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History and Genealogy
of the Pearsall Family in England
and America:
Volume I
Front Cover
Inside Front Cover
The Motive
Thanks
Illustrations
Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Appendix I
Volume II
Volume III
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the way they had
always indicated the family name, and that they represented some
variation of the Pearsall surname which would be proven by the
generations of their ancestors.
We desire
therefore in conclusion to say that the purpose of this present
under-taking is primarily to present the ancestry for the Family of
Pearsall. If the reader will kindly keep this before him as he reads the
pages of this history, he will find it much easier to grasp the proof of
the several generations of our family as herein presented. If he is of
our branch of the family then sooner or later he is bound to come to an
ancestor who spelled his name as Pearsall, whereas if he is of some other
branch of the family of Peshale, then he will
find the data presented in such a manner that he can determine his
ancestry without in any way touching our pedigree until his branch shall
come into the main or elder line of the Peshale
ancestry.
Recurring to a
final consideration of the surname of Pearsall we have stated that
originally our family name had its origin in the manor of Peshale in Stafford-shire, the name of which our
remote ancestor adopted as a place name and which his descendants
subsequently assumed as a surname. So likewise, in the case of those who
make up the several groups, who now or formerly called themselves as
Pearsall, it will be found that practically this newer designation is a
place name, hence it is a place name within a place name. For as a fact
this variation of the original name is confined to the descendants of
sons of Edmond Perseall, who came to America,
landing first in the Chesapeake Bay County of Virginia, and to the
members of the Ranton branch of our family who
settled along the road that leads from Hales Owen to Birmingham in
England, and to a small number of those members of the Ranton Branch who settled at Toynton
and upper Toynton in Lincolnshire, England. The
spelling Pearsall is also a business name, as it had its origin with
those members of the family who were associated with Edmond Pearsall in
the marketing of the Staple of England, or who, being his sons, succeeded
to his business. And to show how completely these three groups have
absorbed all the history of the original family to the exclusion of all
the others with all of their many spellings of the original surname, we
will close this story of the Name with the following citations from
standard English authorities, e.g.:
The standard
English Dictionary of surnames which gives the following: Pearsall and Pearsaul belong to Pershall
or Pershiell (Staff). A. D. 1188, Pereshull; Persoll is the
same as Pearsall, and
A Dictionary of
Family Names of the United Kingdom by Mark Anthony, M.A.,F.S.A.,
gives.-Pearsall, an estate in co. Stafford, now written Pearshall or Pershall. The family are of Norman origin, having been founded at
the place referred to by Robert, a follower of Robert of Stafford, early
in the reign of the Conqueror. He was son of Gilbert, son of a Count of Corbeil in Normandy.
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