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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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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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