• Christened: 26 Sep 1751, Gwinear, Cornwall ¹
• Married: 9 Nov 1776, Camborne, Cornwall ¹
• Died: Between 18 Oct 1834 and 11 Sep 1835, Mylor, Cornwall ⁷

  Research Notes:

Counterpart lease, waste land on the beach, Mylor, 20 Feb 1790. ²

Parties:

1) Robert George William Trefusis esquire of Trefusis
2) William Pearce, carpenter, of Flushing, Mylor.

Lease for 99 years or three lives (Ursula Pearce, wife of lessee, aged 40, and William, 5, and Andrew, 3, sons of the lessee) of a plot of waste land on the beach below Mylor beach and opposite a quay built by Pearce.

Rent: 1 shilling per annum.

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Lease, Coome's tenement, Restronguet, Mylor, 16 Jan 1800. ³

Parties:

1) Sir William Lemon of Carclew, to
2) William Pearce of Mylor, joiner and carpenter.

90 year lease, lessee's children Grace and William; rent 40 shillings. Consideration: £280.

Dwelling house, yard, stable and orchard, with fields [named], in village of Restrongett, called Coome's tenement or Bassett's tenement, late in occupation of Joan Thomas alias Coome, then Richard Bassett, with common of pasture on Gunreeth common not yet enclosed.

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In August 1803 William Pearce was named in the will of his father Andrew Pearce of Camborne as father of Mary, Grace, William, Andrew and Richard, to whom his father made bequests.

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Lease, Crogagodna, Mylor, 7 Sep 1816. ⁴

Parties:

1) Sir William Lemon of Carclew, to
2) William Pearce of Mylor, carpenter.

99 year lease, lessee's son Richard Pearce, and Richard Pearce's sons Joseph and William; rent £2.

Consideration: £194.

All that tenement called Crockagoodna, late in occupation of William Remphry.

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Lease and counterpart, Hackett's tenement, Mylor Downs, Mylor, 24 Dec 1823. ⁵

Parties:

1) Sir William Lemon of Carclew, to
2) William Pearce of Mylor, carpenter.

99 year lease, James Bolitho; lessee's grandson Andrew Pearce, and granddaughter Caroline Rowe; rent 6 shillings. Consideration: £45.

Cottage or dwelling house with adjoining plot of ground, about 1 acre, bounded on west with Thomas Philp's hedge, on south with road from Mylor Bridge towards Enys, on other side with road to Carclew, all part of Mylor down, enclosed and house built by John Hackett, and now called Hackett's tenement.

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Assignment of leasehold, Hackett's tenement, Mylor Downs, Mylor, 29 Jul 1834. ⁶

Parties:

1) William Pearce of Mylor, carpenter, and William Kirkness of Budock, esquire to
2) Thomas Dunstan of Constantine, yeoman.

Consideration: £150.

Property mortgaged in 1829 to William Kirkness, and not repaid.

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Abstract of the Will of William Pearce the Elder of the Parish of Mylor in the County of Cornwall, Carpenter, written 18 Oct 1834, proved 11 Sep 1835. ⁷

Gives £10 to his son Richard Pearce.

All the rest of his goods, chattels, lands, tenements and other effects he gives and devises to Charles Welsford, schoolmaster, and Nicholas Tallack, gardener, both of the parish of Mylor, to hold in trust and pay the proceeds thereof to his son Andrew Pearce of Mylor, wheelwright during his natural life. Directs his trustees that, after the death of his said son, the residue of his personal and real estate be paid to Andrew's children, share and share alike.

Appoints the said Charles Welsford and Nicholas Tallack co-executors and trustees of his last will and testament.

Witnesses: J. R. Hearle & James Burry, clerks to Messrs. Pender Genn & Genn, attorneys-at-law, Falmouth.

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William's burial is not recorded in the Mylor parish register.