Jeremiah Peck

1805 - 1833  (28 years)

• Name	Jeremiah Peck
  Birth	1805	Norfolk Island, Australia
  Gender	Male
  Death	27 Nov 1833	Pattersons Plains, Tasmania, Australia
  Burial	Carr Villa Cemetery, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia
  Person ID	I272216492799	My Genealogy
  Last Modified	17 Jan 2024

  
  

  Father	Joshua Peck,   b. Abt 1756, England d. 24 Feb 1825, Newcastle, NSW, Australia (Age 69 years)
  Mother	Mary Frost,   b. 14 Aug 1750, Norwich, Norfolk, England d. 14 Nov 1847, Pattersons Plains, Tasmania, Australia (Age 97 years)
  Marriage	1791	Norfolk Island, NSW, Australia
  Family ID	F259	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary Mackenzie,   b. 04 Jun 1813, Sydney d. 1886, Scottsdale, Tasmania, Australia (Age 72 years)
  Marriage	02 Nov 1829	Launceston, Tasmania, Australia
  Children	1. Mary Ann Peck,   b. 03 Jun 1833, Pattersons Plains, Tasmania, Australia d. 10 Dec 1899, Scottsdale, Tasmania, Australia (Age 66 years)
  Family ID	F260	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	17 Jan 2024

  
  

• Notes

  JEREMIAH PECK was born on Norfolk Island in 1805, son of Joshua Peck and Mary Frost. Both were convicts who came to Australia on the First & Second fleet respectively. There is no record of Jeremiah’s birth or baptism but he is listed in the February 1805 Norfolk Island muster. Not a great deal is known of Jeremiah although he seems to have stayed out of the trouble which seemed to follow his father and brothers. In 1827 Jeremiah applied for and was granted 60 acres near Evandale. In his petition to the Governor he stated: “That your petitioner has been brought up as a Husbandman and has acquired by his honest industry six bullocks and twenty head of female cattle” He was recorded as residing in Springs where he was granted a pole cart licence on 28th February 1829. A further pole cart licence was granted to Jeremiah on 21st March 1829 when he was recorded as living in Emu Plains. The Oxford Dictionary defines a “Pole Cart” as “A long tapering wooden shaft fitted to the fore carriage of a vehicle and attached to the yokes or collar of the draft animals”. Jeremiah was granted a publican license at Patterson's Plains on 17th September 1831, where he appears to have had some land and in 1833 operated a hotel at Paterson's Plains. He and Mary also shared the land she had inherited. The daughter of Mary and Jeremiah, Mary Ann, was born on 3rd June 1833. Although it was four years after their marriage, she was their only child. Just a few months after Mary Ann was born, Jeremiah died on 27th November 1833, aged 28 years. His cause of death is unknown.