Peggy was born on the 10th February 1934 at 121A Banks Road, West Kirby, with her twin sister Pansy. Soon after the family moved to Tynwald Road where Peggy and her 5 sisters grew up. Peggy also found out that she had an older brother Teddy, who emigrated to Australia when he was young. About 10 years ago they were reunited at a family reunion with her sisters and cousins.
The house in Tynwald Road was next door to the Blenheim House Ballroom in The Crescent. Peggy and her sisters enjoyed spending time sat in the attic window watching the women coming and going to the ballroom in their beautiful dresses. Next door but one to their home in Tynwald Road, was an auction house where the sisters would spend time playing and being troublesome. 
Peggy met Colin when she was 17 where they began courting. Their dates often involved walking Colin’s dog Monty, along West Kirby beach. They would also visit the boathouse where they would sit and chat for hours before Peggy was due home before her 9pm curfew.
Sadly Peggy’s mother Margaret passed away when Peggy was only 19. Peggy’s father later re-married where he went on to have another 2 daughters and 4 sons.
Peggy and Colin got married on 5th March 1954 where soon after they moved into their 1st home together in Marine Park. Peggy and Colin began their own family in 1956 with the birth of their first child Christopher, followed by Caroline, Marc, Kenneth and Maria. They quickly outgrew their home at Marine Park, and moved into their 2nd home in Paton Close where they went on to have Michael, Craig and Larna, where at Paton Close they spent the rest of their lives. In Paton Close, Peggy and Colin had many friends and were very loved, they truly loved living here.  
While Peggy cared for her 8 children aged between 2 and 15 years of age, she spent 5 years caring for Colins mother, Nelly. Nelly was very dependant on Peggy, needing a lot of assistance as she suffered terribly with dementia and had poor mobility, where later she needed professional care at a hospice. However, Peggy always reiterated that she would have never changed a thing and would have done it all over again. This demonstrates the kind of woman Peggy was; she was kind, generous, selfless and loving, not just to family, but to all those that she met. Everybody knew her as their nanny Peggy or Our Peg, and every child in West Kirby was dressed in her famous knitting.
Peggy and Colins children grew up to have large families of their own, making them grandparents to 26 grandchildren and 31 great-grandchildren. Peggy was most proud of her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, she loved each and every one of them, she had so much love to give. 
Peggy loved going to bingo at the Hoylake Social Club, where as a family we shared lots of fond memories, from christening parties, wedding parties and hers and Pansy’s 80th birthday. 
Peggy loved tending to her garden, it was her pride and joy, always making sure she had shown off the work she had done, the flowers in bloom, and any new additions. A memory everybody can relate to is when Peggy would always insist on seeing us out to the gate, where she would keep us chatting as she leant on the gate and then she would stand waving to you until she could see you’d left the close. 
After Colin passed away, her cat Blacky was her companion, although he was temperamental, Peggy wouldn’t allow a bad word to be said about him, in her words “he was a good lad”.