Peter Crosse (1647 - 1717)

Born 18 Aug 1647 in St. Mary,Woodbridge,Suffolk,England

Husband of Joannah (UNKNOWN) Cross — married about 1671 in England

Husband of Elizabeth (Peckover) Cross — married 12 Feb 1688 in Woodbridge, Suffolk, England

Descendants

Died 19 Oct 1717 at age 70 in Kelshall,Suffolk,England

Biography

Peter was a Friend (Quaker)

Peter Cross was born in 1647 at Woodbridge, Suffolk, England. He was the son of Quakers Edmond Cross and Sarah Rogers.^[1]

Peter Cross was married to Elizabeth Peckover in 1688.^[2] Here is their original Quaker marriage certificate, signed by many relatives and friends:

Peter Cross Marriage to Elizabeth Peckover

Research Notes

Note: Peter's birth is recorded in the Church of England, St Mary's parish, Woodbridge baptism records as a non-member/dissident

Peter Croffe sson of Edmund & Sarah borned 18th of August (1647 is listed near the top of the page)

Peter's death is in Suffolk Quaker records;

Peter Cross of Kelshall departed this Life ye 19th of ye 8th month & was Buryed ye 20th of ye Same in frds burying Ground in Woodbridge 1717

I know this is my Peter because his son Joseph's marriage record states "...son of Peter Cross late of Kelshall..."

family and kin listed on Peter and Elizabeth's marriage;

Margaret Peckover senr (nee Munke? mother of Elizabeth?)

*Sarah Cross senr (wife of Edmond Cross, mother of Peter)

Edmond Cross (father of Peter)

*Sarah Cross med

Susannah Freeman (nee Cross, my note)

Margaret Peckover jnr (sister of Elizabeth)

Katherine Peckover (is this Katherine Long?)

Robert Long (Katherine's brother?)

Sarah Long

Thomas Gildersleve no idea who he is

*Sarah Cross Jnr

Nathaniel Vring? no idea who he is

Jonathan Seaman (husband (or husband to be) of one of the latter Sarah

Cross's)

John Freeman (Susannah Cross's husband. Susannah d. 1682/3...or so the

records state, yet she is here in 1689?)

3 Sarah Cross's;

Sarah abt 1627-1690 who m. our earliest known ancestor, Edmond Cross

Sarah Cross 1655-1681 daughter of the above Sarah and Edmond, m. Jonathan

Seaman

Sarah Cross 1673-bef 1738 daughter of Peter's brother Edmond

these are the three earliest Sarah Cross's in my files. but where were

Peter's siblings?

wrong! Edmond's wife Sarah Mason abt 1650-1705 (Edmond brother of Peter). so

there are 4 Sarah Cross's and only one in the marriage record that we can be

certain exactly who is. and I just canceled out Sarah who m. Jonathan

Seaman, she died in 1681.

grocer by trade

In the Name of God Amen I ***Peter Cross*** of Kelsale in the County of Suffolk Grocer being of sound and disposing mind and memory do make this my last will and Testament in manner and form following ffirst and principally I commend my Soul to God hoping through the merits of my blessed Redeemer to receive free parden for all my Sins my Body I give to the Earth to be decently intered at the discretion of my Executrix herein after named and as to the worldly Estate which it hath pleased God to bestow upon me I dispose of the Same as followeth Item all my Messuages Lands Tenement Hereditaments and ___________ with the Appertences now in my occupation Situate lying and being in Kelsale aforesaid and the Messuages lands Tenements and ___________ appertenences Situate lying and being in Ike in the said County and now in the occupation of _Henry Rurtin_ or his Assigns I will to be sold by my Extixe herein after named within 12 months next after my decease and the residue of the money arising by Such Sale after my Debts Legacies ffuneral charges and probate of this my Will are payed and discharged I Give Bequeath and devise unto ***Elizabeth*** my loving Wife ffor the Term of her natural Life and after her decease be Equally divided between ***Edmond Joseph Margaret Sarah Catherine John and Benjamin*** my Sons and Daughters She my said Wife paying unto my said Sons and Daughters twenty shillings a peace of lawfull Money of Great Britain within two months next after my decease Item all my Personal Estate whatsoever and wheresoever I Give and devise unto the said ***Elizabeth*** my wife and I do hereby nominate constitute and appoint her the said ***Elizabeth*** my wife sole Extrixe of this my last Will and Testament and do hereby require my said son ***Joseph*** to be aiding and assisting her in the exocution thereof thereby revoking and disanuling all former and other will and Wills by me made and I do Declare this to be my Last Will contained in One Sheet of paper to which I have set my seal & subscribed my Name this twenty Nine day of September in the third year of the Reign of our Sov'agn Lord George by the grace of God of Great Britain ffrance and Ireland King Defender of the faith Ano Dmo 1716

Peter Cross

"Ike" is this Eyke north of Woodbridge, or Iken, west of Eyke and south of Kellshall?

Sources

1. ↑ "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N5KW-SR4 : 19 March 2020), Edmund Crosse in entry for Peter Crosse, 1647.
2. ↑ England & Wales, Quaker Birth, Marriage, and Death Registers, 1578-1837, Woodbridge Monthly Meeting Records. General Register Office: Society of Friends' Registers, Notes and Certificates of Births, Marriages and Burials. Records of the General Register Office, Government Social Survey Dept, Office of Population Censuses and Surveys, RG 6. The National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, England. Piece 1110. Image 39 of 69.