Powys-Lybbe Forbears - Person Sheet
Powys-Lybbe Forbears - Person Sheet
NameEdmund Peckover 
[371, Section 13: Gurneys, Birkbeck & Peckover Bank of Fakenham], [3, Quaker Digest Register for Norfolk, his birth record]
[371, Section 13: Gurneys, Birkbeck & Peckover Bank of Fakenham], [3, Quaker Digest Register for Norfolk, his birth record]Birth1 Jul 1757, Fakenham, Norfolk
Death1818, Bradford, Yorks
GeneralWoolstapler (merchant) and Banker: founder of Bradford Bank.
FatherRichard Peckover (1730-1757)
MotherJane Jessup (1731-1796)
Notes for Edmund Peckover
Partner with Harris brothers in the bank which eventually became Bradford Bank.
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In “The Leeds and Liverpool Canal” by Mike Clarke, pub by Milepost Research in 2016, on p. 125 he quote a letter between two Aire and Calder proprietors about the Leeds and Liverpool Canal company and which says:
“They find their trade decreased so much at their end and think that the Union Company, the present carriers, manage so ill, that they have come to a resolution of commencing carrying themselves and I am to meet their principal agents Mr Priestley and Mr Peckover at Leeds on Wednesday to give them the best information I can for their books and business…”
Joseph Priestley we know about, of course, as the Superintendent of the Leeds & Liverpool, but this is the first mention of a Peckover and I wonder if it is not this Edmund Peckover who lived and died in Bradford?
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In “The Leeds and Liverpool Canal” by Mike Clarke, pub by Milepost Research in 2016, on p. 125 he quote a letter between two Aire and Calder proprietors about the Leeds and Liverpool Canal company and which says:
“They find their trade decreased so much at their end and think that the Union Company, the present carriers, manage so ill, that they have come to a resolution of commencing carrying themselves and I am to meet their principal agents Mr Priestley and Mr Peckover at Leeds on Wednesday to give them the best information I can for their books and business…”
Joseph Priestley we know about, of course, as the Superintendent of the Leeds & Liverpool, but this is the first mention of a Peckover and I wonder if it is not this Edmund Peckover who lived and died in Bradford?
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