Robert PECK

1548 - 1593  (44 years)

• Name	Robert PECK
  Born	28 Nov 1548	Beccles, Suffolk, England
  Gender	Male
  Died	1593	Beccles, Suffolk, England
  Person ID	I4643	Main
  Last Modified	29 Jan 2015

  
  

  Father	Robert PECK,   b. Abt 1508, Beccles, Suffolk, England ,   d. Bef 20 Nov 1556, Beccles, Suffolk, England  (Age ~ 48 years)
  Mother	Joan WATERS,   b. 1524, Beccles, Suffolk, England ,   d. Oct 1556, Beccles, Suffolk, England  (Age 32 years)
  Married	Bef 1535
  Family ID	F1735	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Hellen BABBS,   b. 1546, Guildford, Surrey, England ,   d. 31 Oct 1614, Beccles, Suffolk, England  (Age 68 years)
  Married	22 Jul 1573	Beccles, Suffolk, England
  Children	+ 1. Joseph PECK,   b. 22 Apr 1587, Beccles, Suffolk, England ,   d. 23 Dec 1663, Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts  (Age 76 years)   2. Rev Robert PECK,   b. Abt 1586, Beccles, Suffolk, England ,   d. 30 Aug 1648, Hingham, Norfolk, England  (Age ~ 62 years)
  Last Modified	26 Jul 2017
  Family ID	F1732	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  The Pecks of Hingham, Massachusetts NOT Descended from John Peck, Esq., of Wakefield, Yorkshire It has been shown … that the Robert Peck who was named in the will of John Leeke of Beccles, co. Suffolk, dated 6 September 1629, as one of the testator's executors, was probably, from the nature of the services required of him and from the responsibility placed upon him under the terms of the will of John Leeke, at least twenty-one years old in 1529 and was therefore born in 1508 or earlier-very likely considerably earlier. It has been shown also that the Robert Peck named as an executor in the will of John Leeke was without doubt identical with the Robert Peck of Beccles whose will was dated 31 October 1556-a man who had two wives (both then deceased), who by his first wife had a daughter who in 1556 was already grown up and married ('all' of whose children were mentioned in a will of 1561), and a man also who had six children by his second wife who were living on 31 October 1556, of whom three were born before 28 May 1547. Now the testator of 31 October 1556, from whom Rev. Robert Peck and his brother Joseph, who came to New England in 1638, are known to have been descended, could not have been a son or a grands/o John Peck, Esq., of Wakefield, the testator of 2 November 1558, for this Robert Peck of Beccles was probably born in 1508 or earlier, while the marriage of John Peck of Wakefield did not take place until 1507 and Richard Peck, his eldest son and heir, was not born until about 1516. Moreover, if the Robert Peck to whom, together with Lancelott Lake, land in Wakefield had been given by John Peck, Esq. (as stated in his will of 2 November 1558), was, as seems likely, a s/o one of the younger sons of the said John Peck, he was too young to have been identical with Robert Peck of Beccles, the testator of 31 October 1556. [1]

  
  

• Sources

  [S1] New England Historical and Genealogical Register, The, (NEHGS, Boston, MA), 90:372.