Hi All,
I have just registered so it might be that I need to post this elsewhere but I thought i would start here as it is all possibly related to the same people.
I have been researching my Bibby/Pearse line for the last couple of months but I am getting DNA Matches to Anderson and I wanted to explore my theory on the Pearse connection.
I have 10 children of John Pearse and Sarah Matthews who married in Chemsford in 1838, as with all these families they have been difficult to follow through the years but I have lost their two sons Edward born 1862 Moulsham and Walter b 1865 Moulsham but Baptised as David.
I have DNA matches to desendants of both of these sons if they used the Anderson name instead of Pearse.
i have read a lot of these threads but i know it's a difficult frustrating trail to follow so i am posting to see what others think.
Walter: I am waiting to hear back from my DNA Match I think he appears as Walter Anderson age 27 Travelling Hawker born Chelmsford on the 1891 Census St Lawrence Maldon
Edward: I have him in 1881 as Pearce age 19 Hawker born Chelmsford in Writtle, Edney Common
I suspect he changed his name after this and uses Anderson later on but there are two of them on the 1911 Census and I suspect he could be listed twice, both times as a soldier, once with his father and once with his Aunt now Elizabeth Bixby.
i hope my post makes some sense and that i have given enough information.
Kind regards
Amanda