Hugh & Ellen- Whitehead, Manitoba, 1891

Hugh & Ellen’s youngest child was born in Ontario in
November, 1880. Sometime after April 4, 1881 when the census
was taken,the family moved on to Manitoba.

William, the eldest son, was not in Brant Township in 1881 and
the information provided in the 1911 census confirms that he
went to Manitoba in 1880. The same census reveals that Hugh
and Ellen followed in 1881. It would seem that most of Hugh and
Ellen’s family migrated at the same time. Their second child,
Eliza, married a William Hunter (b. in Ontario) and their first
child was born in Manitoba in November, 1882. When we next
find the family in the rural municipality of Whitehead twenty-
five kilometers west of Brandon (click on above heading to see a
map), the first seven children are gone from the family home,
however, several are living close by in the Whitehead area.
(Land grant records should be researched for these farms.)

April 6, 1891 – Whitehead, Manitoba

Family 72
Hugh Peacock, 50, b. Ireland, Free Church, Farmer
Ellen Peacock, 53, b. Ireland
Ida I./L.? 17, b. Ontario
Arthur N., 15, b. Ontario
Sarah, 13, b. Ontario
Ellen G./L/? b. Ontario
William Cook, 21, b. England, Methodist, Labourer,
(shown as ‘son’-perhaps a homeboy)

Family
William Peacock, 34, b. Ontario, Farmer
Sarah M. Peacock, 30, b. Ontario
Frederick Borden, 22, b. England, (shown as ‘son’)
Henry Neil, 19, b. Ontario, (shown as ‘son’)

Family 65
William Hunter, 36, b. Ontario, parents b. Ireland,
Presbyterian, Farmer
Eliza Hunter, 32, b. Ontario, parents b. Ireland, wife
Albert L. P. Hunter, 8, son, b. Ontario
(later census states Manitoba)
Iva M. Hunter, 6, b. Manitoba
Merritt G. Hunter, 4, b. Ontario
(later census states Manitoba)

Family 64
John Hunter, 35
Anna Hunter, 36
(relationship to William unknown)

The children not included above are:
Catherine – Her whereabouts is unknown until 1910 census
for Phoenix, Arizona
Samuel – He was married in 1889 in Sault Ste Marie, Ontario
Mary Jane – She was married in Winnipeg in 1886.
Thomas – He was married in Brandon in 1903
Frederick – There is a Frederick Peacock in Vancouver,
British Columbia in 1891.