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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:   1910 U.S. census
Page:   McKeesport E.D. 123 Family No. 69
2. Title:   1900 U.S. census
Page:   McKeesport e.d. 423 sheet 2 line 9
3. Title:   1900 U.S. census
4. Title:   Bankey, R.S.
5. Title:   1881 British census
Page:   England, Gloucester, Cheltenham: piece 2575, folio 119, pg. 30
6. Title:   death certificate
Page:   Spear, Oliver death certificate
7. Title:   death certificate
Page:   Spear (Cox), Emily death certificate
8. Title:   death certificate
Page:   Rudd (Spear), Mary Jane death certificate
9. Title:   death certificate
Page:   Spear (Frey), Florence death cert
10. Title:   1910 U.S. census
Page:   age 61 in 1910
11. Title:   1900 U.S. census
Page:   age 50 in 1900, b. May 1850 in England
12. Title:   birth certificate
13. Title:   Ellis Island records
Page:   Oliver Spear took two trips to-from Engl., was widowed in 1917
Publication:   http://www.ellisislandrecords.org/
14. Title:   1910 U.S. census
Page:   married 40 years in 1910
15. Title:   1900 U.S. census
Page:   married 30 yrs in 1900
16. 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

Notes
a. Note:   nbsp; Census lists parents both born in England.
  Birth certificate:  Born in the LadyWood District, Birmingham, Warwick Co., England.
 Fourth May 1849, of 79 Grosvenor St., West Birmingham.  Name: Mary Jane, girl.
 Father: William Rudd, Glass Cutter
 Mother: Jane Rudd, formerly Bramich
  Irene Ashton reported that she died in a fire.
  Posted 10 Nov 2008 by Littlecountrypenguin on Ancestry.com.  This story was told to Mary Jane Cox-Dewyer.  My father, Albert, told me that his grandmother , Mary Jane Rudd Spear, was burning trash in the back yard and her long skirt caught fire and severely burnt her. She was hospitalized at McKeesport Hospital (the original building).
Note:   1910, 1900 census lists mother of 8 children, 6 surviving.&
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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