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Title: Sidney Pearce c1904 Walthamstow
Post by: KarenD01 on Tuesday 28 April 20 07:42 BST (UK)
Hello, looking for the parents of Sidney Pearce 1904. Believe his mother is Sylvia Pearce and grandfather Charles Pearce.  Any help appreciated. Thank you
Title: Re: Sidney Pearce c1904 Walthamstow
Post by: rosie99 on Tuesday 28 April 20 07:56 BST (UK)
Welcome to rootschat

Is this his birth
Births Sep qtr 1904 
PEARCE    Sydney Arthur   
Mothers maiden surname Dennett    
W. Ham    4a   480
Title: Re: Sidney Pearce c1904 Walthamstow
Post by: mckha489 on Tuesday 28 April 20 08:03 BST (UK)
And is this the family in 1911

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X7VP-72K

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Title: Re: Sidney Pearce c1904 Walthamstow
Post by: KarenD01 on Tuesday 28 April 20 08:09 BST (UK)
Hello
Yes I believe these are correct. It’s confusing me as to who Sidneys father is. His mother is Sylvia and her parents are Pearce & Dennett. I wonder if Sylvia did not marry the father of Sidney? Or was Sylvia not his mother but his sister?
Title: Re: Sidney Pearce c1904 Walthamstow
Post by: KGarrad on Tuesday 28 April 20 08:11 BST (UK)
What does it say on his Birth Certificate?
Title: Re: Sidney Pearce c1904 Walthamstow
Post by: rosie99 on Tuesday 28 April 20 08:13 BST (UK)
It does look confusing

1901
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X9N8-B3H

Charles Pearce   Head      45   Bridgwater, Somerset
Sylvia Pearce   Daughter   22   Old Kent Road, London
Harry Pearce   Son      14   Old Kent Road, London
Horace John Pearce   Son   12   Belvedere, Kent
Madeline Pearce   Daughter   10   Plumstead, London
Christopher Pearce   Son   8   Walthamstow
Title: Re: Sidney Pearce c1904 Walthamstow
Post by: mckha489 on Tuesday 28 April 20 08:27 BST (UK)
oddly
Madeleine, the step daughter in 1911
is also apparently
Madeline Dagmar PEARCE MMN DENNETT    Woolwich 01D page 1303

and Horace John
Dartford D qtr 1888 vol 02A p 458 MMN DENNETT
Title: Re: Sidney Pearce c1904 Walthamstow
Post by: rosie99 on Tuesday 28 April 20 08:32 BST (UK)
Charles Pearce was married to Eleanor Dennett in 1880

It is possible that whoever registered Sidneys birth just lied about her maiden name.  In the absence of a baptism you really need the birth certificate.

ADDED
Was Sylvia born before her parents marriage - she would have been a Dennett then
Title: Re: Sidney Pearce c1904 Walthamstow
Post by: mckha489 on Tuesday 28 April 20 08:38 BST (UK)
Sylvia Margaret DENNETT  1877 S Qtr. Camberwell 01D/800
Title: Re: Sidney Pearce c1904 Walthamstow
Post by: rosie99 on Tuesday 28 April 20 08:40 BST (UK)
That was what I was looking at too when I added to my other post - no mothers maiden surname on index so probably illegitimate
Title: Re: Sidney Pearce c1904 Walthamstow
Post by: mckha489 on Tuesday 28 April 20 08:42 BST (UK)
WW1 record for Albert Christopher SMALL
married Sylvia Margaret Pearce a widow 6 April 1912

Children
Sidney Arthur b 4. 7. 04  Walthamstow
Albert Alfred b 11.11.12 Wycombe
Madeleine Prudence Sylvia b 24. 9. 15 Wycombe

Title: Re: Sidney Pearce c1904 Walthamstow
Post by: mckha489 on Tuesday 28 April 20 09:01 BST (UK)
The relative in 1911 Prudnce McCaul would seem to be

McCOLE Prudence Dean,  1902 J qtr West ham 04A/447  MMN DENNETT

Marriages Jun 1885   (>99%)
DENNETT    Louisa Dean        St Saviour    1d   332a      
DENNETT    Louisa Deen        St Saviour    1d   332a   
McCole    Horace Frederick J        St. Saviour    1d   332a


modified to add
Charles Pearce is a witness at their marriage
Another daughter Jessie Amelia b 1894 is registered as McCOLE but baptised as DENNETT
Title: Re: Sidney Pearce c1904 Walthamstow
Post by: KarenD01 on Tuesday 28 April 20 11:20 BST (UK)
Thank you for your input and help. I’m looking into this for a friend to keep myself occupied during these strange times. Always helpful to have someone else’s view.
Many thanks Karen