Pearson Bros Dept Store Nottingham

[gasser]

Igi extracted record:
Frederick Pearson and Eleanor Snowdon marriage 17 June 1851 St Peter Nottingham

[gasser]

Further info on Fred & Eleanor extracted from British Newspapers on line:

# 2 July 1896 Thomas youngest son of Frederick married Mary Jane Morley (aka Pollie)
# Eleanor wife of Frederick Pearson sen. died 9th Oct 1898

[chantreywood]

Hiya Macca

Can't help with the family but can help with the store. I started work there as a window dresser at 16 back in the 1970s, but only stayed a year as I was tempted by an extra fiver (£5) in my pay packet by another company in Nottingham. However I did work for the last of the Brothers, there were two actively involved if I remember rightly but Mr. David (Pearson) as he was called, was the one I remember in the store. Pearsons was one of the few Department stores in the City and the boast was that we were the innovators...we bought in new products and once Jessops ( now John Lewis ) or Griffin & Spalding (now Debenhams) started selling the same product , we stopped selling it!

The store closed in the 1980s. However the store had covered land between Upper Parliament Street down to Long Row and had absorbed many different buildings in it's near hundred year history, so was a real hotch potch of steps and little hideholes and passages between departments. When the store closed these were divided up but the frontage on long row was Grade II* Listed so stil remains above the current shops. there are some links on-line at...

www.
wardcole.co.uk/project-detail.php?id=24&cat=3&str=pearsons%20store

www.
nlha.org.uk/nottshistn.html ( article in Nottinghamshire Historian Number 70: Spring/Summer 2003)

that might be useful in giving you an idea about what the store was like ( and hence some insight into the people who owned and developed it.)

Hope that helps :-)

[sheilastain]

I came across this piece of info.from Nottinghamshire Archives, which hold many papers relating to the family and business. It mentions two sons............
Pearsons department store was situated on Long Row for the whole of its near one hundred year existence. It began as the ironmongery Wigglesworth before Frederick Pearson bought it and changed its name in 1889. Under the auspices of its founder and later his sons, Tom and William, the business expanded, ............. and a later family member, Laurie, invented and patented voice activated home appliances.

Just to add to the above, that Nottinghamshire Archives show in their online catalogue that they have family papers dating from 1848 -1988 as well as lots of records relating to the store. Sheila

[macca234]

Wow I have been away for a few days working and come back to so much information. Thanks to one and all, I shall look at it and see if I can find a link to the Pearsons I know, I am not sure if anybody has managed to do that just yet, so I will take a look and may ask a few more questions of you if that is ok?!

so a big thanks from me for now.

Macca

[tiger]

My mother Dorothy Irene Pearson was born in February 1897. I was told that Pearson Bros was founded around that time as ironmongers by her father and his brother Tom. My grandfather died shortly after at an early age (early '40s) and the business went to his brother Tom. I remember visiting the store many times to see my Uncle Tom in the late 1940s and he lived with his wife Ida in (22?) Carisbrooke Drive Mapperley Park. I seem to remember he had two sons Laurie and Alan.
My maternal grandmother lived in Charnock Avenue and died in 1948. She had two children, Aubrey and Dorothy, and two maiden sisters Clara and Annie. Does this help?

[larkspur]

Baptism Carrington St John the Evangelist
Mary Ellen Pearson 5 Aug 1877 parents George Henry a labourer and Mary, the family were residing in Burgess. Mary Ellens birth date was 29 May 1875.
Other children for this couple all baptised Carrington.
George Henry born 4-5-1870 bap 5-8-1877 abode Burgess, Father labourer
Jane Harriet born 1-4-1878 bap 4-8-1878 abode Carrington, fath labourer
John Andrew bap 7-10-1880 abode Carrington ,father a Carter

I think you need to find George Henry and Mary on the 1881 census....

[larkspur]

Ok 1881 4 Burgess Place Basford RG11 3330/118
Geo H Pearson age 41 born 1840 Radford Labourer
Mary 40 b Carrington
Arthur 15
Eliza 13
Rob 12
Geo Hen 10
Mary H 4
Jane 3

[macca234]

My mother Dorothy Irene Pearson was born in February 1897. I was told that Pearson Bros was founded around that time as ironmongers by her father and his brother Tom. My grandfather died shortly after at an early age (early '40s) and the business went to his brother Tom. I remember visiting the store many times to see my Uncle Tom in the late 1940s and he lived with his wife Ida in (22?) Carisbrooke Drive Mapperley Park. I seem to remember he had two sons Laurie and Alan.
My maternal grandmother lived in Charnock Avenue and died in 1948. She had two children, Aubrey and Dorothy, and two maiden sisters Clara and Annie. Does this help?

Many thanks for this information, I have been so busy since I started this, that I have not had time to really find the link to my family. I know my Aunt will be able to help me here and thank you so much for bothering to send me more recent details. I will have to see if I am a distant relation to you!

Kind regards
Macca

[lovesgenealogy]

Hi
I spoke to my 84 year old father last night and he mentioned the Pearson Store in Nottingham saying that he remembers visiting a relative who owned the store - he thinks a house in Wollaton with a swimming pool. It through me a little as all my research for ancestors lead me to Leicester where my Dad Donald Edgar Pearson (1927), Grandfather Harry Pearson (1893) Great Grandfather Henry Arthur Pearson (1968) were born. My Gt x 2 grandfather William Pearson (1844) coming from Foleshill nr Coventry and as yet I have not come across a Nottingham connection. Can anyone help please.