Father was Samuel Peck, who died when Gregory Pearl Peck was only 2 years old (per his own words in two 1949 newspaper articles), putting Samuel's death in about 1888. There is no known record evidence for Samuel and many people mistakenly "force" other, non-related Samuels into their family trees. Please beware.
Gregory himself stated this fact above in newspaper coverage; he was attempting to obtain a passport in 1949 and was asked to prove his citizenship. He thought he was born "possibly in or near Rochester." He wrote letters to the state, to the Catholic Diocese of Rochester and Buffalo and after no luck, wrote to The Democrat and Chronicle newspaper. In his letter, he mentioned he thought that the name Pearl might possibly help to locate a record, because his grandmother called him Pearl. The secretary of St. Patrick's parish, Miss Agnes Merkel, saw the article and she remembered seeing his name "recently" when checking baptism records. She and the pastor, Rev. Leo C. Mooney, found his baptism recorded under Pearl Gregory Peck with his birth date noted as 3 Aug 1886.
Per the same newspaper articles, after Samuel Peck died, Gregory's mother, Catherine Ashe Peck, went to California and left him in the care of his grandmother, Catherine Mary Prendiville Ashe. Gregory can be seen living with her and two of her children in the 1900 Census.
There is some evidence that Gregory and his mother went back to visit and/or live in Ireland for a time; details are sketchy.
Gregory was married first to Bernice May Ayres and then to Harriet Harrington. He was a druggist by trade.
Gregory himself stated this fact above in newspaper coverage; he was attempting to obtain a passport in 1949 and was asked to prove his citizenship. He thought he was born "possibly in or near Rochester." He wrote letters to the state, to the Catholic Diocese of Rochester and Buffalo and after no luck, wrote to The Democrat and Chronicle newspaper. In his letter, he mentioned he thought that the name Pearl might possibly help to locate a record, because his grandmother called him Pearl. The secretary of St. Patrick's parish, Miss Agnes Merkel, saw the article and she remembered seeing his name "recently" when checking baptism records. She and the pastor, Rev. Leo C. Mooney, found his baptism recorded under Pearl Gregory Peck with his birth date noted as 3 Aug 1886.
Per the same newspaper articles, after Samuel Peck died, Gregory's mother, Catherine Ashe Peck, went to California and left him in the care of his grandmother, Catherine Mary Prendiville Ashe. Gregory can be seen living with her and two of her children in the 1900 Census.
There is some evidence that Gregory and his mother went back to visit and/or live in Ireland for a time; details are sketchy.
Gregory was married first to Bernice May Ayres and then to Harriet Harrington. He was a druggist by trade.
Father was Samuel Peck, who died when Gregory Pearl Peck was only 2 years old (per his own words in two 1949 newspaper articles), putting Samuel's death in about 1888. There is no known record evidence for Samuel and many people mistakenly "force" other, non-related Samuels into their family trees. Please beware.
Gregory himself stated this fact above in newspaper coverage; he was attempting to obtain a passport in 1949 and was asked to prove his citizenship. He thought he was born "possibly in or near Rochester." He wrote letters to the state, to the Catholic Diocese of Rochester and Buffalo and after no luck, wrote to The Democrat and Chronicle newspaper. In his letter, he mentioned he thought that the name Pearl might possibly help to locate a record, because his grandmother called him Pearl. The secretary of St. Patrick's parish, Miss Agnes Merkel, saw the article and she remembered seeing his name "recently" when checking baptism records. She and the pastor, Rev. Leo C. Mooney, found his baptism recorded under Pearl Gregory Peck with his birth date noted as 3 Aug 1886.
Per the same newspaper articles, after Samuel Peck died, Gregory's mother, Catherine Ashe Peck, went to California and left him in the care of his grandmother, Catherine Mary Prendiville Ashe. Gregory can be seen living with her and two of her children in the 1900 Census.
There is some evidence that Gregory and his mother went back to visit and/or live in Ireland for a time; details are sketchy.
Gregory was married first to Bernice May Ayres and then to Harriet Harrington. He was a druggist by trade.
Gregory himself stated this fact above in newspaper coverage; he was attempting to obtain a passport in 1949 and was asked to prove his citizenship. He thought he was born "possibly in or near Rochester." He wrote letters to the state, to the Catholic Diocese of Rochester and Buffalo and after no luck, wrote to The Democrat and Chronicle newspaper. In his letter, he mentioned he thought that the name Pearl might possibly help to locate a record, because his grandmother called him Pearl. The secretary of St. Patrick's parish, Miss Agnes Merkel, saw the article and she remembered seeing his name "recently" when checking baptism records. She and the pastor, Rev. Leo C. Mooney, found his baptism recorded under Pearl Gregory Peck with his birth date noted as 3 Aug 1886.
Per the same newspaper articles, after Samuel Peck died, Gregory's mother, Catherine Ashe Peck, went to California and left him in the care of his grandmother, Catherine Mary Prendiville Ashe. Gregory can be seen living with her and two of her children in the 1900 Census.
There is some evidence that Gregory and his mother went back to visit and/or live in Ireland for a time; details are sketchy.
Gregory was married first to Bernice May Ayres and then to Harriet Harrington. He was a druggist by trade.
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