Speculations By Hallie June Peavey
The winner of the battle was not content to leave them in Scotland in case they would later return and defeat him. He wanted to destroy their cousin alliance and therefore captured Katherine Peverel Hungerford's son and grandson, dragged them back to England and beheaded them. Peverel cousins wanting to return to England but not fond of being burned at the stake or beheaded slipped down from Scotland into Durham County where they started a massive collection of Peverly which is merely the plural of Peverel.
Katherine Peverel Hungerford's immense wealth was also confiscated. When King James ascended the throne some of Katherine's vast holdings were restored to Peverel-Peverly kin so the eldest in the heirship lines went back on the retrieved holdings. We then find Daniel, John, Thomas Peverley in Waltham Holy Cross Essex England about ca 1600. A lot of the Peverly line stayed up in Durham County where they spawned a bunch of talented mariners nicknamed Gordies. They then moved into Yorkshire County.
Our John Peverel- Peverly was a mariner. He may have sailed for the crown as an explorer of the upper Atlantic Coastlines and up the Rivers of Maine in the Northern Virginia areas claimed by the crown. He later immigrated to New England on the Fortune as a non planter. John then sailed back and forth commercing and about 1629 he signed up as a Patentee with the Gorges and Mason Company. Gorges being a Peverel blooded cousin.
Original settlers with homes and land holdings very early were being thrown off and out without compensation by the new colonists. This included Thomas Walford and possibly Walter Bagnal. These individuals fled to and were taken in by the Laconia Companies of Gorges and Mason.
Walter Bagnal and his partner in commerce John and family were living in a house they built on Richmond Island, now Maine off Cape Elizabeth up from the mouth of the Saco River. John loaded his ship with beaver hides, cod & etc for his yearly travel to England and back. He used gold coins to purchase the hides from the Indians.
Indians killed and robbed Walter's log home on Richmond Island, Maine on October 3, 1631. John was living there also. They came at evening time and burned the house down on the bodies. One son escaped named Thomas. A few thousand of his descendants in USA are his progeny. Our coat of arms is a Peverel arms. Our heritage stories declare we are blue bloods. Our genes, traits and features declare so in addition.
The Rev. Thomas Peverly settled on Peverly Hill in Portsmouth, NH, the new name for Strawberry Bank, and also on Sagamore Creek. Descendants continued to name holdings and things after themselves as their ancestors had before them in England. Peverly Mountain is also there.
Pepperrell is another variant from Peverel and spawns cousins Tiffany, Vanderbilt, Rockefeller.
All the major Peverel blood affiliated castles are carrying in bred Peverel blood lines over and over. One of the reasons Peverel is one of the rare surnames who can claim blood relationship to all the Royalty of Europe.
The descendants of Rev Thomas Peverel-Peverly shortened the name to Pevey, merely because in England and New England the R is always silent so it was dropped. Since the name is pronounced with a small e that rhymes with Everett, some began to spell it Pavey. In the church records in the Congressional Church in Newingtron NH (still in operations as the oldest continually running church in the USA) we find that in 1713 the name was declared to have been "MODERNIZED" to Peavey. This united both the A and E users back together.
In England same time frame a mass of variants appeared over in the Essex County areas, we feel the relatives in touch both agreed to unite the kin back with the modernized name.
Ship records say all aboard the Fortune Ship were from London and near surrounding towns. Also that there were three extra non Planters aboard. Lists were made solely from the planter list by the grants they received therefore John Peverel-Peverly is not listed. We know the story from our very coveted family traditions from multiple lines of his descendants. Peavey is a created name and indicative and mostly isolated to the USA according to a world search paid for by my first cousin Wesley Dale Peavey. The name is VERY DEFINITELY a Peverel variant.
Our New England immigrant was John Peverel-Peverly born ca 1599 in England. He was the product of battling political & religious factions in the War of the Roses. Katherine Peverel Hungerford's married into surnames joined alliance with all the armigerous female and male Peverel lines left in Wales, Scotland, England, and Ireland. The blood kin all fought together in political and military alliances with the knights they held. Peverels had fled to kin in Scotland with Hungerfords in the political-religious alliance fighting in the War of the Roses, after they lost the battle.