Peck Family History
Peck Name Meaning
English (mainly East Anglia): metonymic occupational name for
someone who dealt in weights and measures, for example a grain factor,
from Middle English pekke ‘peck’ (an old measure of dry goods
equivalent to eight quarts or a quarter of a bushel).English:
variant of Peak 1.Irish: variant of Peak 2.South German: variant of Beck.North German and Dutch:
metonymic occupational name for someone who prepared or sold pitch,
from Middle Low German pek, Middle Dutch pec,
pic.Dutch: from Middle Dutch pec,
pick ‘desperate straits’, hence a nickname for a person in
difficult circumstances or perhaps for someone with a gloomy
disposition.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Peck
Name Distribution of Peck Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Peck families
 513 - 1,024  172 - 512 |
 1 - 171  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Peck families
|
7 - 12 3 - 6 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Peck census records
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Peck Family Origin
Peck Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Peck Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Peck Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Peck census records
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Military Service by Peck
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