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PEARSE, Frank Hayward
1880 - 1970 (89 years) Has 3 ancestors and one descendant in this family tree.
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Name PEARSE, Frank Hayward Birth 17 Sep 1880 Walpole St. Peter, Norfolk 
Gender Male Death 1970 Wisbech Registration District, Cambridgeshire Person ID I366 Edgoose Last Modified 3 Feb 2026
Father PEARSE, Joseph, b. 27 Nov 1837 d. 3 Feb 1911, Mortimer, Stratfield Mortimer, Berkshire, England (Age 73 years) Mother IRONSIDE, Margaret d. 1931 Family ID F247 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family EDGOOSE, Edith, b. 30 Dec 1886, Emneth, Norfolk, England d. 6 Aug 1966, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire (Age 79 years) Marriage 2 Oct 1909 West Walton, Norfolk Children 1. PEARSE, Geoffrey Frank Edgoose, b. Sep 1913, Wisbech Registration District, Cambridgeshire d. 1981, King's Lynn Registration District, Norfolk (Age 67 years)Family ID F246 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 27 Jan 2026
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Notes
FRANK HAYWARD PEARSE 1880-1970
The 1911 census records that Frank Hayward PEARSE was born in
Madagascar. According to his death registration and the 1939 Register
he was born on 17 September 1880.
Frank Hayward PEARSE married Edith EDGOOSE on 2 October 1909 at West
Walton Parish Church. He was aged 29, a fruit grower from Walpole St.
Peter, Norfolk, and son of Joseph PEARSE, a missionary. Witnesses
were Joseph PEARSE and Catherine EDGOOSE.
(GRO December Q 1909 Wisbech 3b 1389)
(The Reverend Joseph PEARSE spent forty years in Madagascar)
An Index of Probate of the Will of Catherine EDGOOSE formerly CASH
(1855-1944), widow, made on 5 November 1944.
01*Catherine EDGOOSE, the Testatrix
02*Frank Hayward PEARSE, son-in-law,
03 F. D. SISTERN, Deputy District Registrar
04 John R. DAWBARN. solicitor, Wisbech.
(District Probate Registry, Norwich, 1944)
The death of Frank Hayward PEARSE aged 90 was registered in 1970.
(GRO September Q 1970 Wisbech 4a 837)
NOTES & QUERIES:
Rebecca PEILL wrote in March 2003 to say that her grandmother was
Nellie May PEARSE (sister of Frank Hayward PEARSE) who married Ernest
J. PEILL. She also wrote that "the PENFOLD wine people in Australia
were my maternal grandfather's cousins".
(rmpeill@sympatico.ca)
Question: Why were Frank Hayward PEARSE and his son Geoffrey PEARSE
not mentioned in the will of his wife Edith PEARSE formerly EDGOOSE
who died in 1966?
Answer: Clause 6 of the Will of Frank Hayward PEARSE made on 21 June
1949 reads as follows:
"Having made adequate provision for my wife Edith PEARSE during my
lifetime I make this Will in the belief that it is a just one."
Michael Hansard GABB, solicitor, named as an executor in the Will of
Frank Hayward PEARSE, was born in 1919 and died in 2011.
(GRO DOR Q4/2011 in Kent (564-1P) Entry Number 506007979)
(revised 09.01.2021)