When John Chickering was born on 6 January 1562, in Wicklewood, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom, his father, Stephen Chickering, was 35 and his mother, Anne or Agnes Day, was 31. He died on 22 March 1609, at the age of 47.
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English: unexplained. The surname seems to have died out in the British Isles.
History: The Chickering(e)s or Chickring(e)s who were in Dedham, MA, by c. 1670 were originally from Wrentham, Suffolk. However, only four Chickerings (all in Staffordshire) and one Chickring (from Devon) were recorded in the 1881 British census.
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