Brief Life History of Catharine
When Catharine Pickering was born on 9 August 1804, in Liverpool, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Thomas Pickering, was 43 and her mother, Margaret Horrabin, was 40. She died on 30 December 1825, at the age of 21.
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- Catharine, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Catharine Pickering, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Catharine Pickering, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
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1808 · The British West Africa Squadron
The British West Africa Squadron was formed in 1808 to suppress illegal slave trading on the African coastline. The British West Africa Squadron had freed approximately 150,000 people by 1865.
1815
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
1815 · Manchester Dock in Liverpool Built
In 1815, the Manchester Dock in Liverpool was constructed by John Foster Sr. It was an important gateway for coal and manufactured goods mainly corn and cotton. It closed in 1929.
Name Meaning
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.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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