James Joseph Oliver Pearce (1852-1941)
Personal details
Gender:
Male
Notes:
James's father, William Oliver Pearce, also born in Falmouth, was a cab/coach man (Cornish Telegraph, 1 March 1871, p.3, c.3) in Penzance. James himself was granted a cab driver's licence at the age of 18 (Cornish Telegraph, 17 August 1870, p.2, c.6), but was noted as a hairdresser by the time of his marriage in 1887. He was active with the Primitive Methodists. He and his young family emmigrated to South Africa in 1894.
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Marriage date:
2 August 1887
Birth
Date:
3 May 1852
Notes:
Cornwall OPC baptisms, born 3 May 1852 to William Oliver Pearce and Joanna Pearce, baptised Falmouth Circuit, Weslyan Methodist on 16 June 1852.
References:
England & Wales Census 1891
Date:
5 April 1891
Notes:
The Pearce household at the 1891 census included James's widowed father William Pearce, and Mary's sister, whose name was given here as Gertrude Redman, dressmaker.
Emigration
Date:
14 December 1894
Notes:
James Pearce, presumably with his young family in tow, emigrated to Africa in December 1894, not long after the birth of a son, Leonard, in September 1894.
Death
Date:
10 July 1941
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Probate
Date:
14 February 1942
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