Click on the title above to see the Falkenburg Cemetery
website and the Peacock
monuments.
To the left is the monument for Sarah
Peacock and her son, Hugh. It is
broken in half and on the ground.
Most of the lettering is illegible. All
Thomas and Sarah's children are
buried at the Falkenburg Union
Cemetery a few miles north of
Bracebridge, Ontario. There are
monuments for all except
Frederick, the last to die.
Two clasped hands symbolize
holy matrimony; the person
who died first holds the other’s hand, guiding the spouse to Heaven.
Unlike the records of Hugh and Ellen’s family in the 1871 and
1881 census, no Canadian record has been found to date with
all the children of Thomas Peacock and Sarah Smith together
as a family.
In the 1871 census in King Township, three children are with
them - John (17), Hugh (15), and Robert (7). Two children are
missing. Catherine is already married to William Brown
and living in Muskoka. Fred is in Carbon County, Pennsylvania,seemingly in a
boarding house in 1870. He appears in the 1880 census in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. In both records his occupation is cloth weaver or weaver.
Below are the dates of birth and death for Thomas, Sarah, and
their children.
Thomas Peacock, b. abt 1819, Ireland – d. March 3, 1895, age 76
Sarah (Smith) Peacock, b. abt 1810, Co. Antrim, Ulster, Ireland
– d. Sept. 17, 1875, age 65
Catherine, b. May, 1843, Ireland - d. Nov. 23, 1897 age 54
Frederick, b. Sept 10, 1850, Ireland –d. April 13, 1921, age 71
John, b. Feb 10, 1854, Co. Antrim, -d. Mar. 15, 1914, age 60
Hugh, b. 1857, Ireland – d. March 8, 1879, age 22
Robert Ray, b. July, 1860, Ireland– d. Dec. 8, 1899, age 39
1 comment:
The age on Robert's monument does
not agree with the 1871 census. I suspect that the date on the monument is incorrect. He was probably born about 1863. Another source gives his date of birth as
Aug 22, 1863. This would make him 7when the 1871 census was taken in April, 1871.
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