Amos Pearse ⁶

   Cause of his death was Senile decay.

   Ancestral File Number: 9861-H6.

  General Notes:

Name:William Pearse
Age:50
Estimated Birth Year:abt 1791
Gender:Male
Where born:Somerset, England
Civil Parish:Withycombe
Hundred:Carhampton
County/Island:Somerset
Country:England
Street address:

Occupation: Tailor and Licensed Brewer

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Registration district:Williton
Sub-registration district:Dunster
Neighbors:View others on page
Piece:936
Book:15
Folio:5
Page Number:4
Household Members:
NameAge
William Pearse50
Mary Pearse50
William Pearse20- Tailor
Henry Pearse20- Tailor
John Pearse15- Mason
Michael Pearse14- Ag Lab
Amos Pearse12
Class: HO107; Piece: 936; Book: 15; Civil Parish: Withycombe; County: Somerset; Enumeration District: 1; Folio: 5; Page: 4; Line: 24; GSU roll: 474595

Name:Amos Pearce
Baptism Date:26 Apr 1829
Baptism Place:Withycombe, Somerset, England
Parish as it Appears:Withycombe
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Father:William Pearce (Tailor)
Mother:Mary Pearce
John Sydenhame, Curate
Somerset Heritage Service; Taunton, Somerset, England; Somerset Parish Records, 1538-1914; Reference Number: D\\P\\wyco/2/1/4

NSW Immigration Deposit Journals, 1853- 1900. 1859
John W. Pearse Date of Deposit- July 11.
Amose Pearse- 25, Tailor, Eliza Pearse - 23, wife and Julia Pearse, child (of John the depositor not of Amos and Eliza- 6. Living Rode Water, Taunton, Sometshire, England.
References- Revd Cook C of E Clergyman, Withycombe, Somerset.
Proportion to be applied to Passage- £4 (Amos) £4 (Eliza) £2 (Julia)
Proprtion to be applied towards Outfit- £4 (Amos) £4 (Eliza) £4 (Julia)
Ancestry.com. New South Wales, Australia, Immigration Deposit Journals, 1853-1900 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010.

Amos & Eliza sailed on the "Dirigo" out of Liverpool on 20 Dec 1859, arriving 13 Apr 1860.
Immigration arrival documetns show Amos as a tailor and he is travelling with his wife, son of 7 months old and niece- Julia who is seven years old.

Amos put his occupation as farmer at the time of his daughter Mary's birth.

Amos and Eliza Pearse, who had been resident in the district for some years, purchased a little over an acre of land adjacent to George Preddey's other Bexley property and on it they erected a General Store.
Mrs. Pearse's Bexley Store was to remain Bexley's only store for nearly 20 years.

Eliza Pearse was, by calling, a lady's maid. She had arrived in Australia with her husband in 1860. One of their two children had died on the terrible four months long voyage. Another nine children were to be born to them in Australia.

The original building was a tiny white-washed structure of wooden slabs built almost flat on the ground with a wooden shingle roof. Later it was provided with a brick front and the roof changed to corrugated iron.

The rear of the property was leased to a Scottish blacksmith Henry Hoggan, whose son became General Manager of the Australian Gas Light Company, and Amos Pearse, although a tailor by trade, became a competent market gardener keeping the small community supplied with poultry and vegetables.

THE BEXLEY POST OFFICE

With the break-up of the old Bexley Land Grant in the 1850s and the establishment of a settlement at Gannon's Forest, Bexley was regarded in official circles as being part of that area and it was not until November, 1882, after considerable local agitation, that an unofficial post office was established in Mrs. Eliza Pearse's Bexley Store with Mrs. Pearse as Postmistress.

The huge increase in population in the late 1880s resulted in requests to expand its services from that of selling stamps and providing a mail bag for the receipt of letters, but all to no avail.

In August, 1899, Mrs. Pearse's daughter, Jessie, who had married John P. Clune, a member of the well-known hotel family from Arncliffe, wrote to the Postmaster General's Department to inform them that her mother's health was falling and offering to take over her duties.

Mrs. Clune was appointed Postmistress the following month.

Occupation stated on death certificate- tailor

Occupation noted on Mary Pike Nee Freshwater nee Pearse death certificate- tailor (1952/649)

Name:Amos Pearse
Age:12
Estimated birth year:abt 1829
Gender:Male
Where born:Somerset, England
Civil Parish:Withycombe
Hundred:Carhampton
County/Island:Somerset
Country:England
Registration district:Williton
Sub-registration district:Dunster
Piece:936
Book:15
Folio:5
Page Number:5
Household Members:
NameAge
William Pearse50 (Tailor and Linen Browner?)
Mary Pearse50
William Pearse20 (Tailor)
Henry Pearse20 (Tailor)
John Pearse15 (Mason)
Michael Pearse14 (Ag Lab)
Amos Pearse12
Class: HO107; Piece: 936; Book: 15; Civil Parish: Withycombe; County: Somerset; Enumeration District: 1; Folio: 5; Page: 5; Line: 5; GSU roll: 474595


Name:Amos Pearse
Age:22
Estimated birth year:abt 1829
Relation:Brother
Gender:Male
Where born:Withycombe, Somerset, England
Civil Parish:Withycombe
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County/Island:Somerset
Country:England
Street address: (Just noted as Village)
Registration district:Williton
Sub-registration district:Minehead
ED, institution, or vessel:6
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Household schedule number:35
Piece:1920
Folio:203
Page Number:10
Household Members:
NameAge
William Pearse35 (Head, Tailor)
Elizabeth Pearse25 (Wife)
Ann Barnell Pearse1 (Daughter)
Mathew James Pearse22 (Son)
Amos Pearse22 (Brother, Journeyman Taylor [sic])
Ancestry.com. 1851 England Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005.


Informant of death certicate- George Pearse, son living Forest Rd. Bexley
Burial: 11 August 1895, Hurstville C of E Cemetary, NSW, Australia
Christening: 26 April 1829, Withycombe, Somerset
Emigration: 1859, Australia

More About ELIZABETH ANN RICHARDS:
Occupation: Postmistress

Details on the Rydelemere Insane Asylum https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/femaleorphanschool/home/rydalmere_psychiatric_hospital_1888_to_1989

Amos married Elizabeth Anne Richards, daughter of James Richards and Elizabeth Ward, on 25 Sep 1857 in Old Cleeve Somersetshire, England.²²³ (Elizabeth Anne Richards was born about 1836 in Devon England, died on 29 Jul 1920 in King Edward St, Rockdale, New South Wales, Australia ²²⁷ and was buried on 30 Jul 1920 in Grave 145, Anglican section 1, Woronora Gardens. NSW. ²²⁴.). The cause of her death was Hypostatic Pneumonia, cardiac failure.

  Marriage Notes:

Name:Amos Pearce
Gender:Male
Age:Full (Bachelor) Tailor
Residence at time of Marriage: Broadwater
Father: William Pearse (Tailor)
Marriage or Bann Date:25 Aug 1857
Marriage Place:Old Cleeve, Somerset, England
Parish as it Appears:Old Cleeve
Father:William Pearce
Spouse:Elisa Ann Richards
Age: 20 (Spinster)
Residence at time of marriage: Old Cleeve
Father: James Richards (Shoemaker)
Witnesses John Rogers and Elizabeth Barsham
Somerset Heritage Service; Taunton, Somerset, England; Somerset Parish Records, 1538-1914; Reference Number: D\\P\\cle.o/2/1/10