The Hadwen Family of Lancashire

1841 census Yews, Crosthwaite and Lyth, Westmorland

Anne PEARSON Head Widow 80 Female Farmer
Archibald PEARSON Son 52 Male Joiner Westmorland
John PEARSON 17 Male Joiner App. Westmorland
William PEARSON 13 Male Westmorland
Agnes PEARSON Daur 48 Female Westmorland
Mary PEARSON 16 Female Westmorland
Isaac PEARSON 15 Male Westmorland

1851 census Low Yews, Crosthwaite and Lyth, Westmorland

Thomas PEARSON Head M 66 Male Farmer of 51 acres Heversham, Westmorland
Archibald PEARSON Brother M 64 Male Master Carpenter Heversham, Westmorland
Isaac PEARSON Nephew U 26 Male Ag. Lab. Heversham, Westmorland
William PEARSON Nephew U 22 Male Ag. Lab. Heversham, Westmorland
Agnes PEARSON Sister U 62 Female House Servant Heversham, Westmorland
Mary A PEARSON Niece U 16 Female Dress Maker Heversham, Westmorland

1861 census Yews, Crosthwaite and Lyth, Westmorland

Thomas PEARSON Head M 75 Male Farmer of 60 acres Crosthwaite, Westmorland
Archibald PEARSON Brother U 73 Male Retired Joiner Crosthwaite, Westmorland
Agnes PEARSON Sister U 70 Female House Servant Crosthwaite, Westmorland
Mary THORNBURROW Servant U 16 Female House Servant Underbarrow, Westmorland

1871 census Low Yews, Crosthwaite and Lyth, Westmorland

Thomas PEARSON Head Widower 85 Male Landowner Crosthwaite, Westmorland
Agnes PEARSON Sister U 80 Female House Keeper Crosthwaite, Westmorland
John PEARSON Nephew U 59 Male Farm Labourers Dom. Serv. Crosthwaite, Westmorland
Ann PEARSON Niece U 46 Female General Domestic Servant Crosthwaite, Westmorland
Thomas PEARSON Nephew's Son U 16 Male Farm Servant Crosthwaite, Westmorland
Ann PEARSON Niece's Daur U 12 Female Scholar Crosthwaite, Westmorland

"Agnes Pearson (13 Jan 1791 - 24 May 1876) in her later years was also known as Auld Aunt Aggie. Her brother, Joseph Pearson (b. 1799), had an unmarried granddaughter, Agnes Pearson (b. 1851), who at the age of 20 had given birth to a baby girl in 1871. Her Great Aunt Agnes Pearson, age 81, helped the disgraced young woman by agreeing to take in and raise the baby on condition that the child be named Agnes Pearson and that she would become the heir of Great Aunt Agnes (Auld Aunt Aggie). This was agreed to and Aunt Aggie raised the child for 5 years before dying in 1876. The child, Jane Agnes Pearson, inherited Great Aunt Aggie’s estate and it was put under the control of a Trustee/Solicitor until Jane Agnes became of age. Sometime after Jane Agnes was born in 1871, Great Aunt Aggie, it is thought, started making arrangements for a young local man, William Fletcher Bownas, to marry the child’s mother for a sum of money. The child’s mother, Agnes Pearson, married William F. Bownas on August 8, 1874 and they started their own family while Great Aunt Aggie was still raising and caring for young Jane Agnes Pearson. After Great Aunt Aggie’s death in 1876, Jane Agnes came to live her natural mother, Agnes Pearson Bownas, and her husband, William Fletcher Bownas. She attended school and was a bright student. Around the age of 12 she decided to leave school and go to work (in service) for the Francis Martindale family. Later, she moved to Damson Fold to work for the Dickensons. Not long after this her step-father, William Fletcher Bownas, came looking for her and dragged her back to Whicham with a gold guinea stitched into her stays. There is no doubt that every time there was a baby expected in the Bownas family she was ‘required back at home’ whether it be Whicham Mill, Crop-a-Bank, or Stavely. When Jane was 16 the Trustees of her inheritance and her mother insisted that she take up an apprenticeship. So, in 1887 she was apprenticed as a tailor to Park and Heads in Kendal and found lodging in the Lound, where she was born 16 years earlier. She came back to her grandmother at the Yews for weekends. Jane Agnes joined her mother in Barrow at her mother’s request in 1889. Jane Agnes married Robert Hogarth Dodgson of Preston and Barrow on April 12, 1892, in Barrow.”