Pesketts from Sussex

[Jane Masri]

BOTP = Both of this Parish...that would be at the time of the marriage not necessarily from birth. 
(B) means the marriage was by banns as opposed to a licence.  Just ask if you're not sure what banns means.

jane

[Robert Zimmerman]

Thanks Jane

Zimmerman

[censusmick]

Hi Robert,

Thanks for your note re Peskett connections.

Legal Stuff : All Census / G.R.O. materiel is Crown Copyright. The I.G.I. is gratefully acknowledged as the source of most of the Baptism and Marriage references. Not forgetting the invaluable efforts of the transcribers at the FREEBMD site. ( I hope this suffices ? )

( Oh, not forgetting my cat, who owns me, and has deigned to sleep rather than walking her paws over my keyboard and crashing the computer ..... again ....)

I've only recently started looking into this 'branch line' of my Newman tree due to a 'brick-wall' in my Newman 'research' and so my Peskett jottings have not yet been fully verified.

I greatly appreciate the information supplied by Jan and Jane on the Rootschat look-up boards which filled in quite a few gaps ( OK, I'll admit it - a DAMN big 'ole ) in my search for a common link to two separate Newman branches. I have used some of their information to you, to enable me to find the following, after viewing some of the Census films.

Hopefully we have a common link to two of the sons ( Richard and Nathan ) of Richard Peskett and Mary Goatcher. ( One of Nathan's kids - Hezekiah - married Sarah Ann Newman from one of my Newman branches )

On the FREEBMD site ( thanks and long may they transcribe ) was found
Death 1896-March at East Preston Reg. Dist.[RD] (SSX)    Peter Peskett  aged 84
I.G.I. : Assumed to have married Martha Harwood 17/11/1834 at Arundel ?
Kids : Richard 1835, Caroline 1837, Rebecca 1839, Rhoda 1842  - all bpt. at Arundel SSX.
1841 Census at Arundel - Film 1089 / ED 1 / Folio 22 :
Peter, Martha, Richard and Rebecca - no sign of Caroline.

I believe one of Peters brothers was Sampson ( and not Samson ? ).
FREEBMD : Death 1882-September at Rye RD SSX    Sampson Peskett aged 82
I.G.I. : Assumed to have married Louisa Bright 21/06/1821 at South Stoke SSX
Kids : 13 found via I.G.I. and Census listings.
1841 Census at Arundel - Film 1089 / ED 01 / Folio 39
1851 Census at Arundel - Film 1651 / Folio 599

Another of Peters brothers was James.
1841 Census at Arundel - Film 1089 / ED 01 / Folio 06
James and a Caroline, who, going by her age, could ? be his daughter ? no others shown.
( Interestingly on the same page, is a Richard Peskett age 65 - by himself ? - could this be the Richard who married Mary Goatcher ?   and James's father )

Another of Peters brothers was Luke.
FREEBMD : Marriage 1838-December at Worthing RD SSX       Luke Peskett
FREEBMD : Death 1879-June at East Preston RD SSX              Luke Peskett aged 64
I.G.I. : Assumed to have married Hannah Duffey 07/11/1838 at Arundel SSX
Kids : 7 found via I.G.I. and Census listings.
1851 Census : Film 1651 / Folio 570
1861 Census : Film 0616 / Folio 010
1871 Census : Film 1110 / Folio 011

The Census details were found on a quick visit to the Family Records Centre up London and due to the time factor it was a 'rush job' !!! which is why there are no more details, sorry.

Any-way, hope this is of some help to you, it's good to provide some feed-back !!

Cheers      Mike Newman

PS Keep it acoustic, Bob .... remember the Isle of Wight .....man.......

[Robert Zimmerman]

Hi Mike

Thanks for all that info. Some of it l had and some of it l didn't.

And l believe it was Jame's father Richard in the 1841 Census.

A strange thing though, l have him (Richard) dying in East Preston, Worthing in 1859 but l can't find him in the 1851 Census.

If there anything you need to know with the Pesketts and if l have it I'll let you know

A little bit of tit bit for you. My line of the Pesketts migrating to Australia. One branch then went to making Bricks and another line went an ran/owned rather large sheep stations.

PS

My cat, a rather large, fat and lazy ginger cat named Zimmerman after Bob sleeps aptly right now on the shelf above  my computer.

No doubt as he does on plenty on occasions will fall off and not land on his feet.

Cheers

Rob

[sadietoo]

Hi Zimmerman

I was intrigued by your post as I live in Sussex and have a Peskett uncle by marriage -

I found a Richard Peskett aged 78? a widower, living on his own  at 168 Park Cottages Arundel, an agricultural labourer born Wisborough Green - on the 1851 Census - is this one of yours?

I believe one of my uncle's brothers may have been researching their ancestry - when I next see him I'll ask if there is any connection!

Cheers
Sadietoo

[Robert Zimmerman]

Sadietoo

Yes, that Richard is mine. (I had since found him in the 1851 census since that posting)

He would be my (if l get it right)G-G-G-G-Grandfather

I would be greatly interested in anything he has as l'm in Australia and when trying to get research done from England is sometimes quite difficult.

I can't just jump in the car and go down to the local historical society .England sometimes might as well be on the moon. So hence l'm on the computer/internet quite regularly.


Thanks

Zimmerman

[Grandad james]

Hi,
Just to throw another one into the melting pot..
I have just received via the Guild of One Name Studies a copy marriage cert for.
Henry PESKETT age 28 Shoemaker of Horsham.Father Thomas PESKETT also Shoemaker to Elizabeth BOORER age 22 of Horsham Father John BOORER Labourer.
at Parish Church Horsham March 3 1866.
If you can lay claim or come across anything then I will welcome the info.
Best wishes James.

[Stovepipe]

Don't know if you're interested in the Angmering branch of the family, but they seem to be well-established traders.

Businesses etc in Angmering extracted from Kelly's Directory for the years stated:

1845 - Pescott, Zachariah    smith
1852 - Peskett, Zebedee      blacksmith
1867 - Peskett, Zebedee      blacksmith
1878 - Peskett, Zebedee      blacksmith
1892 - Peskett, G.            ironmonger  (Long's directory)
1899 - Peskett George T.    ironmonger
1903 - Peskett, George T.     ironmonger
1915 - Peskett, George Edward    The Croft    (private resident)
      Peskett, Miss           Lansdown Road   (private resident)
      Peskett & Son      ironmongers
1927 - Peskett, E & Co.         ironmongers    
     Peskett, Z & Sons         builders' merchants
1938 - Peskett, E. &  Co.      ironmongers

HTH,
Stovepipe

[Stovepipe]

Since posting the above, I've had occasion to look at Zebedee Peskett's household in the Angmering 1871 census (one of my relatives was there as a domestic servant).

I can add that Zebedee, an Ironmonger, was born in Billingshurst around 1812.  His wife, Eliza, was born more locally - about 1817 in East Preston.  The only child present, Alice Jane, was born in Angmering about 1855.

Stovepipe