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Not to worry Wendy, - I have only just seen your post.

Now things have changed it is easy to miss a new post at the moment.

Hope you are a little better today.

I will see if I can find anything more for you.

Dea x

Hi Dea
Marriage 25/06/1892 John Pearson aged 24 bachelor,Private 1st Battalion( Coldstream?) Guards,Chelsea Barracks,father James Pearson,Engine Fitter and Turner.
Annie Elizabeth Munday aged 23 years spinster,101 Ebury Street,Pimlico father Anthony Walter Munday,Gardener.
The Register Office St George,Hanover Square.Witnesses,William Munday and Susan Adelaide Hambling.
Sorry for any delays in reply,I have a virus and I am hpping in and out of the bedroom to the computor.
Regards
Wendy

The 1st Battalion of the Coldstream Guards were involved in the Boer War. It was based in Gibraltar in 1899 and arrived in South Africa in November that year where most of it remained until October 1902.

Hi Wendy,

Can you post ALL the details from that marriage cert please - names, addresses, ages, fathers, occupations etc., + witnesses (These can often be family members and can sometimes help a lot).

Thanks

Dea x

PS - If you can't delete the other thread - just add a post to say

THREAD CLOSED and direct people to this one which is:

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards.page/board/trying_to_find/john%20pearson(1861)/thread/1248932?page=1

The site is not very 'user friendly' at the moment - just delete them when you can if there is nothing new on there.

Dea x

Hi every one
Sorry for the delay in replying.The company on the marriage certificate is 1st Battalion Coldstream Guards.
It's confusing that John Pearson 1868 York is now John Parsons 1868.Woolwich.I know that names are misspelled but York is a long way from Woolwich.
I have tried to delete the extra threads but Genes say they are working on the site.
Regards
Wendy

As John Pearson was in the military when he married in 1892 it is possible that his apparent absence from the 1901 UK census may indicate that he was away, involved in the Boer war at the time. His wife and children should however still be in the UK.

Can you take another look at the marriage certificate to see whether it is possible to identify which guards regiment he was in.

Hi Wendy,

Sorry, the boards have been in a bit of a mess the past couple of days and I have only just noticed that you have been back with the cert info.

I will get out my notes and have a look for you later today.

Dea x

Wendy,

Please do not be put off by those who have criticised you for starting a new thread. Technically they are correct in so far as having a duplicate thread is a bad thing as it can lead to wasteful duplication of effort by those who are prepared to try to help you. However sometimes a little empathy is needed by those who note the duplication, a quality that not everybody possesses.

May I suggest that to prevent duplication of effort and to appease those who have noted the duplication that you delete your "New" thread and leave this thread in place so that those who are willing to try to help you will endeavour to help you find the answer to your queries.

Good luck

P.S. Thank you for returning to this thread and advising those who had tried to help you in the past that their suggestions and recommendations had proved to be correct.

And don't start duplicate threads ...

To show you have added info, just go to your original message............click on EDIT......and add UPDATED to your title.

From a NEW thread posted by Wendy.....which is out of context.

Wendy Request Review Five Hours Ago
Hi every one
As suggested by you the parents of Charles Alfred Pearson(1896) were John Pearson(1868)York and Alice Elizabeth Pearson née Munday(1871) Burnham,Bucks.This cert says John Pearson was an engineer.
The marriage cert(1892) for these two says John was a private in the 1st Battalion ? Guards,his father was James Pearson an Engine Fitter and Tuner.At the time of the marriage John was living in Chelsea Barracks.Even with the info from the certificates I can find no trace of him on any census until 1911.
Please can any help me.
Regards
Wendy

mgnv Request Review 20 Minutes Ago
This would be better posted on your original thread:

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards.page/board/trying_to_find/thread/1248932


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from Wendy

Hi every one
I have posted cert details as promised.I tried adding to my old Pearson Thread but didn't know how to show it had new info?
This John Pearson (1868)with father James is just as hard to find.
Wendy

Hello Jonesey,Dea and Kucinta
I now have Charles Alfred Pearson's(1896) birth cert,you were correct his parents were John Pearson and Annie Elizabeth Pearson née Munday.Cert says that John was an engineer.The wedding cert(received today) says her father was Anthony Walter Munday but that John's father was James Pearson,Engine Fitter and Turner.It also says that John aged 24 was a private in the 1st Battalion ? Guards and at the time of his marriage was living in Chelsea Barracks.
Even with the info on the marriage certificate I haven't managed to trace him on the '71,'81 and '91 census.Please give it one more try.
Regards
Wendy

Thanks and thanks again.I've just returned to see if by any chance I had any more messages.I will have a look at the 1911 census again,more carefully this time and at the Charles and Hannah.Having ordered the marriage cert of John and Annie I decided in for a penny in for a pound and have ordered the birth certificate of Charles Alfred Pearson also.I will be sure and let you know the results.
Wendy

Just one possibility so far ... and not a good one:

Name: Willie Pearson
Age: 6
Estimated birth year: abt 1895
Relation: Boarder
Where born: Guildford, Surrey, England

Civil Parish: Stoke Within
Town: Guildford
County/Island: Surrey

birth to match:

Births Jun 1895
Pearson William Henry J Guildford 2a 79

so we'll leave him here with an X through him.

Me too Janey - it IS a 'tricky one' !!

Thank you for looking,

Dea Xxx

I've done the same as Jonesey -- even searching 1901 by year and place of birth without names, for the children -- to no avail. Considered temporary emigration -- it's why my gr-grparents are missing from the 1891, but back in West Ham by 1901, but fortunately we knew about that. But found no passenger records at FMP that matched at all.

Thank you Janey !!

I am waiting for the marriage cert also but thought your 'brain cells' might just find something !!

Many thanks for looking.

Will see you later when the cert comes in !!

Dea Xxx

Dea has bellowed for me to come rub brain cells here. ;)

I think I'd prefer to wait for the marriage certificate ...

I'd advise getting one of the children's birth certificates at the same time, to be certain of who mother Annie was.

Are you there Jonesey ??

Dea x