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Stk. Charles Peacock
Royal Navy HMS Godetia
(d.4th Nov 1918)
Charles Peacock died aged 20, the RN Casualty lists record his death as being from illness unspecified. He is remembered at Palmer's Cenotaph, St Paul's Church and is buired in Jarrow Cemetery.
Charles was born at Jarrow in 1898, son of Henry and Mary Ann Peacock nee Breeds, of 4 Wylam Street, Jarrow. In the 1911 census Charles is a student, 12 years old. His father Henry (48), born in Chatham, is a Blacksmith and his mother Mary Ann (38), born in Sunderland, have been married for 19 years. They have 5 boys - Henry 17, a steam hammer driver in shipyard, Mark 15, Charles 12, David 2, William 2 months and 6 girls - Matilda 18, Eliza 13, Mary 9, Florence 7, Rachel 5 and Rosie 4.
