Rabbi Peretz Chein HaGadol

Peretz was the eldest son of the Rav Elchanan Chen, who had come from Schottland as a boy of about seven, to Shklov (Belarus), to learn at the Yeshiva of the first Chabad Rebbe, Schneur Zalman of Liady. The account of how this Elchanan was entrusted by his mother to the care of a visiting merchant, Alexander Sender of Shklov, is one of the traditional stories of the Chen family. The important part of the story, from the historical point of view, is that this lady, the wife of the Rav Meir Chen, was the daughter, granddaughter, or niece of the Rav Elchanan of Schottland. It seems quite reasonable to suppose that she was the daughter of Rav Elchanan's eldest son, Moshe, who died at the age of 28.