Keith Heaton Pearson (1918-?) [Royal Marines]

[Dave Pattern]

• born 10 June 1918
• son of Joseph Pearson and Mildred (née Heaton)
• father was in the British Army and Keith was fostered by Thomas Edwin & Edith Garside of Elland
• married Dorothy Vernon on 19 March  1947 but they separated soon after
  • Anne Pearson (born 10 August 1948 (in Kent?)), later Anne Bryson
• c1950 returned to the Merchant Navy
• possibly moved to Western Australia in the late 1960s?

Records:

• 1921 Census (FindMyPast) – Mount Pleasant, Elland
• 1968 incoming passenger card (divorced cook/baker)

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Huddersfield Examiner (18/Jan/1941) – Huddersfield Man’s War Service

Huddersfield Daily Examiner (09/Aug/1982):

DO YOU KNOW KEITH HEATON PEASON?

Searching for father she has never seen

A woman in California is trying to trace her father whom she has never met.

Ann Bryson, now living in Alhambra, believes her father, Keith Heaton Pearson, could be in Huddersfield where he married her mother, Dorothy Vernon, in the 1940s.

A friend of Mrs Bryson travelling through Huddersfield recently noted the addresses of all the K Pearsons listed in the telephone directory and she has sent a duplicated letter to them all, giving the information she has on her father.

Apparently none is related to the man Anne Bryson is trying to trace, and one of the recipients brought the letter to Miscellany’s notice in the hope of shedding some light on Mr Pearson’s whereabouts.

Anne’s parents were separated before she was born on August 10, 1948, and her mother took her to America the following year.

“I have never met my father, but over the past few years I’ve had an increasing desire to contact him she writes. The last contact she had with him was a birthday telegram sent on her sixth birthday from Johannesburg, South Africa.

Mr Pearson was born on June 10, 1918, the son of Joseph and Mildred Pearson, and she believes he had two sisters, one called Rita. Joseph was in the British Army and was sent to India when Keith was very small. For some reason they could not take Keith with them so he was adopted by a Huddersfield family called Garside, who she believes are now dead.

The Pearsons apparently returned to Huddersfield and lived during the 1940s in Milnsbridge, Keith entered the Merchant Navy during the late Thirties or Forties under the name of Garside. When he entered the Royal Marines during World War II he reverted to the name Pearson. In 1948 he transferred to the Royal Navy Submarine Division and in 1950 or 1951 went back to the Merchant Navy.

At the time Anne was born he was a steward on the Montclare.

Mrs Bryson is also contacting Huddersfield people called Pearson in the belief that he may be retired and living in his home town or that he re-married and has children in Huddersfield.

“I can assure you there’s no ulterior motive in my wish to contact my father,” she adds. “I am happily married, have a good job, and feel my father could be proud of me. I can only hope that he’s as anxious to find me as I am to find him.”

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