' 2 5 



Some Sfccotttit of tfje Jpamtlg of pegge, of 

 &f)telei>, CDsmastou, ^sptmte anfc £eau= 

 cfjtef &fcfif£, fti tfje €ountj? of Eeeor. 



By Thomas W. Charlton. 



HE family of Pegge appears to 

 have been settled at Shirley 

 as early as the reign of Henry 

 VII. The name of John Pegge occurs 

 as a witness to the Will of one William 

 Pope, of that place, dated 7th October, 

 1508. Some branches existed in the 

 immediate neighbourhood, in the middle 

 of the sixteenth century, which cannot 

 be precisely connected. Sir Robert Pegge, vicar of Cosby, in 

 Leicestershire, by his Will, dated 10th April, 1530, gives "to o r 

 lady of heveley (Yeaveley) in darbyshire xx s " He also mentions 

 his "kinsman S r Thomas Peg, his kinsman Nicholas Peg, and 

 Isabel Peg, and appoints S r Robert Peg, priest, his executor." 

 Dugdale's Visitation of Derbyshire in 1662, begins the pedigree 

 with Ralph Pegge, of Shirley, whose three sonsvere — 1, Christopher, 

 of Yeldersley ; 2, Edward, of Shirley; 3, Humphry, of Osmaston, 

 ancestors of different branches. The descendants of the two 

 former are not recorded in the Visitation, but only those of 

 Edward Pegge, of Ashburne, second son of Humphry, of Osmaston. 

 Edward Pegge, son of the last named Edward, having married the 

 heiress of William Strelley, of Beauchief Abbey, Esq., acquired the 

 same in right of his wife, and served the office of High Sheriff in 



