Felicia Frances (Baker) Pearcey (1898 - 1991)

Born 13 Apr 1898 in Taiping, Perak, Malaysia

Ancestors

Died 12 Nov 1991 at age 93 in South Africa

Biography

Felicia was born in 1898. She was the daughter of Edgar Baker and Cherry Voules.

UK Census Date 31 March 1901: Recorded in the household of her grandparents, along with her mother in Lancaster Rd, Lambeth, London, Middlesex, England. Aged 2.

UK Census April 2, 1911: Recorded as a Pupil at 18 Manor Road, Bournemouth, Hampshire, England. Aged 12.

Felicia married Charles Aubrey Pearcey. They had two sons:

John Francis (b. 1921, d. 1986)

Christopher (b. 1925, d. 1967)

Her father died in 1932.

In the 1939 England and Wales Register she was living with her husband (a retired Bank Agent) at Forest Gardens, Burley, Ringwood and Fordingbridge, Hampshire, England. Also in the household was her widowed mother Cherry and two household staff.

Her mother died in 1952 and her husband in 1953.

Felicia emigrated from England to South Africa, where she died in 1991^[1].

Sources

1. ↑ Ancestry.com. South Africa, Estates Death Index, 1999-2014 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015. Original data: Master of the High Court (South Africa). Indices to Deceased Estates. Republic of South Africa.

• Unsourced Family Tree found at https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LDH5-2LH

Census Records

• "England and Wales Census, 1901," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X9HP-XDW : 29 August 2015), Felicia Baker in household of Gordon B Voules, Lambeth, London, Middlesex, England; from "1901 England, Scotland and Wales census,"

• "England and Wales Census, 1911," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XWP1-1RH : 20 January 2015), Felicia Baker, Lambeth, S E, London, England; from "1911 England and Wales census,"