Peart
- William Peart was a pork butcher or grocer along Columbyne Road in the 1900’s , he was maybe the first retailer on the land that later became M&M. In 1913 he was accused of stealing 260 pounds of lead.
- Kellys 1912 & 16, Wm Edward Peart was named as a pork butcher
In the 1917 Stowupland Roll of Honour 3 Peart’s are named: Sapper Harold Peart of the R.E., A.S. Roland Peart of the R.N. and Prvt Wilfred Peart of the 4th Suffolk’s. Harold (b. 1894) and Wilfred (b. 1896) are brothers whose family lived on The Green. Their parents were William (b.1870, a grocer) and Emma (b. 1874). Harold had been employed as a Tin Smith and Wilfred as an errand boy.
Unfortunately no record could be found for Roland but by 1917 he had been discharged.
Sale of dwelling house and butchers business facing onto Stowupland Green .{Bury Free Press; 28th April 1923}
In 1905 Emma Peard applied for a separation order against her hsband for drunenness. She withdrew it.
In 1952 William and Emma’s son Harold returned home having emigrated to Australia in the 1920s {Suffolk Chronicle: 01 August 1952}
