PEARSON Family London, Essex etc

[lizdb]

Will was proved Jan 1844 - so this looks like the death:

Oct/Nov/Dec 1843
Marylebone 18 188
John Pearson
age 71
 
so born about 1772

[avm228]

Arran's mother's maiden name was Smith, according to his Jun qtr 1839 Marylebone birth registration.

[lizdb]

Birth
Apr/May/June 1839
Marylebone
01 173

Arran Pearson
mmn Smith

(snap!)

[avm228]

Poss marriage John Pearson/Eliza Smith Mar qtr 1838 Brighton.

Added: not Jun qtr 1841 Hackney - these names appear on the same page but didn't marry each other.

[Meriel]

I am assuming Arran was named for the Earl of Arran then 

I was wondering if John Pearson (snr) had been a surgeon too. (With son George following in his footsteps).

If you google "John Pearson, esq" then there are links to a book/journal titled 'Short Notes of the Opinions and Practice of the Late John Pearson Esq., F.R.S., on Syphilitic Disease' published 1848

[avm228]

Slight caution on the surgeon option as there was another John Pearson around, a surgeon of Golden Square (wife Sarah) who had a son at Cambridge at around the same time as "our" John had sons at Cambridge. (Noted in my perusal of Alumni Cantab.!)

[lizdb]

One of his executors was a James Smith of Bognor - not that that means a lot as Smith isn't exactly unusual!
Other looks like Defoe Grant

[Meriel]

Slight caution on the surgeon option as there was another John Pearson around, a surgeon of Golden Square (wife Sarah) who had a son at Cambridge at around the same time as "our" John had sons at Cambridge. (Noted in my perusal of Alumni Cantab.!)

Wise advice (and good spot!) avm228

[avm228]

Married at St Nicholas, Brighton

3 Jan 1838

John Pearson (father: John Pearson)
Eliza Smith (father: John Smith)