----- Original Message ----- From: "Roy Stockdill" <roy.stockdill@btinternet.com> To: <west-riding@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 10:20 PM Subject: Re: [WRY] RE PEARSON Hi I have them in Thornton Bradford,back to John & Elizabeth mar c1639 eldest child Abraham Pearson Born/bap 24 Apr 1640 Wilsden,bought Street Gap Farm from John Cockroft 7 July 1647 of Allerton: Abraham = Mary Manning 24 Sep 1772. Siblings: Judith Pearson 26 Dec 1641 she mar Abraham Denby 21 Nov 1666, John Pearson 01 May 1642 had a son John. Traced above from Sarah Pearson = 1825 at Bfd. John Jowett these also lived at Street Gap Farm, which was near Pearson Hill, near to Daisy Hill , or the name was changed to Daisy Hill. Anyone else got these? Janet Ogden > From: "Carol Groves" <bluebell64@optusnet.com.au> > >> Are there any PEARSON out there,please give me BUZZ carol.> > > Are you aware how many Pearsons there are likely to be "out there"? > > To give you an example of how common the surname is, there were > 34,786 people called Pearson in the 1881 census of Britain. Of these, the > greatest number - 5,552 - were living in the West Riding of Yorkshire, > with 1,212 in Bradford alone. The numbers must be far, far higher today. > > If you expect any seriously helpful replies, it might help you to be a > little > more specific - unless you are doing a one-name study, which with a very > frequent name like Pearson I tend to doubt! > > -- > Roy Stockdill > Editor, Journal of One-Name Studies > Guild of One-Name Studies website: www.one-name.org > Newbies' Guide to Genealogy & Family History: > www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html > > "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, > and that is not being talked about." > OSCAR WILDE > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > WEST-RIDING-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.15.12/1096 - Release Date: > 27/10/2007 11:02 > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for private users. It has removed 60015 spam emails to date. Paying users do not have this message in their emails. Try SPAMfighter for free now!