Thread: Hello, new here, looking for help with langton pearson family.

Hello, i joined about a minute ago! My friends and i have created a website on a village called Hampton Gay in Oxfordshire. We have researched for hours on the village and want now to focus more on some of the families that lived there.
There once was a manor house, which has been a ruin now for over 120 years which many people lived in but i am particularly interested in Robert Langton Pearson from Whalley in Lancashire born 1822 who ran the paper mill there and lived in the manor house. i gather he spend a lot of his life in Oxford but am hoping to find some more info or a photo of him.
If anyone does have any info i would love to hear from you, also about Benjamin Taylor from Tettenhall in Wolverhampton, he was killed in the 1874 train crash just outside the village and is buried in the graveyard at Hampton Gay.
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Hi Sally, Welcome to the forum.

There is a London Gazette bankruptcy notice from 1867, for a Robert Langton Pearson, paper manufacturer, but he is shown as being of Withington, Manchester. Is he one and the same?
(See link below.)

London Gazette 8 Jan1867

1881 England Census
Name: Robert L. Pearson
Age: 59 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1822
Relation: Head Gender: Male
Where born: The Abbey Whalley, Lancashire, England
Civil parish: Hampton Gay County/Island: Oxfordshire
Country: England
Street Address: Manor House
Occupation: Paper Manufacturer Employing 5 Men 1 Boy 3 Girls
Registration district: Woodstock Sub-registration district: Woodstock
ED, institution, or vessel: 7 Household Members: Name Age
Robert L. Pearson 59
Source Citation: Class: RG11; Piece: 1511; Folio: 85; Page: 6; GSU roll: 1341365.

1851 England Census
Name: Robert L Pearson
Age: 31 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1820
Relation: Lodger Gender: M (Male)
Where born: Blackburn, Lancashire, England
Civil parish: Dean County/Island: Cumberland Country: England
Street Address: Branthwaite, Dean
Occupation:Paper Manufacturer
Registration district: Cockermouth Sub-registration district: Workington
ED, institution, or vessel: 13 Household schedule number: 17
Isabella Simon 59 Inn keeper
Martha Simon 31 Elenor Simon 22
Robert L Pearson 31 George Pearson* 22 occ both Paper Manufacturer
* assume this is his brother
Source Citation: Class: HO107; Piece: 2435; Folio: 326; Page: 5; GSU roll: 87115-87116.

England & Wales, FreeBMD Death Index: 1837-1915
Name: Robert Langton Pearson
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1819 Year of Registration: 1902
Quarter of Registration: Apr-May-Jun
Age at Death: 83 District: Oxford
County: Berkshire, Oxfordshire
Volume: 3a Page: 529

England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975
Name: Robert Langton Pearson
Gender: Male
Baptism/Christening Date: 20 Sep 1818
Baptism/Christening Place: Chipping Parish, Chipping, Lancashire, England
Father's Name: James Pearson
Mother's Name: Alice
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: I04744-8
System Origin: England-EASy
Source Film Number: 1502473
Reference Number: p 32/33

This looks like Robert, his parents and sibblings:

1841 England Census
Name: Robert Pearson
Age: 20 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1821
Gender: Male
Where born: Lancashire, England
Civil parish: Blackburn Hundred: Blackburn (Lower Division)
County/Island: Lancashire Country: England
Street Address: King Street, Blackburn
Occupation: Paper dealer
Registration district: Blackburn Sub-registration district: Blackburn
James Pearson 45 ** Alice Pearson 45
Robert Pearson 20 Jane Pearson 15 Alice Pearson 15
George Pearson 12 Ellen Pearson 8 William Pearson 6 Elizabeth Pearson 4
** father James a Paper merchant

Looks like brother George's christening:

England and Wales, Non-Conformist Record Indexes
Name: George Pearson Event Type: Baptism
Christening Date: 18 Jan 1824
Christening Place: Accrington, Lancashire
Father's Name: James Pearson
Mother's Name: Alice Pearson
Record Set: RG4_3578

Wrong George he died 1825

Report on Train Crash:


http://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/doc...hipton1874.pdf

This might be Benjamin's Christening and Birth reg. I cannot find him in the 1871 census.

England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index, 1837-1915
Name: Benjamin Taylor
Year of Registration: 1856
Quarter of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar
District: Wolverhampton
County: Shropshire, Staffordshire, West Midlands
Volume: 6b
Page: 348

England & Wales Christening Records, 1530-1906
Name: Benjamin Taylor
Gender: Male
Birth Date: abt 1856
Christening Date: 17 Jan 1856
Christening Place: Tettenhall, Staffordshire, England
Father's Name: William Taylor
Mother's Name: Elizabeth

England & Wales, FreeBMD Death Index: 1837-1915
Name: Benjamin Taylor
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1856
Year of Registration: 1875
Quarter of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar
Age at Death: 19
District: Oxford
County: Berkshire, Oxfordshire
Volume: 3a
Page: 543