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Re: Peacock : Boot factory fires

I have just found your question on the gertlushonline.co.uk site regarding Aaron Peacock Luke and Arthur and the boot factories. I have also been researching the Peacock's of Mount Hill, Kingswood as they are my husband's ancestors.
The problem is that that there were four or five Aaron's all living at the same time so it gets a bit confusing. Not only that but there were a great many Peacock's all living at Mount Hill during that era.

ROBERT PEACOCK - BORN 1820 WIFE MARTHA - BORN 1820
MARRIED IN 1840

CHILDREN; MATTHEW PEACOCK - BORN 1844
MARK PEACOCK - BORN 1845
LUKE PEACOCK - BORN 1849 - MASTER SHOE MAKER
ELLEN PEACOCK BORN 1849
JOHN PEACOCK - BORN 1852
HESTER PEACOCK - BORN 1853 BOOT MACHINIST
ARTHUR PEACOCK - BORN 1857
MARY PEACOCK - BORN 1858
AARON PEACOCK - BORN 1860 BOOTMAKER (died 1904 age 45)
LILY PEACOCK - BORN 1863 - SHOP WOMAN

On a later census Aaron is shown as Roberts A Peacock and I worked out that he was probably known as Robert's Aaron after his father, as there were 4 or 5 Aarons as I mentioned.
Aaron Peacock married Elizabeth Emily Tucker in 1881.

CHILDREN; MINNIE PEACOCK - BORN 1883
AARON G PEACOCK - BORN 1884
FRED PEACOCK - BORN 1885
FLORENCE PEACOCK - BORN 1886
BEATRICE PEACOCK - BORN 1887
HENRY PEACOCK - BORN 1889
ADA, B PEACOCK - BORN 1889
MAY M PEACOCK - BORN 1892
ALBERT E PEACOCK - BORN 1893
EDITH PEACOCK - BORN 1894
OLIVE PEACOCK - BORN 1896
RUBY PEACOCK - BORN 1897
HORACE B.P. PEACOCK BORN 1901

In the 1901 Census Aaron Peacock is listed as a boot manufacturer with own account company, living at 16 Hanham Road with his wife and children and Elizabeth's sister Rhoda Tucker.(33) boot machinist.
I hope this is of some help to you, this is only the family that you asked about but there were several other Peacock families living in Mount Hill or close by at that time and most of them were in the boot and shoe trade.
I am also trying to piece together the history of the area and it is difficult to find newspaper articles without paying to view on line as I am researching from abroad.
Have you tried the site www.genuki.org.uk where you can research birth, death and marriages for free and a lot of history of Gloucestershire as that area was then in the parish of Bitton and came under Gloucestershire not Bristol.
I would be interested in anything further you have on the Peacocks.

Re: Peacock : Boot factory fires

I am the grandson of (Robert) Aaron Peacock (1859-1904). My father Alfred Edward Peacock (wrongly listed as Albert E. in the 1901 Census) was actually born on 31 August 1892 and died on 3 May 1978.

I have information on most of Aaron's descendents but am just starting to piece together earlier generations. Aaron's wife was Elizabeth Tucker, whose sister Rhoda (when not working as a Boot Machinist) acted as nanny to the children. As far as I can discover, the Tuckers descend from William Tucker of South Moulton (b.<1775)

Aaron's father was also Robert Aaron (c.1819-1901). His wife was Martha Pettigrove (from another local family, also with a road named after them). I think the family descend from John Pettigrove of Bristol (b.~1705) but there is a generation that I haven't been able to tie together yet. Most of Martha's brothers and sisters appear to have emigrated to Australia in about 1856.

The family fell on hard times after the factory burnt down and, with Aaron dying soon after, they had to move away from 'The Laurels' in Hanham Road. The old house, at which the family used to keep peacocks in the garden(!), was knocked down in about the 1960's to be replaced by a government building.

Re: Peacock : Boot factory fires

I don't know if this helps but I have in my tree, John Peacock c1819 married to Mary A. XXXX, parents to Sarah Ann Peacock born c1844 Oldland,Ellen P. born c1860 Bitton,Harriet P. born c1851 Bitton, William P. born c1860 Bitton.
Sarah Ann Peacock married Reuben Wilshire at Keynsham in 1866.
I believe Reuben Wilshire was related to Alfred W. later becoming F. Wilshire & Co Boots.
HTH

Re: Peacock : Boot factory fires

my father who is 89 this year is albert peacock who grandfather was arthur peacock from the boot factory

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Re: Peacock : Boot factory fires

The fire must have been before 1904 as this is when Aaron Peacock died

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Re: Peacock : Boot factory fires

There were two separate fires within a period of two years which destroyed the boot and shoe factories of members of the Peacock family in Kingswood.
The first fire on 26th October 1901 destroyed the factory of Luke Peacock and his brother Arthur (trading as L & A Peacock) in Blackhorse Road.
The second fire occurred on 31st March 1903 at the factory of Robert Aaron Peacock (trading as Aaron Peacock) in Bank Road.
Robert Aaron was the youngest brother of Luke and Arthur. Luke and Arthur had an action enforced against them in the Bristol Bankruptcy Court after their fire but survived until 1930 and 1929 respectively. However, Robert Aaron was a broken man as, after the fire, the family had to sell their house (The Laurels in Hanham Road) and most of their possessions to clear debts and he died soon after in 1904.
Fires in boot factories were very common at the time due to the use of hot glues and flammable leather dressings and there were a number of other incidences in Kingswood.