Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Peg Trantum’s n.

In phrases

go to Peg Trantum’s (v.) (also go to peg tandrums, ...peg tantrums) [note East Anglian dial. peg trantum, a tomboy]

to die; thus pegtrantum(s) adj., dead.

1672		J. Phillips Maronides (1678) V 43: Where’s Menetus? gon [sic] to Peg Trantum.
c.1698		B.E. Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Peg Trantums Gone to Pegtrantums, Dead.
1725		New Canting Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
1737, 1759, 1760, 1776		Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
a.1790		H.T. Potter New Dict. Cant (1795) n.p.: peg tantrums, dead.
1809		G. Andrewes Dict. Sl. and Cant [as cit. a.1790].
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1821		Flash Dict. [as cit. a.1790].
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1834		‘Jack Downing’ Andrew Jackson 40: Hays [...] giv’d him several woonds and wou’d have sent him to Peg Trantums.
1835		G. Kent Modern Flash Dict. [as cit. a.1790].
1841		Londonderry Sentinel 16 Jan. 4/5: If he shakes the nonsense out iv Cooke [...] I’m his man; but to Peg Trantum’s back parlour with him if he disn’t.
1848		Flash Dict. in Sinks of London Laid Open [as cit. a.1790].
c.1850		Duncombe New and Improved Flash Dict. n.p.: Peg tandrums as gone to peg tandrums, dead and buried.
1859		Matsell Vocabulum 66: pegtrantum Dead.