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).
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Pickering
Name Distribution of Pickering Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Pickering families
 113 - 223  38 - 112 |
 1 - 37  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
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 Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Pickering
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Pickering Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Pickering census records
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Pickering Civil War Service Records
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