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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

 

 

 

 

 

 

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

 

WALTER DE PESHALE

Thirteenth in Ancestry

 

Section 1, Walter de Peshale Section 2, Ralph de Peshale.

 

 

SECTION 1.

 

13. WALTER DE PESHALE. Son of Walter de Peshale, Chapter 14, Section 1, married           -. Children:

1.    *12. ADAM DE PESHALE, Chapter 16, Section 1.

2.    Thomas le Golden, Chapter 16, Section 3.

3.    Richard de Peshale, Chapter 16, Section 5.

4.    Robert de Peshale, Chapter 16, Section 4.

The family history in this generation is very interesting. Stephen, uncle of Dr. Walter de Peshale, had three children: Robert, who died without heirs of his body; Walter, who was a priest, and therefore he died unmarried; and Eleanor who married John de Swinnerton, and thereby they became the ancestors of all the living Swinnertons. Ralph, brother of Dr. Walter de Peshale, probably died in the wars, at least there is no record of his having any male heirs.

Going back to the original John de Lumley, de Peshale; the descendants of his oldest son Robert never did call themselves de Peshale, they were de Swinnerton and de Suggenhull. He was the ancestor of the above John de Swinnerton who married Eleanor de Peshale. The descendants of Ralph, the son of John de Lumley de Peshale, went away from Staffordshire and Shropshire, and not long after this time there were no descendants of his male line who called themselves de Peshale. Even in the absence of a complete genealogy we can safely assert that, allowing that there were descendants of Ralph, they had long since ceased to be any who called themselves by the name of Peshale; as a fact they seem to have called them Pexall and Pascall. As to John de Peshale, son of this same John de Lumley de Peshale, his line became extinct in the next succeeding generation to this. Therefore Dr. Walter de Peshale occupies a peculiar position in our family history in that so far as our present knowledge goes he is not only our ancestor but he is the genearch or common-ancestor of all the living Peshales.

All the lines of ancestry of those who today call themselves Peshale, of every spelling, excepting Pexall and Pascall, which are of the line of Ralph, son of John de Lumley de Peshale, trace their ancestry to Dr. Walter de Peshale. He resided in Shropshire, and as his sons a few years later married and removed to Staffordshire, it appeared to the Staffordshire historians and genealogists as though these four men of undoubted rank, of the highest family connections, and of large estate, had come down out of the clouds full grown and heavenly endowed. Fortunately some of the public records, as we shall see, state positively that they were sons of Walter de Peshale. But unfortunately the local genealogists, without in-

 

 

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