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Frances K. Piercy-Reins formerly Piercy
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Daughter of [private father (1930s - 2020s)] and [private mother (1940s - unknown)]
Sister of [private sister (1960s - unknown)] and [private brother (1960s - unknown)]
[spouse(s) unknown]
Mother of [private daughter (1990s - unknown)] and Benjamin Wessel
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Frances
Frances K. Piercy-Reins formerly Piercy
Ancestors
Daughter of [private father (1930s - 2020s)] and [private mother (1940s - unknown)]
Sister of [private sister (1960s - unknown)] and [private brother (1960s - unknown)]
[spouse(s) unknown]
Mother of [private daughter (1990s - unknown)] and Benjamin Wessel
Parents
[private father]
1930s - 2020s
[private mother]
1940s - unknown
Grandparents
27 Nov 1905 - 07 Jun 1987
Wylam, Northumberland, England, United Kingdom
18 Jun 1904 - 02 Apr 1990
Halifax, Yorkshire, England
03 Aug 1905 - 28 May 1993
Amblecote, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom
1900s - 1980s
Great-Grandparents
01 May 1869 - 17 Feb 1954
Dalston, Middlesex, England
18 Mar 1880 - 06 Aug 1959
Islington, London, England, United Kingdom
16 Feb 1867 - 14 May 1947
Ovendon, Halifax, Yorkshire, England
22 Feb 1875 - 22 May 1958
Blackburn, Whalley, Lancashire, England
20 Apr 1876 - 04 Feb 1956
Lye, Worcestershire, England
05 Feb 1868 - 30 Jul 1949
Stepney, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom
1880s - 1960s
1880s - 1970s
2nd-Great-Grandparents
06 Jan 1842 - 30 Aug 1920
bef 05 Apr 1841 - 13 Sep 1926
03 Apr 1847 - 17 Feb 1907
bef 01 Jan 1848 - 29 Sep 1934
23 Jun 1838 - abt Jul 1913
21 Jun 1841 - 28 Nov 1917
abt Mar 1838 - 04 Jan 1900
abt Mar 1840 - 26 Nov 1893
25 Apr 1826 - 31 Oct 1916
bef 25 Oct 1845 - 20 Sep 1899
17 Jul 1840 - 12 Aug 1873
01 Oct 1841 - abt Jan 1909
abt Sep 1842 - 23 Apr 1921
10 Sep 1860 - 05 Sep 1922
08 Feb 1843 - 05 Mar 1931
15 Nov 1854 - 20 Dec 1939
Descendants of Frances (Piercy) Piercy-Reins
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Biography
Projects
Chamberlayne Primary Sources Timeline
ENGLAND and WALES CENSUS DATES and WEEKDAYS
Henry Edward Juler Parentage Research
Birth and Parentage
Eldest child of John Michael Piercy [1] and Ann Prunella nÃĐe Brooks.[2] Born 3 March 1964 in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England. I am English; a Maid of Kent, born in Tunbridge Wells, in the Lathe of Aylesford, Kent, England in 1964, [3]
Education
Tunbridge Wells Girls Grammar School, (T.W.G.G.S, and Homerton College, Cambridge. Most of my family live in the UK. I'm a secondary school R.E. teacher by qualification, and a self-employed English teacher, translator, and children's author by profession.
Marriages and Family
1. F. Wessel, 22 Sept 1990, div. 3 Feb 2017
Children:
- Hannah (Wessel) Ljungberg
- Benjamin David Wessel
2. M. (Reins) Piercy-Reins, m. 17 May 2017
I live with my husband in Wiesbaden, Hessen, Germany, (the twin-town of Tunbridge Wells) where for now, we are permanent carers for my parents-in-law.
I first caught the genealogy bug from my paternal grandfather, John Percival Piercy - the gorgeous chap with the dog in his arms. He was an RAF air traffic controller in WW2, an enthusiastic sailor and registered chartered accountant; a generous donor to Christian missions, who always did the washing up and ground the coffee beans in their kitchen every morning. He built a sailing boat with my father and uncle in their dining room and had to take out the dining room windows in order to get the boat out of the house. He was a stickler for good language, grammar, and accurate calculation. He also believed that the Piercy surname could be traced back to the Percys. We always pooh-poohed this, and I don't remember him ever giving an explanation.
My great aunt, Dr Muriel Elizabeth Morley, my paternal grandmother's sister, was a pioneer in the field of speech therapy in the 1950s. She was a keen painter, photographer, collector of cacti and shells, and collator of her family history. It is thanks to her that we have so many memories, family photos and documents from my father's mother's line. She also believed that the moon influences people, something which her brother-in-law, my grandfather, thought was rank nonsense. She lived next door to my grandparents with her frail sister Joan, and used to turn up in Granny and Grandpa's kitchen unannounced, which annoyed Grandpa intensely. Hilariously, we later found out that there had been a mix-up when my grandparents were buried in the family plot in Rothbury Cemetery Rothbury, Northumberland. The coffin in which Muriel was buried, a few years after Grandpa and Granny died, was placed on top of Grandpa's, instead of on top of her sister Joan's. Grandpa would have been furious.
My father's Piercy ancestors as far as I can trace them, lived in Norfolk. Where they came from before that, I have not yet ascertained.
My mother's father's Brooks family (William Brooks is the furthest back I've got to so far) came from Stourbridge, Worcestershire, in the Black Country, and were iron masters and nail manufacturers. Mum's great uncle, Edward Tankerville Chamberlayne, (her maternal grandmother Mabel Alicia Chamberlayne's brother) wrote up his family tree in 1919. This claims that the family descends from the Counts of Tancarville in Normandy, before 1066.
I had started an online family tree about 20 years ago, but hadn't had a lot of time to do much work on it. When I was given a subscription to Ancestry back in March 2020, the Covid-19 lockdown meant that I had no work, but plenty of time to research.
While sleuthing for the Chamberlayne family in greater depth, I discovered that the Chamberlaynes do indeed descend from Guillaume de Tancarville, but it seems, before about 1300, from various female lines. Several branches of the family also shoot off up to almost all the Magna Carta sureties, the Plantagenets and the royal houses of Europe, going back to Ãlfred (Alfred) "Alfred the Great, King of the West Saxons and Anglo-Saxons" and Charlemagne.
I lived in Nuremberg, Germany from 1990 to 2023. This is ironic, because my second cousin twice removed, Edward Percy Bates, was a bomber pilot in 9th Squadron in WW2, and was involved in the Allied bombing of Nuremberg in 1944.
The more I find out about the family history, the more seeming coincidences I discover; not only about people I know or have known, to whom I now realise I am related, but also about places I have known and loved. Many of them are associated with my ancestors. I don't believe anything happens by accident - it's all part of a grand design, but finding out about it will take more than my lifetime.
Therefore, knowing that nothing in this world lasts forever and one must either excrete or expire, it would be an awful pity if my work on WikiTree ends up being deleted. In the event of my sudden death, I hereby give permission for all of my private profiles to be transferred to Hannah Wessel.
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- â Paternal relationship is confirmed by an autosomal AncestryDNA test match between Frances Piercy and Anthony D. Piercy, her 1st cousin 1x removed. Their most-recent common ancestors are Willie Piercy and Elsie Plowman, the great grandparents of Frances Piercy and grandparents of Anthony D. Piercy. Predicted relationship from AncestryDNA: 1st cousin once removed, based on sharing 357 cM across 19 segments. Frances is the daughter of John Piercy who is the grandson of the common ancestors Willie Piercy & Elsie Plowman.
- Citation generated by DNA Confirmation app, version 3.06 (updated 28.Nov.2025) - Piercy-1794 18:40, 11 January 2026 (UTC)
- â Maternal relationship is confirmed by an autosomal AncestryDNA test match between Frances Piercy and Peter Rupert Juler, her 1st cousin 1x removed. Their most-recent common ancestors are Frank Juler and Mabel Chamberlayne, the great grandparents of Frances Piercy and grandparents of Peter Rupert Juler. Predicted relationship from AncestryDNA: 1st cousin once removed, based on sharing 395 cM across 19 segments. Frances is the daughter of Anne Brooks who is the granddaughter of the common ancestors Frank Juler & Mabel Chamberlayne.
- Citation generated by DNA Confirmation app, version 3.06 (updated 28.Nov.2025) - Piercy-1794 17:59, 11 January 2026 (UTC)
- â Frances K. Birth Reg. Free BMD Entry Information: Retrieved from (Here;) Accessed 15 May 2021.
- â Freely available from: Chester-Waters, Robert Edmond., ( 1878)., Genealogical memoirs of the extinct family of Chester of Chicheley. Oxford University. Retrieved from the Internet Archive (Here;) Accessed 20 Apr 2022.
- â Public Domain: Burnett, Frances Hodgson, (1888, 1916), A Little Princess being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Internet Archive. Accessed 26 Jul 2025.
- First-hand information entered by Frances Piercy-Reins
- Salisbury, Edward Elbridge., (1892); Family histories and genealogies. A series of genealogical and biographical monographs on the families of MacCurdy, Mitchell, Lord, Lynde, Digby, Newdigate, Hoo, Willoughby, Griswold, Wolcott, Pitkin, Ogden, Johnson, Diodati, Lee and Marvin, and notes on the families of Buchanan, Parmelee, Boardman, Lay, Locke, Cole, De Wolf, Drake, Bond and Swayne, Dunbar and Clarke, and a notice of Chief Justice Morrison Remick Waite. With twenty-nine pedigree-charts and two charts of combined descents. New Haven Press: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor. Retrieved from the Internet Archive (Here;) Accessed 22 Sept 2022.
- Hervey, Sydenham Henry Augustus, (1914) Ladbroke and its owners. Bury St. Edmunds: Paul & Mathew. Retrieved from the Internet Archive (Here;) Accessed 22 Sept 2022.
- Staffordshire Record Society, (1882)., Collections for a history of Staffordshire. Birmingham, Eng.: Houghton and Hammond. Retrieved from the Internet Archive (Here;) Accessed 22 Sept 2022.
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Thank you for your commitment to the England Project and its goals in 2023! Together we are making English WikiTree profiles the best they can be!
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I noticed your reference to 'Dorset Medics' on the profile for William Chamberlayne (1619-1689) . It looks to be a really useful resource eg it has an entry for the brother in law of https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Sandford-336 also a physician in Dorset. There are several others who would fit into my 17th C Dorchester 'ops' Have you any information about the author? (Seems to be local by their usage of Dorset History Centre records)
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Many thanks for your message. I'm still happy with my current project team choices. I tend to jump around a bit - most of my activity is with the England Project, followed by the Medieval Project, followed by Magna Carta. Thanks for all you do as well!
Best regards, Frances
Regards Joan
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Just wondering if you have finished editing Lawrence Saunders MA (bef.1510-1555)? You haven't made any changes to the profile since 2 Aug 2021. Can the "Work in Progress - Please don't edit" message be deleted?
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Thank you for all the research you do on the Piercy family. I am a Piercy from the US (I believe my first ancestor arrived in Jamestown, VA from Burlescombe, Devon in 1659). I am curious if you have any insights into Piercys from Virginia or North Carolina from the 17th and 18th century? William, Charles, Blake, and Algernon are common given names in my branch. My current "brickwall" is a William Piercy (b. 1749 Bertie Co NC, d. 1783 Burke Co, NC) Again, thanks for all the research you do! Best regards,
Chuck Piercy
Very kind of you to write. I must confess that I haven't made any connections between Piercys in my family's area of Norfolk in England, and Virginia or North Carolina yet, but that's not to say that there aren't any. Some of my cousins emigrated to Canada a generation ago - that's certain. I will keep my eyes open, and if I find anything, let you know. I'm trying to get beyond my 5x GGF William (b. 1718) in Horstead, Norfolk, England, but he was an agricultural labourer, and it's difficult. Off the top of my head, I can't think of any Piercys who ended up in Devon, from Norfolk. The thing is, there are Piercys in lots of areas in the UK - Wales is a hot spot as well, and it will take a lot of research to sift through them all. Do you know if there is a WikiTree page for Piercy research? I'm thinking of starting a Free Space Profile for my own particular line at least, so as not to clog up William's bio page.
Best wishes, Frances
- PS. I found a lot of Piercys in Burlescombe - whom you've probably also found - on Ancestry - but I can't share the links - they don't show anything. A Johannes, Susanna, Elizabetha, Roberti, Maria, Johanna and another Johannes - all children of Walter Piercy from Burlescombe.
Thanks,
Chuck
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Hopefully you successfully find the connection there Frances. Feel free to add any Scottish research you want. I'm finding it easier working through the Australian records of those who came out.
Ben.
Thanks for getting in touch! 9th cousins. Wow. It's great to connect with a Hutchins - I haven't done any digging into that side of the family yet - but when I joined WT, I saw how my father's family connects to them - one day I hope to do some exploring up that branch. I enjoyed reading your story! Everyone deserves a memorial - which is one reason why I think WT is such a good idea. But yes, just because we're all cousins doesn't necessarily mean that we will find a pleasant connection. There are surprises of all kinds, aren't there... :) Thank you for your kind words about my family stories - I do have an English accent - but I'm 57, so, not so young any more. ;) My husband thinks that after years of living in Germany, I don't sound as English as the rest of my family, but that's his opinion! So, thanks and have a nice day! Wishing you all the best!
Update: It says I need to use your e-mail. Trying to add Piercy-1794 isn't good enough.
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I would to thank you for all your contributions towards the goals of the England Project during the past six months. We've achieved a huge amount during this period and we couldn't have done it without you and our other project members.
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I am a descendant of Emma Elizabeth Chamberlayne Atkins, wife of Sir Thomas Gowland. I mention this to you because I made my DNA available at WikiTree. Please let me know if I could be of any help to your study of Chamberlayne. All the best!
Pip
Great Member of the Week interview!
Chris
Thanks for your poetic addition! That's great!
Chris
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