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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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would include the
generation of their grandfather, while previously made pedigrees of any
of the branches of the family genealogy have been accepted only in so far
as they complied with this same regulation. With only these two
exceptions, all of the pedigree of the family is based upon records of
recognized authority, that have not been in any way tampered with, and
which records are set out in full in the text, together with a reference
to the place where the original may be consulted.
The reader will
kindly understand that every fact stated in this history is supported by
competent authority either in public or private records of England and America, as well as
supplemented by the records belonging to or competent testimony given by
the members of our family and others with whom we have consulted. To save
multiplicity of citation the reader will find that the deductions as
presented are supported by the next following citation in the same
sub-division or section even though it may be more than one page after
that on which appears the interesting fact which the reader desires to
verify.
HOW
TO READ THIS BOOK.
A book that is
worth reading has been built up according to some carefully thought-out
plan and outline which was followed by the author. If one could only
definitely learn and get in sympathy with this, the writer's point of
view, then possibly many books not thoroughly understood would have
received more recognition. In olden time authors in the preface to their
works took pains to explain to prospective readers exactly how the writer
thought his book should be read. It was, however, all wasted effort, as
not one reader out of a thousand read the preface. The writer of this
book is therefore not going to try to tell his readers how they shall
read or study this book, but he is going to give such plain directions as
will enable the reader or student to safely conduct himself through the
great maze of matter herein contained without getting hopelessly lost. It
will not be possible to even conjecture the unnumbered ways one may enter
into this labyrinth of facts and citations, as each of the thousands of
names in the index offers an open door; nor is it within the power of
mortal man to conjecture the journey even one such reader may take after
he once begins a study of the book. The writer has done all he can to
help the traveler in that he has carefully placed sign boards at each
cross roads, and as one of these cross roads leads to the main highway,
it is only necessary to carefully point out the main line of study and
its relationship to these branching lines of investigation.
The family of
Pearsall did not exist until the twelfth century when Robert Fitz Gilbert
de Corbeil, having acquired the manor of Peshale, vested the same in his son Robert who began
to call himself de Peshale after the name of
this manor. This Robert de Peshale married Ormunda de Lumley de Stafford,
a princess of the royal line of Bernician-Northumbrian
kings. From them descended all who now or at any time have called
themselves Pearsall, and incidentally it may be well to say that there
are also several other surnames which are out-growths of the name of this
manor of Peshale, and the ancestry of the
several individuals using the same, is, in this history, traced to this
same Robert de
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