When Mary J Pickel was born on 10 November 1879, in Illinois, United States, her father, Michael Pickel, was 29 and her mother, Malinda Albright, was 23. She died on 5 April 1889, in her hometown, at the age of 9.
South German: metonymic occupational name for someone who made or used pickaxes or a nickname for a gambler; a variant of Bickel .
Dutch: from Middle Dutch pickel ‘leg’, hence a nickname for someone with long or otherwise remarkable legs, or a metonymic occupational name for a carpenter.
Americanized or Germanized form of Slovenian Pikelj, Pikel, or Pikl: from pikelj, a word of South German origin (see above and Bickel ), denoting a kind of pick used by miners.
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