| Description | This collection comprises reports and plans concerning Sheffield and Rotherham Railway and North Midland Railway, as well as sales ledger, bills, plans and other papers concerning Herringthorpe Colliery, compiled by Thomas Pearson.
The railway and colliery records that make up this collection were drawn or collected by Thomas Pearson, a colliery manager and secretary of the Sheffield and Rotherham Railway. He was the proprietor of Herringthorpe Colliery and managed collieries in the Holmes area for G. W. Chambers. Pearson seems to have originated from Whiston. The 1807 Poll Books lists Thomas Pearson and Thomas Pearson junior, farmers, at Whiston and the 1822 Directory lists Thomas Pearson, churchwarden. The 1828 and 1833 Directories list Pearson as a coal master, valuer and civil engineer of Herringthorpe, p.Whiston. He became secretary of the Sheffield and Rotherham Railway in 1836 and moved to live in Sheffield. He served until the SRR was absorbed by the Midland Railway in 1845. No personal details about are known other than that he was born on 18th April, 1778. he may perhaps be the Thomas Pearson, widow, who married Isabel Warden, widow, at Rotherham on 25th June, 1816. |