John Pease

Sophia Fry

Joseph Pease (railway pioneer)

Isaac Pease (1805–1825)

Henry Pease

Edward Pease had five sons and three daughters, including:

Glendurgan Garden

[née Pease] (1807–1897) - abolitionist, anti-segregationist, woman suffragist, and anti-vivisectionist[14] In 1853 she married Dr. John Pringle Nichol (1804–1859), Regius Professor of Astronomy at the University of Glasgow, much against her family's wishes.

Elizabeth Pease Nichol

The second Joseph Pease married Elizabeth Beaumont of Feethams and had two children:

Edward Reynolds Pease

Michael Stewart Pease

(1859–1954), educator.[15]

Marian (May) Fry Pease

Related Peases, but not considered Darlington Peases, were descendants of the first Joseph Pease's brother, Thomas Pease (1743–1811). His granddaughter, Hannah Ford née Pease was mother of Isabella Ford, the reformer, and Emily Susan Ford, the painter. His grandson Thomas Pease (1816–1884) married three times and had many children, with his third wife, Susanna Ann Fry, sister of the judge Edward Fry and aunt of Roger Fry. These children included


Joseph Pease's sister Ann (died 1826) married Jonathan Backhouse (1747–1826) founder of Backhouse's Bank in 1774 and was mother of


She was also great-grandmother of


and ancestor of, among others,

Pease baronets

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Tomorrow's History

Draft chapter for the Victoria County History of Durham, Darlington section: BANKS AND BUILDING SOCIETIES by Gillian Cookson