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If he will read section two of
chapter twenty-six, he will get the ancestry of Maria Bathurst the wife
of Edmond Pearsall. If he will read the second section of each of the
chapters from twelve to twenty-five inclusive, excepting chapter twenty-one,
he will get the ancestry of the maternal line of Edmond Pearsall through
whom he claims by reason of his ancestor's marriage in each of these
generations.
In the American
section the arrangement is different. For here each succeeding chapter
represents a distinct group of the family, all descended from the person
whose name heads the first section of the chapter, except chapter
forty-three which contains two groups. The ramifications of descent from
the common ancestor of the group are told in the succeeding sections in
this same chapter, each of which is devoted to some distinct branch of
this family group. When-ever some one of his descendants may have become
the common ancestor of another separate group, then
there will appear in the chapter a reference to another chapter where the
information concerning this group will be found. The reader will also
kindly remember that a letter before a name, say z or a or the like,
indicates that this is the mark of a subdivision of this same section or
division of a section and this section or division is the place where
further information may be found concerning the party named.
If the reader is
interested in the English family of Pearsall he will find the same in section
six and the following sections of chapter eighteen. He will also find
that the arrangement is the same as for the American part of this work;
namely, each section represents a separate group of this family, and each
sub-division represents a separate subordinate group of this main
division of the family.
If the reader is
interested in any other form of the family name and finds the same in the
work according to the index, he will see that he has located it in one of
the other sections of this work and he will also discern that this
section is devoted to this particular group of the family. The references
at the beginning of the section will lead him to the first section of the
next preceding chapter and thereon back he will follow the line of ancestry
of Edmond Pearsall to Robert de Peshale and Ormonda de Stafford and from thence on back to their
ancestors so far as they appear in this work.
The reader will
notice that Edmond Pearsall at the beginning of chapter twenty-six has
the number one opposite his name. This indicates that he is the first or
beginning generation of the American family of Pearsall. If the reader
will notice he will also find that each ancestor of the several preceding
generations in ancestry of Edmond Pearsall has a number opposite his name
at the beginning of his chapter and that these numbers run in sequence
from Edmond Pearsall to Ronald, who was the earliest ancestor, and whose
name has been preceded with the number twenty-six to indicate that he is
the twenty-sixth ancestor pre-ceding the founding of the American family
of Pearsall.
THE COAT OF
ARMS.
A coat of arms
is defined to be a complete achievement; An achievement is defined to be
a complete heraldic composition, whether of the shield alone, or
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