are direct ancestors of Oliver Michael JACOBSFor privacy reasons, Date of Birth and Date of Marriage for persons believed to still be living are not shown.
are direct ancestors of Oliver Michael JACOBSLEAR, Margaret Christina {I01819} (b. 22 FEB 1811, d. 07 AUG 1895)
Source: (Birth)
Author: Unknown (probably Peter Peterson)
Title: Petrol Book
Publication: Name: c 1900;Source Medium: Book
Source Quality: low
A school exercise book containing a fabricated family history of the LEAR family containing mostly facts but hiding the fact that several family members were convicts.Repository:Name: Originally held by Bill PiperData:
Text: Born 22 Feb 1811
Source: (Burial)
Title: Southern Regional Cemetery Trust - Burials 1872-1994Source Medium: BookData:
Text: First names : Margaret Christina Surname : LEAR Residence: Murray St. Hobart Age : 86 Date of death : 7 Aug 1895 Born: England Status: Widow Spouse/Father, Status: Isaac, late Service type : Burial Service date : 10-Aug-1895 Last residence : HOBART Grave location - Cemetery : Cornelian Bay Area or denomination : Independent Section : N Site number :
Source: (Death)
Title: Tasmania DeathsSource Medium: Civil Registry
Source Quality: HighPage: RGD35 #248
Data:
Text: Aged 86, Reaident Murray St. Widow, Senile Decay. Born England
Tasmania Deaths, RGD35 #248, Aged 86, Resident Murray St. Widow, Senile Decay. Born England.
Address: Murray St. / Hobart, TAS /
Religion: Date: 1895
Place: Southern Regional Cemetery, TAS
Source: (Birth)
Title: Victorian BirthsSource Medium: BookPage: Reg # 32776
Data:
Text: Father: Thomas Mother: Williams Susannah Event Place: Warr Reg Year: 1887 Reg State: Victoria Ref Number: 32776
Religion: Place: Springvale Cemetery, Springvale, VIC, AUS
Source: (Birth)
Title: Tasmanian BirthsSource Medium: BookPage: RGD32 #1308
Source: (Burial)
Title: Southern Regional Cemetery Trust - Burials 1872-1994Source Medium: BookData:
Text: Aged 83 of 20 Pirie st. Hobart, Independent First names : Mary Ann Surname : LEAR Age : 83 Date of death : Service type : Burial Service date : 23-Mar-1923 Last residence : Grave location - Cemetery : Cornelian Bay Area or denomination : Independent Section : G Site number : Number 3,
Source: (Christening)
Title: Tasmanian BirthsSource Medium: BookPage: RGD32 1841 #1308
Data:
Text: Christening Father Isaac mother Margaret (Unknown)
Source: (Death)
Author: O'Shea
Title: O'shea Index to Hobart MercurySource Medium: Book
Source Quality: low
Religion: Date: 1923
Place: Cornelian Bay Cemetery, TAS, AUS
Source: (Birth)
Title: Tasmanian BirthsSource Medium: BookPage: RGD33 1843 #1837
Data:
Text: Father James, mother Mary Johnson
Source: (Burial)
Title: Southern Regional Cemetery Trust - Burials 1872-1994Source Medium: BookData:
Text: Aged 78, Homeopathic. Hosp., Wesleyan First names : Mary Jane Surname : LEAR Age : 78 Date of death : Service type : Burial Service date : 19-Jul-1921 Last residence : HOSPITAL Grave location - Cemetery : Cornelian Bay Area or denomination : Wesley Section : J Site number : Number 27,
Source: (Burial)
Author: O'Shea
Title: O'shea Index to Hobart MercurySource Medium: Book
Source Quality: lowData:
Text: Died 19/7/1921
Religion: Date: 1921
Place: Southern Regional Cemetery, TAS
Source: (Individual)
Title: Fawkner Crematorium & Memorial Gardens, Vic, AUSSource Medium: Internet
On Line index direct from Cemetery
http://www.fcmp.com.au/
Cremation: Date: 31 DEC 1979
Place: Fawkner Crematorium and Memorial Gardens, Vic, AUS
Source: (Birth Field)
Footnote: Tasmanian Christenings: 1853 RGD 32/4178
Tasmanian Christenings: 1853 RGD 32/4178
Source: (Individual)
Title: Tasmanian BirthsSource Medium: Book
Source: (Death)
Title: Victorian DeathsSource Medium: BookPage: 1930/10317
Data:
Text: Aged 77 years
Event: Type: Christened
Date: 06 MAY 1853
Place: Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Note: From: Michael Owen
To: majacobs@dingoblue.net.au
Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2002 1:24 PM
Subject: Lears
I am a descendant of Maria May Tucker (GGM) and Isaac Lear who lived in Tarraville, then Yarram. When looking at your family tree I noted one sibling, or maybe two siblings missing from that part of the family. One is my grand mother Mollie Victoria Lear who was not registered when born as the man who did the job of registering births and deaths in the town was drunk and forgot to do it. My Nan didn't find out till many years later that she was not recorded. I believe you also do not have her sister Nancy listed on the tree. My Nan was born 25-06-1901 and died 13-04-92 lived in Hawthorn, Melb, Vic. She married George Frederick Collier, brother of the famous champion Collingwood footballers of 20s and 30s. They had one child Merle who is my mother. I am Michael John Owen 35 years, and youngest of 5 children.
Interested to hear from you some time.
Regards,
Michael.
Source: (Birth)
Title: Victorian BirthsSource Medium: BookPage: 1901 22969
Data:
Text: Father=Isaac Jas Mother=Maria Tucker
Residence: Date: ABT 1990
Place: Victoria Rd. Hawthorn, Vic, AUS
Source: (Birth)
Author: Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints
Title: International Genealogical Index (IGI)Source Medium: Electronic
Source Quality: Low
This is an index only and requires confirmation of actual recordsRepository:Name: http://www.familysearch.orgPage: Batch # C310431
Data:
Text: States date as 13 May 1832
Source: (Birth)
Title: Tasmanian BirthsSource Medium: BookPage: RGD32 1832 #4250
Source: (Birth)
Author: Unknown (probably Peter Peterson)
Title: Petrol Book
Publication: Name: c 1900;Source Medium: Book
Source Quality: low
A school exercise book containing a fabricated family history of the LEAR family containing mostly facts but hiding the fact that several family members were convicts.Repository:Name: Originally held by Bill Piper
Source: (Baptism)
Title: Hanham & Oldland*, Gloucestershire. Baptism register 1796-1812Source Medium: BookData:
Text: 1806 Apr 06 Nancy d/o John/Jane LEAR
Source: (Burial)
Title: St.Mary, Bitton, Gloucestershire. Burial register 1808-1812Source Medium: BookData:
Text: 1808 Feb 14 Nancy LEAR
Religion: Place: St. Marys, Bitton, GLS, ENG
Note: Percy left his wife and children when Fred was five and Alf was six (1916?) - according to family rumour. The truth would more likely be that his wife died when the children were 3 and they were cared for by their respective aunts with the father taking no interest
He never returned to the children and never took an interest in them. Percy worked for many years in the circus as a clown.
Alf was brought up by Adelaide Theresa Kook (nee Lear) and Fred by Rose Alice Maud Bell (nee Lear) and was reputedly a "trouble maker"
It is reputed that Percy was sent to jail possibly at this time.
Source: (Birth)
Title: Victorian BirthsSource Medium: BookPage: 1877 #25349
Data:
Text: St. Kilda, Father=Francis Henry, Mather=Theresa Watts
Vic Births:1877 #25349
Source: (Burial)
Author: New South Wales, Birth, Death and Marriage Registrar
Title: NSW DeathsSource Medium: Book
Source Quality: HighData:
Text: Death Certificate (held by M.A. Jacobs) Percy Hercules Melbourne LEAR Male 88 years 3 Jan 1966 @ District Hospital, Gilgandra rsidence 33 Waughan St. Gilgandra, Father Frank Lear mother Thresa Watts, Widower
Source: (Death)
Author: New South Wales, Birth, Death and Marriage Registrar
Title: NSW DeathsSource Medium: Book
Source Quality: HighData:
Text: 34367/1966 LEAR PERCY HERCULES M FRANK THRESA GILGANDRA NSW
Address: 33 Waughan St. / Gilgandra, NSW / Australia
Religion: Place: Church of England cemetery, Gilgandra, NSW, AUS
Cause: Carcinoma of stomach for 6 months
Note: Hello Wayne and Michael,
(Written before I received yours headed James Baker.)
I notice that in the listing in LearGenes you give the birth date of Robert Lear (LE2010di) as 1796, followed by his death the same year, i.e. before the marriage of John and Jane. Where did you find that?
In my own Gedcom I have given his birth as 10 Feb 1807, and baptism as 10 Apr 1807. However, typically, I have not recorded a source. Those dates moreover are the same as those of James (LE2009), so I could well have introduced an error, unless anyone has heard of twins.
In the Petrol Book on one chart, but not on another, I find "Robert, died in infancy", as a sibling for William, Isaac, etc., but without a date. I later received the same information from Lamont Lear, also undated. Of course this might refer to Robert Baker (LE2011). I note the specific Oldland baptism entry for him. Again I try to imagine the round-table conversations that informed Petersen's research. Where would the information come from that there was a dead child called Robert? Were there really two Roberts?
Also, what happened to Robert Baker? Did he die in infancy? If Jane was allowed to take two sons (one aged nearly 17) in Morley, a ship carrying female convicts, surely it is very likely she'd be allowed to take a toddler. If he was alive, and left behind, we must wonder who cared for him.
I think therefore that it's quite likely that Robert Baker died in infancy, though I have no evidence. Wayne, you have it on your list for a future project. It's not a rare name: I know a Robert Baker, as well as a James Baker, living near here. You may have your work cut out to sort them out.
I notice too that according to that baptism entry, James Baker was a Waterman. In those days a waterman was someone who worked
on a barge; at least in my wife's London family it was. Interesting that a waterman lives on a hill!
Final question. I have tried to find that surgeon's account of "Two Voyages to VDL & NSW", but the catalogue wouldn't
identify it on the UK library system. Do you have author and publication details?
TTFN
Bill
Source: (Birth)
Author: Unknown (probably Peter Peterson)
Title: Petrol Book
Publication: Name: c 1900;Source Medium: Book
Source Quality: low
A school exercise book containing a fabricated family history of the LEAR family containing mostly facts but hiding the fact that several family members were convicts.Repository:Name: Originally held by Bill Piper
Note: Name LEAR, ROBERT FRANK
Service Australian Army
Service Number W80114
Date of Birth 25 Mar 1924
Place of Birth MIDLAND JUNCTION, WA
Date of Enlistment 14 Apr 1942
Locality on Enlistment HERNE HILL, WA
Place of Enlistment CLAREMONT, WA
Next of Kin LEAR, CECIL
Date of Discharge 1 Jul 1944
Rank Private
Posting at Discharge 8 SUPPLY COY
WW2 Honours and Gallantry None for display
Prisoner of War No
Source: (Death)
Title: WA Metropolitan Cemetaries Board Web SiteSource Medium: BookData:
Text: First Names Last Name Application Number ROBERT FRANK LEAR GB00011217 Names are only recorded in capitals See legend for application code details Aged (Years) Date of Death Suburb 66 09/08/1990 WANNEROO Grave Location GUILDFORD GENERAL B 0021A
Note: Name LEAR, RONALD FREDRICK
Service Royal Australian Air Force
Service Number 85048
Date of Birth 5 Jun 1926
Place of Birth MIDLAND JUNCTION, WA
Date of Enlistment 24 Jun 1944
Locality on Enlistment MIDLAND JUNCTION
Place of Enlistment PERTH
Next of Kin LEAR, CECIL
Date of Discharge 18 Apr 1946
Rank Leading Aircraftman
Posting at Discharge 5 Service Flying Training School
WW2 Honours and Gallantry None for display
Prisoner of War No
Source: (Death)
Title: WA Metropolitan Cemetaries Board Web SiteSource Medium: BookData:
Text: RONALD FREDERICK LEAR KC00025330 Names are only recorded in capitals See legend for application code details Aged (Years) Date of Death Suburb 39 06/02/1966 MAIDA VALE Grave Location KARRAKATTA CREMATORIUM ROSE GARDENS 9G 0009
Source: (Birth)
Title: Tasmanian BirthsSource Medium: BookPage: GRD33 1847 141
Source: (Death)
Author: Archives Office of Tasmania
Title: Tasmanian WillsSource Medium: ElectronicRepository:Name: http://www.archives.tas.gov.au/genealogies/idxofwills.htmData:
Text: Peterson Rose 1938 AD960/62 365 22333
Note: Moya receives Xmas cards (as of 7/94) from Freddy Lear (in his eighties) and his wife Edna. They live at:
4/167 Barrabool Rd.
Highton, Victoria 3216
Australia
She claims they have something to do with Rose and that Rose is illegitimate.
There was also an Alf killed in WW2. Mona knows the story. Have since determined that this was Percy H. Lear's son.
Per Edna letter dated 8/26/96 to Moya:
Rose brought up Fred & Ada had Alf. The boys did not see one another after Fred was 5 years old & Alf was six - which was when their father left them.
Source: (Birth)
Title: Victorian BirthsSource Medium: BookPage: Vic Births:1869 17135
Data:
Text: Original microfilm said Mother is Jane Glass Smith - later version (computer) says mother is Theresa Lear - both have the same reference #.
Source: (Death)
Title: Victorian DeathsSource Medium: BookData:
Text: 1966 Reg # 1583 Aged 96
Source: (Birth)
Title: Victorian BirthsSource Medium: BookPage: 1909 #24785
Note: Progress press 17 September 1996 50
Former head teacher at University High, born Eaglehawk 11 January 1901, daughter of Darcy and Florence, died 7 September 1996 aged 95 (State Library of Victoria)
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VPRS 13719 Database Index to Teacher Record Books
This database gives access to Teacher Record Books available on microfilm in PROV reading rooms as VPRS 13718.
Lear Darcy Connor 8734
Lear Dorothy Connor 17734
Lear Eva 2424
Lear Hazel 22519
Lear Ruth Cunliffe 20404
Source: (Birth)
Title: Victorian BirthsSource Medium: BookPage: 1901 2828
Data:
Text: Father=Darcy Connor, Mother=Flor Mary Nightingale
Source: (Individual)
Title: Fawkner Crematorium & Memorial Gardens, Vic, AUSSource Medium: Internet
On Line index direct from Cemetery
http://www.fcmp.com.au/
Cremation: Date: 11 SEP 1996
Place: Fawkner Crematorium and Memorial Gardens, Vic, AUS
Note: 1. Lear Samuel - Petition for allotment in town 1823 LSD1/89/p.358 (per Diana Hale/Bill Piper)
He said he arrived on the DUCHESS of YORK in June 1821. The answer was; An allotment for this free boy & his brother a prisoner approved.
2. Lear S. Argyle St. Hobart Hobart Almanac 1847
3. According to this book, "Land Musters, Stock Returns and Lists : Van Diemans Land 1803-1822" edited by Irene Schaeffer St Davids Park Publishing 1991 Hobart ISBN0724621776, Samuel Lear came free on the ship 'Morley', arriving in 1820. The list that he is mentioned in is the "Muster of free men at Hobart Town, 1822", [HO 10/18, reel 65 pp. 2-31.]
This is the same ship his mother (then known as Jane Baker) arrived on as a convict with her young son Isaac
See notes in William Lear's file
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Lear Samuel Passenger Elizabeth 21 May 1825 Hobart Port Jackson CSO 63/1 p141
On May 21, 1825 Samuel Lear Travelled on board the Elizabeth to Port Jackson from Hobart
Did he go to assist his mother or was he moving? His brother Stephen was hanged in Feb 1825 and his mother didn't move to Hobart until 1826
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Note also that Samuel received permission to marry Sarah Davis but she ultimately married another man and Samuel appears never to have married.
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Samuel Lear died from an asthma attack in a mine shaft witnessed by his brother William. The inquest read as follws:
Samuel Lear Inquest Transcription
Page 1
10th October 1851
Inquiry into the death of Samuel Lear
Ballarat Diggings
(Added later in different pen)
Apoplexy
10th Oct.
xxxxxxxxxx
Page 2
Ballarat
Colony of Victoria
(?? Inst.)
Inquiry held into the sudden death of Samuel Lear
William Lear being duly sworn states that:
I am brother to the deceased Samuel Lear, he arrived on the Ballarat diggings yesterday, he then appeared in good health with the exception of an asthmatic cough which he was subject to ?
This morning at about 10 o?clock, the deceased was working in my company he was digging, when he suddenly fell down, and within a few minutes died. He never spoke after falling.
Medical assistance was obtained as soon as possible but to no effect.
Sworn before me at Ballarat
this 10th day of October 1851
Signed
XXXXXX JP Wm. Lear
Page 3
Ballarat
Colony of Victoria
to wit
George Phillipson being duly sworn depose that:
I am a legally qualified lawyer. I was called in this morning to xx the deceased Samuel Lear. When I came he was dead, and I should say had been dead about 10 minutes.
From the appearance of the body I should say that he died of apoplexy, as far as I can say there appears no sign of outward injury, and the appearance of the body in every way indicates apoplexy to which I attribute his sudden death.
Sworn before me this 10th day
Of October 1851 at Ballarat
George Phillipson
Xxxxxxx JP
Source: (Individual)
Title: Hanham & Oldland*, Gloucestershire. Baptism register 1796-1812Source Medium: Book
Source: (Individual)
Title: CensusSource Medium: Book
Source: (Individual)
Title: Tasmanian State Archives Web SiteSource Medium: Electronic
Source Quality: Medium
Event: Type: Baptised
Date: 05 FEB 1804
Place: Hanham & Oldland, Bitton, GLS, ENG
Event: Type: Arrived
Date: 1820
Place: on the ship Morley (free man with his mother and brother Isaac)
Event: Type: Departed
Date: 21 MAY 1825
Place: Hobart for Port Jackson (Sydney) via "Elizabeth"
Event: Type: Permission to Marry
Date: FEB 1831
Place: Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Note: Died of menengitis according to family memory
Source: (Birth)
Author: New South Wales, Birth, Death and Marriage Registrar
Title: NSW BirthsSource Medium: Internet
Source Quality: Highest
Available on line or microficheRepository:Name: Sydney, NSW, AustraliaNSW Births:Sydney, Reg #20861 year 1907
Source: (Death)
Author: New South Wales, Birth, Death and Marriage Registrar
Title: NSW DeathsSource Medium: Book
Source Quality: HighPage: 1929/5499
Data:
Text: 5499/1929 LEAR STEPHANIE L WARDROP MAY SYDNEY
Cause: Menengitis
Note: Stephen was arrested with Joseph Brain (24) and David Moreton and gaoled on March 27 1820.
Stephen Lear (from the NSW Archives Office microfilm Convict Indents 1820/21
Convicted: Gloucester Assizes
29 March 1820
Life sentence
Transported to Van Diemens Land Australia on ship Maria arriving Dec 1, 1820
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http://www.standard.net.au/~jwilliams/data.htm
The following indexes is of Births,Deaths and Marriages from the
Colonial Times (Tasmanian newspaper) for the years 1825-30
Lear Stephen executed/burglary D 27/25 (age & year of death)
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On Microfilm 0952232 (L.D.S.), Conduct Registers, V.D.L.
LEAR, Stephen: Maria, 29 Mar 1820, Life
August 31 1821, absent from Muster for Church.
Reported AWHH
Jan 12 1822 Shannon, absent from Muster and from Church.
Reported AWHH
A later note written sideways in the margin, but undated,
Transported being a capital respite (one who is transported instead of death penalty)
Gaol report: Bad Character, his father-in-law and Brother were transported about
2 years ago and his mother is transported for life.
Hulk report orderly.
S or M not stated
Executed 26th February 1825
(from Bill Piper)
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Source: Hobart Town Gazette, 4 March 1825
On Saturday last four men, named Samuel Thomas Fielding and James Chamberlain, for sheep-stealing, and Stephen Lear and Henry Fry, for burglary, expiated their offences on the scaffold within the walls of Hobart Town Gaol. - Let us hope that their shameful end will operate with advantage as a caution to their criminal survivors: for transgressions have become so numerous that the law must in future take its rigid course.
Notes
[1] On 15 February 1825, Fielding was sentenced to death: Hobart Town Gazette, 18 February 1825 and Newton was sent to Sydney, AOT SC 41/1.
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February 26 (1825). - Samuel T. Fielding and Jas. Chamberlaine, sheep-stealing; Stephen Lear and Henry Fry, burglary at the Surveyor General's.
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From Colliers to Clickers
Scenes from the history of the boot and shoe trade in Kingswood
HISTORY OF THE INDUSTRY
ORIGINS
Kingswood has had a long and varied industrial history. Coal mining and agriculture were widespread, and spanned centuries; coal, for example, was being extracted by the thirteenth century. As the industries of coal-mining and agriculture developed, and perhaps as a response to their increased demand for heavy footwear, a third major industry began to emerge in Kingswood, that of boot and shoe manufacture.
The boot and shoe trade was a later development than either coal-mining or agriculture, but by the late seventeenth century had become a cottage industry carried out by colliers. The Reverend H.T. Ellacombe says in the History of Bitton, published in the nineteenth century, that colliers finished their work at one p.m. and they "washed in hot water. . . and then worked as gardeners, tailors, shoemakers."
In the earlier half of the nineteenth century, Poor Houses were the main employers in the Kingswood area of people involved in the boot making trade, just as they had been important to the pin manufacturing industry in the late eighteenth century. The poor house was also known as a "house of industry".
After the advent of the factory system in Kingswood in the nineteenth century, outworking played a prominent role in boot manufacture. The processes involved meant that some stages were so well suited to a bench in the home, that they continued to be carried out there rather than in the factory.
HEYDAY
During the second half of the nineteenth century, the Kingswood boot and shoe industry flourished. Fussell and Flock are among the first names that appear as major employers locally, around the 1840's and 1850's. It was they who introduced into Kingswood the riveting system for sole attachments. This made possible, in the following decades, the rapid growth of factory production in the area. Up until this time the nature of the work had been restricted to making hobnailed boots.
By 1891 atleast ten notable firms were established in the area, and the trade was at its height around the turn of the century. In its heyday the Kingswood industry competed for work with the industries of Northampton, Leicester and Leeds. So effective was this competition that the Royal Commission on Labour (1892) was told that thirty six firms in the Leeds area had been forced to close down in little over a year. Kingswood goods were cheaper because of the greater dependence upon outworkers who were paid less than factory workers.
Source: (Birth)
Author: Unknown (probably Peter Peterson)
Title: Petrol Book
Publication: Name: c 1900;Source Medium: Book
Source Quality: low
A school exercise book containing a fabricated family history of the LEAR family containing mostly facts but hiding the fact that several family members were convicts.Repository:Name: Originally held by Bill Piper
Source: (Baptism)
Title: Hanham & Oldland*, Gloucestershire. Baptism register 1796-1812Source Medium: BookData:
Text: 1799 Apr 21 Stephen s/o John/Jane LEAR
Source: (Death)
Title: Tasmania DeathsSource Medium: Civil Registry
Source Quality: HighPage: RGD 34 948 26 Feb 1825
Event: Type: Arrived
Date: 01 DEC 1820
Place: Hobart, Tasmania, Australia on ship Maria I (2)
Event: Type: Convicted
Date: 29 MAR 1820
Place: Gloucester Assizes
Occupation: Date: 1820
Place: Cordwainer (shoemaker)
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