Gertrude Louise Peach

  General Notes:

Notes for Gertrude Louise Peach:
Going back to 650 A. D. , the Peach lineage comes from viking ancestry in the Scandinavian countries.
In 911 the Viking leader Rollo led his people (including the Peach ancestor) to capture Normandy. For
over 100 years, the Vikings intermarried withthe French normans, creating a mixed breed. From this
mixture came William de Peche I, the common ancestor of the Marblehead Peaches and all those from
England of the surname Peach, Peachey, Peckham and Peche.
In 1066, William the Conqueror of Normandy led 311 of his knights to capture England. One of his
knights was William de Peche I. When the Conqueror was crowned as the new king of England, he gave
de Peche properties to hold and control for the king. Since William and his decendants remained loyal to
the king, they continued to hold these properties and accumulated more for hundreds of years.
Soon after 1620 John Peach migrated to New England, probably with the Adventurers to Cape Ann,
thence to Marblehead. Peach descendants have lived in the town of Marblehead from its earliest history
to the present time.
More About Gertrude Louise Peach:
Accomplishment: Eastern Star Grand Worthy Matron, State of Illinois. Learned to drive in the City of
Chicago at age 63
Burial: May 1986, Chapel Hill South, Masonic Garden Sec. 8, 466B, Worth, Cook, IL
Cause of Death: Congestive Heart Failure
Hobby: Needlework
Occupation: Telephone Operator, Telephone Pioneer (member phone co. girls baseball team )
Occupation 1: Cook at Pembrook University

Gertrude married Alvin Robert Boman, son of Per Robert Boman and Hilma Marie Carlson, in 1918 in Trinity Espiscopal Church NY NY. (Alvin Robert Boman was born in 1900 in NewBedford Mass and died in 1959 in Waukegan, Lake, Illinois.)