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The vicar who signed this certificate in 1950 would have been the Rev. H.W.H. Gray; the signature is not very clear.
Thanks to Elaine Peacock for allowing sight of this certificate.
EDP Obituary
The following photo and text are from an article in the Eastern Daily Press published in the farming section on Saturday September 13th 2014.
The family of Norfolk farmer John Peacock have told how they have received hundreds of messages of support from the farming community across the county and beyond following his sudden death on Friday, September 5, aged 64.
A huge personality, who will be much missed at livestock markets where he traded cattle over a career spanning nearly 50 years and at his beloved Norwich City Football Club where he was a season ticket holder since his early 20s, he leaves a wife Elaine and sons Jack and Neil to carry on the business he started from his home in Deopham, near Wymondham.
Neil, 22, said his father, who was always quick-witted and ready with a joke or funny anecdote, even had the nurses in stitches during recent hospital treatment for complications from the diabetes which he had been diagnosed with only a year before.
“If you knew him for five minutes or 30 years he left an impression on you and everyone had a story to tell,” he said.
Born in Deopham to a farming family Mr Peacock was keen to follow in father Percy’s foot- steps from an early age.
He went to Town Close preparatory school and was then one of the first intake of boarders at the newly founded Cawston College. He played rugby for Diss and was a member of Diss Young Conservatives and Young Farmers.
His buying and selling of livestock began during his schooldays with pheasants and Flemish giant rabbits traded during the school holidays and, after a brief spell at home on the farm, quickly moved on to buying sheep and then his real passion cattle. So began a lifetime of attendance at livestock markets.
Elaine said: “Most of the week he was at local markets but would travel as far as Cornwall to buy cattle and every Friday without fail to Chippenham Market in Wiltshire which he referred to as his ‘spiritual home’.
“He traded during those years in large numbers and lorry loads of cattle came back every week from the West Country to supply East Anglian farmers with store cattle and in some instances suckler herds. He could never resist a white Charolais heifer and a small herd is still kept on farm today. He had some great times and was happiest when at the livestock markets either bidding or socialising after the sale.”
Following the 2001 foot and mouth crisis and the introduction of the six-day movement restriction together with the demise of many of the livestock markets he loved, he started to breed black Limousin cattle which the family are keen to continue.
Elaine said Jack, 25, shares his father’s passion for livestock and had already stepped up during John’s recent hospital stay and will now continue with the farm. “As a father John was passionately proud of our sons and they could always rely on his huge generosity of spirit, uncompromising advice and a broad shoulder to lean on.
“It is a big responsibility for Jack at a young age and it will be tough at times without his father’s advice to fall back on. Neil is still at university but will help when he is at home and they have received many offers of support and help.”
The funeral service for John Peacock will take place at St Andrews Church, Deopham, on Friday September 26 at 1pm. Family flowers only but donations, if desired, in memory of John are to be shared between East Anglian Air Ambulance and Elsie Bertram Diabetes Centre at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital and may be sent c/o Rosedale Funeral Home, 16 Middleton Street, Wymondham, Norfolk NR18 0AD or left at the service.
Thanks to Elaine Peacock for allowing sight of this article.
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