| Description | Letters, notes and other material relating to the (Yorkshire) Pearson family history collected by Rev. Peter Binnall, a cousin of KP. Includes letters between Binnall and various family members, notes on baptisms and burials (particularly from Quaker records), family trees, newspaper cuttings and pamphlets relating to local history.
Includes 3 letters from R A Fisher to Binnall regarding the potential scientific use of detailed family history records (1941).
Also contains a deed conveying certain property at Spittlebridge and in and around the parish of Whitby, Yorks, from Thomas Peirson to his son, George Peirson, in consideration for an annual sum of £4 to be paid by George Peirson to Thomas Peirson during the latter's lifetime, and to pay 40 shillings to Thomas' wife Elizabeth every year after her husband's death, if he predeceased her. Dated 18 May 1741. With George Peirson's seal. |