Bits and pieces

This is the place for posts which don’t fit into other categories… unless they were a category all to themselves!

Zebedee Peskett

What a wonderful name, Zebedee Peskett! In Sussex where he lived, Peskett was not a common name, but there were several families who had it, spelled in slightly different ways. Zebedee was born  in 1811 to Edward and Susannah and had several brothers and sisters, including Frederick, maria Frances, Mary  Ann, Matilda and Philip. He was a smith; his […]

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