Pearce family in Bridgwater area

[ali63]

Has anyone found the Pearce family in the Bridgwater area.  My tree starts with a sea Captain called William Pearce marrying an Elizabeth (born C1822/3 Bridgwater).  They had 9 children, Emma (born 1847), Lucy (born 1850), Harry/Henry (born 1854),
Kate (born C1856), George (born 1858), Thomas (born 1860), Walter (born 1862), Lizzie and William.  All the ones with years of birth were born in Bridgwater but don’t know yet about the others.  Thomas emigrated to Australia, which is where he died.  Kate married and had 1 son.  Lizzie married twice, Webber and Gill.  She went to Canada but returned and died in Bridgwater. She had 1 son by each marriage.  William married Mary Ann Hole and had a daughter Ada Mary.  Ada was deaf.
Lizzie and Kate may in fact be one and the same person.
Emma married William Henry Wilkins (born C1844 Cannington) in 1895 in Bristol.  They had 6 children, Celia Kate (born C1870/1 Combwich), Clara (born 1871 Combwich/Cannington), William G (born 1872 Combwich), Elizabeth Emma (born C1876 Cannington/Combwich), Jesse Pearce (born 1879 Otterhampton), George William (born 1874 Otterhampton).  William G and George William may be the same person.
Celia Kate is also thought to have married and had a son.  Clara married Charles Williams but they didn’t have any children. Jesse married Lavina White, they had 2 sons, one was called William and he emigrated to the USA.  Jesse worked for Duke of Somerset and Duke of Devonshire.  George married Rose and they had 5 children, Jeffrey, Marion, Stanley, Nellie and one other son. Elizabeth Emma Wilkins was my Great Grandmother, she married Alfred Henry Moore and they had 2 sons and 7 daughters in the Bridgwater area.  Would be great to hear from anyone with information or related to any of the above.
 

[Manchester Rambler]

Here's your Pearce family on the 1861 census: Elizabeth (Lizzie) and Kate are definitely not the same person, and there's another child named Clara.

RG9/1624/58/4 - West Street, Bridgwater
Wlliam Pearce  Head  40  Captain of a Vessel 
Elizabeth Pearce  Wife  38
Elizabeth Pearce  Dau  17
Emma Pearce  Dau  15
William Pearce  Son  13  Scholar
Lucy Pearce  Dau  11  Scholar
Clara Pearce  Dau  9  Scholar
Henry Pearce  Son  7  Scholar
Kate Pearce  Dau  5  Scholar
George Pearce  Son  3  Scholar
Thomas Pearce  Son  1  Scholar

All born Bridgwater.

From the 1891 census, it seems that Elizabeth married Mr Gill, and Kate Mr Webber:

RG12/1884/72/15 - 15 Polder St, Bridgwater
William Pearce  Head  70  Retired Master Mariner
Elizabeth Pearce  Wife  68
Elizabeth Gill  Dau  Mar  47
Kate Webber  Dau  Wid  35
Roman W Webber   Gd Son  11  b. London
Albert W Webber  Gd Son  2  b. America Missouri Lake G Louis

I found these marriages on Free BMD http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/cgi/search.pl:

Marriages Mar 1878  -  Bridgwater 5c 539   
PEARCE    Kate        
WEBBER  Charles George   

Marriages Sep 1886  -  Bridgwater 5c 545
CLARK    Walter       
GILL    Albert        
MILTON    Eleanor Alice    
PEARCE    Elizabeth        

 

Rambler

[ali63]

Thanks Rambler, I should make some good progress now

[sdbadger]

I have Joan PEARCE m. Giles GILBERT  10 Aug 1571 Bridgwater. I've seen an ancestry.com tree that has her parents at John PEARCE (1524 - 1608) and Joan COOK (1520-1597), if that's any help to you, after all these years!

Cheers!

[DRH123]

The GRO online index gives you the mother's maiden name, which appears to be Roman.

FreeREG gives:

Betsy Roman was baptised at Bridgwater 30 Jun 1822, parents Mary and George, a labourer.

Betsy Roman married William Pearce 25 Jun 1843 at Bridgwater. His father was also William Pearce, a cordwainer. Her father isn't recorded.

David