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Hello everyone, I am new to your group and am hoping someone might be able to help me please. I am tracing my husbands family and am looking for info on the PEACOCK family from Irishtown. Seems they were chandlers there and some joined the army. I have William c1824, Gough 1779, Thomas m. Ann ASHTON 1770. William came to New Zealand about 1860. Thank you.

eggplant

Thursday 1st Dec 2016, 05:33PM

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  • Hi . . . Welcome to Ireland reaching Out  . . . 

    I am not sure if we can be of much assistance . . early records are very scarce . . . 

    Maybe . . a LOCAL volunteer in the Limerick area . . will pick up on your query . . 

    (  Go to . . . Mungret@irelandxo.com  )   to alert the local volunteer . . . 

    In the Tithes Applotment 1823- 1837  . .there are a number of Peacock family listed . . for Limerick and surrounds

    they being registered for the purpose of tax collecting . .as follows . .

    Unfortunately these registers don't tell us much . . except name and place . . .  

     

    View RecordMr PeacockCloughacloka, Mungret, Limerick1822View RecordMichl PeacockCloughacloka, Mungret, Limerick1822View RecordCaptain PeacockCloghacloka, Mungret, Limerick1824View RecordCaptain PeacockBarnakyle, Mungret, Limerick1824View RecordMr John PeacockRathbane, StNicholas, Limerick1824View RecordGeorge PeacockWilliamstown, Fedamore, Limerick1825View RecordThos G Peacock EsquireBarnakyle, Mungret, Limerick1826View RecordPeacockRathbane, StNicholas, Limerick1833View RecordJohn PeacockRathbane, StNicholas, Limerick1833

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    Map of townslands . . see . . . http://www.logainm.ie/ . . . . . . (for townslands)

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    Checking the National Census of  1821/41/51 . . no listings for Limerick Peacock . . 

         "                  "                "  1901 . . . again there are only two

    see . . . http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/

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    Checking " Griffiths Valuations " 1847 - 1864 . . . there are some listings . . . see

    http://www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/index.xml?action=doNam…

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    https://www.johngrenham.com/findasurname.php?surname=Peacock

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    http://www.irish-genealogy-toolkit.com/

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    Sorry I couldn't be of more positive assistance . . .  

    Cheers

     

    Eamonn M. Horan, Volunteer Ireland Reaching Out ☘️

    Friday 2nd Dec 2016, 03:39PM
  • Thank youvery much for your time. Sounds like I have been lucky to get the amount of information I have found. Cheers

    eggplant

    Friday 2nd Dec 2016, 09:04PM
  • Hi, there are several names listed but not all relationships are shown. Apart from the William Peacock who emigrated to New Zealand, are the other Peacocks listed all confirmed ancestors? I may have a connection to the Thomas Peacock and Ann Ashton who you mention and have previously identified this couple as being of potential interest to my own line but need to understand whether they are your earliest known, and confirmed, ancestors?  Brian

     

    Brian.newman@btinternet.com

    Tuesday 2nd May 2017, 07:22PM
  • Hi, thanks for your reply. I don't have much confirmed information except William Peacocke's marriage certificate says he is the son of Gough Peacocke and Eliza Peacock, father's trade is chandler and that he was 30 years when married in 1856. His eldest son was William, second son Thomas, third Simon and fourth Alfred James. All the other names are ones I have found and feel might fit. Shona

    eggplant

    Wednesday 3rd May 2017, 08:44AM
  • Hi Shona, were they Church of Ireland or Roman Catholic - mine were Church of Ireland? My hope, and main interest, was in the Peacock / Ashton marriage and it doesn't sound as if you have anything substantive to link this marriage to your family? My interest is that the Peacock family married into my Newman line and two generations later the name Ashton was given to one of the children. The naming conventions used by my ancestors, which were very common in Ireland, suggests that Ashton would have been the surname of the grandmother. I assume you have considered the same re the name Gough, which I would also expect to be a maiden name of his grandmother or certainly an earlier generation. For what it's worth, my ancestor with the middle name of Ashton, married someone called Rutherford Waddell and also emigrated to NZ, settling in Dunedin. Brian

    Brian.newman@btinternet.com

    Thursday 4th May 2017, 07:13AM
  • Hi Brian,

    Thanks very much for your reply, and you are correct I don't have proof of much really! Not sure how I would be able to get proof? William was a catholic when he married in Australia. I found Edward ASHTON married Rebecca GOUGH in 1693 and thought they could be the great grandparents of Ann ASHTON who married Thomas PEACOCK. There is a Gough PEACOCK born 1819 St Johns, Limerick (my William was born 1825 St Johns, Limerick - so they could be brothers) Both Gough and William were in 40th regt of foot. 

    Cheers Shona

    eggplant

    Friday 5th May 2017, 07:49AM
  • Hello, folks.. I am scratching away at the Peacock(e) family line from the Galway end.  I have found a lot of leads both on this site, check MOYRUS parish,  and on the ROYAL IRISH CONSTABULARY FORUM  site.  Service in the Police inevitably meant that married men had to move around the country hence place of birth of children could be anywhere.

     

     

     

    lurgan

    Sunday 18th Feb 2018, 06:27PM
  • Hi eggplant, Hopefully you still have an interest in the Peacock family. I have made some progress of late and am now reasonably convinced that our families are connected. Probably the easiest way to contact me is by email as it would be easier to send you details, copies of trees etc. Regards, Brian  Brian.newman@btinternet.com

     

     

    Brian.newman@btinternet.com

    Friday 24th Apr 2020, 08:20PM

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