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Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. Emily Jane Spear: Birth: 10 Sep 1870 in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England. Death: 2 Feb 1946 in McKeesport, Allegheny Co., Pennsylvania

  2. Florence Mercy Spear: Birth: 18 Nov 1871 in Radstock, Somerset, England. Death: 14 Aug 1943 in McKeesport, Allegheny Co., Pennsylvania

  3. Minnie Kate Spear: Birth: Jul 1874 in Frome, Somerset, England. Death: Apr 1895 in Wiltshire, England

  4. Oliver John Spear: Birth: 30 Jan 1876 in Walsall, Staffordshire, England. Death: 29 Sep 1947 in McKeesport, Allegheny Co., Pennsylvania

  5. Edward Rudd Spear: Birth: 23 Mar 1877 in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire Co., England. Death: 19 Jan 1949 in Sebring, Highlands Co., Florida

  6. Beatrice Cook Spear: Birth: 9 Aug 1879 in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire Co., England. Death: 12 Apr 1938 in Brooke Co., West Virginia

  7. Carrie May Spear: Birth: Mar 1884 in McKeesport, Allegheny Co., Pennsylvania. Death: Aug 1967 in Chicago, Cook Co., Illinois


Sources
1. Title:   1920 U.S. Census
Page:   Illinois, Cook Co, e.d. 389 p. 5A
2. Title:   Bankey, R.S.
3. Title:   1910 U.S. census
Page:   PA, Allegheny Co., McKeesport, e.d. 123  sheet 4A line 21
4. Title:   1900 U.S. census
Page:   McKeesport e.d. 423 sheet 2 line 9
5. Title:   death certificate
Page:   Spear (Cox), Emily death certificate
6. Title:   death certificate
Page:   Spear (Frey), Florence death cert
7. Title:   1910 U.S. census
Page:   age 62 in 1910
8. Title:   1900 U.S. census
Page:   age 51 in 1900, b. Sep 1848 in England
9. Title:   1920 U.S. Census
Page:   Edward K. and Oliver Jr. cite Wales birth
10. Title:   1881 British census
Page:   England, Gloucester, Cheltenham: piece 2575, folio 119, pg. 30
11. Title:   Spear BMD compilation - Thomas Peeke
Author:   Thomas Peeke/
Publication:   Web site of compiled birth, marriage, and death records for the Spear name in England. Orig. records mostly from General Registry Office.
 Relationships were augmented in the web site by ??
 thomas at peeke dot demon dot co.uk
 Accessed May, 2003
12. Title:   death certificate
Page:   Spear, Oliver death certificate
13. Title:   Passport application
Page:   Spear, Oliver, passport application
14. Title:   Passport application
Page:   Spear, Oliver 1915 Consular Registration Certificate
15. Title:   1930 U.S. Census
Page:   Illinois, Cook Co., Chicago; tape 447, e.d. 16-735, sheet 42A
16. Title:   1940 U.S. census
Page:   Spear, Edward 1940 census  1940; Census Place: McKeesport, Allegheny, Pennsylvania; Roll: T627_3409; Page: 5A; Enumeration District: 2-291
17. Title:   1910 U.S. census
Page:   married 40 years in 1910
18. Title:   1900 U.S. census
Page:   married 30 yrs in 1900

Notes
a. Note:   itles of every book he had ever read. Census lists parents both from England. 
  He visited England at least twice, according to Ellis Island records:
  Oliver Spear, McKeesport, PA., age 68, arrived 14 Jan from Liverpool on the "New York".  He was a widowed male.
  Oliver Spear, arr. 4 July 1918 from Liverpool on the "Adriatic", age 69.
  Immigration according to 1920 census: naturalized in 1892.
  Irene Ashton reported that he lived with his daughter Florence until he was 95.
Note:   Ruth Spear Bankey reports that he kept a book list of the t
b. Note:   NF176
Note:   Birmingham, Dec. quarter, 1869, vol. 6d pg 306
 Marriage solemnized at Islington Wesleyan Chapel (Wesleyan Methodist) in the District of Birmingham in the county of Warwick.  When married: Twenty seventh November 1869
  Oliver Spear, age 21 years, bachelor, coal dealer, residing at Freeth Street, Birmingham.  Father: John Spear, mining agent.
  Mary Jane Rudd, 20 years, spinster, Grosvenor Street, West Birmingham.  Father: William Rudd (deceased), glass cutter
  Witnesses: Henry William Rudd, Charles Rudd.


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