Mary Peck

Mary Peck 

Born: 1854, Holbeach 

Father: Henry Peck (b. 1819) (d. 1870) – Blacksmith in 1851

Mother: Mahala Peck (b. 1831) (d. 1860)

Sisters: Susan Peck (b. 1856), Caroline Peck (b. 1860), Julia Peck (b. 1860)

Marriage:        1882, Long Sutton

Husband:         Edward Frost 

                        b. 1853

                        Grocer

                        d. 1907

Issue – 

#1 Stanley Edward Frost (b. 1884)

#2 Bernard Frost (b. 1886)

#3 Oscar Frost (b. 1888)

#4 Gladys Mary Frost (b. 1901)

In 1871 – 

She is at High Street, Holbeach. Mary is listed as ‘Pupil Teacher’. Her sister, Susan, is listed as ‘Milliner’. Her sisters, Caroline and Julia, are unlisted. There is a servant, Sarah Hewson (b. 1825). There are two journeymen, William Fox (b. 1837) and Robert Foulsham (b. 1849)

In 1881 – 

She is at Well Road, Fakenham as a boarder. Robert Tuck (b. 1824) is listed as ‘Confectioner’. His son, George Tuck (b. 1861), is listed as ‘Baker’. His wife, Anne Tuck (b. 1831), and daughters, Elizabeth Tuck (b. 1859) and Charlotte Tuck (b. 1866), are unlisted. Mary is listed as boarder and ‘School Mistress’. 

In 1891 – 

She is at St. Margaret’s Street, Canterbury. Her husband us listed as ‘Grocer’. Mary, her children (Stanley, Bernard and Oscar), her sister, now Susan Piccaver, and her niece, Ethel M Piccaver (b. 1888), are unlisted. There is a Grocer’s Assistant, William Line (b. 1874). There is a servant, Rose A Powell (b. 1876).

In 1901 – 

She is at 84 Queen Street, Ramsgate. Her husband is listed as ‘Grocer’. Mary and her son, Oscar, are unlisted.

In 1911 –

She is at 11 Farnley Road, South Norwood. Mary is an unlisted widow. Her daughter, Gladys, is unlisted. Her son, Stanley, and the boarder, Gordon Samuel Groom (b. 1886), are listed as ‘Schoolmaster’. Her son, Bernard, is listed as ‘Tailor – Salesman’. There is another boarder, Alfred Donald Miller (b. 1894), listed as ‘Tailor Apprentice’.  

In 1921 – 

She is at 11 Farnley Road, South Norwood. Mary is unlisted. Her daughter, Gladys, is listed as ‘Bank Clerk’. Ira Thomas Mitchell (b. 1899) is listed as ‘Assistant Accountant’. 

d.         18 May 1928, Croydon

FROST, Mary of 11 Farnley Road, South Norwood, Surrey, widow died 18 May 1928. Administration London 19 June to Stanley Edward Frost, Schoolmaster. Effects £175, 17s, 4d.