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Margaret Peck
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Margaret Peck 1 2
- Born: Abt 1804, Hillsborough, Albert County, New Brunswick, Canada 1 2
- Marriage: Deacon Andrew Bishop in Coverdale, Albert County, New Brunswick, Canada 1 2
- Died: 28 Aug 1878 aged about 74 1 2
- Buried: Harvey, Albert County, New Brunswick, Canada 3
 Another name for Margaret was Peggy Peck.4
Burial Notes:
Margaret Peck Bishop was buried in Bay View Cemetery.
Inscription:
Dea. Andrew Bishop
died
June 1 1878
in his 81 year
Margaret
wife of
Andrew Bishop
died
Aug 28 1878
in her 76 year
Noted events in her life were:
• Will: father Thomas Peck's will, 8 Sep 1825, Hopewell Parish, Albert County, New Brunswick, Canada. 5
• Census: Canadian, 1851, Harvey, Albert County, New Brunswick, Canada. 6
Margaret married Deacon Andrew Bishop, son of Ezra Bishop and Jerusha Newcomb, in Coverdale, Albert County, New Brunswick, Canada.1 2 (Deacon Andrew Bishop was born in 1797 in Horton, Kings County, Nova Scotia, Canada 1 2 7, baptized in 1824 in Hopewell, Albert County, New Brunswick, Canada,7 died on 1 Jun 1878 in Coverdale, Albert County, New Brunswick, Canada 1 2 and was buried in Harvey, Albert County, New Brunswick, Canada 3.)
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Sources
1
Genealogical Committee of the Bishop Family Association, Tangled Roots, Descendants of John Bishop (1709-1785) of Horton, Nova Scotia A New England Planter Family, 4 volumes (Wolfville, Nova Scotia: Genealogical Committee of the Bishop Family Association, 1990), 4: 18.
2
Robert F. Fellows, "Genealogies (First Families) at the Provincial Archives of New Brunswick Canada," p. 124; report to Provincial Archives New Brunswick, Sixth Edition Jan 2006.
3
M. Helena Lewis, New Brunswick Cemeteries Albert County, digital images (http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mhlewis/new_brunswick_cemeteries.htm : accessed 7 Feb 2009), Headstone of Margaret Peck Bishop and Andrew Bishop, Bayview Cemetery.
4
John Bearse Newcomb, Genealogical Memoir of the Newcomb Family (Chicago, Illinois: Knight & Leonard, 1874), 107.
5
R. Wallace Hale, Early New Brunswick Probate Records, 1785-1835 (Westminster, Maryland: Heritage Books, 2007), 350.
6
1851 census of Canada East, Canada West, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia, Albert County, sub-district 3, p. 13, Margaret Peck Bishop; RG 31; digital images, Library and Archives Canada, Automated Geneology (http://automatedgenealogy.com : accessed 9 Feb 2009).
7
Daniel F. Johnson, Provincial Archives of New Brunswick, "Newspaper Vital Statistics," database, Daniel F Johnson's New Brunswick Newspaper Vital Statistics (http://archives.gnb.ca/APPS/NewspaperVitalStats : accessed 1 May 2010), Newspaper record of Andrew Bishop; citing Daniel F. Johnson : Volume 43 Number 2597, the Christian Visitor, 28 Aug 1878; http://archives.gnb.ca/APPS/NewspaperVitalStats/Details.aspx?culture=en-CA&guid=48ae480c-a684-4720-a09e-a3a759ace567&r=1&ni=30535