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Pearcey Sarah Sophia Stanton
1837 –1942
Pearcey Sarah Sophia Stanton
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Unmarked grave Pearcey Sarah Sophia Stanton (1837-1914)
Pearcey was born in 1837 in Melbourne, Cambs, to Josiah Stanton (buried in plot 118) and his wife Mary Ann.
By 1838 Josiah was the innkeeper at the Red Lion in Linton, a village a few miles from Swaffham. On the 1841 census he was living there with his wife and six children and whoever was checking the census enumerator’s work changed Pearcey’s sex from F to M in the record, clearly baffled by her unusual name.
By 1851 Josiah is listed in the census as a corn dealer, living in Berkhamsted High Street, with his wife Mary Ann. It is likely that mis-transcription has led to Pearcey’s apparent absence from the census records in 1851 and 61.
In 1871 Pearcey, a milliner and dressmaker, was living with her older sister Marianne, also unmarried and in the same business, in Baker Street, London. They employed a live-in domestic servant.
In 1911 Pearcey was living as a boarder at 58, George Street in Berkhamsted, described in the census as a retired milliner.
She died January 1914 at 32, Shrublands Avenue aged 76.
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Unmarked grave Pearcey Sarah Sophia Stanton (1837-1914)
Pearcey was born in 1837 in Melbourne, Cambs, to Josiah Stanton (buried in plot 118) and his wife Mary Ann.
By 1838 Josiah was the innkeeper at the Red Lion in Linton, a village a few miles from Swaffham. On the 1841 census he was living there with his wife and six children and whoever was checking the census enumerator’s work changed Pearcey’s sex from F to M in the record, clearly baffled by her unusual name.
By 1851 Josiah is listed in the census as a corn dealer, living in Berkhamsted High Street, with his wife Mary Ann. It is likely that mis-transcription has led to Pearcey’s apparent absence from the census records in 1851 and 61.
In 1871 Pearcey, a milliner and dressmaker, was living with her older sister Marianne, also unmarried and in the same business, in Baker Street, London. They employed a live-in domestic servant.
In 1911 Pearcey was living as a boarder at 58, George Street in Berkhamsted, described in the census as a retired milliner.
She died January 1914 at 32, Shrublands Avenue aged 76.
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