When Rachel Pecker Currier was born on 20 March 1783, in Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, her father, William Pecker, was 24 and her mother, Hannah Sawyer, was 18. She married John Currier on 14 August 1806. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She died on 25 December 1863, in West Amesbury, Merrimac, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Lower Corner Cemetery, Merrimac, Essex, Massachusetts, United States.
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English: (i) occupational name from Middle English pek(ke) + -er, for someone who made, sold, or used vessels measuring a peck; see Peck . (ii) nickname, possibly from a derivative of Middle English pekken ‘to peck, snap up’, perhaps used for someone of acquisitive habits.
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