Thomas Ferbert Pearce (1880 - ): Our Family History

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Name	Thomas Ferbert Pearce
	Found his birth reference easily but because it is only on the Civil List and can't be found in Parish baptisms, am unable to find birth parents. It is a West Bromwich reference. A West Brom marriage reference was found for a Thomas Pearce and a Mary Fellows in 1915. The censuses are not particularly helpful as there aren't any West Bromwich references, although a few other places in Staffordshire. Think will have to bite the bullet tomorrow and try out the new certificate ordering link from GRO. without his parents names and origins it becomes a stab in the dark. His birth certificate has come through and he was born in West Bromwich Union Workhouse 18 Dec 1880 to Sarah Ann Pearce a domestic. His father's name is not given. At present can't find anything else about him. Sheila 20 Nov 2017 This is intriguing. How does someone born in the Union Workhouse come to acquire such a name? Everything we, sorry, you have found so far goes against this being just a spontaneous choice. I mean we only have a total of 79 Ferberds in 300 years. Where the hell did she get it from? She can't have plucked it out of thin air! There HAS to be a story behind this doesn't there doesn't there? Paul 20 Nov 2017 This is pure speculation but we have a single woman, former;y a servant, now living in the workhouse who gives her son name that is so rare that we are having trouble tracing it, when we have access to millions of online records. Did she have a dalliance with the master of the house where she was working, or with one of his sons? Did she name the child after the father? Paul 24 Nov 2017
Birth	18 Dec 1880	West Bromwich, Staffordshire, England
		Birth Certificate
Gender	Male
Person ID	I25	The Ferberds
Last Modified	24 Nov 2017