Peter PEGUS of Crooms Hill Greenwich [27234]

  General Notes:

Peter Pegus
Birth Date 7 Oct 1746
Baptism Date 19 Oct 1746
Baptism Place Saint Anne Soho,Westminster,London,England
Father John Pegus
Mother Jane
FHL Film Number 918606
PR ancestry

The Pegus family had cotton estates on Carriacou, Grenada WI.
Living there Peter Snr returned to London c 1788/89 and married Suzanna Layard

Peter Pegus was son, by Jane, dau. of Stephen Picard, who came from Poitou, of John Pegus, who had been brought to England at the age of five, being son of Jean Pegus, of Clairac, in Guienne. He was somewhile of Carriacou, one of the Grenadine Islands, but returning to England in 1788, settled at Greenwich, his marriage, of which he had issue three sons and four daughters, following three years later.

A Peter Pegus of Crooms Hill Greenwich is recorded as a tenant of a Mrs Chalie paying or taxed on an amount of £2.0.0
Peter Pegus.
UK Land Tax Redemption 1798 Kent (Third Vol. Pg 230)

Record Type: Burial
Death Date: abt 1803
Burial Date: 4 May 1803
Burial Place: St Anne, Soho, Westminster, England
Register Type: Bishop's Transcript

Will of Peter Pegus of Greenwich Kent proved 09/06/1803. The will is very simple, leaving all his personal and [unspecified] real estate to his children (unnamed) with Susannah Henrietta and appointing her and her brother-in-Law Col. Anthony Lewis Layard as executors.
PROB 11/1393/199.

A Capt. Peter Pegus, apparently the natural son of Peter Pegus whose birthdate is variously given as 1780, 1786 or 1787 and birthplace as Grenada, was a pioneering settler in Western Australia and then Tasmania, where he was keeper of the Oats Gaol.

Beyond the pale: world immigrants to Van Diemens Land before 1900 <https://vdlworldimmigrants.wordpress.com/listing-of-people/> [accessed 09/03/2016].

  Research Notes:

Peter Pegus was son, by Jane, dau. of Stephen Picard, who came from Poitou, of John Pegus, who had been brought to England at the age of five, being son of Jean Pegus, of Clairac, in Guienne. He was somewhile of Carriacou, one of the Grenadine Islands, but returning to England in 1788, settled at Greenwich, his marriage, of which he had issue three sons and four daughters, following three years later. Henrietta Margaretta (1794-1870), the only one of the daughters to marry, became the wife of the Rev. James Hawley (a son of Sir Henry Hawley, 1st Baronet), Rector of Norton, Kent. The Pegus Coat of Arms appears to be Sa., a chevron Or, between in chief two Saracens' heads couped ppr., and in base a cross of Malta Arg.
Huguenot Soc of London Pg 255 <https://archive.org/stream/proceedingsofhug913hugu/proceedingsofhug913hugu_djvu.txt>

  Other Records

1. Annual Return of the Increase or Decrease of Slaves: Belonging to the Heirs of Peter Pegus deceased, 24 May 1833, Carriacou Genada WI.

Peter had a relationship with UNKNOWN [32555] [MRIN: 11634].

Peter next married Suzanna Henrietta LAYARD [27233] [MRIN: 9785], daughter of Sir Daniel Peter Raymond LAYARD MD [19204] and Susanne Henriette CHEVALLEAU DE BOISRAGON [19205], on 11 Aug 1791 in St Alphage Greenwich. (Suzanna Henrietta LAYARD [27233] was born on 15 Sep 1759, died on 5 May 1832 and was buried on 11 May 1832.)