Re: PECK DESCENT FROM CHARLEMAGNE - Lake and Leake

In the Wakefield pedigree, Kateren Peck, daughter of John Peck and Jane Fryckley, married John Leake of Normanton. The NEHGR article assures us the surname should be Lake, not Leake.

John Leeke, of Beccles in Suffolk, made his will in 1529, naming his his wife Margaret and his daughter Katheryn plus grandson, Robert Peck, of Beccles.

The problems with linking the Pecks of Beccles and the Pecks of
Wakefield, may have originated in some confusion between the Lake
family of Yorkshire and the Leeke family of Suffolk. This connection seems to have been made or assumed before about 1668, when the notes were apparently made up for the pedigree of Pecks of Suffolk, yet that link was not included in the Visitation of Suffolk.

One point to make, is that Peck surname not uncommon in the general East Anglia area (Norfolk/Suffolk/Cambridgeshire, etc.) There is a chicken and egg situation? Did the Pecks of Wakefield settle in East Anglia or did some Pecks of East Anglia settle in Yorkshire? It is possibly the case that the Yorkshire Pecks are a junior branch of the East Anglia Pecks.



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