When Lydia Pike was born on 26 June 1753, in Dunstable, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, her father, PVT. Benjamin Pike, was 29 and her mother, Elizabeth Hardy, was 28. She died on 15 December 1754, in her hometown, at the age of 1, and was buried in Dunstable, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.
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English: nickname, perhaps for a fisherman whose physique resembled that of a pike. One Londoner so named in 1292 was a fishmonger.
English: metonymic occupational name for a user of a pointed tool, perhaps a laborer or military pikeman, from Middle English pike ‘pike, pickaxe, pitchfork’. Compare Pick .
English: from the Middle English and Old French personal name Pic (Old English Pica, Old Norse Pík), of uncertain origin but perhaps from one of the words mentioned above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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