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Surname Etymology and Meaning of PICKERING

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(origin: Local) A market town of north Yorkshire, England, with the remains of a castle.

Source: An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names With an Essay on their Derivation and Import (1857).

English: habitational name from Pickering in North Yorkshire, named with an Old English tribal name, Piceringas. However, Ekwall suggests that this was earlier Picoringas ‘people on the ridge of the pointed hill’ (see Orr 3 and Pike 1).

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names (2003)