Rev Peter William PEGUS [27218]

  General Notes:

Rev Peter William Pegus was know as William throughout his life to avoid confusion with his half brother Peter.

British Slave Owners
Rev. Peter William Pegus
Profile & Legacies Summary
1792 - 21^st Apr 1860
Claimant or beneficiary.
Biography
Son of Peter and Susannah Henrietta Pegus. The Pegus family had cotton estates on Carriacou.

Adm. pens. at ST JOHN'S, Oct. 11, 1813. [S. of Peter, of Greenwich, gent.] Matric. Michs. 1813; B.A. 1818; M.A. 1821. Ord. deacon (Lincoln) Sept. 22, 1816; priest, Mar. 7, 1819. Married, Apr. 14, 1821, Charlotte Susannah Elizabeth, Countess of Lindsey, widow of the 9th Earl [his first cousin]. Died Apr. 21, 1860. (Burke, Peerage; F. P. White.)

An indenture concerning the sale of the Hermitage estate in Carriacou was executed in 1827 by Susannah Henrietta Pegus of Stamford, her son Peter William Pegus and his siblings Henrietta Margaretta, Mary Anne Jane and Frederick Edward Pegus. When Susannah Henrietta was buried on May 11 1832 aged 73 she was described as of Croom's Hill Kent.
Pegus' daughter Maria Antoinetta married Charles, 10th Marquess of Huntly; his step-daughter Lady Charlotte Elizabeth Bertie married the ironmaster John Guest.

Pegus' step-daughter, Lady Charlotte Guest, according to her entry in the ODNB (as 'translator, businesswoman and collector') 'took an instant - and lasting - dislike' to him on his marriage to her mother (who was Pegus' first cousin).

Death of Peter William Pegus registered Marylebone Q2 1860, when he was late of 30 Baker street, Portman Square and left effects under £5000; in 1861 his widow Charlotte was a visitor at Orton Longueville staying with her daughter and son-in-law Charles Gordon Marquess of Huntly.
Sources
Ancestry.com, Cambridge University Alumni, 1261-1900 [database online].
Smith-Robertson Genealogy [accessed 14/02/2011]; Ancestry.com, London, England, Deaths and Burials, 1813-1980 [database online].
Earl of Bessborough (ed.) 'Lady Charlotte Guest: extracts from her journal 1833-1852' (London: John Murray, 1950).
Angela V. John, 'Schreiber , Lady Charlotte Elizabeth (1812'961895)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/24832, accessed 9 March 2016].
[accessed 14/02/2011]; FreeUKGen, England and Wales Free BMD Database, Deaths, 1837-1983 [database online]; National Probate Calendar 1860; 1861 census online.

Further Information
Absentee? British/Irish Spouse Charlotte Susannah Elizabeth (1821), widow of General Albemarle Bertie, 9th Earl of Lindsey Children Elizabeth Susannah, Maria Antoinetta Pegus Wealth at death £5,000 Occupation Clergyman Religion Church of England
Ref: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/45621

Claim (Slave Compensation)
Grenada 955 (Union Estate) 23 Jan 1836. £1597 2s 8d - Awardee Rev Peter William Pegus (Owner-in-fee)
Ref: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/claim/view/10810

Pegus the Rev Peter William. 2 May 1860 the Will of the Rev Peter William Pegus late of 30 Baker St, Portman Square in the County of Middlesex Clerk deceased who died 21 April 1860 at Baker Street aforesaid was proved at the Principal Registry by the oath of the Most Honourable Mary Antoinette Marchioness of Huntly (wife of the most honourable Charles Marquis of Huntly) of Orton Longueville in the County of Huntington the daughter and sole Executrix. Effects under £5000.
National Probate Calendar.

Peter married Charlotte Susannah Elizabeth LAYARD [26433] [MRIN: 9778], daughter of Very Rev Charles Peter LAYARD DD FRS [19201] and Elizabeth WARD [19202], on 14 Apr 1821 in London. (Charlotte Susannah Elizabeth LAYARD [26433] was born on 21 Mar 1780 in Bristol GLS and died on 28 Nov 1858 in Uffington Hse Uffington LIN.)