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Other Pears' Family Traces

 Tracing a George Pears from 1703 in Cumberland http://homepage.ntlworld.com/carole.johnson40/STCUTHBERT.htm
Births, Marriages, Deaths of some Pears' at: St. Cuthbert, Carlisle.St. John's, Upperby is also St. Cuthbert, Carlisle, Cumbria, ENGLAND. Cumbria
Another Pears family tree http://www.swinhope.myby.co.uk/index.html target=_blank

Foleshill, Warwickshire

 History and information of this area in Warwickshire covering Stoke where this Pears family lived in the 1700s

Foleshill is in the county of the city of Coventry, about 2 miles north-east of Coventry. The area of the parish is 2,810 acres: the population, in 1831, was 6,969 ; a very small part agricultural. This parish is one of the principal seats of the ribbon-manufacture, which employed, in 1831, more than 900 men, beside women and children : about 30 men were at the same period employed in collieries. There are, beside the parish church, places of worship for Independents, Baptists, and Wesleyan Methodists

Foleshill, Warwickshire

 Information on where old records are kept

Church of England Registers/Records

Map showing Foleshill

South India

 Map: You can zoom in and out and move around to find areas of interest. http://www.multimap.com
Tourist Information india-tourism.com
Railways: Steam Locomotives & a good page of photos on Nilgiri Railway http://members.tripod.com/~railinindia/

http://indiasteam.tripod.com/

Southern Railway www.srailway.com/Tour_info/index.asp

Nilgiris: Ooty

Lovedale

 www.nilgiris.com/ooty/

:travel.indiamart.com/hillstations/ketti.html

Nilgiris: Railway www.railmuseum.org/nmr/

www.indianvisit.com/ivnew/transportationandcommunication/ railways/mountainrailway.htm

Wildlife Park: Bandipur http://www.indianwildlife.com/npbandipur.htm
Yercaud. Discover a Hill Station. www.chennaionline.com/toursntravel/tourdiary/yercaud.asp
Montfort School: Lots of info on school and OBA. www.montfortyercaud.com
Campion Old Boys Association Cur Hic Statis
Pondy: A reasonable travelogue. Some Pears connections (Hendersons) still live there. members.tripod.com/~atelier/pondicherry.html
Sight seeing India. A varied gallery http://www.india-tourism.com/en_gallery.0.html

Famous Pears'

 Soap: The history of A & F Pears bubbles.org/html/history/bubhistory.htm
Titanic: Thomas Pears www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/bio/p/1st/pears_t.shtml
Opera: A short biography of Peter Pears www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Pears-Peter.htm
Maritime Paintings: Charles Pears. This site describes the 'Charles Pears Award'. There are lots of other sites with pictures by Charles Pears. http://www.nmm.ac.uk/mag/pages/mnuInDepth/Biography.cfm?biog=94
Writing (Mystery): Iain  Pears thewag.net/pears.htm
Gardening: Pauline Pears (not the Pauline married to Walford) appears on TV gardening programs. /OrganicGardening/
Military:. Captain Pears and Lieutenant Ouchterlony of the Sappers galloped over to Zorapore.

On 13 August Captain Pears, of the Madras Engineers, left Bangalore with the 34th Madras Light Infantry .

  H.M. 13th Light Dragoons

www.auckram.gq.nu/auckram_ancestry.htm

The Indore Pears

  http://famousdiamonds.tripod.com/indorepearsdiamonds.html

Anglo Indians
Anglo Indians. Useful information but turn the music off. Includes famous AIs (but not all) http://www.anglo-indians.com/index.asp
A good thesis with an Australian bias. http://www.alphalink.com.au/~agilbert/agthesis.html
A brief history http://www.alphalink.com.au/~agilbert/jjean1.html
A commentary http://www.alphalink.com.au/~agilbert/jmills1.html

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Find a Name (Warwickshire)

http://www.hunimex.com/warwick/

Warwickshire
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/WAR/ - Warwickshire GENUKI page.
Warwickshire County Libraries - Warwickshire County libraries.
Warwickshire County Record Office - The Warwickshire County Record Office.
Birmingham City Archives
http://www.bmsgh.org/ - The Birmingham and Midland Society for Genealogy and Heraldry.
http://www.covfhs.org/ - Coventry Family History Society.
http://www.bmsgh.org/ -Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry.
http://www.wfhs.org.uk/ - Warwickshire Family History Society.
http://www.hunimex.com/warwick/- Warwickshire information.

Madras Presidency Records http://members.ozemail.com.au/~clday/madrasMF.htm
India: An enormormous number of messages from people about India. Some quite interesting site exist. e.g. I found one with pictures of 100 year old postcards. You have to browse though!. Hint: Start from the latest. i.e. from the bottom. http://archiver.rootsweb.com/INDIA-L/
National Archives (UK) http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/familyhistory/

Others

 Computerline Limited: Walford Pears' company and software product PLANTRAC. http://www.plantrac.com
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