Ontario July 8th, 1863. He was the second son of Hugh and
Ellen and seems to have travelled widely for his work, perhaps
at the expense of family life.
In 1881 he was with his parents in Bruce County, Ontario
before the family departed for Manitoba. However, he was
married in Sault Ste Marie, Ontario on September 4th, 1889
to Samantha Almira Lamon, the daughter of John and
Sarah Lamon who was born in Brantford, Ontario.
Click on the above title for a link to a January 10, 1889 document held in the National Archives of Canada related to discovery of a quartz mine by a Samuel Peacock. It would seem that this is our Samuel as he was in the area at the time and later described his occupation as 'quartz miner'. You will note a very good signature on one of the pages. He moved on to Brandon in a few short years. Perhaps the mine was not a success.
Their daughter, Pearl A. Peacock, was born in Ontario
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.
In the 1901 Census, Almira is working as a domestic for a family
named Waddell in Brandon. The location is very close to her
mother-in-law, Ellen and her younger children who were
seemingly running a boarding house. Samuel and Almira's
daughter, Pearl, is living with her uncle and aunt, William and
Sarah, also in Brandon. I have been unable to find the two boys;
however, there is a boy named Nelson Peacock, born 1895
in Manitoba in an institution in Winnipeg headed by a
woman named Helen Hendry. The children are listed as
'inmates'; perhaps it is an orphanage. I do not know if this
is their son.
At this time, Samuel is in the census for Nelson, in the West
Kootenay region of British Columbia living with two other
men, all three of them working as smelter labourers. "By the
1900s, Nelson boasted several fine hotels, a Hudson's Bay
Company store, and an electric streetcar system. The local
forestry and mining industries were well established." (Wikepedia)
In the 1906 census, Samuel and his daughter, Pearl, have
moved to the Strathcona District of Alberta. Their mailing
address is shown as Arthurvale which is south east of Red Deer.
Next door is a man named William Tabraham who was his
landlord in the previous census in Nelson. They seem to be in
a rural area because Samuel and Pearl have 3 horses, 3 milk
cows, 8 other horned cattle and 6 pigs.
In January of 1911, Samuel crossed the border from Vancouver
to Blaine, Washington giving his destination as Everett,
Washington. He gave his year of birth as 1864 stating that
he was forty-seven years old. He said that his next of kin
was his wife, Almira Peacock, who lived in Winnipeg. His last
address was in Vancouver and he was a 'quartz miner.'
In June of 1911, Samuel is at 333 6th Avenue West in the City of
Vancouver at the home of his widowed sister, Eliza Hunter.
He has his eleven year old son, William, with him and the
records states that he is divorced.
There is an October 20, 1920 record of Samuel crossing
the border from Winnipeg with a destination of White Fish,
Michigan (or perhaps Minnesota). He gave his age as 57,
stated that he was married, and that his last permanent
address was the Pas, Manitoba. He gave his nearest relative
as his brother Nelson of Kamsack, Saskatchewan.
There is a death record for a Samuel Peacock in the Rural
Municipality of Shellmouth which is close to the Saskatchewan
border north-west of Brandon. He died January 1, 1925 at
the age of sixty-one years.
Samuel's Wife - Downloaded from ancestry.com
Pearl Peacock - died in Montana, USA
downloaded from ancestry.com
