Early life

Peter was baptised in Quethiock, Cornwall on the 29th of September 1793. His father, Samuel, was a farm worker and had married Mary Souther in Quethiock in 1784, when he was in his early thirties. His grandfather, Peter is thought to have been a stonemason and had lived in the nearby parish of St. Gennys. Both his grandfather Peter and his grandmother, Joan, had died young over 35 years earlier, orphaning his father Samuel, when he was only seven years old.

It seems likely that his father thought it prudent for Peter to learn a trade and accordingly had arranged an apprenticeship for Peter with a shoe maker until he was 21.

Married Life

On the 23rd October 1814 Peter, who was then working as a shoemaker in St Ive parish, married Margaret Oliver in the church at the nearby town of Liskeard, Cornwall. By 1817 he had moved to Churchtown, in the parish of Quethiock, where his daughter Jane was baptised. By 1819 the family had moved to the Stoke Damerel/ Devonport area of what is now Plymouth, Devon where Peter was recorded as a shoemaker of King Street, Stoke Damerel.

Peter and Margaret had a large family of seven children, four of whom survived. In October 1830, while the family was still living in King Street, Margaret died aged only 34.

On the 7th of November 1831 Peter married Susan Phillips in East Stonehouse. Susan, like Peter, was in her late thirties and in November 1832, she gave birth to a daughter, Emma, who appears to be the only child of their marriage. By 1841 Peter had changed careers and was working as a 'Policeman'. On the 29th November 1843, Susan died and was buried in Stoke Damerel churchyard.

By 1851 Peter had been promoted to being a "Sergeant" in the police force. On the 4th May of that year he got married for a third time. His new wife Sybilla Burrow, was a spinster aged 44 and past normal child bearing age. Just prior to her marriage she is recorded in the 1851 census as being aged 43 and working in service with her older sister Tamzin for the Kurswell family which was headed by a GP (ex Royal Navy captain pensioner). Her birthplace was given as Lifton.

Later years

Peter died in Stoke Damerel in 1871 aged 77 years. Sometime after her husband's death, Sybilla went to live with her sister Tamzin and her husband William Robson in Stoke Damerel as that is where she appears in the 1881 census. Sybilla died in Stoke Damerel during 1883 aged about 77.

Peter's children

• Daughter Eliza was baptised in St.Ive on the 10th December 1815 and went into service in Stoke Damerel. In 1843 she married William Littlejohns who went on to become a Chief Engineer at the H.M. Dockyard in Chatham. They had one son and a daughter.
  
  
• Daughter Jane was baptised at Quethiock in 1817 and went into service in Stoke Damerel. In 1851 she married John Rogers, a local seaman. John and Jane stayed in Stoke Damerel for the rest of their lives. It is thought they both died in 1893 and their marriage was childless.
  
  
• Daughter Elizabeth was born in Stoke Damerel in 1819. In 1841, she married William Pearce, a seaman, and they went to live in Portsea, Hants and had 8 children. Elizabeth died in 1867 and John died in 1896.
  
  
• Son Peter was baptised in Devonport on the 19th September 1824 and was buried in Stoke Damerel on the 24th August 1828.
  
  
• Daughter Margaret Olvar was born in Devonport in 1826. In 1846 she married Thomas Pearn Sambell, a shipwright. They had at least 5 children, two boys and three girls. For several years, the family lived to Deptford before returning to Devonport where Margaret died in 1884 and Thomas died in 1902.
  
  
• Son George was born in Devonport on the 26th November 1828 and was buried in Stoke Damerel on the 20th March 1829.
  
  
• Son Peter was the twin brother of George. He became a shipwright and in 1854 he married Catherine Amelia Buchan in the Docklands area of London. They had at least three children, one son and two daughters, but one daughter died in infancy, and ended up living at Minster on the Isle of Sheppey. Peter died in 1886 and his wife died in 1902.
  
  
• Daughter Emma was born in Stoke Damerel in 1833, the only child of Peter's second marriage. In 1855 she married John Foster in Plymouth and they had two or more children. John, like Peter, worked in the Police Force. Emma became institutionalised in the Devon County Lunatic Asylum but the circumstances that led up to this are unknown. She died in 1901. It is not known when John died.

Early life

Eliza was christened at St Ive on the 10th December 1815. She went into service in Stoke Damerel and in 1841 was recorded working with her younger sister Jane in the household of Henry Smith an attorney.

Married life

On the 11th July 1843 she married William Littlejohns who was then employed as a mariner. Interestingly, one of the witnesses to the marriage was named Smith, and may have been or have been related to the Harry Smith for whom she had been working. Eliza's son William George Littlejohns married a Sarah Ann Julia Smith who is thought to be related to the same Smith family. Eliza's younger sister Jane went on to work for another professional lawyer called Nicholas Were and who came from Wellington in Somerset. This opens up the intriguing possibility that this Smith family were related to the Ann Smith, mother of Grace Govett who lived in that area of Somerset and had married William Treays, uncle of Eliza's father, Peter.

Eliza and William had four daughters and one son. From 1851 onward William worked as a rigger in the H.M.Dockyard Plymouth.

Later life

In 1883 William died aged 77. Eliza died in 1885 aged 69.

Children

• son William George was born in 1844. In 1875 he married Sarah Ann Julia Smith and by 1881 he had become a chief engineer at the H.M.Dockyard Chatham. They had at least one child : -
  • Son Archibald Smith Littlejohns was born in October 1879 and educated at the Grammar School in Faversham. In October 1896, he gained a scholarship to Gonville & Caius College. Cambridge. He became a Lieutenant Colonel in the RAMC before retiring in June 1934. He rejoined the Service briefly at the outbreak of the Second World War.
    
    
• daughter Eliza Ann Littlejohns was born in 1847. In 1875 she married John William PIPER, a ship's captain in the Merchant Navy.
  
  
• daughter Amelia Littlejohns was born in 1849 and died in 1923, a spinster.
  
  
• daughter Clarissa Jane Littlejohns was born in 1855 and died in 1864.
  
  
• daughter Rhoda Littlejohns was born in 1858 and died in 1944, a spinster.

Early life

Daughter Jane was baptised in Quethiock on the 27th July 1817 and went into service in Stoke Damerel. At the time of the 1841 census she was working with her sister Eliza in Morice Square in Stoke Damerel as a servant in the household of Henry Smith, Attorney. In 1851 she was living as "a friend/servant" in the household of Nicholas Were, a solicitor from Wellington, Somerset at Princes Square, Plymouth St. Andrew, whose family were strong non-conformists and had connections with the Trease family of Somerset.

Married Life

On the 24th July 1851, when she was 33, Jane married John Rogers in Stoke Damerel. John was a seaman about 3 years younger than Jane. He was a local man having been born in Devonport, the son of Richard Rogers, a labourer, and was two or three years younger than Jane. Neither Jane nor John could write as both placed their marks on the marriage register. Currently no children from their marriage have been traced.

Later Life

By the time of the 1861 census, John had retired from work as a seaman. Jane and John spent the rest of their lives in Stoke Damerel. In the 1881 return John is recorded as a "Greenwich pensioner" and Jane is recorded as a grocer. Jane's death is possibly that recorded for a Jane Rogers, aged 75, in Plymouth in 1893. Her husband John's death may be that recorded shortly afterwards in Stoke Damerel in 1893 for a John Rogers aged 78.

Early life

Elizabeth Treays was born in Aug 1819 in Plymouth Dock, Stoke Damerel, Devon, the daughter of Peter Treays and Margaret Oliver and granddaughter of Samuel Treays and Mary Souther. She was baptized just over a month later at the Morice Street Wesleyan Church

Married Life

In 1841, she married William Pearce in the Parish Church, East Stonehouse which was then the parish for Devonport. William had been born in Devonport in the same year as Elizabeth and, like her, had been baptized at the Morice St Wesleyan Church where his parents Edward Pearce and Sarah Tucker had married in 1819. William, like his father, became a seaman. At the time of their marriage, William & Elizabeth were unable to write their own names as they each made their mark "x" on the marriage register.

William and Elizabeth seem to have spent the first years of their married life in the Devonport/Plymouth area but between 1851 and 1861 they moved to Portsea, Hants, where Elizabeth died in 1867, aged 47.

Later Years

Between 1861 and 1871, William retired , and appears on the 1871 and 1881 census returns as a Naval Pensioner. He died in 1896 in Buckland, Portsmouth following a bout of influenza.

Children

William and Elizabeth had eight children: -

• son Edward Pearce was born in 1842 at Stoke-Damerel. Initially, Edward signed up for the navy and the census return for 1861 shows him as ‘Boy, 1st Class’ aboard HMS Queen in Beirut, Syria and that for 1871 shows him as ‘Leading Seaman' aboard HMS Forte in Bombay Harbour. By 1881 he had left the Navy and was recorded as a gunner in the Royal Artillery based at the Gilkicker battery in Alverstoke. By 1901 he had left the Royal Artillery and was recorded as living with his sister Margaret Fudge’s family in Portsmouth and working as a general labourer. Edward never married. He died in Portsmouth in 1916.
  
  
• daughter Elizabeth Jane Pearce was born in 1844, at Stoke-Damerel. In 1851 she is recorded living with her parents and attending school. By 1861 she had moved to Portsea Island, Hants where she is recorded as living with her Uncle George Fudge and Aunt Jemima and her cousin Jemima who was about the same age as her.
  In 1865 she married John Cawley in Portsea, Hants. He was 8 years older having been born in 1836 in Stockport, Cheshire. In the 1871 census Elizabeth is shown living with her father and her son William in Kingston, Portsea, while her husband John under the surname ‘Crawley’, is recorded away from home working as a ‘Bandsman, Royal Navy Vessels, District Immortalite’. In the 1881 census Elizabeth is shown as lodging in Kingston, Portsea with children John and Clara Jane while John is again recorded away from home as ‘Bandsman, Royal Navy,’ ‘Iron Duke’. By 1891 John is back at home in Kingston, Portsea working as a Drapers Porter. The 1901 census shows that by then John had retired and become a Naval Pensioner. Later that year he died in Portsmouth.
  Elizabeth died in 1907.
  Elizabeth and John had six children: -
  
  • William John Cawley, born in Portsea in 1867
  • Elizabeth Esther Cawley who was born in Portsea in 1871 and died there in 1874 age 2.
  • John Cawley, born in Portsea in 1873
  • James Cawley who was born in Portsea in 1875 and died there the following year
  • Clara Jane Cawley, born in Portsea in 1878
  • Edward George Cawley, born in 1883 in Portsmouth.
  
  
• son William Pearce was born in 1846 in Stoke Damerel. After studying at the Hospital School in Greenwich (per 1861 census), he became a Staff Commander in the Royal Navy. Sometime before 1878 he got married. His wife was called Emma and she had been born in Plymouth around 1852. By 1881 they were living in High Street, Ipswich, Suffolk. By 1891 they had moved to Clapham London. They appear to have had only one child who survived infancy, a daughter, Sylvia who was born in Ipswich, Suffolk in 1878. Sylvia married Hans Von Purnull and was living in Sicily in 1929.
  Currently nothing further is known about them.
  
  
• Son George Pearce was born 22 Nov 1849 in 8 Queen St ,Devonport, Devon, England, and died following a heart attack ,11 Jul 1929 in Copleston, Canada. He married:
  • Margaret Hughson on 27 Mar 1877 in Delaware, Ontario, Canada. She died 27 Mar 1881 in Ontario, Canada. They had one child, William Emory Pearce, b. Abt. 1879.
  • Maria Annie Lighthart on 11 Jan 1882 in Petrolia, daughter of James Lighthart and Maria. She was born Jul 1855 in Acton, Ontario, and died 14 Oct 1888. They had one child, Frederick Pearce.
  • Mary A Trotter in 1891, daughter of John Trotter and Eliza Scott. She was born 19 Sep 1865 in County of Frontenac, Ontario, Canada. They had a daughter, Almeda, & a son, Stanley.
  George left home at the age of 19 and sailed for Quebec, Canada. He was first employed in railroad work in London, Ontario and in August 1869 went to Petrolia and worked in the oil fields. He was employed as foreman by H.W. Lancey and remained with him for 20 years. During the latter part of this time he also operated oil wells on his own land which he had purchased at Concession 12 in 1882. By the time of his death in 1929, he owned 20 productive oil wells and a very handsome home.
  Politically, George was a conservative and was very prominent in local politics. In 1891 he was elected as a member of the council of Enniskillen township and he remained in that office until December 1899. In January 1900 he undertook the duties of reeve, for a period of three years .At the time of his death he had been a bailiff for 21 years and was one of the most prominent residents of Copleston, where he had resided for 40 years.
  See also - Obituary 1, Obituary 2, and Obituary 3
  
  
• Daughter Margaret Pearce was born in 1851 in Devonport. She moved with her parents to Portsea and became a dressmaker. In 1876 in Portsea she married George William Fudge, who had been born in 1843 in Southsea the son of Thomas (James) Fudge and Rebecca Bolt (Boult). Her husband was at that time Petty Officer on HMS Asia. George and Margaret appear to have spent their married life in Portsea. By 1881 George had become 'Captain of Forecastle HMS G.B. Skylark'. By 1885 he appears to have become a dockyard labourer. In 1898 Margaret died of bronchitis at 100 St Mary's Rd, Kingston, Portsea. Her husband died in 1923. They were both buried in Kingston Cemetery Portsmouth.
  They had 10 children, all of whom were born in Portsea: -
  
  • Margaret Jane Fudge who was born in 1877 and died of diphtheria aged 4.
  • George Fudge, who was born in 1880, became a seaman. and got married in Portsmouth in 1905. He died in 1927 and was buried in Highland Road Cemetery in Portsmouth.
  • Rosina Fudge who was born 1882 and worked for a time as a corset maker. She got married in Portsmouth in 1904 and had seven children, one of whom died in his infancy. Two of her sons emigrated to Australia after the Second World war. After her husband died, she visited her sons in Australia and returned some years later to spend her last years with her son in New South Wales.
  • Elizabeth Maud Fudge (Maud) who was born in 1883 and left school to care for her younger siblings after her mother died. She got married in 1906 and in 1914 took her family to Australia where her husband worked for the Royal Australian Navy. Maud died in NSW Australia in 1961. The majority of her 60+ descendants still live in NSW.
  • Beatrice Fudge who was born in 1885 and like her sister Rosina worked for a time as a corset/stay maker. In 1905 she got married in Portsmouth to a Royal Navy man. They had 4 children. In 1921 they settled in Canada after staying a few months out there with Beatrice’s Uncle George Pearce. Beatrice died in Ontario in 1962.
  • William Thomas Fudge who was born in 1881 and followed the family tradition of a career in the Royal Navy. He married in 1912 and had 2 children. He died in Chatham Kent in 1975 and his wife died shortly after in 1978.
  • Frederick Pearce Fudge who was born in 1889, got married in Portsmouth in 1911, and died in 1956.
  • Martha Ann Fudge who was born in 1892, married in Portsmouth in 1915, and left for Australia with her husband after the First World War was over. Her husband died in 1945, after cracking his head when he fell after being assaulted. Martha died in 1951 and was buried with her husband in the Church of England cemetery in Liverpool NSW Australia. They had no children.
  • Herbert Fudge who was born in 1895, followed a career in the Navy, married in Portsmouth in 1926, and died there in 1982, twelve years after his wife.
  • Sylvia Fudge who was born in 1897 and died the same year.
  
  
• daughter Emma Pearce was born in Stoke Damerel in 1853 and was working as a dressmaker in Portsea in 1881. She married John Bowden in Portsea during 1882. John was about a year older than Emma and had been born in Bridport Dorset. In 1891 he was employed as a shipwright in Portsea. Emma and John had 3 children. John died at the Royal Naval Hospital, Haslar, Alverstoke, on 13th September, 1895 from "injuries received from the accidental falling of a davit on board H.M.S. Majestic in Portsmouth Dockyard on the 25th August 1895." An inquest was held on 16th September, 1895.
  Emma died in Portsmouth Hants in 1951, aged 98.
  
  
• daughter Maria Pearce was born in 1856. Maria did not marry. She became housekeeper to her brother Edward, and her brother-in-law George and his family whom they had taken into their home after the death of their sister, Margaret. She died in 1912.
  
  
• daughter Jane Pearce who was born in 1860 and died in 1862.

Early life

Margaret Oliver Treays was born during 1826, the daughter of Peter Treays and Margaret Oliver and granddaughter of Samuel Treays and Mary Souther. She was baptised at Devonport, Princes Street Independent Chapel.

Marriage

In 1846 she married Thomas Pearn Sambell in Stoke Damerel. Thomas appears to have been the son of Benjamin Sambell and Clarissa Mary Pearn, was more or less the same age as Margaret and worked as a shipwright in Devonport. Around 1854 the family moved from Devonport to Deptford, Kent where Thomas is recorded in the 1861 census as working as a ship's carpenter. Sometime between 1863 and 1871 the family returned to Devonport where Thomas is recorded in 1871 as carrying on the trade of shipwright.

Later Life

Margaret died in Stoke Damerel in 1884. Thomas died on July 21st 1902 and was buried in Stoke Damerel burial ground.

Children

Five children surviving infancy, two boys and three girls, have so far been traced from their marriage: -

• son William Edward was born in 1852 in Stoke Damerel. William pursued a naval career. The latest record of him found so far is in the 1881 Stoke Damerel census when he is recorded as "Seaman RN" and living with his parents.
  
  
• daughter Emma Jane was born in 1854 in Deptford. In 1861 census she was recorded as living with her parents in Deptford. Nothing further has been found of her so far.
  
  
• son Benjamin was born in Deptford and his date of birth per Royal Navy records was 6th April 1857. At the time of the 1871 Census he is recorded as age 14, errand boy, living with his parents in Stoke Damerel. By 1881 he is recorded as an able seaman serving on HMS Boadicea but not on board the evening of the census. In 1888 he married Susan Harriett Bourne in Maldon Essex. By 1891 he had become a Coast Guard Officer living in Sidney Street Brightlingsea with his wife and daughters Mary aged 3 and Grace aged 2, both born in Brightlingsea. By 1901, Benjamin and Susan had moved with their two children to 24 Byron Street Gillingham Kent and Benjamin has become a dockyard reserve labourer.
  
  
• daughter Clarissa Mary was born in Deptford in 1859 and in the 1871 census was recorded as a scholar living with her parents. In 1878 she married George Robert Simpson in Stoke Damerel. Her husband was born on 5th August 1855 in Charlton, Kent and was a seaman. In the 1881 census Clarissa is recorded as head of the family and living at 25 Duke Street Stoke Damerel with daughter Blanche aged 3 whilst her husband appears as Leading Seaman George Simpson on board HMS Northumberland. In 1891 she is still living in Duke Street with daughter Blanche and two sons Gibson W. , age 9, and George E. , age 7.
  It appears that when George retired from the Royal Navy, the family moved to Lambeth where in 1901 George is recorded as a Bank messenger and caretaker living at 465 Brixton Road, Lambeth, Surrey with his wife, daughter Blanche who is unmarried and working as a waitress, and another daughter Gladys age 7 born in London - this implies they moved to London sometime between 1891 and 1894.
  It is not known when or where Clarissa or George died.
  
  
• daughter Fanny was born in Deptford during 1863. Nothing more is known of her after the 1881 census when she was recorded as "dressmaker", age 18, living with her parents.
  
  

References have been found to other possible children of this marriage but these have not been further investigated as it appears probable that these children died in infancy.

Early life

Emma Treays was born in Stoke Damerel on the 17th November 1832 and was christened at the Wesleyan Chapel in Morrice Street, Devonport on the 12th April 1833. She was to be the only child of Peter Treay's second marriage to Susanna Phillips. Just under a year before she was born her paternal grandfather Samuel Treays had died and was buried in Stoke Damerel churchyard. It is thought that her grandmother Mary was living locally in the Plymouth area and staying with relatives, and could at least have got to know Emma.

On the 29th November 1843, when Emma was only 11 years old, her mother Susan died. After that it seems that when Emma was old enough to earn her keep and go into service, she stayed with her father and helped him by doing the housework, certainly until at least 1851.

Married life

On the 21st February 1855, Emma married John Forster at Holy Trinity Church Plymouth. Her address at the time of her marriage was Lambhay Hill Cottage which was presumably in the parish of Holy Trinity cottage. No occupation is listed for her but it appears that she had left home by then and was working perhaps as a housekeeper. Her husband, John, had been born in North Hill, Cornwall in June 1831, the son of Richard Forster and Mary Basset who had married there in 1821. John, like his father Richard, was then working as a gardener but, possibly spurred on by his marriage to have a career with better prospects, he had by 1861 become, like his wife's father, a Police Constable. No doubt his father-in-law, Peter, would have given him some advice and assistance on this matter.

John and Emma had four children, maybe more, before disaster struck the family. We don't know exactly what happened but from 1871 onward for certain, probably earlier, until her death, Emma was institutionalised in the County Lunatic Asylum. Susan Forster, their last child whom we are fairly certain was John and Emma's, was born early in 1864 and died a few months later, so it seems that the problems Emma experienced probably started after 1864. There is nothing to show that she had manifested any problems prior to then. Some records of Exminster Lunatic Asylum have survived so examination of these may throw more light on the physical or mental trauma that led to Emma's sad fate. After her departure two surviving children from the family continued to live with their father in Stoke Damerel.

Later life

John moved to the East Stonehouse area of Plymouth and the 1881 and 1891 censuses record him living there by himself. Interestingly in the 1891 census he describes himself as a "single man". So far further research into what happened to him subsequently has not been undertaken.

Poor Emma remained in the Asylum until her death in 1901 aged 67 so, unless there was any remission (and we are unaware of any), she would have spent at least 30 years there. Like her husband John she is recorded as a single person in the 1891 census.

Children

John and Emma had at least four children, two of whom survived infancy: -

• daughter Susan Forster who was born about 1857 and died in 1863.
  
  
• daughter Mary Emma Forster who was born in 1859 in Stoke Damerel and married Richard Greenhalgh in East Stonehouse in 1878. They spent their early life in India before returning to this country to live in Wardle Lancashire which is where they are recorded in the 1891 census with Richard being shown as a "general labourer". Neither Richard's occupation at the time they married, nor the place and circumstances of the couple's death are known.
  They had at least 5 children including the following children born in Madras, India: -
  • Frederick G Greenhalgh born around 1880 and who married in Rochdale in 1914.
  • James H Greenhalgh born around 1883.
  • Mary A Greenhalgh born around 1885.
  • Albert E Greenhalgh born around 1887 and who married in Salford about the time of the outbreak of the First World War in August 1914.
  • Clara Greenhalgh born around 1889.
  
  
• son John Richard Forster who was born in East Stonehouse in 1862 and died there when he was aged about 16.
  
  
• daughter Susan Forster who was born in 1864 and died the same year.

RETURN to START of DATA for ELIZABETH & WILLIAM PEARCE

RETURN to START of DATA for JANE & JOHN ROGERS

We wish to acknowledge the help given by an Australian descendant of Elizabeth TREAYS who thoroughly researched her family tree and kindly made the information available to us. Nearly all the extensive data provided here was the result of her considerable research and it has given us an unusually deep insight into this family.

	Children of ELIZABETH PEARCE and JOHN CAWLEY are:

	I.   	WILLIAM JOHN CAWLEY, 
		b. 1867, Portsea, Hampshire, England.
	ii    	Elizabeth Esther CAWLEY
		 b.Portsea  1871. d. Portsea 1874 age 2	
	iii.  	John CAWLEY, 
		b. 1873, Portsea , Hampshire, England.
	iv   	James CAWLEY 
		b. Portsea 1875 , d. Portsea 1876 ,age 1
	v    	CLARA JANE CAWLEY 
		b. 1878, Portsea , Hampshire, England.
	vi   	EDWARD GEORGE CAWLEY
		b. 1883, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England.


3. 	WILLIAM PEARCE
	b. 11 Sep 1846, Stoke-Damerel, Devon, England. 
 	He married EMMA.  She was born Abt. 1852 in Plymouth.

	More About WILLIAM PEARCE:
	1861, Student, 14, Hospital Schools, Greenwich, Kent.
	1881, 25 high St Ipswich, Suffolk, age 34, Staff Commander Active list, with 
		his wife Emma, 29. b. Plymouth, 
		& daughter Sylvia, age 2, b. Ipswich, Suffolk.
	1891, 6 Orlando St. Clapham.44, Staff Commander, Royal Navy.b. Devonport, Devon with 
		wife Emma, 39, b. Plymouth, Devon, 
		daughter Sylvia, 12, student b. Ipswich, Suffolk 
		& Louisa Hebble, 23, domestic Servant, b. Clapham, London,

	Child of WILLIAM PEARCE and EMMA is:

	i.	SYLVIA PEARCE, b. 1878, Ipswich, Suffolk;  m. HANS VON PURNULL.

		More About SYLVIA PEARCE:
		1929, living in Sicily

4.  	GEORGE PEARCE, b. 22 Nov 1849, 8 Queen St ,Devonport, Devon, England; d. 11 Jul 1929, Copleston, Canada.     Cause of Death: Heart attack
	George left home at the age of 19 & sailed for  Quebec, Canada
	In the Canadian 1881 census he is listed as George Pierce, W, oil operator, living in Ontario. 


5.  	MARGARET PEARCE was born 26 Aug 1851 in 8 Queen S, Devonport, Devon, England, and died 28 Feb 1898 in 100 St Mary's Rd, Kingston, Portsea.
	( Acute bronchitis, 48 hours.) 	Buried in  Kingston Cemetry Portsmouth.

	She married GEORGE WILLIAM FUDGE, 27 Apr 1876, in The Parish Church Portsea, Hampshire, England., son of THOMAS (JAMES) FUDGE and REBECCA BOULT (BOLT).  
	He was born 15 May 1843 in Southsea, Hampshire, England, and died 17 Dec 1923 in 104 Malins Rd, Portsmouth, Hampshire.( Senility & .Cardiac failure) 
	Buried in Kingston Cemetry, Portsmouth
	Margaret & George had 10 children, 2 daughters ( their firstborn & their last born) died in infancy.

	More About MARGARET PEARCE:
	1861, 1 Concert Ally,age 10, student, with family.
	1871, 7a St. Stephen's Rd, Portsea, age 19, Dressmaker. with her  family.
	1881, 29 St MaryÕs Rd, Portsea
	1891, 100 St MaryÕs Road with George Fudge, Head, 47, labourer in Dockyard, living at 100 St. Mary's Rd, Portsea 
		with his wife, Margaret,39,& 6 children, George, 10, Rosina ,9, Elizabeth, 7 & Beatrice, 5, all scholars, & William T.,3 & Frederick P., 1.

	More About GEORGE WILLIAM FUDGE:
	1876, St  Stephen's Rd, Portsea,  Petty Officer, ÒH.M.S. AsiaÓ
	1881, 29 St Mary's Rd, Portsea, Captain of Forecastle "H.M.S.G.B.SkylarkÓ 
 		29 Jul 1885, Labourer, R.N. Dockyard
	1891, Labourer in Dockyard,age 47, living with his family at 100 St Mary's Road, Portsea,
	1901, General labourer, 54 St Stephen's Rd, Portsea

	Children of MARGARET PEARCE and GEORGE FUDGE are:

	i.	MARGARET JANE FUDGE
		b. Abt. Feb 1877, Portsea, Hampshire England; 
		d. 15 Oct 1881, 9 St Mary's Rd, Kingston Portsea, Hampshire England. Cause of Death: Diphtheria

	ii.	GEORGE FUDGE
		b. 1880, Portsea, Hampshire England
		d. 1927 
		He  married BEATRICE EDITH CARRELL (CARROL), 1905, Portsmouth, England.

		More About GEORGE FUDGE:
		1881, 29 St. Mary's Rd,  Portsea,Hampshire, England
		1901, 54 St Stephen's Rd, Portsea , Seaman R.N
		17 Dec 1923, 29 Foster Road, Landport 
		Burial: 1927, Highland Rd cemetery, Southsea


	iii.	ROSINA FUDGE, 
		b. 03 Feb 1882, 9 St Mary's Rd, Kingston, Portsea Is, Hampshire England, 
		d. 15 Jul 1973, N.S.W. Australia
		m. EDWARD VICTOR RENYARD, Aug 1904, Portsmouth, England; b. 1880, England; d. Portsmouth, Hampshire England.

		More About ROSINA FUDGE:
		1901, Staymaker (corset maker), 54 St. Stephen's Rd, Portsea.
		A few years after her husband's death, Rosina came to Australia & lived the rest of her life with her son & his family in NSW, Australia


	iv.	ELIZABETH MAUD FUDGE, 
		b. 03 Oct 1883, 7 Guilford Rd, Kingston, Portsea Is, Hampshire England,  
		d. 16 May 1961, Concord, N.S.W. Australia. 
		She  married CLARENCE PHILLIPS, 26 Dec 1906, The Parish Church, Portsea, Hampshire, England  
		b.15 Jan 1883, Portland, Dorset; d. 31 Mar 1950, Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick, NSW, Australia

		More About ELIZABETH MAUD FUDGE:
		Occupation: 1901, Domestic Servant, 54 St Stephen's Rd, Portsea. After her motherÕs premature death, Maud left school to care for her younger siblings.  
		In 1913 Clarence Phillips, a Master at Arms with the Royal Navy, accepted a posting to Australia, to help with the strengthening of the RAN. 
		After a year, he transferred to the RAN & in 1914 Maud & her two small children sailed out to join him. 
		Three more children were born in Australia. The majority of their 60+ descendants still live in NSW.


	v.  	BEATRICE FUDGE, 
		b. 29 Jul 1885, 7 Guilford Rd, Kingston, Portsea Is, Hampshire England;
		d. 27 Dec 1969, Sarnia, Ontario, Canada; 
		m. FREDERICK JAMES SADLER, 14 Feb 1905, Church of St. Mark, Portsmouth, England; 
		b. 05 Dec 1880, Landport, Hampshire, England; d. 19 Apr 1962, Sarnia, Ontario, Canada.

		More About BEATRICE FUDGE:
		1901, Staymaker, living at 54 St Stephen's Rd, Portsea:
		Emigration: 1921, To Canada, with her husband & 4 young children & lived with Uncle George Pearce for the first few months.


		More About FREDERICK JAMES SADLER:
		Fred joined the Royal Navy, 1897


	vi.	WILLIAM THOMAS FUDGE 
		b. 1887, Portsea, Hampshire England
		d. 1975, Chatham, Kent
		m. EDITH MAY TROWER, 1912
		b. 1890; d. 1978.
		William followed in the family tradition & had a career in the Royal Navy. William & Edith had 2 children.


	vii.	FREDERICK PEARCE FUDGE, 
		b. 1889, Portsea, Hampshire England
		d. 1956
		m. LILY EMMA NANCARROW, Aug 1911, Hampshire England
		b. 1889, Portsea, Hampshire England


	viii.	MARTHA ANN FUDGE 
		b. Feb 1892, Portsea Island, Hampshire, England
		d..07 May 1951, Liverpool N.S.W. Australia
		m. HENRY (Harry) HART, Abt. 1915, Portsmouth, England
		b. Abt. 1883, Liverpool, England
		d. 26 Oct 1945, State Hospital and Home, Liverpool, N.S.W. (Fracture of the scull)

		Martha & Harry had no children.

		More About MARTHA ANN FUDGE:
		1901, at 54 St Stephen's Rd, Portsea
		Emigration: 1919, to NSW Australia
		Burial: 10 May 1951, Liverpool C.of E.Cemetry, N.S.W.Australia.
		1954 (sic), Lombard St, Fairfield West, N.S.W.

		More About HENRY HART:
		Emmigration: 1919, to NSW, Australia from Portsmouth, England, with his wife, Martha
		1945, Lombard St, Fairfield West, N.S.W, Labourer
		Burial: 26 Oct 1945, Church of England Cemetry, Liverpool, N.S.W.
		At an inquest held, on 2nd November, 1945, by Jas. H. Wright, Coroner, it was found  that : -
		Henry died of injuries received after being assaulted on the previous day. He fell & struck his head on a concrete gutter.


	ix.	HERBERT FUDGE
		b. 15 Jan 1895, Portsea, Hampshire England
		d. Feb 1982, Portsmouth, Hampshire
		m. HILDA GRACE WEBB, 26 Jun 1926, Parish Church, Westbourne, Sussex
		b. 02 Jun 1899, Portsea Island, Hampshire, England
		d. Feb 1970, Potrsmouth, Hampshire

		More About HERBERT FUDGE:
		Residence: 1901, 54 St Stephen's Rd, Portsea  Herbert also had a career in the Navy.


	x.	SYLVIA FUDGE 
		b. 02 Aug 1897, 100 St. Mary's Rd, Kingston, Portsea Is, Hampshire, England
		d. 1897, Portsea, Hampshire England.


	
6. 	EMMA PEARCE, 
	b. 10 Jul 1853, Stoke Damerel, Devon, England
	d. 27 Jun 1951, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England.
	She married John BOWDEN, March 1882, at Portsea 
	He was born 1852 at Bridport, Dorset & died  (killed) at Alverstoke,1895. Emma & John had 3 children.

	More about Emma PEARCE
	1861 at 1 Concert Ally, Portsea
	1871 at 7a St StephenÕs Rd, Portsea
	1881 at 54 St StephenÕs Rd, Portsea, Dressmaker.
	1891 at 48 DickenÕs Rd, Portsea

	More about John BOWDEN
	1891, Shipwright,living at 48 DickenÕs Rd Portsea, Hampshire



7.	MARIA PEARCE, b. 22 Dec 1856, Stoke-Damerel, Devon, England;  d. 1912.

	More About MARIA PEARCE:
	1861, 1 Concert Ally, Portsea, Hampshire
	1881, 54 St Stephen's Rd, Portsea, Housekeeper
	1901, 54 St. Stephens Rd. Housekeeper for her brother Edward, and her Brother-in-law, George & his family, who they had taken in to their home 
	after the death of their sister, Margaret.
	Maria was unmarried.


8	JANE PEARCE
	b. 1860, Portsea lsland, Hampshire, England
	d. 1862, Portsea, Hampshire, England.

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