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[PEGRAM] Pegrams of Shoreditch, Middlesex. England by "Janet Hopkins"
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From: "Janet Hopkins"
Subject: [PEGRAM] Pegrams of Shoreditch, Middlesex. England
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 16:53:11 -0400
Dear Pegrams and researchers. I have tried to sign up for this list a couple of times and have received no mail. How many listers are there? Have any of you heard this family story:
Once there was a young boy from France who ran away to London. He looked for work, and stayed with a London family. Eventually, he became like one of the family, a son of the house, and was known by the Pegram surname. He never returned to France, but made his life in England. This story has been told by a few older relatives. My
Pegrams: Thomas Peggram born cl835 in Shoreditch, Middlesex, was the son of Joseph Pegram and Harriet. He was a police constable. He married Mary Ann Eliza born cl836 and they had Thomas James Pegram, born cl864 in Stepney, Middlesex. He m Annie Lowery of Gateshead, Durham in August l8, l884 and they had a laaaaarge family of l3 or l4 children. Some of them were Lily, Catherine, Thomas, possibly a Freddie, and William who was born in june 2, l892. In Gateshead. He married Catherine Robinson of Gateshead and they had 6 children, one of whom is my grandmother Ivy Pegram Gordon, who emigrated to Canada and had her 80th in September. Anyone connected to us? Please reply, janetchopkins@hotmail.com I am corresponding from
Canada, In Milton, near Toronto
| The story is also reminiscent of Marriners & Pingres who also emgrated to England --many seeking Protestant suffrage.
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Pegrim, also Pegram, is English ancestried generally, has mentions in France (ie Anjou, Maine in middle ages); and is most common in North America in Virginia and the south. Ours are a northern Pegrim Family ... joining either from the South or from England via New England colonists. A few are mentioned in the NEHGS as ancestral in Suffolk, England (17th century) to the Samuel Ray family of Rhode Island.
Other Rhode Island Pegrams are mentioned in Rhode Island in the 19th century (NEHGS) with the Naval School at Newport, RI and as staff to General Winfield Scott.
General Winfield Scott, born in Spotsylvania County, Virginia (1788 ?) is the son of a James Scott and Martha Pegram of Virginia. A relationship to his family averred by M.A. Scott is still in research.
Ms. Mary A. Pegrim, is in the 1850 Maine Census, evidently before marriage and widowhood, with the household of a Cummings Family.
Mary Alice Scott is named for her grandmother Mary Alice Pegrim-Scott [source- M.A.Scott letter]
Pegrimby some variations is a corruption in Eglish ancestry of Pilgrim .. though the French influenced Peagrume/Peagrome also occurs as noted. ..[nb. French for pilgrim is pelerin].
Northern Scott-Pegrims of our family have the antecedents of southern Scott-Pegrims .. but our family have always been pro-Union & anti-slavery.
One in every thousand persons of 1850 Virginia had e name Pegram. .. [source Hamrick's name distribution]
Pegram in the South now runs from Virginia, through Maryland & Tennessee into Western Arkansas, and to East Texas - Houston.
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