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207036
Surname: Pierce
First Name: Dr. John
Ship: -
Date: 13 January 1866
Place: Wallsend
Source: Newcastle Chronicle
Details: Coroners Inquest. Sydney Maker, age 6, died after being hit by a train on the Wallsend to Newcastle line. Train driver George Callow. Attended by Dr. John Pierce


207792
Surname: Pierce
First Name: Dr. John
Ship: -
Date: 3 August 1864
Place: Wallsend
Source: Newcastle Chronicle
Details: An inquest was held at the National School house, Wallsend before the district coroner Dr. Knaggs, upon the body of a child aged 8 years, by the name of Mary Ann Leach, daughter of John Leach, who had drowned in a creek. Witnesses Charles Bryant, a sawyer, who attempted to save her and Dr. John Pierce who attempted to revive her


207797
Surname: Pierce
First Name: Dr. John
Ship: -
Date: 1 October 1864
Place: Wallsend
Source: Newcastle Chronicle
Details: Chairman of a lecture on The Income Tax delivered by A.A.P. Tighe in the Temperance Hall at Wallsend


207800
Surname: Pierce
First Name: Dr. John
Ship: -
Date: 29 April 1868
Place: Wallsend
Source: Newcastle Chronicle
Details: An accident occurred on Friday night, about half-past eight o clock, to Dr. John Pierce, between Waratah and Wallsend. It appears he had an occasion to go and see his brother, Dr. Robert Pierce, at Waratah. The night being rather dark, about one hundred yards this side of the Big Hill, the surface of the ground has fallen in by the Waratah Company taking out all the coal, which has left this place in a very dangerous state, the doctor coming cantering at an easy pace, when, unfortunately for him, his horse got into one of these open cracks with his two front feet, and fell over on his side, and the unlucky doctor had the misfortune to be undermost, which resulted in damaging his left foot severely. The lid of his left knee is badly cut, also a deep gash on the left arm near the elbow. His shoulder on the same side was so badly hurt that it was impossible for him to move it. On his arrival at Wallsend, after the accident, thirty-two leeches were applied to his foot, which he got a considerable amount of relief from. He has been bedridden ever since, but I am informed there are none of his bones fractured, and that he expects to be well enough shortly to attend to some small portion of his duties


207801
Surname: Pierce
First Name: Dr. John
Ship: -
Date: 4 February 1869
Place: Wallsend
Source: The Newcastle Chronicle
Details: Residing from position of Surgeon to the Wallsend colliery, an appointment which he had held for the previous 7 years


207802
Surname: Pierce
First Name: Dr. John
Ship: -
Date: 27 February 1869
Place: Wallsend
Source: Newcastle Chronicle
Details: Farewell dinner held at the Travellers Rest, Wallsend for Dr. John Pierce who was leaving the district


207803
Surname: Pierce
First Name: Dr. John
Ship: -
Date: 23 March 1869
Place: Maitland
Source: Maitland Mercury
Details: Notice - Dr. John Pierce, late of Wallsend, intimating to the inhabitants of Maitland and the surrounding district that he had commenced the practice of his profession in West Maitland


207804
Surname: Pierce
First Name: Dr. John
Ship: -
Date: 12 July 1872
Place: Maitland
Source: Evening News
Details: Because of the alarm of a small pox outbreak, over thirty people applied to be vaccinated at Maitland


207805
Surname: Pierce
First Name: Dr. John
Ship: -
Date: 13 July 1872
Place: Maitland
Source: Maitland Mercury
Details: Dr. John Pierce involved in a serious accident when his horse collided with a meat cart carrying a heavy load of meat from the slaughter house. He was thrown to the ground opposite the Bank of New South Wales. He was attended by his brother Dr. Robert James Pierce


207806
Surname: Pierce
First Name: Dr. John
Ship: -
Date: 24 January 1874
Place: Maitland
Source: Maitland Mercury
Details: Attended the annual meeting of the suscribers to the Maitland Hospital and gave the medical report


207807
Surname: Pierce
First Name: Dr. John
Ship: -
Date: 11 April 1874
Place: Maitland
Source: Maitland Mercury
Details: Dr. John Pierce departing Maitland for San Francisco on the mail steamer Cyphrenes and acting as surgeon for the vessel. Had been ill for for some weeks and was taking the sea voyage for the benefit of his health. He intended to return on the Cyphrenes after an absence of four months.


207808
Surname: Pierce
First Name: Dr. John
Ship: -
Date: 30 December 1875
Place: Maitland
Source: Maitland Mercury
Details: Death, on Monday 27th December at his residence in High-street, West Maitland, Dr. John Pierce, aged 33 years


207791
Surname: Pierce
First Name: Dr. John
Ship: Wennington 1868
Date: 12 February 1868
Place: Melbourne
Source: Newcastle Chronicle
Details: News that Dr. John Pierce had landed in Melbourne by the ship Wennington after a passage of ninety-nine days


207798
Surname: Pierce
First Name: Dr. John; Dr. Robert James
Ship: -
Date: 18 January 1868
Place: Wallsend
Source: Newcastle Chronicle
Details: Many readeres of the Chronicle will be glad to learn that their old friend Dr. John Pierce, M.D., will soon be amongst them again. His presence is much needed in Wallsend, as nearly all the work now devolves upon his brother Dr. R. J. Pierce, of Waratah, who is at it night and day. The fever being so prevalent just now gives the medical men a good deal of what may be regarded as extra work


139295
Surname: Pierce
First Name: Dr. Robert James
Ship: -
Date: 1869 27 March
Place: Newcastle
Source: MM
Details: Reported that Dr. Pierce was about to leave Waratah for Muswellbrook


198270
Surname: Pierce
First Name: Dr. Robert James
Ship: -
Date: 19 July 1873
Place: West Maitland
Source: Newcastle Chronicle
Details: Death, on 15 July, at High Street, West Maitland, Mattie Fitzgerald, the beloved wife of Dr. Robert J. Pierce, aged 27 years


207103
Surname: Pierce
First Name: Dr. Robert James
Ship: -
Date: 1872
Place: Maitland
Source: John Lee and Co Almanac for 1885, West Maitland, National Library Australia
Details: Dr. R. J. Pierce commenced the practice of his professions in West Maitland early in 1872


207811
Surname: Pierce
First Name: Dr. Robert James
Ship: -
Date: 31 January 1889
Place: -
Source: Maitland Mercury
Details: Old residents of the Upper Hunter will remember the fatal accident in a Queensland drafting yard that bereft Mr. and Mrs. Keys of their eldest son, to whose return they were just looking with fondest expectancy; of the still more tragic shooting accident which hurried their second son into eternity ; then-after an interval-the early death of their eldest daughter, who was for a short time the wife of Dr. Robert James Pierce,, but who all to soon, after a short illness left him a widower with one little child, a son, who has ever since been the care of his grandmother, Mrs. Keys, of Bengalla. It is not long since old Mr. Keys himself died, and a few months happened at short intervals two fatal buggy accidents, which caused the deaths of Miss Bessie Hudson Keys, and Mr. FitzGerald (a relative of the family), the latter gentleman being killed in the streets of Muswellbrook. And now follows another blow in the unexpected death of Dr. Pierce. His son and the whole Kaye family have the sympathy of the whole of the Northern districts in their latest and all too sudden bereavement


199315
Surname: Pierce
First Name: Dr. Robert James
Ship: 1864
Date: 1888
Place: West Maitland
Source: Morrison, W. Frederic (1888). The Aldine centennial history of New South Wales illustrated / W. Frederic Morrison. Sydney: The Aldine Publishing Company.
Details: DR. ROBERT JAMES PIERCE, J.P., Physician and Surgeon, was born in Dublin in 1841, and there educated. He studied medicine and surgery in his native city, taking his degree at the Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland. In 1864 he arrived in Melbourne as surgeon of the Tornado, soon afterwards visiting Newcastle, where he succeeded Dr. Knaggs as coroner and returning officer, and for five years practised his profession. He then removed to Muswellbrook and was appointed Government medical officer and surgeon to the hospital. About fifteen years ago he came to Maitland and has ever since resided there in active practice. Four years ago he was elected alderman, and in 1886 chosen mayor of West Maitland. He was visiting surgeon of the hospital for ten years, and for the last five has held the position of consulting physician. He contested the Morpeth electorate in 1883 and was only defeated by Sir Robert Wisdom by 127 votes. Dr. Pierce holds the degrees of physician, surgeon, and licentiate of midwifery. He took a prominent part in the formation of the Maitland Light Horse, which now numbers seventy members. He was married at Muswellbrook to the daughter of Mr. J. H. Keys of Bengalla. Dr. Pierce was appointed to the commission of the peace about eighteen years ago


207809
Surname: Pierce (obit)
First Name: Dr. John
Ship: -
Date: 28 December 1875
Place: Maitland
Source: Maitland Mercury
Details: Death of Dr. John Pierce - very general regret held at the announcement of the death of Dr. John Pierce of West Maitland. A genial and kindly man with all the nature of a gentleman combined with the tact and skill of a clever physician