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Re: Help with London geography please?
« Reply #9 on: Saturday 15 November 14 11:55 GMT (UK) »
Hi

There is a Kate L Pearce (bC1870 Paddington) father John (a Silk Mercer) mother Elizabeth

1871 RG10 25 106 page71 13 Craven Hill Paddington
1881 RG11 19  77 page  3 13 Craven Hill Paddington

?May explain the note about "John" as father?

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« Reply #10 on: Saturday 15 November 14 12:00 GMT (UK) »
Thank you, Ray. Yes, it might indeed. In which case she consistently said she was older than her actual age  ???

Edit: Drat! the 1891 lists her as Kate Lucy, still at 13 Craven Hill, father John, silk mercer, mother Elizabeth, and there is a birth of Kate Lucy Pearce in Kensington in the third quarter of 1869. And Kate Lucy Pearce married in Paddington in 1891. So it doesn't look as if it's her.

So is her middle name wrong on her marriage index?
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« Reply #11 on: Saturday 15 November 14 12:12 GMT (UK) »

So is her middle name wrong on her marriage index?

Electoral register for 1920 (180 Fleet Street) has Robert Lyall Guthrie and Kate Louise Guthrie

It is Louise on later register as well
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« Reply #12 on: Saturday 15 November 14 12:31 GMT (UK) »
Thank you.

I have now found an obituary of her husband in The Scotsman, which also says her father was John Pearce.

So, to summarise, Kate Louise Pearce, daughter of John Pearce, was born either 1863/4 (death certificate) or 1869/70 (1911 census) in Highbury (1911 Census).

Or did the writer of the Scotsman obituary get her father's name wrong, and was the error copied by the writer of the 'Who Was Who' entry?

Because if he did, and her father was actually Thomas Pearce, it would all make much more sense.
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« Reply #13 on: Saturday 15 November 14 12:37 GMT (UK) »
There is also an obit for Robert Lyall in The Times but no mention of wife
The Times (London, England), Wednesday,  Apr 14, 1937; pg. 19; Issue 47658
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« Reply #14 on: Saturday 15 November 14 12:46 GMT (UK) »
There is also an obit for Robert Lyall in The Times but no mention of wife
The Times (London, England), Wednesday,  Apr 14, 1937; pg. 19; Issue 47658

Thank you, yes, I have that. It's not much help!
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« Reply #15 on: Saturday 15 November 14 12:51 GMT (UK) »
There is also an obit for Robert Lyall in The Times but no mention of wife
The Times (London, England), Wednesday,  Apr 14, 1937; pg. 19; Issue 47658

Thank you, yes, I have that. It's not much help!

He was certainly popular  ;D     
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« Reply #16 on: Saturday 15 November 14 12:58 GMT (UK) »
He was certainly popular  ;D     

Indeed he was.

(Sometimes I wonder why one so seldom reads obits of people who were not upright, worthy, pillar of the community, well-liked, honourable and so on ;) )
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« Reply #17 on: Saturday 15 November 14 15:15 GMT (UK) »
Re the silk mercer family - Kate Lucy Pearce was the daughter of John Swayne Pearce who in later years was to become chairman of Swan and Edgar Ltd.

As you say she is with her family in the 1891 census in Paddington and a few days later, on 9th April, she married Captain Philip Paston Mack of 12th Lancers. They are together in the 1911 census in Richmond so we can definitely rule her out as a possibility.
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