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Pauline Miles
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Pauline | Report | 16 Jun 2005 09:21 |
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THE NAME ‘PICKERING’ The name ‘Pickering’ occurs as a place name. It is a town in Yorkshire. It is said that ‘Pickering Lythe’ was the district of ‘The Pikerings’, The men of the Pykes or peaks of the moors, at the foot of which lay the town of ‘Pickering’. The place itself was not known as Pickering in the thirteenth century; nor was there a ‘c’ in the earliest form of the name, which was ‘De Pikering’, or ‘De Pikeryng’. There were several prominent men who bore the name of ‘Pickering’. One was the Speaker of the House of Lords at the time of the second parliament of Richard 11. Another bought the Manor of Titchmarsh and became the Earl of Worcester at the time of Queen Elizabeth 1. There were two men of the name in the Long Parliament, Sir Gilbert Pickering who sat for Northampton and filled a Judgeship and Robert Pickering who filled a Sussex seat. Thomas Pickering was the Abbot of St. Hilda’s at Whitby, and one of the early masters of genealogy. There were also several eminent soldiers. |
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Kenneth | Report | 23 Sep 2007 10:57 |
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First of all, let me say that the town of Pickering was mentioned in Domesday Book (1086). It appears as Picheringa. |
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