On the 1851 census Philip's birthplace is Ashurst and there is a Joseph Pierce on the previous page age 48 also born Ashurst. Philip's age is 50 so he would be born about 1800-1 and Joseph about 1802-3. There are a couple of public trees on ancestry showing Philip's mother as Ann but not much info there.
On the 1841 census Thomas has Philip with him, then on the next page there is a James Pierce age 55, "yeoman". Hmm, there do seem to have been a lot of Pierces around.
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