Robert Wear
1859–1890
Derrick's great-grandfather. A harness-maker's youngest son from Jamaica Road, who married Emma Hawkins of Aldenham in 1881 and died eight years later, six months after his son was born.
Family
Each person is marked by where that line came from, in words as well as colour.
What the record says
Documented His birth, marriage and death are all registered, and he is in his father's household in 1871.
Born Q2 1859, Bermondsey · died Q1 1890, St Olave Southwark, aged 31
| When | What | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Q2 1859 | Born at Bermondsey | Birth registered in vol 1D. Mother's maiden name Bloom, which is the only place that name appears. | Documented |
| 1871 | A schoolboy in Jamaica Road | Aged 12, a scholar, in the house of his father William Wear, a harness maker, where his three older brothers worked at the same bench (RG10 piece 641, folio 40). | Documented |
| Q4 1881 | Marries Emma Hawkins | At St Olave, Southwark, vol 1D p455. | Documented |
| 1883–1889 | Three children | Louisa in 1883 at Wimbledon, Rosetta in 1886 at Bermondsey, and Henry Robert in Q3 1889 at Bermondsey. | Documented |
| Q1 1890 | Dies aged 31 | St Olave, Southwark, vol 1D p141. | Documented |
Where this comes from
Each line of the table above names the record it rests on in its third column, and the grade at the top says how well the whole is evidenced. What is not established is said under its own heading below. How the grades and the labels on the chart are decided, and every source this archive holds.
What is not established
- His own occupation is not recorded in anything this archive holds; his father and his three older brothers were harness makers.
- Why his first child was born at Wimbledon and the others at Bermondsey is not known.
- The cause of his death is not known.