Picker Family History
- Picker Name Meaning
- English: occupational name for someone who used a pick, from Middle English pi(c)k ‘pick’ (see Pick) + the agent suffix -er. English: occupational name for someone who caught or sold pike, from Middle English pike ‘pike’ + the agent suffix -er. English: topographic name for someone who lived on a pointed hill (see Pike 1), the -er suffix denoting an inhabitant. German: occupational name for someone who used a pick or pickaxe, from an agent derivative of Middle High German bicken ‘to prick or stab’. Dutch: occupational name for a stonemason or for a reaper or mower, from Middle Dutch picker, pecker. Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): nickname for a big eater or a glutton, from Yiddish pikn ‘to eat’ with the noun suffix -er.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 58,852 Historical Documents with Picker on Ancestry
- 26,355 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 13,882 Census and Voter Lists
- 2,130 Military Records
- 2,985 Immigration Records
- 13,500 Member Trees
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Number of Picker families
 36 - 69  13 - 35 |
 1 - 12  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Picker families
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3 - 4 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Picker census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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