Researching Bertrand Peek
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Records of Bertrand Peek on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Bertrand Peek and the Peek Family Tree
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Peek Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources below you will be able to find a birth record and, from that, a birth certificate can be ordered which lists the names of the mother and father, taking you back another generation in your tree. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Peek family tree.
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![]() | Did you know that there are currently 1234 people with the Peek surname in the UK? Peek is now ranked number 2902 for popularity in the UK. |
Peek Family Tree Databases
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Peek Forums
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Miscellaneous Peek Databases
Study the Ellis Island Database for information on Bertrand Peek. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called Bertrand Peek
Bertrand Meigh Peek
Bertrand Meigh Peek M.A. FRAS (1891 – 1965) was a British astronomer.
Peek used an observatory at Solihull, Birmingham, England, from 1923 until 1947 to make a series of observations (with notes published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.) The observatory was dismantled in 1947. Among the targets of his observations was the planet Jupiter, and he served as British Astronomical Association Mars Section director (1930-1931) Saturn Section director (1934-1935), and Jupiter Section director (1934-1949). He served as president of the BAA from 1938 until 1940.
From 1946 until 1955 he taught at Simon Langton Grammar School for Boys, Canterbury, where he led the Astronomical Society. He retired through ill health and died in 1965.
In 1958 he published The Planet Jupiter, a treatise on the giant planet based on visual observations of the planet by the Jupiter Section of the BAA. (A revised version of this book was published in 1981.)
Based on notes provided by his son Brian to the BAA, Bertrand Peek:*was a three-time winner of the Cambridge mathematics prize;*was a Cambridge tennis champion;*was a team member of the Anglo-Soviet chess match;*served as a Major in the Hampshire Regiment during World War I;*was a yachtsman;*composed music;*was knowledgeable in early radio technology.
The Moon crater Peek is named after him.
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