| Dr George Campbell Shearer MA. son of William Shearer and Barbara Campbell born 27 April 1836 in Thurso. He attended Edinburg University . How he met Georgiana Pomeroy the music teacher who lived in Liverpool. Possibly doing something charitable, the 1861 census shows he worked as a Medical officer in Liverpool ,6 Mount Pleasant St Columba Conventional Parish: Liverpool workhouse at Bronlow Hill SHEARER, George Officer Unmarried M 24 occupation M D born Scotland Married West Derby near Liverpool in 1868 to Georgiana Augusta Pomeroy daughter of Augustus Stephen Jeffery Pomeroy and Sarah Georgiana Moore. They went to China almost immediately after this . The family returned to England between 1873 and 1875 to Liverpool where they took up residence at 173 Upper Parliament Street Liverpool. George continued to practice medicine in Liverpool.He also lectured as a professor of Biology. His signature can be found on several Pomeroy family certificates, indicating that he was a physician rather than a surgeon. 1881census 127 Upper Parliament Street Liverpool �George SHEARER� �Head� age �43� �Scotland� �Physician� �� �Georgina SHEARER� �Wife� age�44� �London, London, Middlesex, England� �� �� �Annie SHEARER� �Daur� �age�12� �China� �Scholar� �� �James SHEARER� �Son� age �10� �China� �Scholar� �� �Kate SHEARER� �Daur� �age� �9� �China� �Scholar� �� �George SHEARER� �Son�age �8� �China� �Scholar� �� �Walter C. SHEARER� �Son� �age� �3� �L pool, Lancashire, England� �� �� �Mary I. ROSSETER� �Servant� �age� �20� �Ireland� �Serv� �� �Jane GERAD� �Servant �age� �19� �L pool, Lancashire, England� �Serv� �� BIOGRAPHY: Doctor Fellow of the Linnean Society. whilst in KuiKeng in Yangtse China he studied the local chinese population and wrote a paper on their mental health. He almost certainly knew Darwin and may have had conversations with him on his theories. He and his brother William did had correspondence with Robert Dick the eminant amature Botanist based in their home town of Thurso and are mentioned in a book about Dick. He wrote pamphlets on such subjects as ' Geology and Genisis' and lectured on Botany at Liverpool School of Medicine now the University of Liverpool. He died age 54 in 1892 His Family. Annie Shearer, born 1869 in China, married Wylie son Norman Shearer Wylie James Augustus Shearer born 10 Oct 1870 Kiukiang in the British Concession Lower Yangtze Ports CHINA died Christmas 1950. Katherine Shearer born 1872 China died a young woman when her (long) hair caught fire. George Shearer born 1873 China Walter Campbell Shearer born 1875 in Liverpool married Frances Moxon died Southsea Hants 1965 Ernest and Mabel both born in Liverpool and died in infancy. James Augustus Shearer in 1901 census he was living with his widowed mother Georgiana and his brother George in Chestnut Grove Birkenhead and working as a commercial clerk. A respectable occupation for a well educated middle class young man of the time. In 1907 James married Lily Daisy Machin in Hackney. She was the daughter Bryan and Emma Machin a leather factory manager who began as a boot clicker ( a man who cut out leather for boots) After they were married they lived at 1 Clyde Road Croydon, the house later taken on by their daughter Mary and her husband Jan Berg. Clyde Road is very close to Upper Addiscombe Road where lived Uncle Donald Shearer . Its possible that James worked in Donald�s company for a while, I have no family information about this. Later he was an importer of gold leaf used in guilding . His partner turned out to be a mistake and he lost his money.He spoke Portugese and Esperanto Lily and James Shearer, had 4 children Rev George Ernest Shearer, who married Mary Richardson. Mary Helen Shearer, who married Jan Berg Marguerite Sylvia Shearer, who married Clive Randall Cook son of Percy Randall Cook Stella Ruth Shearer who married Douglas Ash . |
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| Dr Georges PLANTS found by him in China and named for him. CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names: Common Names, Scientific Names, Eponyms Shearerai. S Moore Asteraceae named for George Shearer,physician, plant collector and traveller in China . ( S Moore was his wife's mother's name) see Emil Bretschneider 1833-1901 History of European Botanical Discoveries in China. reprint of original 1898 - Leipzip 1981 also found JSTOR George Shearer, Opium Smoking and Opium Eating, Their Treatment and Cure BJP 21 April 1875 Notes in Regard to the Prevalence of Insanity and other Nervous Diseases in China George Shearer Journal of Mental Science 1875 21: 31-40. |