When Rachel Pike was born on 12 August 1747, in Dunstable, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, her father, PVT. Benjamin Pike, was 23 and her mother, Elizabeth Hardy, was 22. She died on 26 December 1754, in Dunstable, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, at the age of 7, 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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