George Pearce was aged 21 when he emigrated in 1848 from Cornwall to South Australia on the Samuel Boddington, with several other members of his family.
[4] Henry Pearce[citation needed] (1800–1889) and his two sons George and William (1837–1909) of Altarnun, Cornwall, emigrated from England on the Samuel Boddington to South Australia.
William Pearce arrived in South Australia with his brother George and their father Henry, lived at Burra until the Victorian gold rush, when they tried their luck for a year or so.
William returned to Adelaide and began working as a blacksmith, then settled at Point Sturt, where he founded Poldea Station.
[5] A third brother, James Pearce (1832–1919), arrived in the Ascendant in 1851, and worked as a blacksmith at Mount Barker, Red Hill and Alma.