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Originally Posted by Bob Dobson
This very question has been keeping me awake at nights for months.... LIkely that either the Peels or the Styeineres knew someone called Pearl, which was a very uncommon name - only 54 in the 1861 census. No family members of that name. Unlikely that the Pearl Loan Company, predecessor of the Insurance firm, loaned money for the project. I can find no connection with the town of Newark There wasn't an Earl of Newark mid-1800s..
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Bob. Have you tried Hyndburn Council Archives ? Frank