Notes:

Note:
We will start this genealogy with John Pearson and his wife Elizabeth. We do not know for sure that John was the father of Christopher but we know that Elizabeth was his mother and that she was the mother of the following children as named in her will which was made the 10th of October 1678. She also mentions the children of Christopher as Mary, Sarah and John and his wife, Ellinor.

John married Elizabeth UNKNOWN about 1640 in Ullock, Dean Parish, Cumberland Co., ENGLAND. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Isabella PEARSON
2. Dorothy PEARSON
3. Elizabeth PEARSON
4. Christopher PEARSON was born in 1645 in Ullock, Dean Parish, Cumberland Co., ENGLAND; died in Apr 1711 in Ullock, Dean Parish, Cumberland Co., ENGLAND; was buried on 19 Apr 1711 in Pardshaw Cragg Meeting House Cemetery, Dean Parish, Cumberland Co., ENGLAND.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Note: 1641, St. Oswald's Church, Ullock, Dean Parish, Cumberland Co., ENGLAND
• Will: 19 Jan 1649, Ullock, Dean Parish, Cumberland Co., ENGLAND

Notes:

Note:
The lineage begins to come forth from the mist of time with an intelligent farmer, John Pearson of Ullock, parish of Dean who by 1641 was a church warden and overseer of St. Oswald's. This old gentleman made his will in January 1649, requesting that his body be buried in the church yard of Dean Parish. Evidently he had paid for the education of a grandson, Christopher Pearson,who was to pay 20 shillings to the parish schools for his part in the estate that he was to receive. He was also to inherit his grandfather's 'husbandry gear'. John Pearson was dead in 1650 when his will was executed, with its numerous and careful bequests.There is a likelihood that John Pearson was one of the children of Jane Pearson, Widow, who died in Dean Parish in 1580, asking that Thomas Pearson shall have the occupation of my farm hold with all my goods moveable and that he brought up the said children honestly with meals and cloth until they come to perfect years of age and that he make my son 'John Pearson' aforesaid tenant of said farmhold by the license of the Lord or his Office.' Her other children were Thomas and Elizabeth. This John could have been a brother to Christopher Pearson, weaver of Ullock, who died in 1613. In his will the latter made bequests to his brother, Thomas and John Pearson. He left also 40 shillings 'upon the repairing of Deane Church and Deane Schoolhouse'.

Note:
John Pearson, a farmer, was by 1641 Church Warden and Overseer of the nearly 800 year old St. Oswalds Church, where his ancestors had worshipped since at least 1580.