Harriet Pearce Hall

One of the three Pearce Hall sisters with Lucretia and Maria (each of whom q.v.) of Richmond Terrace Clifton awarded £500 of the compensation on Cunyngham's estate in St Kitts. They do not appear as awardees but the Register of Claims shows they were awarded part of the compensation. The sisters were the children of Elizabeth Philadelphia Pearce Hall (nee Cunyngham) and Charles Pearce Hall (ne Pearce), and grandchildren of Anthony Cunyngham senior.

1. Harriet Hall, age 70, was living at Richmond Terrace, Clifton, in the census of 1841. The death of Harriet Pearce Hall was recorded Q3 in Clifton, 1847, age 78 years.

2. Will of Heriot Pearce Hall spinster of Gloucestershire proved 15/03/1848.

St Kitts no. 333. See claim notes for the Memorial of the sisters setting out the background to their claim and its resolution. The sisters are not identified by their christian names but appear as the 'Misses Hall' or the Pearce Hall spinsters: their christian names have been inferred from the probate records.

1. Ancestry.com, Bristol, England, Select Church of England Parish Registers, 1720-1933 [database online].

2. PROB 11/2071/175.

We are grateful to Ruth Hecht for her assistance with compiling this entry.