James Pearce
b. 1832/3
Servant. Born in Ripon, Yorkshire. Employed by the Darwins at Down, 1850–7. Footman, 1851. Married Elizabeth Harding, also a servant to the Darwins, at Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire, in 1857; they appear to have separated by 1861.
Sources
CD’s Classed account books (Down House MS)
Census returns of England and Wales 1851 (The National Archives: Public Record Office HO107/1606/247/5), 1861 (RG9/72/111/16)
Certificate of marriage, 16 March 1857, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire (General Register Office, England)
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