Well Hello,
May I start by saying a big thankyou for all the information you guys have uncovered, I did actually post a reply early this morning before i went to work but i'm blowed if i know where it went. I started looking at the connection between the Pearls and Cross's after obtaining a couple of letters my father's aunt had written some 40 years ago to another distant relative. But I was confused by her saying that my GGGGrandfather John William Pearl was married to Sarah Jackson and they had 2 boys Joseph and James and a daughter named Mary who married some one called Cross they had a farm in the New Forest and when the parents died the 3 children emmigrated around 1899 1900 Richard to Australia, Annie to South Africa and Frank to Canada who after a couple of weeks drowned whilst trying to save a girl in the sea. Now armed with this info I was thrown into confusion because for ages my John William and Sarah Jackson had 4 sons or so I thought. I used the census returns that you mentioned for 1881 and thought it had to be the correct Cross family. It now looks like I have to delve alot deeper into my Pearl family. Again thankyou all.
Regards
John Pearl
