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Martha Hannah Hales (1878-1957)
John Gough Roberts (1878-1957)
Hannah Barnes (1883-1972)
William Charles Tappin (1882-1971)
Keturah Sandell (1851-1930)
Thomas Bearman (1846-1921)
Sarah Fidler (1862-1952)
Alfred Robert Webb (1861-1948)

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The will of
Miriam Adelaide Jack 1937
Probate for
Florence Alice Jonas in 1939
Hilda BEARMAN,
later Middlemiss, 1880-1970, aged 15
Beachcrest,
Deal, purchased by Thomas Bearman in 1897 and used as a family hholiday home since.
Edith BEARMAN,
later Carrington
David Peters
The will of
Charles Bearman 1779, Godfather to Thomas Bearman, page 5
Marriage
announcement in The Essex Standard, June 18 1856 - Edward Boghurst Dawson H.E.I.C.S. to Annie Victoria fourth daughter of Mr Robert Lugar
1920-01-11 page
3 letter by Donald Bearman
North Emily
Street on Google’s Street View. Clara Long lived here in the 1930s and 1940s
24 fine
ducklings, Richard Balls claim to fame. Ipswich Journal, Saturday 20th July 1793.
Probate for
Stanley John Vertue in 1979
All Cannings
parish registers transcribed in 1905 showing 1639 burial of Edith Tucker
The gravestone
of Simon Vertue, who died 1768
The will of
Thomas Frederick Balls proved in 1810, page 3 in which he names his siblings Sarah the wife of Thomas Bearman coachmaker of Springfield, Judith the wife of William Dawson farmer of Freiting and brother Richard as beneficiaries should his only son die.
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p26: Grandpa
Alfred Webb and group; Ethel Bearman, Ros and ?; Ethel Bearman née Webb, Peggy (Mary Ethel Huxley) & ?; Auntie Myra (Huxley née Webb), Peggy & ?
Mr MITCHELL
Charles Kendall
Dawson
Passenger list
showing E G Noyes (Ernest George) a labourer and J Noyes (George’s father James Davis Noyes) plasterer on board the Orontes returning from Australia. Stamped 10 Sept 1915 Tilbury.
Back view of 8
Tudor Road, Hackney, the home of Thomas and Keturah Bearman
William Malcolm
and Ida SANDELL’s wedding 25th July 1908
Ethel C
Webb’s scholarship, that led to her meeting Donald Bearman in France, as reported by the Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, 8th May 1919
1919-12-20 page
2 letter by Donald Bearman
1919-07-20 p5
Donald Bearman letter to his father
Edith Emma
SANDELL, with Kathleen MALCOLM 1920
Ramsgate Sands
(where Thomas Bearman and Catherine Boyd married in 1845) painted by William Frith around 1852, bought by Queen Victoria in 1854.
Charles Tappin
was an inmate and William Tappin was a pauper perhaps there to help his brother in 1891. Islington workhouse pictured in 1863.
Catherine Boyd
christening record 1814, from London birth and baptisms, ancestry.com
George and
Marian Wigley and family on the passenger list rescued from the Netherby arriving in Melbourne on 6th August 1866

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The 60 most recently modified parents/partners:

Thomas William Roberts (b.1842) 04/11/2026 Clara Georgina Ellen Forsyth (b.1842) 20/10/2026 John A Russell (b.1901) 27/11/2025
John Gough Roberts (b.1878) 04/11/2026 Eliza Mary Bone (b.1814) 19/10/2026 Rose Edith Haines (b.1893) 27/11/2025
Edward Stone Middlemiss (b.1879) 31/10/2026 Charles Gahan (b.1807) 19/10/2026 Charlotte Ellen Forster (b.1862) 27/11/2025
Kezia Sandell (b.1862) 31/10/2026 Charles Frederic Gahan (b.1846) 19/10/2026 William Frederick Haines (b.1863) 27/11/2025
Frank Alexander Middlemiss (b.1920) 31/10/2026 Alice Mary Gahan (b.1853) 18/10/2026 Joseph K Higgins (b.1893) 27/11/2025
Hilda Bearman (b.1880) 31/10/2026 Arthur Henry Cooke (b.1851) 18/10/2026 Roger M Langmaid (b.1944) 27/11/2025
Stanley Fairhurst Cave (b.1924) 30/10/2026 Mary Batty (b.1767) 12/10/2026 Arthur William Langmaid (b.1914) 27/11/2025
Eirene Myra (Pippa) Bearman (b.1926) 30/10/2026 Thomas Hill Hooper (b.1766) 11/10/2026 Irene M Haines (b.1919) 27/11/2025
Donald Boyd Bearman (b.1890) 30/10/2026 Margaret Bryant (b.1780) 07/10/2026 Mary P Russell (b.1895) 27/11/2025
Mabel Frances Jonas (b.1871) 29/10/2026 Eleanor Hill (b.1737) 07/10/2026 Walter John Haines (b.1897) 27/11/2025
Charles Henry Thomson (b.1870) 29/10/2026 Benjamin Hooper (b.1732) 07/10/2026 Hannah Barnes (b.1883) 06/08/2025
Florence Alice Gurney (b.1848) 29/10/2026 Sarah Ann Hooper (b.1768) 06/10/2026 Winifred Ethel Tappin (b.1912) 06/08/2025
Henry James Jonas (b.1839) 29/10/2026 Richard Gahan (b.1762) 06/10/2026 Elsie Ivy Tappin (b.1908) 06/08/2025
Fanny Ann Mathewson (b.1802) 25/10/2026 Benjamin Gahan (b.1810) 06/10/2026 William Charles Tappin (b.1882) 06/08/2025
William Stillard Berry (b.1797) 25/10/2026 Charles Boyd (b.1801) 02/10/2026 Charles Henry George Oliver (b.1895) 01/08/2025
Frances Sarah Berry (b.1826) 24/10/2026 Sarah Rimmington (b.1846) 11/05/2026 Constance Talbot (b.1935) 30/07/2025
John Frederick Gurney (b.1821) 24/10/2026 Henry Higgins (b.1818) 16/12/2025 Wallace J Gray (b.1895) 28/07/2025
Emma Fanny Gurney (b.1846) 24/10/2026 Eliza Higgins (b.1840) 16/12/2025 Harriet Emma Elborn (b.1872) 26/07/2025
William Forsyth (b.1799) 22/10/2026 Mary Taylor (b.1821) 16/12/2025 George Seguin Portch (b.1869) 26/07/2025
Mary Ann Foley (b.1801) 21/10/2026 Dorothy Leah Haines (b.1899) 01/12/2025 Florence Alice Seguin Portch (b.1894) 26/07/2025