When Alfred Pickersgill was born about 1856, in Kirkhamgate, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Joseph Pickersgill, was 37 and his mother, Jane Bickerdyke, was 32. He married Christiana Kitson on 22 March 1885, in Earlsheaton, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Thornes, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom in 1891 and Alverthorpe, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom for about 10 years. He died in 1930, in All Saints, Wakefield, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 75.
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The Lendal Bridge was opened in 1863, after a previous failed attempt at building it Thomas Page was brought in to design it. It is an iron bridge styled with the gothic style popular in England. When it was first opened, it was a toll bridge but in 1894, it accepted it’s last toll.
School attendance became compulsory from ages five to ten on August 2, 1880.
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English (northern): habitational name from Pickersgill in North Yorkshire. The origin of the placename is uncertain; it appears to mean ‘the ravine of the thief or thieves’, from Middle English pikere ‘thief’ + gil ‘ravine’.
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