Peek, Harry Hazelwood

1846 - 1863  (16 years)

• Name	Peek, Harry Hazelwood
  Born	31 Aug 1846	Australia, NSW, Sydney, Elizabeth St North
  Gender	Male
  Baptism	27 Oct 1846	St James, Sydney, County Cumberland NSW
  Died	1863	Somerset, Taunton
  	Died by drowning
  Person ID	I1646	Peek Genealogy
  Last Modified	5 Feb 2015

  
  

  Father	Peek, James,   b. 25 May 1825, Devon, Kingsbridge ,   d. 16 Jan 1847, Australia, NSW, Sydney, Castlereagh Street  (Age 21 years)
  Mother	Willmott, Elizabeth,   b. c 1826,   d. 23 Aug 1870, Shepherd Street, Darlington, NSW  (Age 44 years)
  Married	20 Sep 1845	Australia, NSW, Sydney, St James
  Family ID	F572	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  His uncle Samuel Peek, who died childless with his wife Caroline in the wreck of the "Dunbar" off South Heads, Sydney, on 20 August 1857, left a large sum of money in his will to be used for the education of his nephew Harry Hazelwood Peek, and, in particular, after the age of seventeen, at Oxford University. Harry Hazelwood Peek was duly sent to England at the age of seventeen to prepare for Oxford, his father's uncle, James Peek senior (1800-1879), being appointed his guardian. By a strange coincidence, however, soon after his arrival and before he could enter the University, Harry Hazelwood Peek also died by drowning at Taunton, Somerset in 1863. His guardian James Peek senior arranged for him to be buried with his English relatives in the Peek Family Catacombs at Hazelwood.