Hellen Babbs
Probably the wife of Robert Peck of Beccles and the mother of Joseph Peck (bp. 1587), who married Rebecca Clark. Her father was probably Nicholas Babbs.
Family
- Father
- Nicholas Babbscompiledprobable
- Spouse
- Robert Peckcompiledprobable
1 child
Pedigree
Notes
Wife of Robert Peck of Beccles and mother of Joseph Peck (bp. 1587), per Ira Peck. Mollie Pfeiffer gives Robert’s wife as “–– Norton.”
Her husband’s will (March 1592/3) made her “sole executrix” and left her his houses and lands at Beccles and Barsham for life, with power to sell his woods or meadows in Barsham. It asked her to have care of their children “And also of Joane Babb & Elisabeth Babb” (Ira Peck pp. 21-23), presumably her kin (inference).
Mollie's typescript
Her husband Robert Peck's will left her his property in Beccles; Mollie, who elsewhere gives his wife as "---- Norton," takes Hellen for a second wife and an heiress.
I give to my wife Hellen (Babbs), my welle-beloved wife, in consideration of the payment of my debts, the bringing up of my children ... This sounds as if Robert married a second wife who was an heiress!
p. 155 A →
Checked against the records
- DisprovenRobert Peck of Beccles married ---- Norton
Ira Peck's genealogy (1868) gives Joseph's mother as Hellen Babbs, daughter of Nicholas Babbs; Norton appears in the visitation only as the married name of a Margaret Peck. Mollie herself quotes Robert's will to "my wife Hellen (Babbs)" on p. 155A.
Read it in the book, p. 155 →