Edward Pearman Snr

  Research Notes:

Chris Pearman notes:
Here's what I know about James Pearman (1768-?) and a bit more.
He was the elder of two sons to John and Susannah Pearman, baptised at Wisbech Cambridgeshire England (not far from Kings Lynn) in 1768. The other son William (1769) died an infant. I have not been able to trace his parents' history. James married first a lady called Thomasin Newdick in 1790 at Wisbech but sadly she died the following year. He then married Elizabeth Minns on 21st September 1791 at Wisbech. Their son Edward was probably born the same year and later baptised at Kings Lynn on 17th October 1796. According to the death certificate of Elizabeth in 1838, James' occupation was "Sailor". This raises the interesting possibility that James might have served in the British navy during the Napoleonic wars. Like you I have been unable to trace evidence of his death or burial and he could of course have died at sea.
Regarding Elizabeth, she seems to have been widowed by 1803, as there is a marriage noted on 26th March 1803 at Lynn of Elizabeth Pearman, Widow, to William Holly. It seems that on his death she eventually moved in with son Edward and his family and lived with them for some time. The informant on her 1838 death would naturally have thought that her surname was Pearman and this was the name on the register.
The son Edward married Elizabeth Largen at Lynn in 1832, having already started a family with her. Their eldest, James is my ancestor, born 6th October 1827. The 1841 UK census shows young James living with the family at South Clough Lane, Lynn, aged 13. In 1851 he lived elsewhere in Lynn as a lodger. In the early 1850s he moved to Wakefield, Yorkshire and started the Wakefield Pearman dynasty of which I am a current member.

  Noted events in his life were:

• connection. ¹⁰¹⁴ Chris Pearman 's connection to me is as follows:
Chris Pearman (1943)
His father was Thomas Pearman (1916)
His father was James Pearman (1878)
His father was James Pearman (1827)
His father was Edward Pearman (1796) who also had Sarah Ann Pearman (1834) who married William Ashton (1831)
They had William Ashton Pearman (1857)
He had Valentine Ashton (1890)
He had Ronald Ashton (1921)
He had Rodney Ashton (1942) who married Patricia Kneller (1942)
Her father was John Kneller (1911)
His father was Alfred Kneller (1887)
His father was Henry Kneller (c1857) who married Olive Pink (1859)
His father was James Kneller (c1832) who married Eliza Kemp (1836)
Her father was George Kemp (c1796) & he also had George Kemp (1823)
He had John Kemp (1860)
He had Louisa Kemp (1884) who married Percy Barton (1882)
They had Marinda Barton (1903) who married Arthur Crowther (1902)
His father was Frederick Crowther (1875) who married Elizabeth Knight (1876)
His father was John Knight (1844) & he also had Arthur Knight (1881) who married Ethel Dawes (1879)
Her father was Richard Dawes (1845)
His father was Edward Dawes (1813) & he also had James Dawes (1843)
He had Annie Florence Dawes (1873) who married Arthur Augustus Bray (1869)
They had Albert Bray (1896)
He had Robert Alfred Bray (1920) who married Veda Kemp (1925)
They had Robert Bray (1947) who married me - Robyn Bray (nee Davies) (1950)

Edward married Elizabeth Largen, daughter of Curril Largen and Ann Boyce, in 1832 in Kings Lynn, Norfolk England.¹⁰¹⁴ (Elizabeth Largen was born in 1802 in North Runcton, Norfolk England.)