Joseph Love (1796-1875), son of William Love, a miner of New York, near South Shields, County Durham married in 1825 Sarah, daughter of Isaac Pearson, timber merchant, of North Shields, Northumberland. Joseph Love became a wealthy miller, shipowner, property developer and colliery owner, associated in particular with Chester-le-street, Shincliffe and Willington, County Durham and Durham City. He was a generous supporter of the Methodist New Connexion.
Joseph and Sarah Love had one son, Isaac Pearson Love, who died in 1854, leaving an only child, Joseph Horatio Love, born in 1853, who subsequently lived at The Hawkhills near Easingwold, Yorkshire. Isaac Pearson Love's widow Sarah (née Stephinson) in ca.1857 married Robinson Ferens (died 1892), originally a draper of Durham City and Willington, County Durham. Robinson Ferens became a member of the Methodist New Connexion perhaps in ca.1857. After his marriage he was appointed manager of Joseph Love's collieries. He later joined with Love as a partner in developing new collieries and after Love's death in 1875 had sole direction of the collieries, becoming wealthy.
Joseph Ferens (1829-1885), a draper of Durham City and a brother of Robinson Ferens, married in ca.1858 Mary Marshall, apparently from the Marshall family of Durham City solicitors. Their son, Henry Edward Ferens, born ca. 1864, also became a solicitor in Durham City. One of his sons was H. Cecil Ferens (1899-1975), another Durham City solicitor, who became legal secretary to the bishop of Durham and Durham diocesan registrar.
From the guide to the Love, Pearson, Ferens and Marshall Papers, ca.1836-1920, (Repository Unknown)
