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In the Cholmondeley of Cholmondeley Family Collection at the Cheshire and Chester Archives and Local Studies Service there are deeds for properties in both Suffolk and Yorkshire mentioning members of the Pek family.
Ref. DCH/O/50
1547, 1552 and 12 February 1568

31 October 1556 - the will of Robert Peck of Beccles, co. Suffolk, England...
My body to be buried in the churchyard of Beccles, near unto the grave of Joan, my wife.
To every one of my household servants 12d.
To John Peck my son, my messuage wherein I dwell and my tenement "late Mayster Rede" and the two meadows lying next the meadow in the tenor of Mathew Prynte and my little garden "late Philippe Doddes," my close "sometyme Helyn Churches," my "fryttlell as the further Wynde Myll late Richard Tyde, " and three acres of land "late William Marshes" upon condition that he shall pay to Thomas Pecke, my sons, and to my three daughters Margaret, Olyve, and Anne.
To Robard Pecke, my son, my other two meadows in Barstun (?Barsham) "late Churchmans" and the meadows late "Doctor Rede sometyme Baldewyns," my close at Ingate church, one acre of land "late Tyde at Ingatefelds" and the "three roode acres called Bells acre."
To Thomas Pecke, my son, my two tenements I purchased of John Walter and my tenter yard.
To my daughters Margaret, Olyve, and Anne, to each £6.13s.4d.
To every one of John Water's and William Water's children 4d.
To every one of my godchildren 4d.
Executors: Richard Crampton and Thomas Hagas.
Supervisors: John Waters and Robert Bradley.
My little "pyctell called Caves pyctell" lying in Ingate shall be sold.
To Joan Meriman, my daughter, a gown and a petticoat that were her mother's and the worser paire of Corall beads."
Witnesses: Sir John Bymbyn, Robert Tower, Robert Grene, Thomas Goodwyn, and John Waters.
Proved 20 November 1556."

[Bill Zoucha.ged]

Note: Lineage.
Perhaps born abt 1508; Robert Peck was from the branch of the family that lived in Halesworth and South Elmham, both in Suffolk county. He was born in the vicinity of Beccles, moving into the town in 1525. In 1529 he was made executor of his grandfather, John Leeke's will, making him at least twenty one at that time, so he was probably born as early as 1500; was a church warden of Beccles at one time; his will, written 30 Oct 1556 and proved 20 Nov 1556 in the Archdeaconry Court of Suffolk, left considerable bequests to sons John, Thomas and Robert, and to daughters Margaret, Olyve and Anne, and daughter Johan Meriman, and requested he be buried in the Beccles Churchyard next to his wife Johan's grave.

Beccles is an important parish in the northeastern part of Suffolk, 41 miles northeast from Ipswich. It is situated onthe River Waveney, which winds in a north easterly direction towards the North Sea and separates the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk. The parish church, dedicated to St. Michael, stands on a point of land overlooking the meadows through which the Waveney flows. The church was built about 1369 and it's tower completed about 1515.

Text: vol.94, pp.71-73

Sources:
Type: Periodical
Author: New England Historical and Genealogical Society, Boston, MA
Periodical: The New England Historical and Genealogical Register
Date: vols. 1-148 on compact discs in DMVD library

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