Pickering Family History
Pickering Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Pickering in North Yorkshire, named
with an Old English tribal name, Piceringas. However, Ekwall
suggests that this was earlier Picoringas ‘people on the
ridge of the pointed hill’ (see Orr 3 and Pike 1).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Pickering
Name Distribution of Pickering Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Pickering families
 1,395 - 2,787  466 - 1,394 |
 1 - 465  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Pickering families
|
48 - 93 17 - 47 |
1 - 16 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Pickering census records
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Pickering Family Origin
Pickering Emigration Information (US)
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to the United States.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Pickering Emigration Information (AU)
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You can find out when most of the Pickering families immigrated
to Australia.
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port of arrival and destination.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Pickering Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Pickering census records
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Military Service by Pickering
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