These include Peggotty, his faithful former housekeeper for his mother,
her family, and their orphaned niece Little Em'ly who lives with them and charms the young David.
Daniel Peggotty- Peggotty's brother;
a humble but generous Yarmouth fisherman who takes his nephew Ham and niece Emily into his custody after each of them has been orphaned, and welcomes David as a child when he holidays to Yarmouth with Peggotty.