PIONEER
Edmund James ("Ted") PEARSE
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| occupation | |
| birth | 15 Aug 1882, Marylebone, London (FreeBMD: 1a 528) |
| baptism | 9 Dec 1883, Holy Trinity, Marylebone Road, Westminster |
| death | 9 Aug 1958, Mere, Wiltshire, ENGLAND |
| burial | |
| marriage | married on 11 Dec 1913 in Islington, Greater London, Middlesex to (FreeBMD: 1b 337):
 May GRIFFIN b. .. Apr/May/June 1880, Chester |
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| marriage | E. J. Pearse re-married in .. Apr/May/June 1942, Eton, Buckinghamshire:
Grace MARTINDALE b. .... 1916, ......... Grace PEARSE re-married .. Oct/Nov/Dec 1962 in Mere, Wiltshire: Thomas Wolryche/Wolrich Guy STANSFELD b. 28 Oct 1906, ....... |
PARENTS
| father | James Edmund PEARSE (35y) b. 18 July 1855, Pancras, London, Middlesex |
| mother | Susanna(h) Charlotte SMITH b. .. Apr/May/June 1856, Pancras, London, Middlesex |
| marriage | They got married .. Oct/Nov/Dec 1875, St. Geo. Hanover Square, London, Middlesex |
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LIFE
1881 CENSUS (Marylebone, London, ENGLAND):
James (25y) furrier
Susanna C. (25y) (b. Rotherhithe, London)
- Jenny F. (5y)
- Edith B. (4y)
- Charlotte E. (2m)
1891 CENSUS (St Pancras, London, ENGLAND):
James (35y) furrier
Susannah C. (35y)
- Jenny F. (15y)
- Edith B. (12y)
- Charlotte E. (10y)
- Edmund James (8y)
- Alfred H. (6y)
- Sidney G. (2y)
1901 CENSUS (St Pancras, London, ENGLAND):
James PEARSE (46y, widower) furrier
- Charlotte E. (20y)
- Alfred H. (16y)
- Sidney G. (12y)
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1901 CENSUS (St Pancras, London, ENGLAND):
Edmund J. PEARSE (20y, single) scientific instrument maker
joined The Gramophone Company in March 1909
recorder GRAMCO (ad ae af)
accompanied Fred Gaisberg late autumn (July-October) 1910 in Russia (ae/af series)
Excerpt from letter of !9 Oct 1909 from Will Gaisberg to Fred Gaisberg, who is recording in Milan:
I received a wire from Paris to send an expert on immediately. There is some special theatrical work to be done, and I am shipping Pearse to-night for Paris to return the following night for London, so there is only one day's work.
Resident in St. Petersburg (Russia) from 1909 to 1917
(1) Picture of E. J. Pearse in “Pak me mee” (1e jaargang, No. 5, 1 May 1909. A.W. Segboer, Den Haag)
(2) Picture of Pearse and Tyler (from Jim Pearse)
(3) Picture of Pearse (A recording session in Helsinki, Hotel Kamp, October 1909, with the baritone Eino Rautavaara from the Finnish Opera. From the left: Otto Brandt , Oskar Merikanto, Eino Rautevaara, E. J. Pearse and unknown)
From the collection of Mrs. Anneli Waren Branders.
Inventing recorded music: the recorded repertoire in Scandinavia 1899-1925 by Pekka Gronow and Björn Englund (Journal of Recorded Music, 2007, vol. 26/2, p. 281-304)
address in 1923: Eynsford, Ruislip, Middlesex
Edmund PEARSE
SS "ORDUNA"
4 May 1923, Southampton
14 May 1923, NY
Works Manager The Sperry Gyroscope Co. Ltd., Manhattan Bridge Plaza, Brooklyn (SS "ORDUNA")
(ca. 1934 Hugh Murtagh also worked for the Sperry Gyroscope Company)
Edmund PEARSE (41y) engineer
SS "ORBITA"
dep. New York: .. June 1923
arr. Southampton: 19 June 1923
Edmund PEARSE (49y) engineer
SS "AQUITANIA"
dep. New York: .. Oct 1931
arr. Southampton: 3 Nov 1931
Edmund PEARSE (54y) engineer
SS "QUEEN MARY"
dep. Southampton: 28 Oct 1936
arr. New York: 2 Nov. 1936
Edmund PEARSE (54y) engineer
SS "BERENGARIA"
dep. New York: ..... 1937
arr. Southampton: 11 Jan 1937
NOTES
- (1) Picture of E. J. Pearse in “Pak me mee” (1e jaargang, No. 5, 1 May 1909. A.W. Segboer, Den Haag) (Ben Poelman in e-mail van 6-10-2008
- (2) Picture of Pearse and Tyler (from Jim Pearse)
- (3) Picture of Pearse (A recording session in Helsinki, Hotel Kamp, October 1909, with the baritone Eino Rautavaara from the Finnish Opera. From the left: Otto Brandt , Oskar Merikanto, Eino Rautevaara, probably E. J. Pearse and unknown)
From the collection of Mrs. Anneli Waren Branders.
- Inventing recorded music: the recorded repertoire in Scandinavia 1899-1925 by Pekka Gronow and Björn Englund (Journal of Recorded Music, 2007, vol. 26/2, p. 281-304)
- The Gramophone Company's Persian Recordings 1899 to 1934 by Michael S. Kinnear. Bajakhana, Victoria, 2000 (p. 11-12)
COMPANIES & LABELS
PHOTOS
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| Edmund Pearse in the Netherlands |
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| E.J. Pearse, a recording session in Helsinki |
THANK YOU
Richard Davies
Pekka Gronow
Alan Kelly
Jim Pearse
Ben Poelman