Ruth Peckover

Ruth Alice Peckover 

Born: 1 October 1863, Kirkstall

Father: John Peckover (b. 1837)

Mother: Jane J Peckover (b 1839)

Brothers: Stephen Peckover (b. 1862)

Sisters: Margaret Elizabeth Peckover (b. 1865), Mary Jane Annie Peckover (b. 1867)

Marriage:        19 August 1891, Leeds 

Husband:         John Frederick Burrill 

                        b. 1864 

                        Master in the ‘Abbassieh’ Secondary School, Alexandria 

Issue –

#1 Harold Ruthven Burrill (b. 27 November 1893, Cairo) 

#2 Gladys Isobel Burrill (b. 1896, Lancashire)

#3 Lionel Peckover Burrill (b. 05 November 1901, Cairo)

#4 Constance Ruth Burill (b. 07 June 1903, Lancashire)

In 1871 – 

She is at Gledhow Mount, Potter Newton, Leeds. Her father is listed as ‘Coachman’. Ruth, her mother and siblings (Stephen, Margaret and Mary) are unlisted.

In 1881 –

She is at 5 Park Row, Leeds, Yorkshire. Her father is listed as ‘Bank Messenger’. Her mother and sister, Mary, are unlisted. Her brother, Stephen, is listed as ‘County Court Clerk (Other Local Baliff)’. Ruth and her sister, Margaret, are listed as ‘Pupil Teacher’. 

In 1891 –

She is at Langsett Road, Wortley as a boarder. Walter Gregory (b. 1846) is listed as ‘Railway Spring Fitter’. Hi wife and daughter are unlisted. His son, Frank Gregory (b. 1870), is listed as ‘Steel Warehouseman’. His son, Herbert Gregory (b. 1877), is listed as ‘Labourer at Steel Rolling Mill’. Ruth and Annie Jarvis (b. 1869) [LDTC 1889] are listed as boarders and ‘Schoolmistress’. Amelia Petch (b. 1869) is listed as ‘Waitress at Hotel’. There is a servant, Annie Gregory (b. 1872). 

In 10/00 – 

Address is c/o Mrs. Peckover, Fern Hill, Warton, near Kirkham, Lancashire. 

In 1939 – 

She is at Mostyn Private Hotel, Temple Street, Llandrindod Wells. Ruth is an unlisted widow. 

d.         30 June 1959, Wandsworth 

BURRILL, Ruth Alice of 60 Palewell Park, East Sheen, Surrey widow died 30 June 1959 at 29 Hazlewell Road, Putney, London SW15. Probate London 17 September to Lionel Peckover Burrill, land agent. Effects £3112, 2s, 7d.