Final Comments on Family of Hugh and Ellen Peacock

Because we cannot trace the Peacock families in Canada past the 1911 census, the last few decades of some members' lives are unclear, and we don't have burial places for several. ( The 1921 Canadian census will not be released until 2013. The 1940 American census will be released in 2012. ) However, most of the children of Hugh and Ellen left Manitoba moving farther west, and several went to the US. None, as far as I know, returned to Ontario. Hugh and Ellen are buried in Brandon, Manitoba. Here is a summary of the family members.

i) William Peacock 1856 - Married to Sarah Margaret who died in 1908. They lived near and in Brandon, Manitoba. Around the turn of the century, they seem to have spent several years in the US where a son, Williard, was born. In 1911, William, a widower, was a travelling grain merchant. His sister moved to Vancouver about 1906, and William followed sometime after 1911. In 1917, he married Helen Louise Pengelly, nee South, an Australian widow. William died in a work accident in Ocean Falls, B.C. in 1923 at 66 years of age. He had been working for several months on the construction of a dam. They are both buried at the Mountain View Cemetery at 41st Avenue and Fraser in Vancouver.

ii) Eliza Peacock 1858-1915 Mrs. William Edward Hunter. They moved from Manitoba to Vancouver about 1906, where William, a retired farmer, died in 1909 at about 55 years. Eliza died in 1915 suffering from diabetis mellitus. She was a Christian Scientist and sought treatment through her faith. Both are buried in Mountain View Cemetery, Vancouver, BC.

iii) Catherine Peacock 1862- 1940 Mrs. William Young Rumney. Lived in Arizona for several decades. Moved to California after the death of her husband and died in Los Angeles in 1940.

iv) Samuel Peacock 1863-1925 He was married in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario in 1891 to Samantha Almira Lawson. A daughter, Pearl A. Peacock, was born in Ontario on September 6, 1891, and another child, Thomas Nelson Hugh George, was born in 1895 in Brandon, Manitoba. A second son,William, was born in 1900 in British Columbia. Samuel travelled widely, seemingly for work related to mining. He died in Manitoba in 1925.

v) Mary Jane Peacock 1865 - 1948 Mrs. John Grant / Mrs. Thomas Arda Stanlake. She moved to the US in 1929 and appears in the 1930 census with her daughter, Olive Wheaton, in Los Angeles. She died in Los Angeles, California in 1948.

vi) Rev. Thomas Robert Peacock 1867-1958 Thomas became a clergyman after the death of his first wife. He was married three times - 1. Minnie Hattie Dickson (mother of Dorothy) 2. Helen Banks Todrick (mother of Catherine) 3. Hectoria McLean. He was buried in Langley, British Columbia. No male children.

vii) Frederick Peacock 1871 - 1928
He was a labourer in Nanaimo, British Columbia in 1891 and a miner in Comox in 1901. The next year he married Ellen Piercy in Washington State. They had three children Hughie Thomas, Fred V. and Clara R. in the 1920 census for King County, Washington. Fred died in 1928 at 57 years old.

viii) Ida L. Peacock - Born 1872 Mrs Abraham Adams 1911 census in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. His occupation is 'merchant - wholesale grocer.' No further information known.

ix) Arthur Nelson Peacock - 1874-*1951 He used Nelson as his given name. Married to Louise Alberta Shields who was born in Ontario and died in Winnipeg in 1930 at 51. They were in Winnipeg for the 1906 and 1911 census records. In 1920 when crossing the border into the US, his brother Samuel gave Nelson's address as Kamsack, Saskatchewan. No further information available. No known male descendants. *His date of death was found on the internet and has not been confirmed.

x) Sarah Peacock - 1876-1961 Mrs. Samuel Lount Beldon They immigrated to the US about 1900 and were in Multnomah, Portland, Oregon in 1910. They later moved to British Columbia. Sarah died of pneumonia after hip surgery in 1961 at 85, and she and Lount Belden are buried in Mapleridge, British Columbia.

xi) Ellen Letitia Etta (Ettie) Peacock - 1880-1964 Mrs. James Henry Temple - Probably in Strassborg, Regina, Saskatchewan in 1911. They moved to BC in about 1919, according to Ettie's death certificate and her last address was Linden Avenue, Vicoria. She died of cerebral thrombosis in 1964 in Victoria at the age of 83. She is buried in Saanich on Vancouver Island at the Royal Oak Burial Park.