William George PEARSE How do I prove it's the correct marriage and baptism?

[amondg]

The Susan Pearse who died 1844 Marylebone was age 72 so not the correct Susan.

Ref: GRO Index.

[amondg]

Wife 4 Jane Starr nee Withers, left her husband about a year after her son Joseph was born.

She married Zachariah Starr 23 December 1843 St John Frome Somerset.
her father Thomas a smith, his father Joseph a weaver.

Zachariah was no angel 1852 he is the Wilton Goal at Taunton, 1853 age 26 sallow complexion he gets 6 months for perjury. There may be more.

He then remarries as a bachelor as James Zachariah Starr to Louisa Stone 14 June 1855 Taunton.
Still giving his occupation as a cordwainer and father as Joseph a weaver.
Zachariah dies in 1864.

Generally the wait was 7 years to declare someone dead or remarry after desertion.

[amondg]

There is a Mary Ann Pearse age 26 convicted of larceny sentenced to 1 month in prison. Middlesex 10 August 1840

The age is correct.

[nicdigby]

This has already been asked and answered in a duplicate thread. https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=840804.msg7069861
Unfortunately people who are kindly helping are unknowingly wasting their time. 

Thank you Neale and apologies again that the questions about Susannah have been duplicated; I accidentally posted them first on the Australian board. I am grateful for your help.

[nicdigby]

The Susan Pearse who died 1844 Marylebone was age 72 so not the correct Susan.

Ref: GRO Index.

Damn! Thank you.
Given his first two wives also died young, I'm starting to think he did away with Susannah and moved onto Jane! Can anyone find her death please?!

Edit: I have found Susannah PearCe death record, Q1 1845, St Pancras. Can anyone tell me more about this one please as I've only found those details....can anyone find the age of this lady?
Source: Ancestry, England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1837-1915

[nicdigby]

Wife 4 Jane Starr nee Withers, left her husband about a year after her son Joseph was born.

She married Zachariah Starr 23 December 1843 St John Frome Somerset.
her father Thomas a smith, his father Joseph a weaver.

Zachariah was no angel 1852 he is the Wilton Goal at Taunton, 1853 age 26 sallow complexion he gets 6 months for perjury. There may be more.

He then remarries as a bachelor as James Zachariah Starr to Louisa Stone 14 June 1855 Taunton.
Still giving his occupation as a cordwainer and father as Joseph a weaver.
Zachariah dies in 1864.

Generally the wait was 7 years to declare someone dead or remarry after desertion.

Thanks very much for this. So we know she and Zacariah weren't together by 1846 because a pp found the birth of a son Thomas in 1846 to Jane and Edmund Pearse. (That son died and their next one in 1849 was also called Thomas).

Could Zacariah have left Jane in eg 1844/45? And could the seven years desertion rule be the reason that Jane and Edmund didn't get married until a decade after their first child was born?

Or perhaps they couldn't marry because he had deserted Susannah? Maybe she didn't die and she lived somewhere else and died later?

[nicdigby]

There is a Mary Ann Pearse age 26 convicted of larceny sentenced to 1 month in prison. Middlesex 10 August 1840

The age is correct.

Thank you for this, I think late last night I stumbled across a record that she was sentenced to 7 years transportation for larceny and so I think that's how she and Edmund got together. Or maybe I dreamt that, I need to check it!

[amondg]

She was 20 in 1834 Australian records so age 26 in 1840 Middlesex would fit.

[nicdigby]

What a pair!
"How did you meet?"
"Well we were both caught thieving and sent to Australia for seven years where we met and fell in love..."

Edit: think I may have the wrong wife!

I am still trying to find Susannah's death/burial.