Name: Bearne H Address: 106 Sparrow Terr. P Patrol: Wolf Age: 15

Harry Bearne was born sometime in 1893 in Shelton to Thomas H and Eliza Bearne. Thomas was born in Bovey Tracey, Devon and Eliza in Wolstanton and they had four children.

In 1901 the family were living at 27 Snow Hill, Hanley and Thomas ran his own business as a ‘licensed victualler’ (pub landlord) and the family had seven staff living with them. Was it the Bear and Bell pub that Thomas ran?

Sadly it appears that Thomas died between October and December 1902. When Harry with his brother Percy, joined the Scouts in 1908, the family were living at 106 Sparrow Terrace. Eliza had remarried in 1906 and had a son with her new husband Herbert Shenton in 1906. The 1911 Census doesn’t mention Harry as it looks like he had left home.

Between October and December 1917 he married a woman whose surname was Walker. It looks like Harry and his wife, like Percy, emigrated to the USA, also settling in Michigan.