLIAM JOHNS.[116]
iii ANN PEARCE, b Northcott Hamlet, bap
8 Jun 1823, Boyton,[117]
d 16 Jan 1909, Tavistock;[118]
m 19 Mar 1861, Lamerton, CHARLES WALKEM.[119]
iv JANE PEARCE, b Northcott Hamlet,
bap 18 Sep 1825, Boyton,[120]
d 26 Nov 1886, St Stephen by Launceston;[121]
m 7 May 1860, Wesleyan chapel, Tavistock, SAMUEL SYMONS[122]
(see here).
v JOHN PEARCE, bap 11 Oct 1829, St
Giles on the Heath,[123]
d 11 Sep 1838, Northcott Hamlet.[124]
vi HENRY PEARCE of Buckfastleigh,
farmer, b Northcott Hamlet, bap 1 Apr 1832, Boyton,[125]
d 20 Nov 1873, Holne;[126]
m 29 Mar 1863, Stoke Damerel, MARY ROWLAND.[127]
vii THOMAS PEARCE of Castle Cary,
Somerset, policeman and innkeeper, b Northcott Hamlet, bap 28 Dec 1834, Boyton,[128]
d 11 Mar 1888, Castle Cary;[129]
m 8 Oct 1860, Alford, MARY ANN GOVER.[130]
[1] Ronald Ames Hill, The Pearse Families of Davidstow and Warbstow in Cornwall (Star, Idaho, 2013), 56-57; National Archives, PROB 11/137/21. The will of Thomas Pearse names “John Chepmon my kinsman”.
[2] Lesnewth parish registers. Richard Betenson was a witness to the will of Thomas Pearse. The 1616/17 will of Degory Betenson, rector of Lesnewth, leaves “to Degorie Pearse Five poundes” (National Archives, PROB 11/131/41).
[3] National Archives, PROB 11/256/15.
[4] National Archives, PROB 11/137/21; Ronald Ames Hill, The Pearse Families of Davidstow and Warbstow in Cornwall (Star, Idaho, 2013), 16-19, 57.
[5] St Juliot bishop’s transcripts; Kresen Kernow, AP/F/258.
[6] National Archives, PROB 11/137/21; Kresen Kernow, AP/F/236. Degory Pearse was one of the men who took the inventory of John’s estate.
[7] Ronald Ames Hill, The Pearse Families of Davidstow and Warbstow in Cornwall (Star, Idaho, 2013), 56.
[8] Ronald Ames Hill, The Pearse Families of Davidstow and Warbstow in Cornwall (Star, Idaho, 2013), 57; Kresen Kernow, AP/P/726; monumental inscription at Davidstow. The date of death on the inscription appears to be 30 Feb, which is obviously wrong. The inventory after death was taken on 14 Feb.
[9] Ronald Ames Hill, The Pearse Families of Davidstow and Warbstow in Cornwall (Star, Idaho, 2013), 57.
[10] National Archives, PROB 11/256/16. Will dated 5 Jan 1655[/56], proved 2 Jun 1656.
[11] Lesnewth parish registers; W.P.W. Phillimore and Thomas Taylor, eds, Cornwall Parish Registers: Marriages, vol. 1 (London, 1900), 78.
[12] Margaret was unmarried when her father made his will in 1618/19 (National Archives, PROB 11/137/21). The 1639 will of John Saltren of Huntshaw makes his sons John and Thomas Saltren executors and appoints “John Pearse of Deustowe in Cornewall” as one of the overseers (National Archives, PROB 11/181/716). The sentence states that John Pearse was an uncle of the executors (National Archives, PROB 11/181/527). An abstract of John Saltren’s monumental inscription names his wife Margarett (Pearce). The marriage allegation for the younger John Saltren indicates that he was born about 1622.
[13] Joseph Polsue, A Complete Parochial History of the County of Cornwall, 4 vols (Truro and London, 1867-72), 1:292; Kresen Kernow, AP/P/1182. The inventory appears to have been dated the “Thirtieth” of September 1668 but then changed to the “Thirteenth”. However, 30 Sep would fit with the monumental inscription.
[14] Kresen Kernow, AP/P/1182. Mary’s parentage is unclear. John Pearse had a link of some kind with the family of Henry and Wilmot (Cann) Cary of Launceston. Their son George Cary was a witness to John’s will, and Thomas Stokes of Launceston, who married a daughter of Henry and Wilmot, purchased land in the name of John Pearse of Davidstow (Kresen Kernow, catalogue entries for AD208/3/3 and AD208/3/6). Henry and Wilmot in fact had a daughter Mary, baptised in 1601, who would have been a suitable age to be John Pearse’s wife. However, this daughter is not named in Henry Cary’s 1623 will (Kresen Kernow, AP/C/638) so it is not clear whether she was still living at that time. A John Pearce seems to have been named as one of the men taking the inventory of Henry’s estate, but John’s name has later been crossed out.
[15] Joseph Lemuel Chester and Geo. J. Armytage, Allegations for Marriage Licences Issued from the Faculty Office of the Archbishop of Canterbury (London, 1886), 38.
[16] Monumental inscription at St Ive; Kresen Kernow, AP/S/2011.
[17] Joseph Lemuel Chester and Geo. J. Armytage, Allegations for Marriage Licences Issued from the Faculty Office of the Archbishop of Canterbury (London, 1886), 38. John Saltren took the inventory of the estate of John Pearse in 1668 and the will of Digory Pearse mentions “my Brother Lawe John Saltren gent”.
[18] St Stephen by Launceston parish register abstracts by Reginald M. Glencross; Kresen Kernow, AP/P/1376.
[19] The will of Degory Pearse mentions his wife Elizabeth and “my Father lawe John Marten the Elder”.
[20] Ronald Ames Hill, The Pearse Families of Davidstow and Warbstow in Cornwall (Star, Idaho, 2013), 71-72, 80.
[21] A reply to a query on the Pearses of Davidstow in The Western Morning News, 12 Apr 1926, gives an abstract of a lease of 3 Jul 1660 in which Thomas Pearse, son of John Pearse of Trewenoe in Dewstow (Davidstow), gentleman, had land in Treburtell in Tresmeer on the lives of the said Thomas Pearse, Margery Hayne, daughter of Richard Hayne, yeoman, and Hy. Pearse, son of the said John Pearse. Thomas Pearse had a wife named Margery and their first known child was baptised on 3 Mar 1660/61. The identity of Margery Hayne as the wife in question is confirmed by the 1698/99 will and inventory of Grace Heare, widow, of North Petherwin. Grace mentions her “sister Margarett Pearce”, “brother Law Thomas Pearce” and several of their children and grandchildren who match the family of Thomas and Margery Pearse of Tresmeer: Kresen Kernow, AP/H/2669; Ronald Ames Hill, The Pearse Families of Davidstow and Warbstow in Cornwall (Star, Idaho, 2013), 80-81. Grace Haine married Henry Hare at North Petherwin in 1666. The 1655 will of her father Richard Hayne (“Heane”) of Tremaine mentions, among others, “Margery Haine and Grace Hayne my two youngest daughters” and was witnessed by William Pearse (National Archives, PROB 11/287/130). See also Kresen Kernow, AP/H/1785, where Margery, wife of Thomas Pearse, is named with her siblings in 1674 in an account of the estate of her brother John Hayne of Tresmeer.
[22] An abstract of a lease of 3 Jul 1660 relating to land in Tresmeer, given in The Western Morning News, 12 Apr 1926, includes “Thos. Pearse, son of John Pearse, of Trewenoe, in Dewstow” and “Hy. Pearse, son of the said John Pearse” as two of the lives on the lease. If correct, Henry probably died by 1667/68 as he is not mentioned in the will of John Pearse (Kresen Kernow, AP/P/1182).
[23] Jane may have married Thomas Rowby as William Pearse’s will names “my Brother Thomas Rubby” and Thomas Rowby was one of the men who took the inventory of William’s estate.
[24] Altarnun parish registers; Kresen Kernow, AP/P/2040; Ronald Ames Hill, The Pearse Families of Davidstow and Warbstow in Cornwall (Star, Idaho, 2013), 68-69.
[26] Warbstow bishop’s transcripts; Kresen Kernow, AP/P/1527, AP/P/1776.
[27] Jane is named in the will of her husband (Kresen Kernow, AP/P/1527) and in the baptism entries of her children Elizabeth and William. It is possible that Jane was a Rowby as William Pearse’s will names “my Brother Thomas Rubby” and Thomas Rowby was one of the men who took the inventory of William’s estate. However, Thomas may instead have been the husband of one of William’s sisters. William also names his “Couzyn” John Body who was evidently the husband of his first cousin Elizabeth Pearse: Ronald Ames Hill, The Pearse Families of Davidstow and Warbstow in Cornwall (Star, Idaho, 2013), 17-20, 57, 67-74. The 1667/68 will of James Rogers of Davidstow, innkeeper, mentioning his “sonne in law” John Boddy and witnessed by William Pearse, may be relevant here (Kresen Kernow, AP/R/942). There was a connection of some kind with the Grigg family as William Pearse witnessed the 1680 will of James Grigg, one of the men taking the inventory of the estate of William Pearse was Abel Grigg, and William’s son Richard Pearse took the inventory for Abel Grigg in 1709/10 and left legacies to Jane Grigg, widow, and her daughter Mary. William Pearse and John Grigg of Youlton were appointed overseers in the 1667 will of William Browne of Warbstow. Youlton was later occupied by the family of William Pearse. William Pearse and John Grigg both witnessed the will of Richard Hayne of Tremaine in 1655 (National Archives, PROB 11/287/130).
[28] Kresen Kernow, AP/P/1776; Ronald Ames Hill, The Pearse Families of Davidstow and Warbstow in Cornwall (Star, Idaho, 2013), 74.
[30] Ronald Ames Hill, The Pearse Families of Davidstow and Warbstow in Cornwall (Star, Idaho, 2013), 75-76.
[31] Warbstow parish registers; Kresen Kernow, AP/S/2362. The signature of Richard Pearse in the administration bond for Jane (Pearse) Scaddan’s estate matches that of the Richard who died in 1731, supporting the latter’s position in this family. Alice (“Alce”) Pearse was also a party in the bond for Jane’s estate.
[32] Warbstow bishop’s transcripts.
[33] Warbstow bishop’s transcripts.
[34] Warbstow bishop’s transcripts. There is some damage to the document but the parents “Mr Willia[m] Pe[…] & Jane his wife” are very likely William and Jane Pearse.
[35] Warbstow bishop’s transcripts.
[36] Ronald Ames Hill, The Pearse Families of Davidstow and Warbstow in Cornwall (Star, Idaho, 2013), 74.
[37] Warbstow parish registers.
[38] Warbstow parish registers; Kresen Kernow, AP/P/2788.
[39] Warbstow parish registers.
[40] Warbstow parish registers. She may have been buried at Warbstow on 1 Nov 1769 although that could be her namesake daughter.
[41] Warbstow parish registers.
[42] Warbstow parish registers.
[43] Warbstow parish registers.
[44] Warbstow parish registers.
[45] Warbstow parish registers.
[46] Warbstow parish registers.
[47] Warbstow parish registers.
[48] Warbstow parish registers.
[49] Warbstow bishop’s transcripts.
[50] Richard was living in 1760 (Kresen Kernow, QS/1/3). There are two plausible burials for him at Warbstow, one on 4 Sep 1775 and the other on 7 Nov 1779. The earlier of these appears more likely as the later one is less than ten days after the burial of a Henry Pearse who was a son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Broad) Pearse. Thomas and Elizabeth had a son called Richard (bap 1773) who evidently died young as another son of the same name was baptised in 1780. It seems likely that the two brothers, Henry and Richard, died within a short period in 1779.
[51] Whitstone parish registers.
[52] The will of Jane Northy of Jacobstow, widow, written in 1751/52, includes legacies to “Richard Pearces four Children of Warbstow Called by the Names of John, Henry, Richard, and Thomas” and also leaves apparel to “Mary wife of Richard Pearce” (Kresen Kernow, AP/N/749).
[53] Week St Mary parish registers. John was living in 1760 (Kresen Kernow, QS/1/3).
[54] Warbstow parish registers.
[55] Warbstow parish registers.
[56] Warbstow parish registers.
[57] Cornwall OPC Database (www.cornwall-opc-database.org); Kresen Kernow, AP/P/4689.
[58] Warbstow parish registers.
[59] Warbstow parish registers.
[60] Tresmeer parish registers.
[61] Warbstow parish registers.
[62] Warbstow parish registers.
[63] Cornwall OPC Database (www.cornwall-opc-database.org); Kresen Kernow, AP/P/4633.
[65] Warbstow parish registers.
[66] Cornwall OPC Database (www.cornwall-opc-database.org).
[67] Warbstow parish registers.
[68] Warbstow parish registers.
[69] Warbstow parish registers.
[70] Cornwall OPC Database (www.cornwall-opc-database.org).
[71] Warbstow parish registers.
[72] Warbstow parish registers.
[73] Warbstow parish registers; 1851 census returns, Warbstow (National Archives, HO 107/1899, fol. 121).
[74] Monumental inscription at Warbstow.
[75] Warbstow parish registers.
[76] Warbstow parish registers.
[77] Warbstow parish registers.
[78] Warbstow parish registers. Her forename is sometimes recorded as Jennifer or Jane.
[79] Monumental inscription at Warbstow.
[80] Warbstow parish registers.
[81] Warbstow parish registers.
[82] Death certificate; Ronald Ames Hill, The Pearse Families of Davidstow and Warbstow in Cornwall (Star, Idaho, 2013), 94.
[83] Warbstow parish registers.
[84] Warbstow parish registers; 1851 census returns, Werrington (National Archives, HO 107/1899, fol. 246). Her name is recorded in the baptism entry as Jenefrede but she appears as Jane in later records. This usage is similar to that for her aunt Jenefrede (Pearce) Smith, baptised at Warbstow in 1790, whose 1818 marriage entry records her as Jennifer and who is mentioned in her father’s will as Jane.
[85] Death certificate.
[86] East Stonehouse bishop’s transcripts.
[87] Warbstow parish registers.
[88] St Thomas by Launceston parish registers.
[89] Ashwater parish registers (online at www.findmypast.co.uk); Institution Inmates database (www.cornwall-opc-database.org).
[90] Warbstow parish registers; 1851 census returns, Ashwater (National Archives, HO 107/1896, fol. 304).
[91] Death certificate.
[92] Ashwater parish registers (online at www.findmypast.co.uk).
[93] Warbstow parish registers. The baptism entry does not name Elizabeth’s parents, but they are identified in her burial entry.
[94] Warbstow parish registers.
[95] Warbstow parish registers.
[96] Monumental inscription at Bloomingdale.
[97] Boyton parish registers; Kane, Illinois, death certificates.
[98] Warbstow parish registers.
[99] Rufus Blanchard, History of Du Page County, Illinois (Chicago, 1882), 223-24; monumental inscription at Bloomingdale.
[100] Marhamchurch parish registers; Rufus Blanchard, History of Du Page County, Illinois (Chicago, 1882), 223-24.
[101] Warbstow parish registers.
[102] Kane, Illinois, death certificates; monumental inscription at Bloomingdale.
[103] 1841 census returns, Warbstow (National Archives, HO 107/140/19, fol. 5); entry for baptism of daughter Susanna at Warbstow on 30 Aug 1840 in the Cornwall OPC Database (www.cornwall-opc-database.org); Kane, Illinois, death certificates; Illinois, Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1948 (www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N3FH-9BL); East Stonehouse bishop’s transcripts; civil registration indexes. Later in life, her name was usually given as Margaret.
[104] Warbstow bishop’s transcripts; 1851 census returns, Lamerton (National Archives, HO 107/1884, fol. 93); Ronald Ames Hill, The Pearse Families of Davidstow and Warbstow in Cornwall (Star, Idaho, 2013), 94.
[105] Death certificate; will dated 29 Aug 1866, administration with the will annexed granted 3 Apr 1868.
[106] Luffincott parish registers (online at www.findmypast.co.uk).
[107] Whilst noting the proximity of the date to the baptism of Mary on 26 Jun 1819, Ronald Ames Hill, The Pearse Families of Davidstow and Warbstow in Cornwall (Star, Idaho, 2013), 95, includes the William, son of Henry and Mary Pearse, baptised at Boyton on 23 Jan 1819, in this family. As well as the nearness of the dates, William’s parents are stated in the register to have resided at Beardon Mill and his father’s occupation is given as shoemaker, whereas the residence of Mary’s parents is given as Northcott Hamlet and her father is described as a labourer. William seems to have been still living in 1881 (National Archives, RG 11/3877, fol. 97; marriage of William Pearce and Elizabeth Barlow, 4 Nov 1860, in Eccles parish registers). However, the will of Mary Veal’s widower Henry Pearce, written in 1866, states that he had six children, and the will of John Veal (proved 22 Dec 1875) names six surviving children of John’s sister Mary. William is not included among the six so it is apparent that he was not a son of Henry and Mary (Veal) Pearce.
[108] 1871 census returns, Bristol (National Archives, RG 10/2530, fol. 7).
[109] St Giles on the Heath parish registers.
[110] Grant of probate.
[111] Bedminster parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).
[112] Divorce files (National Archives, J 77/168/4147).
[113] 1861 census returns, Tavistock (National Archives, RG 9/1460, fol. 65).
[114] Boyton parish registers.
[115] The Western Times, 25 Apr 1898; monumental inscription at Tavistock.
[116] Marriage certificate.
[117] 1861 census returns, Sydenham Damerel (National Archives, RG 9/1463, fol. 127); Boyton parish registers.
[118] The Cornish & Devon Post, 23 Jan 1909.
[119]
Marriage certificate; 1861 census returns, Sydenham Damerel (National Archives,
RG 9/1463, fol. 127).
[120]
1871 census returns, St Stephen by Launceston (National Archives, RG 10/2224,
fol. 105); Boyton parish
registers.
[121] Death certificate.
[122] Marriage certificate.
[123] St Giles on the Heath parish registers.
[124] Death certificate.
[125] 1851 census returns, St Giles on the Heath (National Archives, HO 107/1896, fol. 354); Boyton parish registers.
[126] Death certificate. The will of John Veal (dated 26 Aug 1873) leaves a legacy to Henry, but a codicil of 9 Dec 1873 states that Henry had since died.
[127] Marriage certificate.
[128] Boyton parish registers; 1851 census returns, Lamerton (National Archives, HO 107/1884, fol. 93).
[129] Grant of probate; The Western Chronicle, 16 Mar 1888.
[130] Alford parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com).
