Person:William Pearse (5)

William Pearce was baptised on 4th January 1807 at Harpenden in Hertfordshire. He was the son of Thomas and Mary Pearce, and his baptism notes that the family was from the neighbouring parish of Wheathampstead.

William was prosecuted at the Hertfordshire Quarter Sessions of Michaelmas 1832, when he was named as the father of an illegitimate daughter named Eliza, daughter of Hannah Swallow of Wheathampstead. At this time he was described as a shoemaker of the parish of St Peter in the nearby town of St Albans.

William appears in the 1841 census living with his parents and sisters at Wheathampstead Hill, still working as a shoemaker. He has yet to be traced after 1841.

1. ↑ Church of England. Harpenden Parish Registers.

   Baptisms in the year 1807 / Pierce / William Son of Thomas Pierce & Mary his Wife, infant, was baptized January 4th 1807 from the Parish of Wheathamstead.

2. ↑ England. 1841 Census Schedules for England and Wales, Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. (
   Kew, Richmond, Greater London TW9 4DU, United Kingdom:
   The National Archives (abbreviated TNA), formerly the UK General Register Office.)
   Class HO107; Piece 442; Book 8; Folio 45; Page 18, 6 Jun 1841.

   Address: Wheathampstead Hill, Wheathampstead, Hertfordshire
   Thomas Pearce, male, 60 [1776-81], Ag[ricultural] Lab[ourer], born in county
   Mary Pearce, female, 50 [1786-91], Pl[aiter], born in county
   William Pearce, male, 30 [1806-11], Shoe m[aker] J[ourneyma]n, born in county
   Sarah Pearce, female, 23 [1817/18], Pl[aiter], born in county
   Anne Pearce, female, 22 [1818/19], Pl[aiter], born in county