Mary (Pearcey) Pirie - Sources?

Started by Sharon Doubell on Thursday, June 20, 2019
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6/20/2019 at 8:12 AM

What are the sources for her maiden name being Pearcey? A number of users think that it should be Horne.

6/20/2019 at 8:14 AM

Marriage Licence.

Robert PIRIE appeared personally and made oath that he is of the parish of Lee in the County of Kent, a widower, and intendeth to marry with Mary Rachel HORN of the same parish, a spinster, of the age of twenty one years and upwards, and further made oath that the usual place of abode of him the appearer hath been in the said parish of Lee for the space of four weeks last past.

This licence is dated 20 August 1818 and refers to a marriage between Robert PIRIE, widower, and Mary Rachel HORN, spinster of twenty one years and upwards, both of the parish of Lee, Kent (Greater London) The IGI says this marriage took place in St.Margaret's, Lee on 27 August 1818.

http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/SOUTH-AFRICA-EASTERN-...

I'm merging her into Mary Rachel. Yell if you think this is a mistake, and I'll revert. :-)

6/20/2019 at 8:26 AM

And then I found this & could kick myself- unmerging. Sorry:

1820 Settlers.com Notes

Robert PIRIE was married four times and widowed thrice. He had 7 children. His first wife was Elizabeth Boulden whom he married in 1807 in England. They had no children.

His second wife, Elizabeth Booth, bore him a daughter, Margaret, in 1808.

In 1815 he married his third wife, Mary Pearcey, who bore him two sons who died young.

His fourth wife was Mary 'Rachel' Horn (known as Rachel in the family, not Mary). She was born in England in about 1795. Together they had Robert in 1819 in London, and three daughters who were all born in the Eastern Cape. All 3 daughters were baptised on the 25 March 1827.

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