SIXTH GENERATION

32. Col. Edward PEARCE ⁽²⁶⁾ (photo) was born on 22 Feb 1833 in Glasglow, Scotland.⁽²⁷⁾ He was christened on 28 Mar 1833 in Barony, Lanark, Scotland. He immigrated on 15 Jan 1861 to Wellington, NZ.⁽¹²¹⁾ He died on 13 Oct 1922.⁽²⁷⁾ He was buried in Cheltenham, Co. Gloucester.⁽²⁷⁾ Arr Wellington 1861
Pearce & Co. 1862
MP for Wgtn City 1870
Consul for Norway & Sweden
Chm of Wgtn Harbour Board, the Patent Slip, Gas Co.
Dir Nat Bank 1885 & other companies
Colonel NZ Artillery He was married to Henrietta 'Diana' COX on 20 Jul 1858 in Belize.⁽²⁷⁾⁽¹²²⁾

33. Henrietta 'Diana' COX⁽²⁷⁾⁽²⁶⁾ (photo) was born about 1840.⁽¹²³⁾ She died on 17 Jun 1892.⁽²⁷⁾ Children were:

i. Nathaniel (Neil) PEARCE⁽²⁷⁾⁽²⁸⁾ was born on 9 Mar 1860 in Bowden, Cheshire.⁽²⁷⁾ He died on 11 Sep 1877 in SS Avalanche lost at sea.⁽²⁷⁾ He was a Royal navy.⁽²⁶⁾
ii. Florence PEARCE⁽²⁷⁾⁽²⁶⁾ was born on 20 Jul 1861.⁽²⁷⁾ She died on 27 Aug 1948.⁽²⁷⁾
iii. Arthur Edward PEARCE⁽²⁷⁾⁽²⁶⁾ (photo) was born on 17 Dec 1862 in Wellington, NZ.⁽²⁷⁾ He died on 19 Jun 1921.⁽²⁷⁾ Mng. Dir. Levin & Co.;
Dir.Shaw Savill;
Chm. National Mutual;
Consul Norway & Sweden;
In later life, lived at 'Taharoa' near Featherston; later farmed by grandson, Bob Stout.
iv. Helen PEARCE⁽²⁷⁾⁽²⁶⁾ was born on 5 Feb 1864.⁽²⁷⁾ She died on 13 Jan 1944.⁽²⁷⁾ In later years lived in large Wgtn house removed for Katherine Mansfield Memorial Garden.
16 v. George Francis PEARCE.
vi. John PEARCE⁽²⁷⁾⁽²⁶⁾ was born on 15 Jun 1866.⁽²⁷⁾ He died on 10 Jul 1922.⁽²⁷⁾ Master mariner.
Died unmarried.
vii. Frederick PEARCE⁽²⁷⁾⁽²⁶⁾ was born on 29 Aug 1867.⁽²⁷⁾ He died on 12 Feb 1920.⁽²⁷⁾ Farmed in the Wairarapa.
viii. Charles PEARCE⁽²⁷⁾⁽²⁶⁾ (photo) was born on 22 Nov 1869.⁽²⁷⁾ He died on 15 Sep 1945.⁽²⁷⁾ Worked in Levin & Co.
ix. William Septimus PEARCE⁽²⁷⁾⁽²⁸⁾⁽²⁶⁾ was born on 16 Jul 1872.⁽²⁷⁾ He died on 28 May 1944.⁽²⁷⁾ Worked in Levin & Co.
x. Alexander Pearce 'Campbell' PEARCE⁽²⁷⁾ ⁽²⁸⁾ was born on 25 Mar 1875.⁽²⁷⁾ He died in 1962.⁽²⁸⁾ Farmed at 'Otahuna', Wairarapa. Speculation for Pearce name appearing twice is that Col Edward added it on his birth certificate in error as a middle name.

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