The Bower & Collier Family History
Research by Colin Bower
Peryer/Perrier Family
Progress Report
Progress To Date
Great Grandparent: James Peryer
- His Parents: Henry Peryer and Sarah Mitchell
- His Grandparents: James Peryer and Sarah (Snelling?)
Mini Family Tree (Direct Ancestors)
The family tree to date may be summarised:
Peryer/Perrier Family
(?)John Peryer b 1732
married (?) 29.10.1753
(?)Sarah Trigg b c 1730
James Peryer b 1755
married (?) 4.4.1782
(?)Sarah Snelling b c 1769
Henry Peryer bp 20.05.1798
Married 8.03.1828
Sarah Mitchell b c 1805
James Peryer bp 09.03.1836
d 18.04.1907 (Age 72)
married West Clandon 14.11.1869 (Age 33)
Martha Smith b c 1850/1
Mary Peryer/Perrier b 02.12.1869
d 10.02.1949 (Age 79)
married St Luke’s, Hackney 13.05.1894
Walter James Collier b 09.06.1862
d 10.2.1942
Leonard Stanley Collier b 30.11.1909
Married 6.06.1936
Phyllis Marjoram Hunt b 6.06.1912 Died 1991
Christine Elizabeth Collier b 26.03.1946
Married 15.10.1966
Colin Bower b 12.01.1944
Link to Family Tree
Summary of research undertaken to date
Good progress was made through parish records provided by a correspondent.
We have made enjoyable visits to Cranley, Ewhurst, West Clandon and Send and Ripley where the Family lived.
Chris' great grandfather was one of the labourers working on Lord Onslow's estate at Clandon Park.
In particular, we enjoyed taking Chris' father Len Collier to find the Butt and Ben Cottages near Clandon Park, where he stayed with his grandmother.
Birth Marriage & Death Certificates Held
- Births: 1
- Marriages: 3
- Deaths:
Certificates Held - Peryer/Perrier Family
Census Records Obtained
- 1841 Henry & Sarah Peryer & family
- 1851 Henry & Sarah Peryer & family
- 1861 Henry Perryer staying with the Stedman family
- James Peryer with siste Hannah (Peryer) Stemp
- 1871 Henry Perreyer staying with Stemp family
- 1881 James & Martha (Smith) Purryer & family
- 1891 James & Martha (Smith) Perryer & family
- 1901 James & Martha (Smith) Perrier & family
Albert & Harriet Perrier& family
- 1911 Martha (Smith) Peryer, Widow & Family
Albert & Harriet Perrier & Family
Other Research Undertaken
- IGI - sheets for Surrey held
- Parish Records - see below
- Wills
- Businesses - nil
- Correspondence - We received some very useful information from West Surrey including extracts from Parish Records
- Visits - A number of visits to West Surrey including Clandon Park where James Peryer worked. Chris' Dad Len Collier remembered going to stay with his grandmother Martha Peryer nearby at the Butt and Ben Cotages at West Clandon:
- Photographs
Three Generations - Len Collier, Chris and our son Steve - outside the Butt and Ben Cottages, West Clandon
Progress 2004
We made an enjoyable visit with friends, who knew the area, to the Guidford area including Send & Ripley and Ewhurst (where the Peryer/Perrier Family lived) and West Clandon where both families lived.
Progress 2005/7
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Progress 2008
A correspondent made contact via Genes Reunited. She was a descendant of Matilda Peryer, James Peryer's sister; James Peryer being Chris' great grandfather.
Entries in the 1861, 1871 and 1891 Censuses were added
Progress 2009
Entries in the 1911 were added
Another correspondent via Genes Reunited claimed that Henry Peryer's grandparents were John Peryer born 1732 who married Sarah Trigg (born c 1730) on 29.10.1753 at Alford Surrey.
Clandon Park a National Trust property in West Clandon, Surrey put together a small exhibition which was part of a series that had been running through the year under the umbrella 'Clandon Uncovered'.
The exhibition in question revolved around an album that many West Clandon residents signed in 1889. This album was Christmas greetings (signatures, poems, prayers and sketches) and sent to the 4th Earl of Onslow who was governor of New Zealand from 1889 to 1892.
Clandon Park researched some of the signatories (including James & Martha Perrier) to see if there were any interesting stories as part of the exhibition. We duly provided some information but unfortunately Chris and I were unable to visit Clandon Park. Clandon Park were kind enough to send an image of the page on which the signatures appear:
Progress 2010
I included the Peryer/Perrier family in the project: The Big One!
The Big One - Family History Research Report - Peryer/Perrier Family
Progress 2011
A correspondent contacted me to advise me that her ancestor James Peryer was a brother of Chris' ancestor Henry Peryer:
James Peryer
bp 23.3.1783 St Peter & St Paul Church, Ewhurst
(parents James Peryer& Sarah Snelling married 4.4.1782 Ewhurst)
James married in Surrey:
Holy Trinity, Albury, Surrey
James Peryer married 26.4.1814
Leah Hill
but by 1840 the couple had moved to Sussex:
Thakeham, Sussex
Leah Peryer died Jan 1840
1841 Census
Wiltsshires, Pulborough, Sussex
James Peryer (57) Famer Born in County - No
Henry Peryer (18) Ag Lab Born in County - No
John Peryer (16) Born in County - No
Harriet Peryer (14) Born in County - No
George Peryer (11) Born in County - No
Mary Peryer (7) Born in County - Yes
Jane Peryer (7) Born in County - Yes
After Leah's death James remarried:
Pulboorough/Thakeham, Sussex
James Peryer married 17.4.1843
Elizabeth Large
Progress 2012-17
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Things we wish we knew
- Confirmation that John Peryer married Sarah Trigg (1753 Alford)and son James was born 1755 Alford.
- Confirmation that James Peryer married Sarah Snelling (1782 Abinger) and had son Henry.
- Confirmation that Henry Peryer married Sarah Mitchell (1828 Leatherhead)
- Where Sarah Mitchell was born - difficult to read town in 1851 Census
Colin Bower
24 December 2017
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