PEARCE OF JACOBSTOW
This family is covered in Ronald A. Hill, “The Pearce Families of Plymswood and Kerley in Jacobstow, Cornwall”, The Genealogist, 22(2008):32-58, 192-211.
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PEARCE
1 JOHN PEARCE of Jacobstow, Cornwall, yeoman, was born ca 1565[1] and died in January 1615/16.[2] He married ca 1596, MARGERY (TREWEN) JORDAN,[3] widow of John Jordan and daughter of John and Elset Trewen (see here).
Children
of John and Margery (Trewen) (Jordan) Pearce:
2 i DIGORY
PEARCE (ca 1597-1670); m MARY.
ii MARY
PEARCE, bur 7 Dec 1661, Jacobstow.[4]
iii ARMINELL
PEARCE, bur 15 Dec 1672, Jacobstow;[5] m
JOHN WICKET.[6]
iv JOHN
PEARCE of Jacobstow, yeoman, b ca 1607,[7]
bur 29 Nov 1666, Jacobstow;[8] m
Jan 1643/44, Week St Mary, MARY (COLWILL) BRYANT.[9]
v DANIEL
PEARCE of Jacobstow, tailor, bur 16 Apr 1678, Jacobstow;[10]
m(1) MARY;[11]
m(2) ANN.[12]
2 DIGORY PEARCE of Jacobstow, yeoman, was born ca 1597[13] and buried on 30 June 1670 at Jacobstow.[14] He married MARY.[15]
Children
of Digory and Mary Pearce:
i ROGER
PEARCE, bap 20 Sep 1618, Jacobstow.[16]
ii ROBERT
PEARCE of Jacobstow, gentleman, bur 20 Oct 1683, Jacobstow;[17]
m(1) ca 1642, ANN;[18]
m(2) 15 Mar 1663, St Thomas, Exeter, JOAN (BELMAINE) TRESCOTT.[19]
iii JOHN
PEARCE, bap 21 Mar 1623/24, Jacobstow,[20]
bur ca 1697, Jacobstow;[21] m
ca 1652, HONOR.[22]
iv THOMAS
PEARCE of Week St Mary, yeoman, bur 21 Feb 1700/01, Week St Mary;[23]
m(1) JOAN;[24]
m(2) ca 1675, ELIZABETH.[25]
v MARGERY
PEARCE, bur 11 Jan 1664/65, Week St Mary;[26] m
20 May 1652, Week St Mary, JOHN CLIFTON[27]
(see here).
vi WILLIAM
PEARCE of Week St Mary, yeoman, bur 2 Dec 1720, Week St Mary;[28] m
23 Aug 1658, Week St Mary, ANNA MILL.[29]
vii DANIEL
PEARCE of Week St Mary, barber, bap 9 Feb 1633/34, Jacobstow,[30]
bur 1 Jun 1703, Jacobstow;[31] m
14 Feb 1660/61, St Teath, FRANCES WATTS.[32]
[1] Ronald A. Hill, “The Pearce Families of Plymswood and Kerley in Jacobstow, Cornwall”, The Genealogist, 22(2008):32-58, 192-211.
[3] Ronald A. Hill, “The Pearce Families of Plymswood and Kerley in Jacobstow, Cornwall”, The Genealogist, 22(2008):32-58, 192-211.
[4] Jacobstow parish registers; Kresen Kernow, AP/P/1020.
[5] Jacobstow parish registers. This seems to be the burial of Arminell but the entry gives the forename as “Elenar”, perhaps through confusion involving the hypocoristic Nell.
[6] The will of John Pearce shows that he had daughters Mary and Arminell. The will of Mary Pearce includes a legacy to “Arminell Wicked” and John Wickett was one of the men who took the inventory of the estate of Digory Pearce in 1670. John Wicket marrying Arminell Pearce would account for him leaving property to “my Cosen Robert Pearce of Plymswood” (Kresen Kernow, AP/W/1151).
[7] Ronald A. Hill, “The Pearce Families of Plymswood and Kerley in Jacobstow, Cornwall”, The Genealogist, 22(2008):32-58, 192-211.
[8] Jacobstow parish registers; Kresen Kernow, AP/P/1141.
[9] Week St Mary parish registers; Ronald A. Hill, “The Pearce Families of Plymswood and Kerley in Jacobstow, Cornwall”, The Genealogist, 22(2008):32-58, 192-211.
[10] Jacobstow parish registers; Kresen Kernow, AP/P/1426.
[11] Jacobstow parish registers.
[12] Jacobstow parish registers.
[13] Ronald A. Hill, “The Pearce Families of Plymswood and Kerley in Jacobstow, Cornwall”, The Genealogist, 22(2008):32-58, 192-211.
[14] Jacobstow bishop’s transcripts; Kresen Kernow, AP/P/1233.
[15] Jacobstow bishop’s transcripts.
[16] Jacobstow bishop’s transcripts.
[17] Jacobstow parish registers; Kresen Kernow, AP/P/1555.
[18] Ronald A. Hill, “The Pearce Families of Plymswood and Kerley in Jacobstow, Cornwall”, The Genealogist, 22(2008):32-58, 192-211.
[19] St Thomas, Exeter, parish registers (online at www.findmypast.co.uk). The date is given under 1663 as “The 15 of March” but is between entries for June and July. The will of Robert Pearce names “Robert Trescott my Sonne in law” (stepson). The 1656 will of Zachary Trescott of London mentions his wife Joan, son Robert, and property in Exeter and elsewhere in Devon (National Archives, PROB 11/301/181) and the will of Zachary’s father Robert Trescott of Exeter, written in 1662/63, leaves to “my Grandchild Robert Trescott the Gold Ring which was his Fathers” (National Archives, PROB 11/331/100). The marriage of “Zachary Triscott and Joane Belmaine” in 1648 is recorded in the parish registers of Littleham near Bideford (online at www.findmypast.co.uk). Administration of the estate of Richard Belmayne of Plymouth was granted in 1654 to his daughter “Joan Trescott alias Belmayne” (Devon Wills Index, 1163-1999, online at www.findmypast.co.uk).
[20] Jacobstow bishop’s transcripts.
[21] John seems to have been either the John Pearce recorded in the Jacobstow parish registers as buried on 12 Dec 1695 or the one buried there on 25 Apr 1699.
[22] Ronald A. Hill, “The Pearce Families of Plymswood and Kerley in Jacobstow, Cornwall”, The Genealogist, 22(2008):32-58, 192-211.
[23] Week St Mary parish registers.
[24] Week St Mary parish registers.
[25] Ronald Ames Hill, “The Remarkable Will of Anna Smith”, The Genealogist, 24(2010):3-28.
[26] Week St Mary parish registers.
[27] Week St Mary parish registers; Ronald Ames Hill, “The Remarkable Will of Anna Smith”, The Genealogist, 24(2010):3-28.
[28] Week St Mary parish registers; Kresen Kernow, AP/P/2543.
[29] Week St Mary parish registers.
[30] Jacobstow bishop’s transcripts.
[31] Jacobstow parish registers.