Henry Pearce



S. of Samuel Pearce & Mary Ann Atkins

Henry Pearce
Born 20.3.1850 at 1 Elizabeth St., Bromley, Gtr London, England
Bap. 16th June 1850 at All Saints, Poplar, Tower Hamlets, London
Occ. House Carpenter/Builder/Watchmaker & Tobacconist/Coffee House Keeper
Marr. Ellen Eliza Chandler in 1875 at St Olave Southwark, London
Died 24th Dec. 1920 at Homeopathic Hospital, Great Ormond Street, Holborn, Gtr London


Children

Ellen Eliza (Nellie)
Henry Samuel
Rosina Emma
Mary Ann
Florence Maria
Frederick James
Grace Elizabeth
George William
Jessie Martha
Victor Charles


NOTE

Ellen was born c 1856 at Walworth, Gtr London & died in 1942. Her parents were William Bayley Chandler & Maria Warmington.

1881 census of 78 Kerby St., London
Henry PEARCE Head M Male 31 Poplar, Middlesex, England Builder Employing 5 Men 1 Boy Ellen PEARCE Wife M Female 25 Walworth, Surrey, England Ellen PEARCE Daur Female 4 Horsley Down, Surrey, England Henry PEARCE Son Male 3 Horsley Down, Surrey, England Rosina PEARCE Daur Female 1 Poplar, Middlesex, England

The 1891 census records the family living at East ... Road, Bromley, Gtr London & later at 1 Victoria Dock Rd, West Ham, Gtr London in 1901.

Henry Pearce was born at 1 Elizabeth Street, Bromley-by-Bow, Middlesex on 20 March 1850, the son of Samuel Pearce - a shipwright and his wife Mary Ann (Atkins) As a child he was taken by his father to see the last hanging at Newgate! In 1875 Henry married Ellen Eliza Chandler, the daughter of William Bayley Chandler - a hairdresser and Maria Warmington. The couple went on to have 12 children: Daisy ; Rose ; Grace ; Frederick ; Victor ; George ; Jessie ; Florence ; Walter Charles ; Henry Samuel ; Mary Ann; and Ellen Eliza. Henry took his own son, Henry Samuel, through the Blackwall Tunnel, when only a pilot tunnel had been completed - it cost 6d (2.5p). By 1878 the family was living at 53 Thornton Street, Horslydown and although records show Henry`s occupation as a `coffee-house keeper` and later as a `dining room proprietor`, in 1899 he applied for two patents: one for a ships compass and the other for a method of joining pipes, although he did not complete the process to get the patents. By 1903 the family had moved again, this time to 1 Victoria Dock Road, Canning Town, West Ham where they were living at the time of daughter Ellen`s marriage. On 23rd December 1920, writing his will the day before his death, Henry`s address is given as 80 London Street, Greenwich, Kent. He died on 24th December 1920 at the Homeopathic Hospital, Great Ormond Street, Holborn, Middlesex and his will left the grand total of £408.10.00 to his wife Ellen Eliza Pearce (nee Chandler).

The above suggests 12 children but I could only find 10 via the census records.

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