Person:James Beer (22)

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James Beer
m. 18 May 1789
  1. James BeerAbt 1788 - 1849
  2. Rose BeerAbt 1792 - 1870
  3. Charles BeerAbt 1794 -
  4. Charles BeerAbt 1798 -
  5. Mark BeerAbt 1803 - 1807
  6. George BeerAbt 1806 - Abt 1807
m. 11 Sep 1808
  1. George BeareAbt 1808 - 1882
  2. Mark BeareAbt 1810 - 1877
  3. Edmund BeareAbt 1813 - 1892
  4. Harriet BeareAbt 1815 - 1882
  5. Mary BeareAbt 1817 - 1876
  6. Charles BeareAbt 1819 - 1893
  7. Eliza BeareAbt 1822 - 1860
  8. Alfred Beare1822 - 1903
  9. Molton BeerAbt 1826 -
  10. Emma BeareAbt 1829 - 1871
  11. Amelia BeareAbt 1831 - 1899
  12. Hubert James Beare1832 - 1901
Facts and Events
Name James Beer
Alt Name[1][2] James Beare
Gender Male
Birth[3] Abt 1788 Barwick, Somerset, England
Baptism[10] 6 Sep 1788 Barwick, Somerset, England
Marriage 11 Sep 1808 South Cadbury, Somerset, Englandto Johanna Chamberlain
Other[11][21] 31 Mar 1838 Somerset, EnglandSomerset Assizes (Court)
Census[12][22] 1841
Will[13][23] 22 Jun 1849 Yeovil, Somerset, England
Death[4][5][6][7] 4 Jul 1849 Huish, Somerset, England
Burial[8][9] 1849 Yeovil, Somerset, EnglandSt John the Baptist
Other[24] 1862 North Cadbury, Somerset, EnglandSt Michael's graveyard, Headstone
Questionable information identified by WeRelate automation
To check:Born before parents' marriage

Headstone in North Cadbury churchyard, ? re-interred with Johanna, or just remembered there

References
  1. Marriage certificate
    marriage certificate.
    • See Alfred Beare's marriage certificate to Catherine Mary O'Neill
      Alfred's father given as James Beare, labourer
  2. "1841 Census Returns of England and Wales." Database.. (Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network. Original data imaged from The National Archives of the UK; Public Record Office (PRO), Kew, Surrey, England. www.ancestry.co.uk : 2006)
    (www.ancestry.co.uk).

    James Beare, M, 50, Beer Seller, Y

  3. Estimate from available data.

    Baptism
    James Beer, 6 Sep 1788
    1841 census
    James Beare, M, 50, Beer Seller Y
    Death certificate in 1849
    James Beare, aged 60
    Headstone in 1849
    James Beare, aged 59

    • Born c 1788/1790, Somerset
      *Is this baptism too early for him?
      Age at death differs from death certificate and headstone
      Death certificate info provided by Fanny Beare, probably daughter in law, who may not have been certain of his age at death.  Headstone info likely to have been from closer members of family - widow, children, etc, but still may not have been accurate.
  4. Death certificate
    death certificate.

    1849 Death in Sub-district of Yeovil, County of Somerset
    Entry 490
    Fourth July 1849, Huish, Yeovil
    James Beare, Male, age 60 years, Carpenter
    Diseased heart, 2 years certified
    Informant Fanny Beare, Present at the death, resident Huish, Yeovil
    Registered Eighth of July 1849
    Registrar William Tomkins

    Fanny Beare  ?? Fanny Beare, nee Hockey, wife of George Beare

  5. "Death Registration 1837-1983," database.

    Deaths Yeovil
    Beare James
    Sep 1849 Vol 10 p377

  6. "1851 Census Returns of England and Wales." Database.. (Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network. Original data imaged from The National Archives of the UK: Public Record Office (PRO), Kew, Surrey, England. www.ancestry.co.uk : 2005)
    (www.ancestry.co.uk).
    • Johanna given as widow in 1851 census
  7. Angela Slater. Slater Angela, information from.

    James BEARE died 4 Jul 1849 aged 50 born ---
    Memorial type Headstone notes late of Yeovil, interred in John's Churchyard. Husband of Joanna. See also BENNETT Reference 4878 Parish North Cadbury (CofE)

  8. Margaret J Wilkinson. "Yeovil Field Trip"; research notes,, 7 - 11 Feb 2007..

    St Michael the Archangel, North Cadbury
    S [     ] Memory
    [                  ]
    Of
    James and Joanna Beare
    Late of Yeovil
    James died July 4th 1849 Aged 59 years
    Interred in St John's Churchyard
    Joanna, his wife
    Died November 28 1862
    Aged 72 years
    Her remains are interrred beneath this stone
    In hope of a glorious resurrection
    In memory of Jane
    Daughter of A and A Bennett
    who died Feb 2 1876
    Aged 5 years
    Father and mother bid farewell
    to their child they loved so well
    [                        ]

    • Very poor weather conditions, headstone worn, lichen ++
      Details difficult to read
      Last line of Jane Bennett's below the soil line
      *Grave in churchyard, middle left, next to a tree
      Narcissi flowering in front of grave
      Feb 2007
  9. Angela Slater. Slater Angela, information from.

    Name James BEARE died 4 Jul 1849 aged 50 born --- Memorial type Headstone notes late of Yeovil, interredin John's Churchyard. Husband of Joanna. See also BENNETT Reference 4878 Parish North Cadbury (CofE)

  10. Compiled by David Beare. Beare family of Yeovil, information.

    James Beer 
    Christening:  06 SEP 1788   Barwick, Somerset, England
    Father:  Lawrence Beer
    Mother:  Elizabeth    
    Source Information: Film Number:  183603   Page Number:  574  Reference number:  11979
    Source Information: Film Number:  1239561 Page Number:  493     Reference number:  488
    Source Information: Film Number:  183603   Page Number:  574     Reference number:  11979
    Source Information: Film Number:  456651

  11. Osborn, BobBob Osborn. The A-to-Z of Yeovil's History.. (http://www.yeovilhistory.info/index.htm : 2014)
    accessed 17 Feb 2014).

    James Beare and Geo Theodore Butler Hill found guilty of manslaughter

    See attached document for newspaper reports of the case

  12. "1841 Census Returns of England and Wales." Database.. (Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network. Original data imaged from The National Archives of the UK; Public Record Office (PRO), Kew, Surrey, England. www.ancestry.co.uk : 2006)
    (www.ancestry.co.uk).

    James Beare, M, 50, Beer Seller Y
    Johanna Beare, F, 50, Y
    Charles Beare, M, 20, Glover I, Y
    Eliza Beare, F, 15, Glove Sewer, Y
    Emma Beare, F, 15, Glove Sewer, Y
    Amelia Beare, F, 10, Glove Sewer, Y
    Hubert Beare, M, 8, Y
    Address Hewish, Yeovil
    HO 107/958/9 Folio 29 p5 and Folio 30 p6

    • Not found as Beer retailer or Inn Keeper in
      Pigot's Directory of Somerset c1844
  13. Michael Beare, [(E-ADDRESS FOR PRIVATE USE),]. Beare Michael, information from.

    Will summary
    Stock in trade, book debts and all other personal estate to sons George Beare and Edmund Beare on trust, to sell and pay debts and funeral expenses.
    If money raised is insufficient to pay debts, Trustees to raise the sum by mortgaging his 2 houses in Hewish, Yeovil, currently occupied by Isaac Denman and Robert Adams.
    All household furniture and residue of the estate to his wife, and all net proceeds of real estate to his wife for life, to be paid every 3 months.
    Son George to take on management of letting premises, taking rents, paying interest on mortgage, and keeping premises in good repair and insured from loss by fire during wife's lifetime.
    If George dies during wife's lifetime, wife to manage it herself or appoint someone else
    On her death George Beare and Edmund Beare to sell by auction or private contract for best price.
    After expenses of sale paid to George Beare £10 as token of gratitude for kind services rendered to him, residue to be divided equally between children George, Mark, Edmund, Harriett, Mary, Charles, Eliza, Alfred, Emma, Amelia and Hubert.
    Trustees to reimburse themselves for costs, damages and expenses
    Appoint George Beare and Edmund Beare executors and Trustees
    Last Will and Testament of James Beare 22 Jun 1849
    Died 9 Jul 1849
    Proved 3 Aug 1854
    Estate worth less than £100


    Copy of the will of James Beare late of Yeovil, Somerset, Carpenter
    Executors - George Beare of Yeovil aforesaid Glover and Edmund Beare of the same place, yeoman
    Proved in the Consistorial Episcopal Court of Wells 3rd August 1854
    Edward Parfitt Dep Register
    Wells
    Somerset
    Diocese of Bath and Wells
    In the Goods of James Beare deceased
    In the Principal Court of Wells
    1st August 1854 
    APPEARED personally George Beare of Yeovil in the County of Somerset, glover and Edmund Beare of the same place Yeoman Sons of the deceased the
    Executors named in the last Will and Testament of the said James Beare late of Yeovil aforesaid Carpenter who died on the ninth of July 1849 and made Oath I said that the Personal Estate and Effects of the said Deceased, for or in respect of which a Probate of the said Will is to be granted by the said Court, exclusive of what the deceased may have possessed of or entitled to as a Trustee for any other Person or Persons, and not beneficially, and without deducting any thing on account of the Debts due and owing from the Deceased, are under the value of One hundred Pounds to the best of this Deponents knowledge, information and belief AND they lastly made Oath and said that the Deceased was not at the time of his death possessed of or entitled to any Leasehold Estate or Estates for years either absolute or determinable on a Life or Lives, to the best of their knowledge, information and belief.
    signed         George Beare
               Edmund Beare


    on the same day
    Before me
    P L Parfitt.   (definitely not E Parfitt!)   Surrogate

  14.   Various. General Research
    Re name of BEARE.

    Beare/Bere 
    Devon & Cornwall plus small groups at Yeovil & Mutford in Suffolk for Beare. Bere is Devon & Somerset only. In Tudor record Beare is abundant, Bere frequent. Abundant in 1332.
    Beer (Barnstaple)
    Devon & Cornwall, highest no. in Barnstaple. Bere and Beare frequent in Tudor records but variable spelling in earlier period makes unravelling difficult.

  15.   Margaret Wilkinson. Yeovil Library, information from.

    Somerset Electoral Register, Western Division 1832
    Raymonds Electoral Registers
    Yeovil Parish, Hundred of Stone 1832
    Number 5329
    Beer, James
    Abode Belmont-street in this parish, freehold house, Belmont Street

    • Possibly relates to this James Beare
  16.   Margaret Wilkinson. Yeovil Library, information from
    Tithe Record.

    1849 Tithe records
    James Beer, owner occupier
    Huish
    Tithe 594
    Property had an orchard

  17.   Leslie Brooke. Leslie Brooke Collection. (Yeovil Library: Unpublished manuscripts, loose bound, Deposited 2003.).

    Re Bee Hive Inn
    'Within this hive, we're all alive
    Good Liquor makes us funny
    If you are dry, step in and try
    The flower of our honey.'

    1863, Western Gazette Saturday 24 October
    We hear that the sides of a well at the Bee Hive Inn have partially given way, and that the recent earthquake is supposed to have been the cause of the displacement.

    (In 1863 on October 6 a loud report was first heard, which could easily have been imagined to be a terrific explosion at a distance, and many people believed that Taunton Prison had been blown up by Fenians until their own eyes convinced them otherwise, This was followed by a shaking of houses, bedroom furniture, windows etc. and many people, imagining that their houses were being ransacked by burglars, hastily slipped on garments and searched for the intruders. The shocks were also felt at Curry Rivel and in the Parrett Valley between Stoke-sub-Hamdon and Langport. In Bridgwater the ships lying in the river fairly rocked to and fro, and some portion of a large body of ice in the river near the bridge was broken up. This was a large earthquake with an epicentre in Herefordshire, felt over most of England and Wales.

    Source Geology and Landscape of Taunton Deane by Hugh Prudden
    tauntondeaneleisure.co.uk, accessed 12 Feb 2007, MJW)

  18.   Ted UDALL, [(E-ADDRESS FOR PRIVATE USE),]. Udall Ted, information from.

    I managed to look at the Yeovil Tithe Map this morning and, despite it being a pretty awful copy (and on microfiche too), I can confirm that plot 594 is the land on which the current Beehive Inn stands. Consequently, I have drawn some details on my original map and attached it to this email.
    I was interested to see that the bit of land fronting Huish appears to be a different plot (possibly 604) so I've labelled it accordingly - perhaps if one of us has the opportunity, we might check it out.

  19.   OCCUPATIONS.

    1813, Carpenter
    1815, Carpenter
    1817, Carpenter
    1822, Labourer
    1824, Labourer
    1826, Labourer
    1829, Labourer
    1833, Labourer
    1839, Labourer
    1841, Beerseller
    1849, Carpenter
    1851, Carpenter
    1860, Labourer
    1862, House Agent

  20.   Various. General Research.

    Bradford Abbas Overseers 1809-1833
    Dorset History Centre film MIC/R.1415, of original documents
    Transcribed by Caryl Parsons
    A Rate Made for the Relief of the Poor of the Parish of Bradford Abbas for Easter 1812
    George Henning and Francis Abbott Overseers
    Owner, occupier, value, rate
    Brooks Houses, James Beare, £2.0.0, 0.2

  21. found guilty of manslaughter
  22. James Beare, M, 50, Beer Seller Y
    Address Hewish, Yeovil
  23. Copy of the Will of James Beare late of Yeovil, Somerset, Carpenter
    This is the last Will and Testament of me James Beare of Yeovil in the County of Somerset Carpenter I bequeath all my household furniture to my Wife for her own absolute use and benefit I bequeath my stock in trade book debts and all other my personal Estate whatsoever and wheresoever unto my sons George Beare and Edmund Beare Upon Trust to sell call in and convert the same into money and out of the proceeds thereof to pay my just debts funeral and testamentary expenses and after paying and satisfying the same to pay the residue of such proceeds (if any) to my Wife to whom I bequeath the same for her own use But if the money produced by such personal Estate shall be insufficient for the purposes aforesaid It is my Will and I direct that my Trustees shall raise such sum as shall be requisite for paying and satisfying the same by Mortgage on my two Dwelling houses and premises situate in Hewish in Yeovil aforesaid now in the occupation of Isaac Denman and Robert Adams I devise all the net proceeds of all my real estate to my wife for her life for her own absolute use And it is my Will and I hereby request and desire that my said son George will take upon him the whole management of letting the premises and taking the rents and produce thereof And of paying the Interest of the Mortgage which shall be due and owing thereon at the time of my death and of any other Mortgage which may be made thereon by my trustees for the purposes aforesaid and the costs of keeping the premises in good repair and insured from loss by Fire and other outgoings to which the said premises are subject and liable unto during her life if he my said son should so long live And to pay the residue of such proceeds to my said Wife or her assigns once in every three Calendar months at the utmost But if my son George shall happen to die in my Wifes lifetime that from and after his decease my Wife shall take the management of my Estate and premises upon herself or appoint any person whom she may think proper to do the same And upon her death I devise all my said real Estate unto to my said two sons George Beare and Edmund Beare and the survivor of them his heirs executors and administrators Upon trust to sell the same as soon as conveniently may be either by public auction or private contract for the best price that can reasonably be obtained for the same with full power to buy in the same at any Auction or vary or rescind any Contract for the sale thereof or of any part thereof and to resell the same without being answerable for any loss which may happen thereby And to convey and assure the premises when sold to the purchaser or purchasers thereof and give receipts and acquittances for the same And that the receipt or receipts of my said Trustees or Trustee for the time being shall be a good and sufficient discharge or good and sufficent discharges to the purchaser or purchasers thereof for his her their purchase money and shall wholly exonerate the person or persons taking such receipts from all liabilities whatsoever respecting the application or non application thereof And after paying the expences attending such sale or sales Then upon trust to pay to my said son George his executors administrators or assigns the sum of Ten Pounds which I hereby bequeath to him as a token of gratitude for the many kind services he has rendered me and to divide the residue of the proceeds of my said Estate between my eleven Children namely George, Mark, Edmund, Harriett, Mary, Charles, Eliza, Alfred, Emma, Amelia and Hubert their executors administrators or assigns to whom I bequeath the same equally share and share alike And I direct that in case of the death of either of my Trustees or of his being desirous of relinquishing the trust the surviving Trustee his executors or administrators may appoint a new trustee who may Act in the same manner and with same powers and provisions as if named in this my Will And it shall be lawful for my said Trustees to reimburse to themselves and each other out of my said Estate all costs damages and expences which they may incur or be put unto in and about the execution of my Will and the Trusts thereof and that each of them shall be answerable for his own acts only And they shall not be answerable for any more money than they shall respectively actually receive by virtue of this my will And lastly I hereby constitute and appoint my said two sons George Beare and Edmund Beare executors and Trustees of this my Will and hereby revoking all former Wills be made I declare this to be my last Will and Testament In Witness whereof I have to this my last Will and Testament set my hand this twenty second of June One thousand eight hundred and forty nine ~ James Beare ~ Signed by the said James Beare
    the Testator in the presence of us both present at the same time and attested and subscribed by us in his presence ~ Thomas Phelps of Yeovil Somt Accountant ~ Ann Phelps, Yeovil
    This agrees with the Original
    signed Philip(?) Parfitt
  24. Buried in St John's, Yeovil, headstone in St Michael's, North Cadbury