When Bessie Hall Pike was born on 13 June 1879, in Nova Scotia, Canada, her father, Reverend John Martin Pike, was 39 and her mother, Mary Seaman, was 26. She lived in Columbia, Richland, South Carolina, United States in 1900 and Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina, United States in 1900. She died on 31 October 1906, at the age of 27, and was buried in Columbia, Richland, South Carolina, United States.
English: nickname, perhaps for a fisherman whose physique resembled that of a pike. One Londoner so named in 1292 was a fishmonger.
English: metonymic occupational name for a user of a pointed tool, perhaps a laborer or military pikeman, from Middle English pike ‘pike, pickaxe, pitchfork’. Compare Pick .
English: from the Middle English and Old French personal name Pic (Old English Pica, Old Norse Pík), of uncertain origin but perhaps from one of the words mentioned above.
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