When William Pickering was born on 16 March 1809, in Wombridge, Shropshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, John Pickering, was 28 and his mother, Esther Traunter, was 32. He married Emma Pritchard in 1827, in Shropshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 7 daughters. He lived in Wrockwardine, Shropshire, England, United Kingdom in 1841. In 1841, his occupation is listed as miner in Nabb, Shropshire, England, United Kingdom. He died in 1855, in Wellington, Shropshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 46.
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English: habitational name from Pickering in North Yorkshire, named with an Old English group name, Piceringas, meaning ‘the people of a man named Pīcer’.
History: John Pickering of Newgate, Coventry, Warwickshire, England, came to MA in the early 1630s. He married Elizabeth Alderman in Ipswich, MA, in 1636 and moved a year later to Salem.
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