Thank you for the answers to those queries and apologies for not replying earlier, but family matters intervening!
We dont know what happened to Mary E, but she was not mentioned in letters at a later date, or family visits in 1929. She was ill in 1919, and that is where our trail ends. I just felt she may have died in the 1920's. I am not aware that she married.
It would be good to get the marriage of Robert Pearson, who was 7 on the 1891 census, son of James and Annie. I think her name was Nellie, so must be Ellen?. Sister Fanny never married and James went to America.
I have no information on him after 1919 and if anyone can help with that, would be really good.
Bob would appear to be short for Robinson, I have a photo of a Bob Lacklison, so I think it must be him. I dont know if he married or if he was the Robert who may have gone to Canada and joined the Canadian army??
We are gradually building a family picture of the children and parents who stayed at home, and now know lots more about the children who emigrated, from our Australian research.
Shipping records are still a query, especially Thomas, wife Alice and daughter Mary, and a possible son John, who it is not known whether he was born in England or Australia. Listed on his fathers death cert. but not registered in Victoria.
Do you have records of migrants leaving Liverpool around 1857 to 1860, and if so, would be great to know
if you could locate Mathew who may have come on his own first, and then maybe Thomas. I have Richard and Robert coming on the Sovereign of the Seas arriving 1860, and maybe John, with other Pearsons on that ship, eg Alice and infant Mary, which are intriguing. None of these are on the 1861 census so definitely came out by then, and death certificates indicate they arrived in Aust. between 1857 and 1860. William and Sarah came on the Tudor in 1864 and Jane on the Hyderabad in 1869 we think.
William was not on the census with his parents and younger siblings in 1861, and am wondering if he had gone to work somewhere by then?
Any help with the above will be greatly appreciated.