The Hadwen Family of Lancashire

1891 census Borderside, Crosthwaite and Lyth, Westmorland

Thomas PEARSON Head M 55 Male Farmer Crosthwaite, Westmorland
Margaret PEARSON Wife M 46 Female Arkindale, Durham
John A PEARSON Son S 19 Male Farmer's Assistant Wisconsin, USA
Mary A PEARSON Daur 18 Female Dress Maker Wisconsin, USA
Sarah A PEARSON Daur 17 Female Dress Maker Wisconsin, USA
Ada F PEARSON Daur 14 Female Wisconsin, USA
Laura S PEARSON Daur 11 Female Scholar Wisconsin, USA
Joseph T PEARSON Son 7 Male Scholar Crosthwaite, Westmorland
Maud L PEARSON Daur 3 Female Crosthwaite, Westmorland
James W PEARSON Son 3 Male Crosthwaite, Westmorland
Jessie M PEARSON Daur 2 Female Crosthwaite, Westmorland
William PEARSON Father Widower 86 Male Retired Joiner Crosthwaite, Westmorland
William HARKER Servant S 23 Male Farm Servant Wisconsin, USA

1901 census Borderside, Crosthwaite and Lyth, Westmorland

Thomas PEARSON Head M 65 Male Farmer Crosthwaite, Westmorland
Margueretta PEARSON Wife M 54 Female Crosthwaite, Westmorland
John A PEARSON Son S 30 Male Wisconsin, USA
Mary A PEARSON Daur S 28 Female Dress Maker Wisconsin, USA
Joseph T PEARSON Son S 17 Male Crosthwaite, Westmorland
Maud L PEARSON Daur S 13 Female Crosthwaite, Westmorland
James W PEARSON Son S 13 Male Crosthwaite, Westmorland
Jessie M PEARSON Daur S 12 Female Crosthwaite, Westmorland
William PEARSON Father Widower 96 Male Retired Joiner Crosthwaite, Westmorland
Alice J CROW Servant S 22 Female Domestic Servant Cartmel Fell, Lancashire

1911 census Borderside, Crosthwaite and Lyth, Westmorland 8 rooms

Thomas PEARSON Head M 75 Male Farmer Crosthwaite, Westmorland
Margaret PEARSON Wife M 62 Female 39 years 9 9 0 Yorkshire
Maud Louisa PEARSON Daur S 23 Female Dressmaker Crosthwaite, Westmorland
James William PEARSON Son S 23 Male Crosthwaite, Westmorland
Albert BATTERSBY Boarder S 22 Male Domestic Chaffeur Bowness, Westmorland

Birth: Mar. 15, 1888
Crosthwaite
Cumbria, England
Death: Aug. 15, 1966
Salmon Arm
British Columbia, Canada

RECORD OF MEDALS - FIRST WORLD WAR.
JAMES W. PEARSON - 2nd Border Regiment - Private
Date of enlistment - May 26, 1915
Regimental number - # 18549
Victory Medal - For Military and civilian personnel, who served in the theatre of war.
Star Medal - For service in all other theatres of war, Dec. 31, 1915 and for service in France and Belgium.

CANADIAN PASSENGER LIST AND CANADIAN IMMIGRATION SERVICE. -Arriving at Halifax, April 3, 1927.
Sheet # 16 - Third Class - Vol. 5 - page 126 -microfilm roll T-14809
JAMES W. PEARSON - age 39 - Relationship - none - single
Birth year - 1888
Place of birth - Crosthwaite, England
Port of departure - Liverpool, England - March 26, 1927
Vessel - SS Aurania
Port of arrival - Halifax, Nova Scotia

...SO THEY LOADED EVERYTHING ON A WAGON AND CAME HERE...
By Mike Holman. Kam loops Sentinel - Wednesday, May 12, 1948

It was "Kam loops or Bust" for Mr. and Mrs. James W. Pearson, their three children, 17 hens and a rooster, when they left their New Westminster farm last month all safely stowed away in an old delivery wagon hauled by their two work-horses, and with their three dogs running in front as an "advanceguard". They reached here the other day on the last leg of the trek to their new farm home just east of town.
Though they got to Kamloops with Rhode Island Red hens still laying, the Pearson sage almost ended in Hope when a car bumped into their wagon, parked for the night at the roadside.
So they loaded everything into a moving van, including the wagon and kept on coming.
Mr. and Mrs. Pearson with Carole 4, Garry two and a half, and Doreen 6 months sleep in the back of the former David Spencer Ltd, delivery wagon. A camp stove keeps them cozy.
The family's three dogs, Spot, Trix and Venus, homestead the ground wherever the wagon is parked and the two Pearson Percherons, Prince and Nellie, also make them selves comfortable wherever they are.
The red-cabbed, white-wheeled wagon looks like something out of a jypsies camp. There's a chicken pen on the roof, a hand-plow, potted plants, folding cots farm tools, baby buggy, suitable and mailbox all strapped to the outside. Altogether it probably is the most mobile farm dwelling ever put together.
The Pearson's have raised cattle, sheep and poultry for the last eight years on a rented Fraser Valley farm, but "when the farm sold I persuaded my husband to come to Kamloops. It's a great clime here despite this rain" Mrs. Pearson who recovered her health on a visit here some years ago. Before he came to B.C. Mr. J. Pearson was a fish-hatchery man in Ontario for 13 years.

THE SALMON ARM OBSERVER, Thursday, August 18, 1966
Obit. - James William Pearson - A resident of Salmon Arm and district for the past 17 years. James William Pearson passed away in Shuswap Lake General Hospital Monday August 15, 1966 following a long illness.

Mr. Pearson, was born March 15, 1888, at Borderside, Crosthwaite, Westmorland, England, he was in the Boar War and the First World War. Mr. Pearson lived the past 35 years in British Columbia, Canada.
He is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Doreen Ballendine, South Battleford, Saskatchewan, Miss. Isabel Pearson, Salmon Arm; one son, Garry W. Pearson, Salmon Arm, one grandson Christopher James Ballendine, Battleford, Saskatchewan, and one sister Maude Battersby, in England, he was predeceased by his parents; Thomas Pearson and mother Margaretta nee Harker Pearson; brother Joseph Thomas, sister's Laura Isabella, Ada Frances and Mary Ann.

Funeral service was held on Friday August 19, 1966 at 2p.m. in the Chapel of Bowers Funeral Home. Rev. D.A. Corbett officiating. Burial to follow in Mount Ida Cemetery, Salmon Arm, B.C.
Legion Members were the Casketbearers.

sp. Lillian Elaine Pearl Harvey
m. 09, Feb. 1962, Salmon Arm, B.C.

Family links:
Parents:
Thomas Pearson (1836 - 1913)
Margaret Harker Pearson (1844 - 1935)

Spouses:
Alice Ann Hodgkiss Pearson (1887 - 1970)
Lillian Elaine Pearl Harvey Pearson (1924 - 1965)

Siblings:
Mary Ann Pearson Hayton (1872 - 1953)*
Thomas Joseph Pearson (1884 - 1963)*
James William Pearson (1888 - 1966)
Maud Louise Pearson Battersby (1888 - 1976)*

*Calculated relationship

Inscription:
James Wm Pearson
Private, Border Regiment
15, Aug, 1966, age 78

Burial:
Mount Ida Cemetery
Salmon Arm
Columbia-Shuswap Regional District
British Columbia, Canada

Created by: Doreen
Record added: May 24, 2009
Find A Grave Memorial# 37455202