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The History of the
Parshall Family from the Conquest of England by William of Normandy, A.D.
1066 to the Close of the 19th Century (1903)
The Parshall Family
A.D. 870-1913 (1915)
History and
Genealogy of the Pearsall Family in England and America (1928)
Volume I
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THE PEARSALL FAMILY
This website is
dedicated to members of the Pearsall family and extended cousins
worldwide (including variant surnames and adoptees), the Pearsall family
history, and the Pearsall family genealogy. The website also contains
information relating to the Pearsall Family DNA Surname Project which is open
to anyone who wants to test or verify their relationship to other
Pearsall family members (43-marker male Y-chromosome STR genetic
genealogy test). Your participation and support are important.
The purposes of this website are:
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to help us collectively discover how we
are related,
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to serve as an opportunity to network /
reconnect with family members and cousins worldwide, and
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to memorialize the life of each member
of the family (publicly or privately) as they may wish.
The family surname may have evolved over eight hundred years into
many surnames, these include:-
Parasol, Parcell,
Parcelle, Parcells,
Parcoll, Parsell, Parsells, Parsels, Parshall,
Parsil, Parsill, Parsils, Parsoll, Parsolls, Pascal, Pashley, Passal,
Passaley, Passelew, Pearcall, Pearceall, Pearceaull, Pearsall, Pearsel, Pearsell, Pearsol, Pearsoll,
Peartil, Peashall, Peirsol, Perceaull, Persall, Persaul, Persee, Persel, Pershall, Persil, Persils,
Persoll, Pertil, Perzel, Peschale, Peshale, Peshall, Pesenschale,
Pexsall, Piersol,
Piersoll, Piercall, Pierceall, Piersall,
Porselly, Purcall, Purcel, Purcell,
Purkell, Pursel, Pursel, Pursell, Purshale, Pursley, Purslow, Pussal, and
Pysse. Other related ancestral surnames include: Corbeil,
Lumley, Suggenhull, Swinnerton, and Swynnerton.
Underlined = more common spelling of the family
surname
The Y-STR genealogical DNA test will help confirm whether or not
each surname is related and, if related, piece together how they are
related.
All of these
possibly related surnames (and probably a few others not listed) potentially
share a common paternal ancestor from Ålesund, Norway – Rollo (Gange Hrolf in Norwegian). Rollo was the Duke of
Normandy, France between the years 911 and 932 A.D. (born ~854 A.D., died
932 A.D). Rollo is believed to be the thirty-third generation of a line
of Scandinavian / Viking noblemen from Sweden and Norway.
Six generations
after Rollo, his descendants resettled to England and shortly thereafter
(about seven generations after Rollo in ~1200 A.D.) the Norman family
took ownership of the Peshale Manor, now called Pershall near what is today Eccleshall, Staffordshire
County, England. The name of the manor thus became the origin of the
Pearsall family surname.
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Twenty-four
generations after Rollo in ~1629, Thomas Pearsall resettled to the
English colony in Virginia to start tobacco farming. American Pearsalls
can be found throughout the United States, though greatest concentrations
are predominately in the states of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
New Hampshire, North Carolina, Florida, Michigan, Washington, Oregon, and
Montana. Pearsalls in Australia, South Africa, New Zealand and Canada
probably trace their roots to immigrants from England. More recent
migrations also include Canada to South Africa, Australia to California,
the United States to Canada, the United States to Finland, and from
England to France.
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More content
will be included over the coming months. Please feel free to contact me;
your comments, questions, and participation are welcomed.
Jim Pearsall
Houston, TX
Contact details:
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jimpearsall@hotmail.com
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U.S.A. telephone: +1-713-234-0336 (Central U.S.
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