Marriage of William Peacock and Sarah M. Hunter

I found the marriage of William Peacock on ancestry.com, with his surname misspelled. The information is as follows:

William Peacotte, 23 of Brant (Township, Bruce Co.) 23, born Toronto, son of Hugh Peacotte and Helen Wagget to

Sarah E. (sic) Hunter, 19, born and living in Brant (Twp) dau of Richard Hunter and Laetitia Antwissel, of Brant Twp, Bruce County,

Witnesses:  James Craig, Brant (Twp)
Agnes Murdoch, Walkerton

Married May 20, 1880 in Walkerton, Brant Twp, Bruce County
By Rev. Robert Moffat, Presbyterian


The Hunters were an Irish family who appear in the census for Brant Township, Bruce County for the 1861, 1871 and 1881 censuses.  All their children, beginning with Frances, William, John and Sarah were born in Ontario, so it would seem that they came to Canada about 1855 from Ireland.  Richard and Letitia's marriage has not been found.

In 1891, they are in Cornwallis, Selkirk, Manitoba.  Richard was a farmer in all census records.  His two sons are in the 1881 census for St. Agathe (south of Winnipeg on the Red River) and are farmers, apparently going to Manitoba before the rest of the family.  The census record is in French.

Sarah Margaret Hunter's brother, William Hunter, married her husband's sister, Eliza Peacock.  This marriage has not been found.  The William Hunter family migrated to Vancouver as did William Peacock after the death of his wife Sarah in Manitoba.

Eliza, Mrs. Wm Hunter 1858-1915

Eliza was the second child of Hugh and Ellen Peacock. According to the records of Knox Presbyterian Church in Toronto where she was baptized August 7, 1859, she was born in Toronto on September 19, 1858. Various other dates appear in
the census records over the years.

She appears in the census records with her parents until 1891 when she is married to William Hunter and living close to her parents in Whitehead, Manitoba.

1891 Whitehead Manitoba
Family 65
William Hunter......36, b. Ont...parents b. Ire...Presby..Farmer
Eliza Hunter.......... 32, b. Ont... parents b. Ire................Wife
Albert L. P. Hunter..8, b. Ont...........................................Son
Iva M. Hunter......... 6, b. Man..........................................Dau
Merritt G. Hunter...4, b. Ont............................................Son

(later Census records give Manitoba as place of birth for all children)


1901 Census - Brandon, Manitoba

William Hunter...........Head, M...b. Sept 12, 1854, 46, Carpenter
Eliza Hunter.......................Wife, M....b. Oct 19, 1858....42
**A.L. Penrose Hunter.......Son, S......b. Nov 5, 1882.....18
***Muriel T. Hunter..........Dau, S.... b. Mar 14, 1885....16
M. Gardiner Hunter..........Son, S.....b. Nov 24, 1886....14

(also 5 male lodgers ranging in age from 23 to 37)

**attended University of Manitoba- 1904 , address given as Brandon
http://www.archive.org/stream/generalcalendar190304univuoft/generalcalendar190304univuoft_djvu.txt

Iva Muriel Hunter died April 9, 1904 in Brandon, Manitoba at the age of 19 years.

William Hunter's family moved to Vancouver about 1906, according to Eliza's death certificate. William Edward Hunter died in Vancouver on March 10th, 1909. They lived at 333 6th Avenue West. He was 54 1/2 years old and was a retired farmer. It confirms that he was born in Ontario and was Presbyterian. His cause of death is given as ' jaundice - 5 months.'

1911 Census - Vancouver, British Columbia
333 6th West
Eliza Hunter, Head, Widow, b. Apr, 1859, 52, Christian Sci.
Albert L. Penrose Hunter...Son, S, b. Jan, 1882, 29, Chr.Sci., Lawyer
Merritt. G. Hunter...Son, S, b. May, 1885, 26............. Shipper?
Samuel Peacock.......Bro, Div, b. July, 1863, 47... occ. not clear
William Peacock......Nephew, S, b. May, 1900, 11

Eliza died July 5th, 1915 at 56 years, 8 months and 16 days. She was attended by a doctor July 4th and she died the following day. Her certificate has a note which reads, "cause of death - diabetic mellitus, immediate cause - diabetic intoxication and asthemia (weakness and debility) - This case was not treated by me, but was under Christian Science."

Family Records
Marriage
Albert Lawrence P. Hunter = Grace Edna Lord
1915. 11. 17. - Vancouver, B.C.
A.L.P. Hunter of Vancouver witnessed the 1910 marriage of his uncle, Rev. Thomas Peacock to Helen Banks Todrick.
Marriage
Merritt Gardiner Hunter = Mary Catherine Macdonald
1919. 11.14 Victoria, BC

Deaths
Merritt Gardiner Hunter, d. July 3, 1947 at Stanley Park Golf Course at 60 years old. He lived at 784 Thurlow Street. He was born in Brandon, Manitoba, came to Vancouver in 1906. He was a salesman at Clark Fruit and Produce at the time of his death and had done this line of work for 15 years. His wife, Mary Catherine Macdonald, registered his death. Immediate cause of death - acute cardiac dilation. He was buried at Mountain View Cemetery.
Albert Lawrence P. Hunter Died 1967. 08.07, age 84, Vancouver. He lived at 2010 Barclay Street and was dead on arrival at St. Paul's Hospital. He was born in Brandon, Manitoba November 5, 1882. He was a self-employed lawyer his entire life and had last worked in 1966. His death was registed by Douglas Hunter, son, of 2184 West 57th Avenue. Mr. Hunter died of natural causes and his body was cremated.

Mountain View Cemetery Burials, Vancouver
The Hunter plot was owned by A.L.P. Hunter (son)
William Edward Hunter – 1909.03.10 - Plot No. Jones*41/021/0011
Eliza Hunter -1915.07.15 (cause of death-diabetes/asthma) Plot No. 0010
Merritt G. Hunter –1947.07.03 Plot No. 0009