Pearsons

Eventually she took the additional surname of Pearson (whether she was ever formally adopted I do not know), and became known affectionately to subsequent generations of Pearsons, Borthwicks, and Trumbles as Mungie.

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As neighbors with strong Scottish connections, the Borthwick and Pearson families grew up in close proximity and while the Borthwicks were not nearly so rich as the Pearsons, they were evidently prosperous enough to enable Aunt Jean and Aunt Kath and possibly their mother also to travel to Europe for an extended holiday in the 1920s, presumably after great-grandfather William Borthwick died, and again in the mid-1930s.

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Hoddinott, who eventually became a colleague of the younger William Pearson in the Legislative Council of Victoria, eventually bought out Pearson and Macalister, presumably after the elder William died in 1893, and the younger Pearsons went to live at Kilmany Park.

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William Pearsons (father and son), and of Uncle Lex Borthwick, were of but marginal interest in the life of the nation, and the Empire.

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The two families knew each other in Melbourne, when for six months in 1905 the Pearsons lived in a big house called Woodside in Hawthorn, while Kilmany Park was being rebuilt.

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For most of the First World War the William Pearsons lived in a comfortable house called The Orchard (above) in Shire Lane, on Chorleywood Common, at Chorleywood, near Rickmansworth, in Hertfordshire, on the northeastern edge of London, within easy reach of town by the Metropolitan Line.

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The Pearsons 'house, "a stately brick home with high-ceilinged rooms and a sweep of marble steps in front," had replaced a sinister old "slab homestead with gun-holes through the wall," i.e. for shooting at the local Aborigines.

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Indeed, the William Pearsons were apparently regarded as sufficiently prominent among the Church of England laity of Sale that my great-grandmother was invited to lay the white marble foundation stone, where she is recorded in block capitals as "MRS. PEARSON OF KILMANY PARK."

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The unbroken descent of Pearsons appears to commence with Thomas Pierson, who died before 1524, and his first and, unfortunately, anonymous wife.

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It was to be as close as possible to Roy, who served as an officer in the 13th Hussars in France and Mesopotamia, that, having sailed all the way back to Victoria at the end of the year, almost straight away, in 1915, the Pearsons decided to return to England, where they remained for the duration of the war.

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