Amy Louise (Anstey) Peyton is Newfoundland-born and was educated in Twillingate and New York. She married in the United States in 1943. She has lived in Gander, Newfoundland and Labrador, since 1946, where she settled with her husband Ernest A. Peyton, ex R.A.F., and one-time Councillor and Deputy Mayor of the town.Amy and her husband became Gander’s first florists and horticulturists. Since raising a family of five children, she has retired and turned her interest to music, creative crafts, and writing.