Thomas Henry Pearce

1834 -

• Name	Thomas Henry Pearce
  Birth	1834
  Gender	Male
  Census	1 Apr 1881 (47 years)	Turnpike Road, Connor Downs
  	29,Turnpike Rd,1,Thomas H. Pearce,Head,M,44,,Carpenter,Crowan Cornwall,, ,,,Jane S. Pearce,Wife,M,,41,,Towednack Cornwall,, ,,,John Pearce,Son,,12,,Scholar,Gwithian Cornwall,, ,,,Edwin Pearce,Son,,6,,Scholar,Gwithian Cornwall,, ,,,William Pearce,Son,,4,,Scholar,Gwithian Cornwall,, Folio 75 Page 5 Turnpike Road, Connor Downs 1881 Census via http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~kayhin/genealogy/82338.html
  Census	1 Apr 1891 (57 years)	Conerton (Connerton, Conarditone), manor of, Connerton, Cornwall
  	1,Connerton,1,Thomas H. Pearce,Head,M,54,,Wheelwright & C,Neither,Connerton Gwithian Cornwall,, ,,,Jane S. Pearce,Wife,M,,50,,,Not Given Unknown,, ,,,John Pearce,Son,S,21,,Carpenter & Farmer,Neither,Connerton Gwithian Cornwall,, ,,,Edwin T. Pearce,Son,S,16,,Drapers Apprentice,Employed,Connerton Gwithian Cornwall,, ,,,William Q Pearce,Son,S,14,,Scholar,,Connerton Gwithian Cornwall,, Enumeration District 11 Civil Parish of Gwithian, Eccl. Parish of Gwithian Folio 146 Page 1 1891 Census Connerton http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~kayhin/genealogy/1852c.html
  Trade,Profession,Job	1 Apr 1891 (57 years)	Shop: Wheelwrights, Connor Downs
  	Wheelwright at Conner Downs
  Person ID	I2663	AHP
  Last Modified	4 Jun 2022

  
  

  Father	Thomas Pearce,   b. 1789   d. 1845 (Age 56 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Mother	Mary Ann Henwood Richards/PEARCE,   b. Abt 1800
  Relationship	Birth
  Marriage	24 Dec 1827	Gwennap, Cornwall   [1, 2]
  Age at Marriage	He : ~ 39 years - She : ~ 28 years.
  Notes	On 24th December, 1827, when he was 38, Thomas married 28-year old Mary Ann Henwood at Gwennap. Their first child, a girl, was born exactly nine months later, and died the same day, un-named. Mary Ann Pearce (nee Henwood), my great-great grandmother, is the first family member of whom we know anything apart from their name and when they died. She went on to bear five more children, all of whom survived to adulthood. Thanks to her grand-daughter's diary we have an account of her death in 1878 at the age of 77. Thomas, her husband, died in 1845 when James, the youngest child, was five. These were the 'Hungry Forties'. The Corn Laws of 1815, which had kept the price of bread and flour high, were not repealed until 1846. Wages were low (in the region of ten shillings a week for a miner, and less for many others) and prices were high. Sugar in 1841 cost eight pence a pound; tea was between six and ten shillings a pound. Ann (known as Nancy), the second born, was 16 when her father died and the two elder boys, John and Thomas Henry Pearce, were 12 and 11. Until new regulations were made in the 1870s, boys as young as ten, or even younger, worked underground. Girls and women, were employed in large numbers working in rough sheds and outside, dressing and preparing the ore after it was brought up. Somehow Mary Ann succeeded in raising her family, only to have most of them disperse far and wide, to Australia and Mexico, as soon as they were grown. James died in Pachuca, Mexico in 1896, but not before he had fathered a daughter, Mary Ellen Pearce, who comes into the story later. Mary Trewartha, the younger daughter, stayed in Cornwall, married a man called Thomas and had a daughter, Annetta. She was buried in Illogan in 1906 (aged 69).
  Family ID	F785	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Census - 29,Turnpike Rd,1,Thomas H. Pearce,Head,M,44,,Carpenter,Crowan Cornwall,, ,,,Jane S. Pearce,Wife,M,,41,,Towednack Cornwall,, ,,,John Pearce,Son,,12,,Scholar,Gwithian Cornwall,, ,,,Edwin Pearce,Son,,6,,Scholar,Gwithian Cornwall,, ,,,William Pearce,Son,,4,,Scholar,Gwithian Cornwall,, Folio 75 Page 5 Turnpike Road, Connor Downs 1881 Census via http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~kayhin/genealogy/82338.html - 1 Apr 1881 - Turnpike Road, Connor Downs  Census - 1,Connerton,1,Thomas H. Pearce,Head,M,54,,Wheelwright & C,Neither,Connerton Gwithian Cornwall,, ,,,Jane S. Pearce,Wife,M,,50,,,Not Given Unknown,, ,,,John Pearce,Son,S,21,,Carpenter & Farmer,Neither,Connerton Gwithian Cornwall,, ,,,Edwin T. Pearce,Son,S,16,,Drapers Apprentice,Employed,Connerton Gwithian Cornwall,, ,,,William Q Pearce,Son,S,14,,Scholar,,Connerton Gwithian Cornwall,, Enumeration District 11 Civil Parish of Gwithian, Eccl. Parish of Gwithian Folio 146 Page 1 1891 Census Connerton http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~kayhin/genealogy/1852c.html - 1 Apr 1891 - Conerton (Connerton, Conarditone), manor of, Connerton, Cornwall  Trade,Profession,Job - Wheelwright at Conner Downs - 1 Apr 1891 - Shop: Wheelwrights, Connor Downs   = Link to Google Earth
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• Sources

  [S8] FamilySearch, 24 Dec 1827, No 759 (Reliability: 3). Name: Thomas Pearce Spouse's Name: Mary Anne Richards Event Date: 24 Dec 1827 Event Place: Gwennap, Cornwall, England Indexing Project (Batch) Number: I04691-7 System Origin: England-EASy GS Film number: 1595598 Reference ID: p 253 Citing this Record "England Marriages, 1538?1973 ," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NFKH-14W : 12 February 2018), Thomas Pearce and Mary Anne Richards, 24 Dec 1827; citing Gwennap, Cornwall, England, reference p 253, index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City; FHL microfilm 1,595,598. https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NFKH-14W Image: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-6WS7-9PC?i=128&cc=1769414 [S16] Pearce, Henwood, Trewartha, 24 Dec 1827 (Reliability: 2). On 24th December, 1827, when he was 38, Thomas married 28-year old Mary Ann Henwood at Gwennap. Their first child, a girl, was born exactly nine months later, and died the same day, un-named. Mary Ann Pearce (nee Henwood) Records say Richards..