Brier of Huddersfield Family Chart no. 10

	Peaker BRIER		Lucy SHAW
	bapt. 1 Oct 1786 at Kirk Bramwith, Yorkshire		b. c 1788
			m. 13 Aug 1809 at Kirkheaton
	d. 5 Apr 1871 at Kirkheaton aged 84 bur. Kirkheaton Churchyard		d. 27 Jun 1846 at Kirkheaton aged 58 bur. 30 Jun 1846 Kirkheaton Churchyard
	Tailor

Their Children

Ann BREAR	William BRIER	Thomas BRIER	Peaker BREARS	Sarah BRIER	Abraham BRIERS	Ephraim BRIER	Elizabeth BREARS	Lucy Hannah BREARS
bapt. 27 May 1810 at Kirkheaton	born 7 May 1812 bapt. 28 Jun 1812 at Kirkheaton	bapt. 12 Jun 1814 at Kirkheaton	bapt. 3 Jun 1816 at Kirkheaton	born c 1821	bapt. 17 Aug 1823 at Kirkheaton	bapt. 1 May 1825 at Kirkheaton	born 4 Dec 1827 bapt. 27 Jan 1828 at Kirkheaton	born 20 Aug 1832 bapt. 16 Sep 1832 at Kirkheaton
							m. George BEEVERS 3 Aug 1851 at Kirkheaton	m. Samuel SYKES 30 Jun 1860 at Kirkheaton
	d. 26 Dec 1839 age 27		d. 28 May 1819 age 3 yrs bur. Kirkheaton churchyard		d. 2 Jan 1824 age 6 mths bur. Kirkheaton churchyard

Additional Information

I have included Peaker and his family in this section of the study, despite the fact that he seems to have used the surname BREARS more than BRIER, because I am intrigued by the name Peaker. There appears to be no other instance of such a name amongst other BRIER families. He seems to have been a prominent citizen in Kirkheaton, a tailor, possibly the only tailor in the village, and his address on successive censuses show that he lived in the same house for decades. The name of the house is rendered in several spellings, such as Boyth Hall (on some of the baptism records), Boys Hall (on the 1841 census), Boyfe Hall (on the 1861 Census), and Boyf Hall (on the 1871 census). This house is marked on modern day maps as Boyfe Hall, and it stands a little to the north of Kirkheaton, in Stancliffe Common.

In Kirkheaton Churchyard, there is a memorial stone to (some of) the family; it reads:

Sacred to the memory of Peaker the son of
Peaker and Lucy BREARS of Kirkheaton,
who departed this life 28th May 1819 aged 3 years
also of
Abraham their son who died 2nd January 1824 aged 6 months
also of
William their son who departed this life 26th Dec 1839 aged 27 years
also
the above named Lucy BREARS who departed this life 27th Jun 1846 aged 58 years
also
the above named Peaker BREARS who departed this life 5th April 1871 aged 84 years
also
William son of the above William BREARS who died 5th Jan 1881 aged 40 years

In the 1851 Census, Boyf [sic] Hall contained two households. The first was of the widowed Peaker (now calling himself BREARS), and the second his widowed son Thomas, with sons James, Thomas, and Henry. Peaker stated to the enumerator in 1851 that he was born in Bramworth, and I am curious about this as I have been unable to find a parish in Yorkshire with this name. There is, however, a Kirk Bramwith, just north of Doncaster, and 27 miles east of Kirkheaton Huddersfield. In the 1861 census, I had been unable to make out the place of birth, but it looked like Brafwaitkirkhamoth! Could Peaker have originated in Kirk Bramwith? The IGI came up with the following: Pecker [sic] BRIERS bapt 1 Oct 1786 at Kirk Bramwith, parents William and Ann; and the marriage record for William, in 1772, gives his bride as Ann PACKER! There were a number of entries for the surname PEAKER in the Kirk Bramwith registers, and I am therefore pretty certain that I have found the explanation for Peaker's unusual name.