The Peek Family

Emanuel Peek b 1848 - d 9 November 1915

Research Dates

13 March 2006
Very little is currently known about Emanuel.   No search of the registers has been carried out for him, so there are no copies of any birth, marriage or death certificates to show.   He does appear in the 1851 and 1861 census records, and in the latter he had already started his sea-faring career aged 12.   No entries have been found for the next three censuses, this may be because he was away at sea.   Extracts from the Fishing Boat Agreement Registers held at the Suffolk County Record Office at Lowestoft show that he served as skipper on several boats as shown below.

From 1912 there is a blank, nothing further appears until the date of his death, which was the 9th November 1915.   There can be only speculation as to the cause of death until such time as the death certificate is obtained, but it must have been an incredibly bad time for the family, especially as Emanuel's son Stephen, and his son, another Emanuel, died earlier in January of the same year.   Their boat, the steam trawler Labrador, was lost at sea, either by mine or enemy U-boat action.

1851 Census

Census Year	Copy Found	Certificate Type	Copy Found	Associated Locations
	Yes		No		Place of birth (No map yet)
	Yes		No		Place of marriage
	No		No		Residence
	No
	No

In this census, Emanuel is shown as being 2 years old, and living with parents Robert and Naomi, together with siblings Edward and Phoebe.   The family name appears to  be Peck, probably due to a misinterpretation by the census enumerator.