The Peacock family archive

Including Peacock Pedigree consisting of introductory pedigree chart, notes, personal sheets and analytical pedigree of Peacock family; Peacock generations; Peacock Narrative consisting of Peacock Narrative History Book; Peacock Family Narrative History - Thomas I c1500 to Thomas II of Northorpe; Thomas II c1790 to Thomas II & ESP c1820, Thomas II to ESP c1820-1830; Edward Peacock (1831-1915); printed works and manuscripts of Edward Peacock FSA; ephemera relating to Adrian Woodruffe-Peacock (1858-1922); photographs of village people, places, church restoration; Dennis Maximillian Cornelius Woodruffe-Peacock (1891-1964), photocopies of covers to his novels II and III. Also photocopies of personal letters written as a soldier during the 1914-1918 World War.

Family notes relating to members named other than Peacock (maternal and paternal) consisting of:

Adlington family notes originating Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire 18th century

General notes relating to the Brandreth family, Nottinghamshire family including Jeremiah B alias Coke, d.1817

General notes relating to the Hack family, originating in Rutland, Leicestershire

Nottinghamshire ancestors including Peacock book plates, signatures, 1700s onwards

Scales and Shaw families: index and notes

Walter-Nicholson and sister Henrietta 'Our link with the Walter family' includes pedigree.

General notes relating to the Warner and Banks families includes pedigree.

Warner Index Sheets: Generation B, Warners were related through Adrian Woodruffe-Peacock's second wife. Leicester Abbey was their home and in consequence the Warner files contain a depth of detail concerning the Abbey.

Leicester Abbey plans, descriptions includes escape from Dresden July-August 1914.

Wetherall Index and general notes, pedigree, includes Ousby (Edward Peacock's wife's mother's family.

Woodcock and Hepworth, pedigree (Edward Peacock's mother's family)

Woodruffe Notes, pedigree, Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire area.

Woolard, Stockman, Hart, Soper Index, pedigree (Adrian Woodruffe-Peacock's second wife's family).

• <persname>Woodruffe-Peacock, Edward Andrew, fl 1831-1915</persname>
• <persname>Peacock, Edward Andrew, Woodruffe-, fl 1831-1915</persname>

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The collection chiefly relates to the full span of the 18th and 19th centuries and into the early 20th century to beyond the end of the First World War. Items relating to earlier and later periods (13th to mid 20th centuries) are also housed within the collection.

In its present form, this collection was compiled by Thomas Warner Woodruffe-Peacock (1904-1975), known as 'Tom Peacock'. It was given to Scunthorpe Museum by his nephew Edward Andrew Woodruffe-Peacock, son of Edward Brandreth Woodruffe-Peacock (1906-1990), in March 1997.

During the Second World War Tom Peacock determined to produce a 'narrative' of his family history based on a substantial corpus of papers inherited from both paternal and maternal lines of his family. The paternal family papers form the main core of the collection and chiefly originate in northern Lincolnshire. The maternal papers chiefly originate in Leicestershire and Rutland. For the remainder of his life Tom Peacock continued to enlarge and develop both his 'family narrative' and his collection of original family papers on which it was based.