Edmund
Palmer
Pearse
Born in Donald, Victoria, Australia
Ancestors 
Brother of
William Nicholas Pearse, Amelia Geake (Pearse) Spencer, John Frederick Pearse, Geddie Thomas Pearse, Leonore Victoria Pearse and Edith Elizabeth Pearse
Husband of
Mary Ethel (McWhirter) Pearse
— married
11 Oct 1918 in Primitive Methodist Chapel, High Street, Birmingham, England
Father of
Alfred William Geake Pearse, Dorothy Grimshaw Pearse, Marjorie Elizabeth (Pearse) Belton, Maureen Alexandra (Pearse) White, Patricia Averil (Pearse) Russell, Edmund Langman Pearse and Ethel Mary (Pearse) Green
Died
at age 97
in Donald, Victoria, Australia
Profile last modified
| Created 18 Oct 2016
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Biography
Edmund was born in 1895. He is the son of William Pearse and Isabella Palmer. [1]
In late 1918, towards the end of WW1, Edmund was recovering from serious wounds in the 1st Southern General Hospital in Birmingham, England, where he met and married Mary McWhirter, a staff nurse at the hospital, before returning to Australia in 1919. [2]
Edmund served in the Australian Army (AIF) during WW1[3] and then, again, in WW2.[4]
Sources
- ↑ Department of Justice, Victoria, Australia - BDM Online
[ https://www.bdm.vic.gov.au/research-and-family-history/search-your-family-history ]
Birth: registered 1895/20193 - ↑ The casualty report concerning the injuries, and also a copy of the marriage certificate, are included in Edmund’s military record at Discovering Anzacs - [ http://discoveringanzacs.naa.gov.au/browse/records/389753]
- ↑ https://aif.adfa.edu.au/showPerson?pid=237067
- ↑ https://nominal-rolls.dva.gov.au/veteran?id=646012&c=WW2
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Edmund by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Edmund:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Edmund by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Edmund:
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Elaine Pearse
Edmund Palmer Pearse was not known as Barney. That was his son Alfred William Geake Pearse.Edmund Palmer (Ted) Pearse died 4 October 1992 at Donald, Victoria Australia..
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