| Description | <p>Correspondence with Bob Pearson and notes by ES Pearson on the Pearson family history, particularly the family's Yorkshire connections and links to the Unthank and Wharton families. Mentions sources in the Karl Pearson Papers and KP's own research. In the late 1970s until his death in June 1980, ESP appears to have worked on putting his own and his father's research on the Yorkshire Pearsons into order. Typescripts of this work and original source material can be found in subsequent files. </p>
<p>This file consists of: correspondence with Bob Pearson re: family history research; ESP's notes; press cuttings relating to the death of Bobbie Dowson [c1906]; 9 photographs of Pearson ancestors and ancestral homes including Arthur Beilby Pearson (KP's brother), Fanny Smith (KP's mother) and Sleightholme Dale; family pedigree charts hand-drawn by ESP and KP; copy of the marriage certificate of Thomas Smith and Ann Wharton 1807; letter from Fanny Pearson to her son Karl Pearson on his birthday March 1903; photograph of the bust of KP by Hope Pinker; and letters from Jan Abrahams to ESP re: her copying of his notes.</p> |