Records of William Peskett on Ancestry

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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for William Peskett and the Peskett Genealogy

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Peskett Genealogy Databases

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Some Famous People called William Peskett

William Peskett

William Peskett (born 1952) is a poet from Northern Ireland.

Peskett was educated in Belfast and at Cambridge University, where he read natural sciences.

He has published two volumes of poems, The Nightowl’s Dissection (Secker & Warburg 1975) and Survivors (Secker & Warburg 1980), for the first of which he won an Eric Gregory Award for poetry. In the 1970s, Peskett edited the poetry magazine, Caret, with Trevor McMahon and Robert Johnstone. He wrote two novels, Pondlife and Losing Yourself. He has worked in teaching, journalism, marketing, design management and corporate relations and lives in Thailand.

Source: William Peskett, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Other names that sound a bit like Peskett

Family names can get corrupted over time, particularly where literacy was not as good. The following list contains some names that have similar sounds so you may want to also look at one or two of the more likely possibilites.

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