Elizabeth Janey (Janney), 1620 – 1675

St. Wilfred’s Church, Mobberley, England

The 6th Great Grandmother of Moses J. Pearson

Elizabeth Janey (Janney), 1620 – 1675, wife of Lawrence Pearson [Peirson] and mother of Edward and Thomas Pearson [Peirson], is buried at St. Wilfred’s Church, Mobberley, England.

A thumbnail history of Lawrence and Elizabeth compiled via Rootsdigger.

Lawrence was married in the Quaker meeting to Elizabeth Janney, of a very active Quaker family. Elizabeth, wife of Lawrence, was buried 13 Aug 1662 at Mobberly. She was daughter of Randle Janney and Ellen Allred.

In 1650, Lawrence Pearson was imprisoned for testifying in the streets at Highfield, County Derby.

In 1660, Robert Pearson, his brother, was put in jail for refusing to take an oath.

In 1657, [her husband] Lawrence Pearson of Wilmslow Parish refused to pay a tithe, and had a horse worth three pounds confiscated to pay an eight shilling tithe.

In 1665 Lawrence Pearson of Pownall Fee was arrested at a Quaker meeting and jailed for two months.

In his will he identified his profession as mason. His will left “unto my sonne Edward the dishboard, the little plow, and the little pair of plow irons, etc.” The other children, including Thomas, received shares of the tiny estate.

Lawrence and Elizabeth’s two sons Edward and Thomas left England about 1683 and settled in Quaker communities in Pennsylvania.

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