PEARSON family Tunbridge Wells

[GDWrugby]

Hi,
   trying to track down some ancestors.

They appear here

http://theweald.org/N10.asp?NId=5271156

in the census from 1881.

I believe that william's father's name was Jonathan and the mothers name was Mary but don't have any other information.

William's wife was Ann Hodge, daughter of Henry and Eliza, but agian just know the names.

They travelled back and forth to Australia with their young family, but not sure when or where for the deaths of William and Ann.

Any further information regarding this family would be much appreciated.

thanks

[AMBLY]

Hi

From the earlier Census, it does look like William's parents were Jonathan & Mary.
Do you have he and Ann's marriage certificate, naming his father as Jonathan?

Cheers
AMBLY

[GDWrugby]

Hi AMBLY,

   have not found any marriage certificate for William and Ann.

I think I have what is William's Baptism on 16 Apr 1848 in Tudley and Capel, Kent, England which show's his parents as Jonathan and Mary.

I have an immigration register from the Ship Earl Dalhousie on the 22 Jul 1878 which shows that William's mother was Mary who was born in Kent. Does not mention his father. It also mentions a brother Jonathan who is living in Australia so could be named after his father.

It says that Ann's parents were Henry and Eliza Hodge.

William lists his occupation as an Engineer.

They go back to England in 1881.

Then they come back to Australia in 1884.

Eliza Ann Pearson (their daughter) was my great grandmother and she married in 1903 in Australia, so she definitely stayed but not sure about the rest of the family.

The trail for William and Ann goes cold from 1884. Don't know much about Jonathan and Mary and their lineage.

thanks for you help
cheers

[AMBLY]

1851: Brook Cottage, Tonbridge Road, Middle Hamlet, Parish of Tudely, Kent
Head: Jonathan PEARSON 31, Blacksmith, b East Farleigh, Kent
Wife: Mary PEARSON 31, b Rigate, Surrey
Son: Jonathan PEARSON 5, b Caple, Kent
Son; William PEARSON 3, b Caple, Kent

http://www.nwkfhs.org.uk/tude_plc.htm
http://www.nwkfhs.org.uk/cape_plc.htm
"...records for Tudeley are much intermixed with Capel"

Also seen as "Tudely cum Capel"

1861:  Botany Bay, Village of Tunbridge,
RG9 /  Piece: 494 /  Folio: 34 /  Pg5
Head: Mary PEARSON 40, widow, Sepmtress, b Reigate Surrey
Son: William PEARSON 12, b Tudley Kent
Son: Henry PEARSON 6, b Tudley Kent
Dau: Caroline PEARSON 4, b Tudley Kent

1871:  Bull? --------? Row, Middle Hamlet, Parish of Tudely cum Capel, Tudely
RG10 /  Piece: 934 /  Folio: 81 /  pg9
Widow: Mary PEARSON 54, Ag Labourer, b Surrey
Son: William PEARSON 24, unm, Ag Labourer, b Tudley
Son: Henry PEARSON 16, b Tudley
Dau: Caroline PEARSON 14, b Tudley

MARRIAGE: Dec Qtr 1875 , Tunbridge - on same page:
William PEARSON
Ann HODGE

Cheers
AMBLY

[AMBLY]

http://newsarch.rootsweb.com/th/read/PEARSON/2001-05/0989323539
"Looking for relatives of Jonathan PEARSON and Mary GRANT, married in Capel,
Kent, England about 1840. Their sons Jonathan and William migrated to
Australia, and Jonathan was my husband's great grandfather.
Kathy Pearson in NSW"

Cheers
AMBLY

[GDWrugby]

Thanks AMBLY !!!

From doing some more digging I think Mary's parents are possibly Thomas Grant and Ann ..... ? There seems to be a Baptism record in Reigate with approx the right dates if this is the same person.

Jonathan's parents still seem to be elusive.

Thanks again.