When Moses Pickard was born on 4 December 1694, in Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Cpt. Samuel Pickard, was 31 and his mother, Elizabeth Hale, was 26. He married Lydia Platts. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 4 daughters. He died on 10 May 1761, in his hometown, at the age of 66, and was buried in Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.
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English (mainly Yorkshire) and German: habitational name for someone from Picardy in northern France (see Picard 1).
English: in some cases, possibly also from the Old French personal name Picard, probably from an ancient Germanic name, composed of the elements bic ‘sharp point, pointed weapon’ + hard ‘hardy, brave, strong’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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