|
#1
|
||||
|
||||
Is this the same family.
I have just had a contact from America via Ancestry and I wonder if we are talking about the same family. In my tree I have Ann Horne marrying John Pearman a cabinet maker in 1860. They lived in Weston Super Mare and had several children including Robert Horne Pearman born 1865 in Weston Super Mare. Robert married Florence and had a daughter Vera Maude. My contact says her grandmother was Vera Maude Pearman.
By googling I came across this story http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lc...ed-1/seq-8.pdf but I wonder if I can find out if it is the same family. It sounds a sad story. |
#2
|
||||
|
||||
I am a bit confused on why you would think it wasn't the same family?
Here's your man's marriage and the bride has the same name as in the article.... Marriages Jun 1887 Clements Florence Maud Frome 5c 828 MATTHEWS Harry Frome 5c 828 Pearman Robert Horne Frome 5c 828 Scammell Sarah Frome 5c 828
__________________
Merry "Something has been filled in that I didn't know was blank" Matthew Broderick WDYTYA? March 2010 |
#3
|
||||
|
||||
Looks like this is her marriage to the co-respondent:
Marriages Sep 1899 Birch Thomas Kingston 2a 886 Boxall Florence Kingston 2a 886 Pearman Florence Maud Kingston 2a 886 Yerbury Frederick Augustus Kingston 2a 886
__________________
Merry "Something has been filled in that I didn't know was blank" Matthew Broderick WDYTYA? March 2010 |
#4
|
||||
|
||||
thanks Merry. I have just never found any of this family in America, since posting I have found a birth for Ralph Louis in Melksham where Vera Maude was born (though he is with another family in 1891). It seems a shame to think of the little children in an orphanage. The Horne family were quite rich and could easily have helped out.
|
#5
|
||||
|
||||
I gather from the newspaper article that Robert came to Washington in 1895 "intending to become a citizen of the United States". It also states that in November 1891 he found out his wife was "constantly guilty of adultery" whilst still living with him.
Does that mean he moved to America with his children, leaving his wife in England with Frederick Yerbury? Why would he do that only to put them in an orphanage, or am I misunderstanding and the orphanage was in England?
__________________
"What you see depends on what you're looking for." Sue at Langley Vale |
#6
|
||||
|
||||
I've found a New York passenger record for a Vera M Pearman aged 5, travelling with Louis R Pearman aged 3 and an Annie L Pearman, a spinster aged 29, in August 1893 aboard the Gallia from Liverpool to New York.
Was Annie Robert's sister? Vera and Louis are listed on 1910 census in Washington D.C. as 'boarders'. Vera is listed as 'skilled laborer' working for US government and Louis is an engineer in a department store.
__________________
"What you see depends on what you're looking for." Sue at Langley Vale Last edited by Langley Vale Sue; 26-03-12 at 20:32. |
#7
|
||||
|
||||
There's a WW1 Draft Registration card for Louis Ralph Pearman, dated
5 June 1917, which states he is a naturalised US citizen and married. He is a stationary engineer working for US Government in the Treasury Building in Washington. He gives his dob as 18 December 1889 in Wiltshire, England. He also appears on the 1920 & 1930 censuses in Washington DC with his wife Veazie. There are no children listed on either census.
__________________
"What you see depends on what you're looking for." Sue at Langley Vale |
#8
|
|||
|
|||
The newspaper article states that the children are in an orphanage in the US because he could not properly care for them due to the nature of his work.
This would have been very common then - men were not expected to be able to care for children. OC |
#9
|
||||
|
||||
It just seems strange that he would have the children taken to America, knowing there was no-one to look after them, just to put them in an orphanage. I know that was the accepted thing to do then, but I would have thought he could have employed a nursemaid or someone.
This story has got me hooked, I wonder what happened to Robert?
__________________
"What you see depends on what you're looking for." Sue at Langley Vale |
#10
|
||||
|
||||
He may have come back:
Name: Robert H Pearman Birth Date: abt 1866 Date of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar 1943 Age at Death: 77 Registration district: Henley Inferred County: Oxfordshire Volume: 3a Page: 1878
__________________
Merry "Something has been filled in that I didn't know was blank" Matthew Broderick WDYTYA? March 2010 |
|
|