Pearson Family History
- Pearson Name Meaning
- English: patronymic from the Middle English personal name Piers (see Pierce). The surname is also quite common in Ireland, where it has been established for many centuries. Americanized form of one or more like-sounding Ashkenazic Jewish surnames.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 4,896,766 Historical Documents with Pearson on Ancestry
- 1,851,192 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 1,135,456 Census and Voter Lists
- 151,699 Military Records
- 122,719 Immigration Records
- 1,635,700 Member Trees
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Number of Pearson families
 4,216 - 8,430  1,406 - 4,215 |
 1 - 1,405  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Pearson families
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235 - 467 79 - 234 |
1 - 78 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Pearson census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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