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reason i ask is that father in law went there as did his brother. was in the same class as arthur c clarke no less. father in law was born 1925 though.

I don't know the name of the school. I last saw my father when I was 10 years old.

It was probably a boarding school, because he was (I think) living in Devon at the time.

Okay, I'll join ancestry again. I was feeling quite frustrated that I was getting nowhere.

I'm a Gold member here, and if it wasn't for you and the other kind people I don't think I would have made much progress after a few initial successes.

I'm hugely indebted to you all.

Allan


I've sent off an email to Huish to ask if they could do a search of their Old Boys files... fingers crossed.

When you say you joined ancestry what form did your membership take?
I am an ancestry worldwide member and as long as i am signed in i do not pay per view.
i did see other records relating to peacocks in russia japan and in fact worldwide but you would recognise which ones belong to you.


i cannot help with the book i am afraid.

What was the name of the school?
was it Huishes?

My father went to a school in Taunton, Somerset, England. He was still called 'Schmidt' at the time.

I remember my mother telling me that a certain teacher used to tease and bully my father by repeatedly calling him 'Smitty' in the class.... or so I thought.

I now realise that in all probability it wasn't 'Smitty' at all - but 'Schmitty'.

This must have been during the years of around 1921 to 1927/28.

I've looked for Old Boys lists without luck.

Regards,
Allan Munro-Smith

LadyKira - I haven't been able to access that eBook. I've tried everything. It's even in their Wigan library catalogue.

Life of Dmitri Rudolf Peacock, by W. R. Morfill

Allan

Incidentally, I was a member of Ancestors, but got absolutely fed up with being taken to a pay-for-view page every time I tapped the keyboard.

Good lord, LadyKira - you've done it again! That's my mother!

There are a few spelling mistakes .

Nanette wasn't her real name - it was just a pet name she acquired, like my grandmother 'Ethel' was called 'Mala'.

Krasnoyarsk.

Lucille.

She spoke Russian, French, and English fluently at this age.

I knew she had spent a couple of years in Japan.

I'm surprised she arrived in Canada - where she went to school in Vancouver - only a year before her parents were killed in Yokohama in September of 1923.

As a 19 year old or so, she arrived in Paris where she went to Finishing School.

Not long afterwards she went to Harbin - possibly to join her uncles Charles and Henry Peacock. It was there that she met and married my father who was working for ICI the chemical firm.

LadyKira - I'll buy a download of that eBook of Dmitri you discovered.

I'll let you know of any interesting revelations.

Thank you again.

Allan

Canada, Ocean Arrivals (Form 30A), 1919-1924
about Nenette Germaine Lucile Peacock Name: Nenette Germaine Lucile Peacock
Gender: Female
Estimated birth year: abt 1911
Birth Place: Krmsneyaisk Siberia
Age: 11
Date of Arrival: Aug 1922
Port of Arrival: Victoria, British Columbia
Port of Departure: Yokohama
Ship Name: Empress of Russia

tell us if you find anything interesting in the ebook.

there must be more travel documents there somewhere. it would be worth you joining ancestry if you have not done so already.

Thank you, Quoy.

Great research.

I've been printing up everything you helpers have so kindly been showing me here.

Allan

The Times 1881
The Queen has been graciously pleased to announce to appoint
Demetrius Rudolph Peacock esq to her Majesty s vice consul at Batoum

promotion in 1890 April 22nd to consul for the governments ,districts and provinces of Baku , Elizavetapol ,Erivan ,Tiflis,Kutais,and Tchernomoria residing at Batoum

October 14th 1891
Consul General for the governments of 10 places and to reside at Odessa

LadyKira - it's incredible what you've managed to dig up here.

I can only say a very big "Thank you" to you and my other kind helpers.

I think Dmitri or Dimitri is the correct spelling - and not the Greek 'Demetrius'.

My niece - who I'm planning to surprise with this Family History and a chart of the tree - speaks and writes perfect Russia, so she'll know for sure which version is correct.

I had no idea that someone had written about Dimitri Rudolph Peacock.

I'm also intrigued by the fact that the Peacocks retained their British passports from way back around 1860 when the first Peacock arrived in Russia.

In around 1930 Dimitri's son Charles Albert Peacock made a special trip from Tashkent to Leningrad just to get his British passport updated so that he would be allowed to leave Stalin's Soviet Russia. He then went to Harbin. It had become increasingly dangerous for him because he was labelled a NEPman by the Stalinist regime.

My mother, Germaine Lucille Peacock spent a few years in a girls' boarding school in Vancouver. She was at this school in 1923 when she was told of her parents being killed in Yokohama by The Great Kanto Earthquake.

Her parent's housemaid later reported that Elias Herbert Peacock had told his wife at the breakfast table on the morning of the earthquake that he had had a 'horrible' dream in which he was being suffocated by a huge python wrapped around his neck.

Just a few hours later on the same morning he and his wife suffocated to death as a result of the earthquake.

Regards,
Allan
Australia

http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/wigan-england-free-public-library-reference-de/catalogue-of-books-volume-7-ala/page-25-catalogue-of-books-volume-7-ala.shtml

Peacock (Dmitri Rudolf, traveller and philologist, 1842-1892.) [Life of Dmitri Rudolf Peacock,
by W. R. Morfill.] Stephen (Sir L.) and Lee (S.) Diet, of Nat. Biography, vol. 44. 1895.


an E book about him

Page:Dictionary of National Biography volume 44.djvu/149

PEACOCK, DMITRI RUDOLF (1842- 1892), traveller and philologist, was born on 26 Sept, 1842 at the village of Shakhma- novka, district of Kozlov, in the government of Tambov, Russia, being the son of Charles Peacock, estate manager, and his wife Con- cordia, whose maiden name was Schlegel. He was educated at a school in England, and afterwards at the university of Moscow. On 25 Oct. 1881 he was appointed vice- consul at Batoum, which had then risen to considerable importance in consequence of its annexation by the Russians. He became consul on 27 JanJ.890. He is said to have owed his appointments to his familiarity with the Russian language. Certainly few foreigners were better acquainted than he with the lan- guages and customs of the mountaineers of the Caucasus, among whom he had established such friendly relations that he was admitted into their most remote fastnesses.


Sylvia was correct about english education then.

Eric was 10 years olf born harbin manchuria

Seattle Passenger and Crew Lists, 1882-1957
about Helen Peacock Name: Helen Peacock
Arrival Date: 11 Sep 1940
Age: 37
Estimated birth year: 1903
Birthplace: Russia
Last Residence: Manchuko
Gender: Female
Race/Nationality: Russian
Ship Name: Yawata Maru
Port of Arrival: Seattle, Washington
Port of Departure: Kobe, Japan
Line: 3
Microfilm Roll Number: M1383_256

travelling with Eric Alan peacock

i think one of the difficulties on this tree is the possible variances in transliteration from russian to english alphabet and that may hamper our search

eg
Yevgeniya on the Emory tree

is also eugenia

both interpretations of the same russian name.

Thank you Sylvia and LadyKira.

Some more good research.

My aunt was Eugenia Peacock, and she was born and lived in Russia until after WWII.

In the book 'Memories of Revolution: Russian Women Remember' - It was she who told about her father, Charles (Albert) Peacock, and her grandfather Dimitri Rudolph Peacock, and her great grandfather Charles Peacock who arrived in Russia as the son of a Lancashire farmer called Charles Peacock.

Generations of the Peacocks lived about 200 miles north-west of Moscow, and so it was easy for my aunt to know her paternal line back to Lancashire.

LadyKira - those travel detail definitely refer to 'my' Henry Peacock. I was told by my mother that this uncle of hers, with one of his brothers - were employed by the Hudson Bay fur company in Canada.

Thank you both for being such a help!

Best Regards,
Allan

Name: PEACOCK, HENRY KASTCHKAL
Initials: H K
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Civilian
Regiment/Service: Civilian War Dead
Date of Death: 11/09/1943
Additional information: Husband of Helen Peacock, of 133 S. Elm Drive, Beverley Hills, California, U.S.A. Died at Shanghai General Hospital.
Casualty Type: Civilian War Dead
Reporting Authority: CHINA

New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957
about Henry Peacock Name: Henry Peacock
Arrival Date: 31 Jul 1918
Birth Year: abt 1884
Birth Location: Russia
Birth Location Other: torjok
Age: 33 Years 11 Months
Gender: Male
Ethnicity/Race­/Nationality: English
Port of Departure: Liverpool, England
Port of Arrival: New York, New York
Ship Name: Aquitania

gives destination as tokyo