FAMILY GROUP RECORD OF
OLIVER PEAKE
Oliver Peake was christened 6 September 1590 in Eccles,
Lancashire, England, the son of William Peake and Margaret
Collier. Eccles is a parish about seven miles from Deane.
Oliver was a successful chapman - a merchant who bought and sold
cloth. He married and had two children born in Eccles between 1616
and 1618, then seems to have moved to Deane by 1626. In Deane had
had an illegitimate son in the parish of Deane in 1626. The next
year Oliver married Alice Crompton 21 July 1627 in Manchester.
They were both shown as being of Deane.
Marriage record for
Oliver Peake and Alice Crompton in Manchester:
"21. Oliver Peake and Ales Crompton paroch Deane per
license"
Oliver was a churchwarden in Deane in 1628. Oliver and Alice had
two babies who both died in 1629.
There was a gap of nine years, and then Oliver had a daughter in
1638. The parish registers have a gap between 1529 and 1637.
Oliver may have married again, as his widow was listed as Margery
when he died three years later.
Oliver died and was buried 13 August 1641 in Deane.
Burial record for
Oliver Peake in Deane:
"Oliverus Peake de Hultonia Superiori"
An inventory was
created for Oliver's estate.
Inventory for Oliver Peake of Over Hulton, Deane, 1641
A true inventory of all the goods catell & credits
of Oliver Peake late of Over Hultonn in the County of
Lancaster chapman decessed & praysed & valued
the twentith day of August Ano Domini 1641
Imprimis one horse one mare & a coult – xijli
Item sixe mylch kine & three heffers and two sterkes
– xxxli
Item three fatted kine – xijli
Item in hay – vjli
Item in corne & barly – xli
Item two sweyne – xvjs
Item eight sheepe – ijli
Item in cotten wift – iiijli xiijs iiijd
Item in linen & yerne – xxis
Item in sheepe woole – viijs
Item in fetherebeds & boulsters – vli
Item in woolen bedinge – vli xs
Item in linen – vli viijs
Item in gladinge – xxxvijs
Item in potte brasse – ijd
Item in pom[torn] brasse – iijli
Item in pewder – ijli vjs
Item in carts plowes harrows traghes & cart gearyes
– iiijli vjs
Item one cobord & dishbords two framebords ijli
viijs
Item one presse – xxxs
Item in bedsteeds – ijli
Item in arkes & cowfers – ijli
Item one garner – xxxs
Item in tresses & bords – xvs
Item in treene ware – xxxxvjs
Item three payre of lowmes with bords & heales – xs
Item bees – vs
Item in earthen vessels – iiijs
Item in cheese – iijli
Item in meale & malt – xxxvijs
Item in baken & swine grease – vjs
Item in plow irons & harrow pins xs
Item one cartrope – ijs
Item two [torn]broms – ijs
Item one bible – viijs
Item foure sackes & a windosheete – vjs
Item one chimney with other implments belonging to it –
xjs
Item twenty lode of stone – vjs viijd
Item silver spoone – xs
Item quishens – vs
Item in sieves & ridels – js viijs
Item in fuell – iiijs
Item in the decedent apparel vli
Item the husselments with in the house vs
Detts owinge to the decedent
Danniell Barnat – xviijli
Christiffer Nild – vjli
John Whitworth vjli
John Lawrance – xli
John Edge – ijli
Thomas Ffigh – xli
Suma total – Clxxvijli js viijd
The outside
wrapper for Oliver Peake's inventory has a reference in
Latin to "Margeria vid relict". This means that Oliver's
widow and relict was Margery.
Oliver and his first wife had the following children:
*1. Margaret, christened 18 August 1616 in Eccles; married
John Makant.
2. John, christened 25 July 1618 in Eccles.
Oliver had an illegitimate son christened in Deane.
3. (Male), christened 19 December 1626 in Deane.
Baptism record for a son in Deane: "bastarde filius Oliveri
Peake de Overhulton bapt fuerant 19 die menses Decembris"
(Illegitimate son of Oliver Peake of Overhulton was
baptized the 19th day in the month of December)
Oliver and Alice had the following children:
4. Alice, buried 25 June 1629 in Deane.
5. Thomas, christened 21 June 1629 in Deane; buried 6 July
1629 in Deane.
Oliver and another wife (Margery?) had the following child:
6. Hellena, christened 21 July 1638 in Deane.
SOURCES: Deane parish register; The Registers of the Parish
Church of Deane; Eccles parish register; inventory of Oliver
Peake of Middle Hulton, 1641.
FAMILY GROUP RECORD OF
WILLIAM
PEAKE AND
MARGARET
COLLIER
William Peake was born in about 1550 of Eccles. He married
Margaret Collier 18 October 1575 in Eccles.
Eccles
William and Margaret had the following children:
1. Thurstan, christened 12 October 1587 in Eccles; married
Em Tildesley.
*2. Oliver, christened 6 September 1590 in Eccles; married
1) unknown, 2) Alice Crompton, 3) Margery; buried 13 August 1641 in Deane.
SOURCES: Eccles parish register; Deane parish register.