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George Pearcey

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G. Pearcey
Service no. 202274
Private, London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers), 1st Battalion
Enlisted at Handel Street
Died on 19 January 1919 (theatre of war is given as “home”), aged 34
CWGC: “Son of Mrs Ada Pearcey, of 104 Stockwell Road, Stockwell, London.”
Remembered at Lambeth Cemetery, Blackshaw Road, London SW17

Information from the 1911 census

In 1911 George’s mother Ada, 54, a charwoman, lived in two rooms at 2 Tachbrook Street, Pimlico with two of her daughters: Roseline, 14, a dressmaker’s apprentice, and Dorothy Pearcey, 12. Both were born in Pimlico. Ada had six children, five of whom survived. George Pearcey does not appear to be on the census. In 1901 the family, including George’s father William Pearcey, lived at at 36 Aylesford Street, near Hanover Square. George, then 14, was working as an errand boy.

Percy William Pearce

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P. W. Pearce
Service no. 1432
Lance Corporal, The Queen’s (Royal West Surrey Regiment), 11th Battalion
Born in Clapham; enlisted in Lambeth; lived in Clapham
Died of wounds on 17 July 1916, aged 20
CWGC: “Son of George Thomas and Marian Pearce, of 45 Tradescant Road, South Lambeth Road, London.”
Remembered at Boulogne Eastern Cemetery, France

Information from the censuses

Percy William Pearce, 14 in 1911 and working in a wheelwright’s shop, lived with his family in 5 rooms at 28 Tradescant Road, South Lambeth. He was one of eight children (one had died by 1911) of George S. Pearce, 46, a railway police constable from Godalming, Surrey, and his wife Marian Pearce, 46, from South Lambeth. Six children were at home on the night of the census: Ethel E. Pearce, 19, a waitress; Alfred G. H. Pearce, 17, a junior clerk; Percy W. Pearce, 14, Charles J. Pearce, 12; Cecil E. H. Pearce, 9; Louis E. W. Peace, 6. All the children were born in South Lambeth. Augustus Chaddock, a 60-year-old retired man from Westminster, boarded with the family. The Pearces were evidently very attached to Tradescant Road – they were there in 1901, at Number 34.

Edwin Robert Gilbert Peacock

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E. R. G. Peacock
Service no. 3261
Serjeant, Machine Gun Corps, 17th Battalion, formerly 18320 Royal Fusiliers
Born at Southend, Essex; enlisted at Clapham
Died of wounds on 3 September 1918, at about age 27
CWGC: “Son of E. M. Peacock, 38 Gaskill Street, Clapham, London.”
Remembered at Varennes Military Cemetery, France

Information from the censuses

Edwin Robert Gilbert Peacock, 20, was a stone mason. He boarded with the Smith family at 24 Lingham Street. Charles Smith, 50, was a stone mason from Portland, Dorset. His wife, Alice Selina, 53, was from Lambeth. They had two children: George Arthur, 19, a clerk, and Alice Mary Smith, 15. Alfred Dance, a 40-yea-old single painter, also boarded.

In 1901 Edwin Peacock was a 10-year-old and living at 13 Anns Road, Anns Terrace, Prittlewell in Essex. His 49-year-old father, Charles C. Peacock was a corporation dust inspector from Bethnal Green, east London, his mother, Ellen M. Peacock, 49, was born in St Pancras. Four sons were registered:
Walter S. Peacock, 19, was a furniture porter, born in Bermondsey
John H. Peacock, 15, was a bread baker, born in St Lukes, London
Albert E. Peacock, 13, worked for a fruiterer and greengrocer, born in Camberwell
Edwin R. G. Peacock, 10
Lottie Patrick, 4, described as granddaughter, also lived there, as did a boarder, Alfred Barfield, 70, born in Ipswich, Suffolk and “living on his own means”

Frederick John Payne

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F. J. Payne
Service no. 11440
Private, Dorsetshire Regiment, 6th Battalion
Born in Lambeth; enlisted at Clifton Street, Surrey; lived in South Lambeth
Killed in action 4 July 1916, aged about 27
Remembered at Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France

Frederick John Payne was born on 13 November 1888, the son of Samuel Payne, a general labourer from Stogumber, Somerset and Sarah Ann (née Stephenson), born in Surat, Gujarat, India.  He was baptised on 5 April 1889 at St Barnabas, South Lambeth.

In 1911 Frederick John Payne, 22, was a general labourer living at 6 Horace Street (now disappeared, this street was near Wilcox Road), Stockwell, where his family had four rooms. His father, Samuel Payne, 54, was a general labourer from Stogumber, Somerset; his mother Sarah Ann Payne, 50, was born in Surat, India. Frederick had five siblings (one had died), three of whom lived at home: Arthur Samuel Payne, 20, a brewer’s labourer; Ellen Kate Payne, 16, a scullery maid; Richard James Payne, 13. All were born in South Lambeth.

In the summer of 1911 Frederick married Selina Ann Brittle, who lived with her family at 16 Wheatsheaf Lane, very close to Horace Street. The first of their three children, Frederick John Brittle Payne, was born out of wedlock, in 1909 and at the time of the 1911 census had been put out to nurse in Reading with the family of Jane Brooks. In the Second World War he served in the East Surrey Regiment and died in action, aged 35, on 30 November 1944 in Netherlands. 

Selina married James Turk Johnson, a fishmonger,  in 1923. 

Fred Cecil Payne

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F. C. Payne
Service no. 42266
Private, Manchester Regiment, 18th Battalion
Born in Westminster; enlisted in London; lived in Stockwell
Killed in action on 13 June 1917, aged about 39
Remembered at Perth Cemetery (China Wall), Belgium

Information from the 1911 census

Fred Cecil Payne, 33 in 1911, was a restaurant waiter. He lived with his widowed mother, Emily Payne, 66, from Iffley, Oxfordshire, and sister, Winifred Payne, 27, a dressmaker, in two rooms in 2 Thorne Road, South Lambeth. Fred and Winifred were born in Lambeth.

John Walter Patrick

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J. W. Patrick
Service no. 18989
Private, Royal Fusiliers, 12th Battalion
Born in Clapham; enlisted in Battersea; lived in Clapham
Killed in action on 4 September 1916, aged 23
CWGC: “Son of William and Mary Jane Patrick, of 11, Union Street, Clapham, London.”
Remembered at Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France

Information from the 1911 census

John Walter Patrick, 17, a carman, lived with his parents and siblings at 11 Union Street, Clapham, where they had four rooms. His father, William Patrick, 56, was a general labourer from Farnham, Surrey; his mother, Mary Jane Patrick, 54, was from Newington Butts. near Elephant and Castle. They had had eight children, seven surviving. Six of these, all born in Clapham, were at home: Louisa Patrick, 21, a packer; Florence Jane Patrick, 20, a packer; John Patrick, 17, a carman; Rose Patrick, 15, a machinist’s helper; Lily Patrick, 13; Cyril Patrick, 9.