 He was raised by his eldest sister, also named Ann, 21 years his senior.Jeremiah Lear ended up defaulting to the London Stock Exchange in the economic upheaval following the Napoleonic Wars; owing to the family's now more limited finances, Lear and his sister were required to leave the family home, Bowmans Lodge, and live together when he was aged four.Ann doted on Edward and continued to act as a mother for him until her death, when he was almost 50 years of age.