Author: FREARSON, John
Biography:
FREARSON, John (1781-1852: ancestry.co.uk)
He was baptised on 12 Aug. 1781 at St. Matthew's, Worthington, Leicestershire, the second of six children of William Frearson and his wife Sarah Cross, who had married in 1779. Nothing is known of his education. By 1817 he was a schoolmaster at Melksham, Wiltshire, and was admitted as a freemason to the Lodge of Rectitude. In 1849 he was listed as keeping a school in Woodborough, Pewsey, Wiltshire. In the 1851 census he is recorded as a widower and schoolmaster at Woodborough and at his place of birth, Worthington, Leicester. He may therefore have been the John Frearson who married Sarah Alexander on 13 Apr. 1830 at All Cannings, Wiltshire. She died at Woodborough on 13 May 1850 and he died there 29 March 1852. He contributed poems to local newspapers, notably the Wiltshire Independent. The Fatal Flood, a Poem in Two Parts (Devizes 1841) appears to have been published but no copy has been located. (There is a transcript at Swindon and Wiltshire History Centre.) It commemorated the flood on Salisbury Plain on 16 Jan. 1841 with 3 people drowned, 200 made homeless, and 36 houses in Tilshead and Shrewton destroyed. (ancestry.co.uk 17 Apr. 2023; findmypast.co.uk 17 Apr. 2023; Johnson, item 342; Salisbury and Winchester Journal 19 Apr. 1830, 19 Apr. 1841, 3 Apr. 1852; Post Office Directory 1849; GRO death certs) AA
Other Names:
- J. Frearson