Pickering Genealogical Records
Pickering Birth & Baptism Records
An index to births registered throughout England & Wales. Provides a reference to order copies of birth certificates from the national registrar of births, marriages and deaths – the General Register Office.
A name index, connected to digital images of baptism registers. These record relationships between parents and their children and may detail where they lived and how they made a living.
Digital images of baptism registers, searchable by a name index. These records detail relationships between parents and their children and may detail where they lived and how they made a living.
A growing index of births registered in the county. Records include a reference to the sub-registration district, making it easier to order the correct certificate.
An index to 1,250,301 baptisms, linked to images of the original registers. These records will provide parents' names, residences, occupations and occasionally other details.
Pickering Marriage & Divorce Records
An index to marriages registered throughout England & Wales. This is the only national marriage index that allows you to search by both spouse's names. Provides a reference to order copies of marriage certificates from the national registrar of births, marriages and deaths – the General Register Office.
Digital images of marriage registers, searchable by a name index. They are the primary source for pre-1837 marriages. They may record the bride and groom's residence, the groom's occupation, parents' names, marital status and witnesses.
Digital images of marriage registers, searchable by a name index. They are the primary marriage document before 1837. They typically record residence and marital status, though may contain age, father's name and other details.
An index to over 150,000 licences to marry applied for from the Diocese of York.
A growing index of marriages registered in the county. Records include a reference to the sub-registration district, making it easier to order the correct certificate.
Pickering Death & Burial Records
An index to deaths registered throughout England & Wales. Provides a reference to order copies of death certificates from the national registrar of births, marriages and deaths – the General Register Office.
Digital images of burial registers, searchable by a name index. Details given may include the deceased's name, residence, age, names of relations, cause of death and more.
Digital images of burial registers, searchable by a name index. They record the date someone was buried, their age & residence.
An index of burials recorded at St Peter & St Paul, Pickering_. The index includes the name of the deceased, the date of burial, age (where available) and occasionally other notes.
An index to burials recorded in the registers of a Quaker church. The index contains the name of the deceased, the date of their burial and their age where available.
Pickering Census & Population Lists
An index to and digital images of records that detail 40 million civilians in England and Wales. Records list name, date of birth, address, marital status, occupation and details of trade or profession.
The 1911 census provides details on an individual's age, residence, place of birth, relations and occupation. FindMyPast's index allows searches on for multiple metrics including occupation and residence.
A tax on the county's wealthier residents, ordered by wapentake or liberty and settlement.
The 1901 census provides details on an individual's age, residence, place of birth, relations and occupation. FindMyPast's index allows searches on for multiple metrics including occupation and residence.
The 1891 census provides details on an individual's age, residence, place of birth, relations and occupation. FindMyPast's index allows searches on for multiple metrics including occupation and residence.
Newspapers Covering Pickering
This fully searchable newspaper will provide a rich variety of information about the people and places of the Yorkshire district. Includes family announcements.
Britain's most popular provincial newspaper, covering local & national news, family announcements, government & local proceedings and more.
An illustrated, conservative newspaper with a national focus.
A regional newspaper including news from the Yorkshire area, family announcements, business notices, advertisements, legal & governmental proceedings and more.
A regional newspaper including news from the Yorkshire district, business notices, family announcements, legal & governmental proceedings, advertisements and more.
Pickering Wills & Probate Records
Searchable index and original images of over 12.5 million probates and administrations granted by civil registries. Entries usually include the testator's name, date of death, date of probate and registry. Names of relations may be given.
Digital images, indexed by testor's name, of 28,716 wills, administrations, inventories and other probate documents. The records can shed light on an individual’s relations, possessions, land holdings, legal agreements and more. They cover various jurisdictions throughout the north of England.
An index to 263,822 wills, administrations and other probate documents proved by an ecclesiastical court in York. The index included the testor's name, residence, year of probate, type of document and reference to order copies of the referenced document(s.).
An index to 10,195 wills, administrations and other probate documents proved by an ecclesiastical court in York. The index included the testor's name, residence, occupation, will & probate year, language, type of document and reference to order copies of the referenced document(s.).
An index to wills, proved by the Derby Probate Registry. Index includes name, residence and year of probate. Contains entries for Yorkshire, Cheshire, Lancashire, Staffordshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire and other counties.
Pickering Immigration & Travel Records
A name index connected to original images of passenger lists recording people travelling from Britain to destinations outside Europe. Records may detail a passenger's age or date of birth, residence, occupation, destination and more.
A full index of passenger lists for vessels arriving in the UK linked to original images. Does not include lists from vessels sailing from European ports. Early entries can be brief, but later entries may include dates of births, occupations, home addresses and more. Useful for documenting immigration.
An index to and images of documents recording over 1.65 million passengers who arrived in Victoria, Australia, including passengers whose voyage was paid for by others.
Details on over 600,000 non-British citizens arriving in England. Often includes age and professions. Useful for discerning the origin of immigrants.
Details on thousands of 17th century British immigrants to the U.S., detailing their origins and nature of their immigration.
Pickering Military Records
A history of the militia, supplemented by lists of its officers.
A general history of the regiment, including biographies of its colonels.
An inventory of memorials commemorating those who served and died in military conflicts.
A chronicle of happenings in the counties of Northumberland, Durham and Yorkshire relating to the war in Europe. Contains much detail on ship building.
Lists of officers by rank, regiment and name.
Pickering Court & Legal Records
Abstracts of records that detail land conveyances.
Transcriptions of pleas brought before a court. They largely concern land disputes.
Transcripts of 17,368 admission records, including name, gender, age, occupation, date of admission, cause of insanity, outcome of incarceration, date of leaving the institution and more.
Records of over 300,000 prisoners held by quarter sessions in England & Wales. Records may contain age, occupation, criminal history, offence and trial proceedings.
Over 175,000 records detailing prisoner's alleged offences and the outcome of their trial. Contains genealogical information.
Pickering Taxation Records
A list of those who voted in the election, stating their residence and for who they voted.
A list of those who voted in the election, stating their residence and for who they voted.
A list of those who voted in the election, stating their residence and for who they voted.
A transcription of the Lincolnshire section of the Domesday Book, which records land ownership, use and value in the late 11th century; and similar survey completed in 1118.
A tax on the county's wealthier residents, ordered by wapentake or liberty and settlement.
Pickering Land & Property Records
Extracts for North Riding settlements found in the Domesday book. Includes the modern & 11th century place name, land owners and details of later history.
A list of those who voted in the election, stating their residence and for who they voted.
A list of those who voted in the election, stating their residence and for who they voted.
A list of those who voted in the election, stating their residence and for who they voted.
Abstracts of records that detail land conveyances.
Pickering Directories & Gazetteers
A directory of settlements in the riding detailing their history, agriculture, topography, economy and leading commercial, professional and private residents.
A directory of the riding detailing its history, agriculture, topography, economy and leading commercial, professional and private residents.
A directory outlining the history of settlements in the North and East Ridings and listing their commercial, private and professional residents.
A comprehensive place-by-place gazetteer, listing key historical and contemporary facts. Contains details on local schools, churches, government and other institutions. Also contains a list of residents and businesses for each place.
Descriptions of physical and geological landmarks, a listing of government offices and descriptions of the villages & parishes, including a list of the private Descriptions of physical and geological landmarks, a listing of government offices and descriptions of the villages & parishes, including a list of the private residents..
Pickering Cemeteries
Details extracted from tombs, monuments and plaques.
Photographs and descriptions of North Riding's most illustrious church monuments, often featuring effigies, medieval inscriptions and heraldic devices.
An index to close to 150,000 names listed on gravestones in Yorkshire.
Images of millions of pages from cemetery and crematoria registers, photographs of memorials, cemetery plans and more. Records can be search by a name index.
Photographs and transcriptions of millions of gravestones from cemeteries around the world.
Pickering Obituaries
The UKs largest repository of obituaries, containing millions of searchable notices.
A growing collection currently containing over 425,000 abstracts of obituaries with reference to the location of the full obituary.
A collection of 364 obituaries of Quakers from the British Isles. The volume was published in 1849 and includes obituaries of those who died in late 1847 through 1848.
This transcribed and searchable work by Sir William Musgrave contains 10,000s of brief obituaries. The work is a reference point for other works containing information on an individual.
A text index and digital images of all editions of a journal containing medical articles and obituaries of medical practitioners.
Pickering Histories & Books
A general history of the area and its divisions.
Extracts for North Riding settlements found in the Domesday book. Includes the modern & 11th century place name, land owners and details of later history.
An English translation of Yorkshire domesday records. This transcripts details the county's landowners in 1086.
A detailed history of the county's hundreds, parishes and religious houses.
A chronicle of happenings in the counties of Northumberland, Durham and Yorkshire relating to the war in Europe. Contains much detail on ship building.
Pickering School & Education Records
A name index connected to digital images of registers recording millions of children educated in schools operated by the National Society for Promoting Religious Education. Records contain a variety of information including genealogical details, education history, illnesses, exam result, fathers occupation and more.
A name index linked to original images of registers recording the education and careers of teachers in England & Wales.
A name index linked to original images of short biographies for over 120,000 Oxford University students. This is a particularly useful source for tracing the ancestry of the landed gentry.
A transcript of a vast scholarly work briefly chronicling the heritage, education and careers of over 150,000 Cambridge University students. This is a particularly useful source for tracing the ancestry of the landed gentry.
A searchable database containing over 90,000 note-form biographies for students of Cambridge University.
Pickering Occupation & Business Records
Profiles of collieries in the north of England, with employment statistics, profiles of those who died in the mines and photographs.
Reports of mining distastes, includes lists of the deceased and photographs of monuments.
An introduction to smuggling on the east coast of England, with details of the act in various regions.
Abstract biographies of people connected with mining in the North of England.
A searchable book detailing the Yorkshire Rugby Football Union around the time of the Great War. Contains the names of many players and other persons associated with the sport.
Pedigrees & Family Trees Covering Pickering
A detailed history of the county's hundreds, parishes and religious houses.
Extensive and impeccably sourced genealogies for British, Irish & Manx royalty and nobility. Scroll down to 'British Isles' for relevant sections.
A searchable database of linked genealogies compiled from thousands of reputable and not-so-reputable sources. Contains many details on European gentry & nobility, but covers many countries outside Europe and people from all walks of life.
A searchable book, listing pedigrees of titled families and biographies of their members.
A book containing genealogies and biographies of Britain's titled families.
Pickering Royalty, Nobility & Heraldry Records
Photographs and descriptions of North Riding's most illustrious church monuments, often featuring effigies, medieval inscriptions and heraldic devices.
A detailed history of the county's hundreds, parishes and religious houses.
Pedigrees compiled from a late 16th century heraldic visitation of Yorkshire. This work records the lineage, descendants and marriages of families who had a right to bear a coat of arms.
Pedigrees compiled from a early 17th century heraldic visitation of Yorkshire. This work records the lineage, descendants and marriages of families who had a right to bear a coat of arms.
Extensive and impeccably sourced genealogies for British, Irish & Manx royalty and nobility. Scroll down to 'British Isles' for relevant sections.
Pickering Church Records
Digital images of baptism, marriage and burial registers from Church of England places of worship in Yorkshire.
Records recording teens and young adults commitment to the Christian faith.
Documentation for those baptised, married and buried at England. Parish registers can assist tracing a family back numerous generations.
The primary source of documentation for baptisms, marriages and burials before 1837, though extremely useful to the present. Their records can assist tracing a family back numerous generations.
Brief biographies of Anglican clergy in the UK.
Biographical Directories Covering Pickering
A listing of the prominent residents of the county of Yorkshire, giving details on family, education, careers, hobbies, associations and more. Also includes details on the county's government officials, military officers, members of parliament, religious leaders and demographics.
Biographies of hundreds of men who served as officers in The Green Howards, an infant regiment in the King's Division. Details given include parentage, date of birth, military career and later professional career.
Abstract biographies of people connected with mining in the North of England.
A searchable book, listing pedigrees of titled families and biographies of their members.
A book containing genealogies and biographies of Britain's titled families.
Pickering Maps
Digital images of maps covering the county.
A number of maps of northern England with the locations of collieries plotted.
Detailed maps covering much of the UK. They depict forests, mountains, larger farms, roads, railroads, towns, and more.
Maps showing settlements, features and some buildings in mainland Britain.
An index to 11,000,000 parcels of land and property, connected to digital images of registers that record their owner, occupier, description, agricultural use, size and rateable value.
Pickering Reference Works
A beginner’s guide to researching ancestry in England.
Compiled in 1831, this book details the coverage and condition of parish registers in England & Wales.
A comprehensive guide to researching the history of buildings in the British Isles.
A service that provides advanced and custom surname maps for the British Isles and the US.
A dictionary of around 9,000 mottoes for British families who had right to bear arms.
Civil & Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction
Historical Description
Pickering is an ancient market-town belonging to the Duchy of Lancaster, situated on the mountainous district of Blackmoor. It is said to have been built 270 years before Christ, by Penducus, a king of the Britons, who was buried here. The ruins of the castle are still to be seen. Leland, in his Itinerary, gives the following description of this place.
"The town of Pykering is large, but not well compact together. The greatest part of it, with the paroch church and castle, is on the south-east part of the broke running through the town, and standith on a great slaty hille. The other part of the town is not so bigge as this. In the church I saw 2 or 3 tombs of the Bruses, one with his wife in a chapel on the south side of the choir, and he had a garland about his helmet: another in a chapel under an arch on the north side of the body of the choir, and there is a chantry bearing his name. The castle standeth on the brow of a hill in an end of the town, not far from the parish church."
Pickering is now a long straggling place, and contains only about 2000 inhabitants, but is pleasantly situated on an eminence at the bottom of which runs a brook called Pickering-beck. The church is an ancient and spacious building, with a lofty spire. Here is a weekly market on Mondays. Here was formerly Bruse’s-hall.
PICKERING, in Domesday “Pickeringa,” is a market and union town, and a township and parish, with a station on the Whitby and Pickering branch of the North Eastern railway and having branch lines to Scarborough, Kirby Moorside, Helmsley and Grilling, 223 ½ miles from London, 9 north from Malton, 18 west from Scarborough, 21 south from Whitby, and 32 ½ north-east from York, in the Whitby division of the Riding, wapentake and petty sessional division of Pickering Lythe West, Malton county court district, rural deanery of Malton, archdeaconry of Cleveland and diocese of York.
A Local Board of Health was formed August 11th, 1863, under the “Local Government Act of 1858,” but under the provisions of the “Local Government Act, 1894” (56 and 57 Vict. c. 73) the town is now governed by an Urban District Council, and is lighted with gas and supplied with water from the Keldhead springs, by a company formed in 1876. The Pickering Beck, a tributary of the Costa and Derwent, flows through the town, at the west end of which it is crossed by a stone bridge of two arches.
The church of St. Peter and St. Paul, standing on an eminence in the centre of the town, is an ancient edifice of stone in the Norman, Transitional and later styles, consisting of chancel with organ chamber, and a south chapel of St. John, used for week day services, transepts, clerestoried nave, large south porch, and an embattled western tower with spire, containing 3 bells and a clock which chimes every quarter of an hour: the chancel, which is Decorated, retains three canopied sedilia, the capitals of the shafts bearing figures of fighting dragons: there is also a piscina here, and another in the transept: on the south side of the chancel arch is the recumbent effigy of a cross-legged knight in ringed and plate armour and surcoat, and bearing on the left arm a shield, with the arms of Bruys or Bruce, viz.:-“a saltire engrailed and a chief indented;” the same arms appear on the surcoat, and the figure represents Sir William de Bruys, whose family once held a manor here: and in the north transept is the upper part of the effigy of a knight, probably of the same family: in the chapel of St. John, on a modern stone plinth, are two recumbent effigies in alabaster of a knight and lady, representing Sir David Roucliffe. 1407, sometime lord of this manor, and Margery, his wife; the former wears a collar of SS. and is habited in a surcoat with the arms:-” on a chevron between three lions’ heads erased, a chess rook,” being those of the family of Rockliffe: there is also a panelled oak chest with three padlocks: on the floor of the chancel are marble slabs with, shields of arms and inscriptions to Luke Robinson, of Riseborough, Yorks, d. 3 April, 1700, and Anne (Cony) his wife: the walls bear monuments to John Bell esq. of Scarborough, d. 30 Jan. 1782, and Elizabeth (Robinson) his wife; to the King family, 1780—1817; Richard Simpson esq. alderman of York, d. 29 July, 1816, and Bithiah, his wife; Robert Stockton esq. lord mayor of York, d. May 14, 1811; Fothergill family, 1813—40; Piper family, 1810—42; Marshall family, 1806—18; Wood family, 1823—60; and to Thomas Manners esq. d. 1 June, 1824: on a mural monument by the chancel arch is a brass to Joshua Newton “hujus eccliae custodis,” d. 14 Feb. 1712; and on the floor a brass to Tho. Mitchelson, d. 31 Aug. 1860, and there are others to Capt. John Loy, of 2nd Kitchener’s Fighting scouts, who died 1902, and to the Rev. George Herbert Lightfoofc M.A. vicar 1881—1902, and John Kitching esq. J.P. d. 1890, besides a number of modern inscribed brasses, removed from stones and now in the tower, and in the south aisle is a portion of a flat tombstone with a floriated cross: in the church is buried William Marshall, a noted agriculturalist and author of “A survey of the Rural Economy of England,” who was born at sinning-ton in 1745, and died in 1818: the nave arcades are Norman, and have cylindrical columns on the north side, and clustered piers on the south; the whole space on both sides, between the arcading and the clerestory windows, is covered with a most interesting and remarkable series of frescoes dating from about 1450, which, after having been whitewashed over, were uncovered and renovated with great care by the late Rev. G. H. Lightfoot M.A. vicar 1881 to 1902: the church was thoroughly restored and reseated during the years 1876—9, at a cost of 9,000, and affords 600 sittings. The register dates from the year 1560. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £265, including 40 acres of glebe, and residence, in the gift of the Archbishop of York, and held since 1902 by the Rev. Evelyn William Drage M.A. of Christ Church, Oxford, chaplain to Pickering union, and surrogate.
There is a Catholic chapel, dedicated to St. Joseph, erected in 1911 at a cost of £4,000, a Congregational chapel, founded in 1788, also Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels, and a meeting house for the society of Friends. The Primitive Methodist chapel, in Potter hill, erected in 1885 in place of the former chapel, built in 1851, is an edifice of stone in the Italian style, with a pedimental front, and will seat 800. The Congregational chapel, originally built in 1788 at a cost of £282, and since enlarged, is an edifice of stone, with schoolroom and caretaker’s house attached, and is endowed with over 70 per annum, and also with another fund of over £100 per annum, to be equally divided between the London Missionary society and the “poor of the church.” The Chapel is seated for about 300 and has a small disused graveyard attached. The cemetery, in Whitby road, was opened for burials Dec. 4th, 1905.
There is a public hall for public business and meetings. The Police Court and Justice Room, erected in 1878, is a plain building of stone, consisting of residence for the superintendent and a large room for the transaction of all magisterial business. The lock-up, with residence for the sergeant and single constables, was built in the same year. The Liberal club was erected in 1909. The Pickering Lythe and Ryedale Agricultural society, founded in 1854, has its meeting here once in three years, and a dog, poultry and flower show is held here annually. This district is purely agricultural; there are several lime and freestone quarries and brick yards, and one foundry. The market day is Monday. Fairs are held on every alternate Monday throughout the year: these are principally for beasts and sheep, and are well supplied. About half a mile south-west from the town is Keldhead spring; the water rises here in great volume, and is the source of the river Costa, afterwards joined by the Pickering Beck; it is computed that at least 200 gallons are here thrown up per second. Anciently the waters of the Costa here formed a lake, and about 1890 wooden piles and other traces of pre-historic lake dwellings were discovered both in the bed of the river and in the bank adjacent by Mr. Mitchelson.
Pickering Castle, standing on a rocky eminence to the north-west of the town and about 80 feet above it, occupies an irregular triangular area about 500 feet long by 350 wide, the apex being towards the south; the whole area is surrounded by a massive wall, increased in height and strength on the side toward the town, where also it is defended by a wide and deep but dry moat opening to the valley on the north and south-west; the western side is protected by the lofty cliff and by the stream or beck which flows near its base; nearly in the centre of this area, but rather to the north-east, is a great conical and artificial mound, 70 feet in height, and about 220 feet in diameter at the base; on the flat top, which has a diameter of about 76 feet, was the keep, a polygonal structure, some fragments of whose walls, 6 or 7 feet in thickness and 18 feet high, still remain; on the east side the mound is thickly covered with trees and underwood; curtain walls 7 feet thick, and more or less perfect, extend from the keep north-east and south-west to the exterior walls, thus dividing the whole area into outer and inner wards, and the south-western portion has a gate-tower of two storeys, 21 by 16 feet. The main entrance is by a bridge crossing the ditch on the east side and leading up to the outer gateway, which is formed simply by a return outwards of the curtain wall at this point to a distance of about 20 feet, so as to form an inclosed projecting space 12 feel wide, with an arch 15 feet in height, above which the wall, here 7 feet thick, rises to an elevation of 50 feet; to the left of this entrance, at the southwest angle of the outer ward, is the Mill tower, 31 feet 6 inches square, with walls 10 feet thick; it has a basement and two stories above, and on the east side a spiral stair leading through a small turret to the battlements, which afford a fine view; at the north-eastern extremity of this ward is Rosamund’s tower, a square mass 22 by 24 feet, with basement, and two floors above; on the north wall, at the point where the wall from the keep joins it, is the Devil’s or Postern tower, 22 by 27 feet, entered by a Decorated doorway in the basement, through which there is a mural passage 20 feet long by three in width, communicating with the floor above and thence to the parapet of the curtain wall; at about 12 feet from this tower northwards is a rectangular turret 12 feet square, pierced for the passage of the rampart walk. The fortress was no doubt originally a Norman structure reared on English earthworks, and probably some portions of the existing ruins are Norman, although the greater part belongs to the Decorated period; in the west wall of the inner ward, but concealed by a plantation, is a Norman doorway, 6 feet wide, of very elegant design; the nook shafts are gone, but the capitals remain and support a beaded arch, overlaid with pointed arcading in a series of 15 cusps and semi-cusps at each end; close by this doorway is a small building with lancet windows, said to have been a chapel, but now used as a manor court. Near the castle, on the western bank of the Pickering beck, is a circular hill, 90 feet high, crowned by an earthwork about 20 feet in diameter. King John several times visited here and Richard II. was prisoner in the castle before his removal to Pontefract; during the Civil war, when it was held for the King, it was besieged and greatly damaged. Both the castle and town, with a great part of the district called “the Lythe,” belong to the Crown in right of the Duchy of Lancaster. Pickering Hall is the seat of James Mitchelson Mitchelson esq. J.P. His Majesty the King, in right of the Duchy of Lancaster, is lord of the manor, and owns a portion of the land. Manor courts are held here every three years. James M. Mitchelson esq. J.P. Philip B. Reckitt esq. J.P. of Keldy Castle, and Thomas Mitchelson esq. J.P. are principal landowners, and there are numerous other freeholders in the parish. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats and roots. The area of the township and Urban District is 15,593 acres of land and 32 of water; rateable value, £20,637; the population in 1911 was 3,674 (this includes 6 officers and 68 inmates in the workhouse) and of the ecclesiastical parish, 3,680.
Petty sessions are held at the Court House, Police station, Eastgate, every month on Mondays at 11 a.m. (day appointed by the magistrates); they also meet on any week day, when necessary, to try any persons under the Criminal Justice Act.
The following places are included in the Petty sessional Division:-Aislaby, Barughs Ambo, Cropton, Cawthorn, Goathland, Habton Great, Hatton Little, Hartoft, Kingthorpe, Kirby Misperton, Levisham, Lockton, Marishes, Middleton, Marton, Newton, Pickering, Rosedale East Side, Byton, Sinnington, Thornton Dale, Wrelton, Wilton.
PICKERING UNION
Board day, every alternate Monday, at the Union house, at 1 p.m.
The Union comprises the following townships & places:-Aislaby, Allerston, Barughs Ambo, Cawthorn, Cropton, Ebberston, Hartoft, Kingthorpe, Kirby Misperton, Lastingham, Levisham, Lockton, Marton, Middleton, Newton, Pickering, Pickering Marishes, Rosedale (East & West sides), Sinnington, Spaunton, Thornton-le-Dale, Wilton & Wrelton. The area is 95,930 acres; rateable value at Michaelmas, 1912, £71,263; the population in 1911 was 10,132.
The Workhouse, at Rysea, a little north of the town, is a plain building of stone, erected in 1837, at a cost of £1,100, & will hold 100 inmates.
PLACES OF WORSHIP, with times of services
St. Peter & St. Paul’s Church, Rev. Evelyn William Drage M.A. vicar; William Edwd. Bates B.A. curate; 8 & 10.30 a.m. & 6.15 p.m.; daily, 8 a.m. & 5.30 p.m.
Catholic Church (St. Joseph’s), The Mount, Rev. Edward Henry Bryan, priest; mass, 7.30 a.m.; Sundays, mass 10.30 a.m.; catechism, 2 p.m.; benediction, 6 p.m.; holy communion, 8 a.m.
Friends’ Meeting House, Castlegate; Sundays at 3 p.m.
Congregational, Hungate, Rev. Albert Goldsbrough M.A. 10.30 a.m. & 6.15 p.m.; Thur. 7 p.m.
Primitive Methodist, Potter hill, Rev. Joseph Bilton, superintendent; 10.30 a.m.& 6 p.m.; Thur. 7.15 p.m.
Wesleyan Methodist, Hungate, Rev. H. Graham Payn (supt.) & Rev. E. Draper Butters; Rev. Henry G. Highfield B.A. & Rev. William G. White, supernumeraries; 10.30 a.m. & 6 p.m.; Thur. 7.30 p.m.
SCHOOLS
Lady Lumley’s Grammar school Foundation was formed in 1899 under a scheme of the Charity Commissioners & the Board of Education amalgamating the two ancient foundations of the Pickering Grammar school & Lady Lumley’s Charity: the former of these dated from the reign of Edward VI. & the latter was a trust created by Lady Lumley in 1657 for endowing almshouses & schools for the benefit of Thornton Dale & Sinnington: the larger portion of the funds obtained by the union of these two endowments was derived from Lady Lumley’s Charity, and after providing for the elementary school at Sinnington & the charitable part of the original foundation, the residue was expended in building & partially endowing a new school at Pickering. The two old schools at Thornton & Pickering have been closed & the new school was opened in May, 1905, as a mixed school for 90 day scholars (boys & girls): in 1910 a new class room & gymnasium were added: the school is controlled by a body of 13 governors; James Dove Whitehead, clerk & treasurer to the governors.
Council schools
In 1903 a committee of 6 managers was formed for the control of the two first-named schools; Henry Maw Dawson, Hungate, correspondent to the managers.
Elementary (infants), erected in 1900, for 150 children; average attendance, 85.
Stape (mixed & infants), erected in 1896, for 75 children; average attendance, 48.
Church, Hallgarth (mixed), erected in 1857 & enlarged in 1889, for 183 children; average attendance, 16; the school is under the control of 6 managers.
Wesleyan Methodist (mixed), erected in 1856, & enlarged in 1895, for 308 children; average attendance, 272; this school is controlled by 6 managers.
Catholic, Potter hill (mixed & infants), for 50 children; average attendance, 18.
Most Common Surnames in Pickering
| Rank | Surname | Incidence | Frequency | Percent of Parent | Rank in Pickering Lythe Wapentake |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Smith | 76 | 1:60 | 0.16% | 1 |
| 2 | Fletcher | 74 | 1:61 | 1.43% | 66 |
| 3 | Pickering | 72 | 1:63 | 2.81% | 166 |
| 4 | Hill | 67 | 1:68 | 0.89% | 41 |
| 5 | Simpson | 65 | 1:70 | 0.74% | 27 |
| 6 | Taylor | 62 | 1:73 | 0.28% | 2 |
| 6 | Wilson | 62 | 1:73 | 0.28% | 3 |
| 8 | Robinson | 59 | 1:77 | 0.29% | 4 |
| 9 | Ward | 58 | 1:78 | 0.53% | 15 |
| 10 | Jackson | 50 | 1:91 | 0.31% | 8 |
| 11 | Watson | 48 | 1:95 | 0.46% | 18 |
| 11 | Grayson | 48 | 1:95 | 3.69% | 382 |
| 13 | Dobson | 46 | 1:99 | 1.16% | 95 |
| 13 | Boyes | 46 | 1:99 | 3.27% | 355 |
| 15 | Thompson | 43 | 1:105 | 0.27% | 9 |
| 15 | Frank | 43 | 1:105 | 9.86% | 1,098 |
| 17 | Holliday | 41 | 1:111 | 4.80% | 577 |
| 18 | Beaver | 35 | 1:130 | 14.17% | 1,760 |
| 19 | Hesp | 33 | 1:137 | 15.07% | 1,935 |
| 20 | Harrison | 32 | 1:142 | 0.23% | 10 |
| 20 | Marshall | 32 | 1:142 | 0.35% | 24 |
| 20 | Allanson | 32 | 1:142 | 12.80% | 1,739 |
| 20 | Skaife | 32 | 1:142 | 20.13% | 2,432 |
| 20 | Eddon | 32 | 1:142 | 50.00% | 4,379 |
| 20 | Greenheld | 32 | 1:142 | 69.57% | 5,439 |
| 26 | Hodgson | 29 | 1:156 | 0.37% | 37 |
| 27 | Wood | 28 | 1:162 | 0.15% | 6 |
| 27 | Coates | 28 | 1:162 | 0.75% | 103 |
| 27 | Arundale | 28 | 1:162 | 18.30% | 2,499 |
| 30 | Gray | 27 | 1:168 | 0.81% | 123 |
| 30 | Gibson | 27 | 1:168 | 0.58% | 75 |
| 32 | Chapman | 26 | 1:174 | 0.55% | 74 |
| 32 | Foster | 26 | 1:174 | 0.33% | 35 |
| 32 | Kirby | 26 | 1:174 | 1.25% | 227 |
| 35 | Bower | 25 | 1:181 | 1.15% | 217 |
| 35 | Garbutt | 25 | 1:181 | 1.98% | 393 |
| 37 | Baker | 24 | 1:189 | 0.81% | 139 |
| 37 | Swales | 24 | 1:189 | 1.84% | 382 |
| 37 | Sheffield | 24 | 1:189 | 14.12% | 2,316 |
| 40 | Pearson | 23 | 1:197 | 0.28% | 29 |
| 40 | Hart | 23 | 1:197 | 1.54% | 332 |
| 40 | Hudson | 23 | 1:197 | 0.32% | 44 |
| 40 | Dunning | 23 | 1:197 | 5.39% | 1,117 |
| 40 | Scales | 23 | 1:197 | 5.57% | 1,142 |
| 40 | Pinkney | 23 | 1:197 | 5.02% | 1,053 |
| 46 | Bell | 22 | 1:206 | 0.32% | 49 |
| 46 | Stephenson | 22 | 1:206 | 0.39% | 58 |
| 46 | Tate | 22 | 1:206 | 1.16% | 269 |
| 46 | Appleby | 22 | 1:206 | 2.56% | 573 |
| 50 | Barker | 21 | 1:216 | 0.20% | 19 |
| 50 | Sellars | 21 | 1:216 | 3.79% | 883 |
| 50 | Kitching | 21 | 1:216 | 2.24% | 527 |
| 53 | Atkinson | 20 | 1:227 | 0.21% | 21 |
| 53 | Fenwick | 20 | 1:227 | 3.30% | 810 |
| 53 | Brough | 20 | 1:227 | 5.67% | 1,302 |
| 53 | Snowdon | 20 | 1:227 | 4.60% | 1,102 |
| 53 | Pennock | 20 | 1:227 | 6.17% | 1,412 |
| 53 | Blakelock | 20 | 1:227 | 27.03% | 3,999 |
| 59 | Johnson | 19 | 1:239 | 0.14% | 12 |
| 59 | Mitchell | 19 | 1:239 | 0.21% | 23 |
| 59 | Harland | 19 | 1:239 | 1.52% | 402 |
| 62 | Morley | 18 | 1:252 | 0.95% | 267 |
| 62 | Wardell | 18 | 1:252 | 4.01% | 1,075 |
| 62 | Coultman | 18 | 1:252 | 85.71% | 9,004 |
| 65 | Hood | 17 | 1:267 | 2.41% | 688 |
| 65 | Heseltine | 17 | 1:267 | 3.82% | 1,082 |
| 65 | Heselton | 17 | 1:267 | 14.41% | 3,003 |
| 65 | Milestone | 17 | 1:267 | 23.61% | 4,080 |
| 69 | Brown | 16 | 1:284 | 0.09% | 7 |
| 69 | Harper | 16 | 1:284 | 0.78% | 231 |
| 69 | Malton | 16 | 1:284 | 9.88% | 2,391 |
| 72 | King | 15 | 1:302 | 0.41% | 106 |
| 72 | Berriman | 15 | 1:302 | 8.72% | 2,299 |
| 72 | Foxton | 15 | 1:302 | 4.36% | 1,327 |
| 72 | Sawdon | 15 | 1:302 | 5.36% | 1,597 |
| 72 | Hawson | 15 | 1:302 | 15.00% | 3,318 |
| 77 | Armstrong | 14 | 1:324 | 0.95% | 335 |
| 77 | Nicholson | 14 | 1:324 | 0.29% | 71 |
| 77 | Gill | 14 | 1:324 | 0.23% | 54 |
| 77 | Douglas | 14 | 1:324 | 1.71% | 594 |
| 77 | Eden | 14 | 1:324 | 4.03% | 1,317 |
| 77 | Scholefield | 14 | 1:324 | 2.29% | 801 |
| 77 | Coverdale | 14 | 1:324 | 3.04% | 1,048 |
| 77 | Goodwill | 14 | 1:324 | 3.73% | 1,242 |
| 85 | Hutchinson | 13 | 1:349 | 0.28% | 77 |
| 85 | Gaines | 13 | 1:349 | 5.58% | 1,844 |
| 85 | Salton | 13 | 1:349 | 15.29% | 3,678 |
| 85 | Loy | 13 | 1:349 | 11.30% | 3,037 |
| 85 | Kneeshaw | 13 | 1:349 | 5.24% | 1,753 |
| 90 | Robertson | 12 | 1:378 | 2.38% | 969 |
| 90 | Hunter | 12 | 1:378 | 0.45% | 157 |
| 90 | Small | 12 | 1:378 | 4.96% | 1,781 |
| 90 | Metcalf | 12 | 1:378 | 0.61% | 246 |
| 90 | Marlow | 12 | 1:378 | 6.59% | 2,214 |
| 90 | Dowson | 12 | 1:378 | 2.19% | 891 |
| 90 | Welburn | 12 | 1:378 | 2.39% | 973 |
| 90 | Parnaby | 12 | 1:378 | 6.56% | 2,203 |
| 90 | Holtby | 12 | 1:378 | 5.48% | 1,935 |
| 90 | Estill | 12 | 1:378 | 11.76% | 3,276 |
| 100 | Carr | 11 | 1:412 | 0.26% | 89 |
| 100 | Barber | 11 | 1:412 | 0.51% | 219 |
| 100 | Hardy | 11 | 1:412 | 0.34% | 129 |
| 100 | Spence | 11 | 1:412 | 0.54% | 235 |
| 100 | Cousins | 11 | 1:412 | 2.18% | 969 |
| 100 | Skelton | 11 | 1:412 | 0.88% | 405 |
| 100 | Linton | 11 | 1:412 | 3.57% | 1,474 |
| 100 | Medd | 11 | 1:412 | 2.71% | 1,164 |
| 100 | Nicolls | 11 | 1:412 | 52.38% | 9,004 |
| 100 | Burrowes | 11 | 1:412 | 84.62% | 12,159 |
| 110 | Wright | 10 | 1:454 | 0.08% | 14 |
| 110 | Turner | 10 | 1:454 | 0.10% | 20 |
| 110 | Lewis | 10 | 1:454 | 0.63% | 319 |
| 110 | Richardson | 10 | 1:454 | 0.12% | 30 |
| 110 | Milner | 10 | 1:454 | 0.27% | 107 |
| 110 | Lightfoot | 10 | 1:454 | 1.52% | 743 |
| 110 | Winn | 10 | 1:454 | 1.25% | 615 |
| 110 | Humble | 10 | 1:454 | 4.07% | 1,764 |
| 110 | Leng | 10 | 1:454 | 1.80% | 882 |
| 110 | Scarth | 10 | 1:454 | 2.92% | 1,337 |
| 110 | Boak | 10 | 1:454 | 22.73% | 5,597 |
| 110 | Nellis | 10 | 1:454 | 21.74% | 5,439 |
| 110 | Stockill | 10 | 1:454 | 8.40% | 2,986 |
| 110 | Brisby | 10 | 1:454 | 25.64% | 6,057 |
| 124 | Walker | 9 | 1:504 | 0.05% | 5 |
| 124 | Cooper | 9 | 1:504 | 0.12% | 42 |
| 124 | Burton | 9 | 1:504 | 0.27% | 120 |
| 124 | Bowman | 9 | 1:504 | 1.19% | 645 |
| 124 | Henry | 9 | 1:504 | 1.91% | 1,021 |
| 124 | Metcalfe | 9 | 1:504 | 0.23% | 97 |
| 124 | Cullen | 9 | 1:504 | 3.32% | 1,642 |
| 124 | Hardwick | 9 | 1:504 | 0.77% | 434 |
| 124 | Colley | 9 | 1:504 | 1.02% | 553 |
| 124 | Dove | 9 | 1:504 | 1.43% | 777 |
| 124 | Stockdale | 9 | 1:504 | 0.82% | 459 |
| 124 | Cass | 9 | 1:504 | 1.15% | 628 |
| 124 | Craggs | 9 | 1:504 | 2.65% | 1,345 |
| 124 | Boston | 9 | 1:504 | 5.88% | 2,499 |
| 124 | Dring | 9 | 1:504 | 6.52% | 2,710 |
| 124 | Dodsworth | 9 | 1:504 | 1.16% | 633 |
| 124 | Hugill | 9 | 1:504 | 1.67% | 910 |
| 124 | Monkman | 9 | 1:504 | 1.96% | 1,048 |
| 124 | Leaf | 9 | 1:504 | 3.07% | 1,536 |
| 143 | Scott | 8 | 1:567 | 0.11% | 47 |
| 143 | Dixon | 8 | 1:567 | 0.13% | 56 |
| 143 | Woods | 8 | 1:567 | 1.69% | 1,020 |
| 143 | Bolton | 8 | 1:567 | 0.43% | 279 |
| 143 | Collier | 8 | 1:567 | 0.94% | 580 |
| 143 | Mercer | 8 | 1:567 | 1.24% | 756 |
| 143 | Moon | 8 | 1:567 | 1.83% | 1,098 |
| 143 | Dodds | 8 | 1:567 | 1.65% | 1,004 |
| 143 | Stringer | 8 | 1:567 | 0.57% | 352 |
| 143 | Temple | 8 | 1:567 | 1.15% | 699 |
| 143 | Liddell | 8 | 1:567 | 7.41% | 3,162 |
| 143 | Frankland | 8 | 1:567 | 0.82% | 509 |
| 143 | Billingham | 8 | 1:567 | 14.55% | 4,820 |
| 143 | Hebden | 8 | 1:567 | 1.19% | 727 |
| 143 | Yearsley | 8 | 1:567 | 80.00% | 14,395 |
| 143 | Kilvington | 8 | 1:567 | 1.72% | 1,040 |
| 143 | Stainsby | 8 | 1:567 | 4.97% | 2,407 |
| 143 | Smailes | 8 | 1:567 | 6.40% | 2,891 |
| 143 | Haxby | 8 | 1:567 | 3.49% | 1,874 |
| 143 | Huby | 8 | 1:567 | 3.49% | 1,874 |
| 143 | Just | 8 | 1:567 | 19.51% | 5,875 |
| 143 | Ethell | 8 | 1:567 | 12.90% | 4,467 |
| 143 | Smaile | 8 | 1:567 | 100.00% | 16,907 |
| 143 | Broug | 8 | 1:567 | 100.00% | 16,907 |
| 143 | Plac | 8 | 1:567 | 100.00% | 16,907 |
| 168 | Hall | 7 | 1:648 | 0.06% | 17 |
| 168 | Cook | 7 | 1:648 | 0.16% | 86 |
| 168 | Dawson | 7 | 1:648 | 0.10% | 46 |
| 168 | Ford | 7 | 1:648 | 0.47% | 331 |
| 168 | Lawson | 7 | 1:648 | 0.27% | 165 |
| 168 | Carpenter | 7 | 1:648 | 3.29% | 1,980 |
| 168 | Amos | 7 | 1:648 | 4.27% | 2,362 |
| 168 | Clare | 7 | 1:648 | 3.87% | 2,222 |
| 168 | Gamble | 7 | 1:648 | 0.99% | 688 |
| 168 | Collinson | 7 | 1:648 | 0.57% | 409 |
| 168 | Swann | 7 | 1:648 | 1.72% | 1,159 |
| 168 | Jaques | 7 | 1:648 | 1.06% | 742 |
| 168 | Waterworth | 7 | 1:648 | 1.38% | 962 |
| 168 | Milson | 7 | 1:648 | 4.83% | 2,603 |
| 168 | Birdsall | 7 | 1:648 | 1.54% | 1,060 |
| 168 | Rex | 7 | 1:648 | 6.73% | 3,241 |
| 168 | Myres | 7 | 1:648 | 5.34% | 2,811 |
| 168 | Howling | 7 | 1:648 | 25.93% | 7,669 |
| 168 | Swalwell | 7 | 1:648 | 10.45% | 4,252 |
| 168 | Easterby | 7 | 1:648 | 7.37% | 3,426 |
| 168 | Masheder | 7 | 1:648 | 100.00% | 18,720 |
| 168 | Tessyman | 7 | 1:648 | 31.82% | 8,765 |
| 168 | Hepples | 7 | 1:648 | 23.33% | 7,151 |
| 168 | Marfitt | 7 | 1:648 | 38.89% | 9,914 |
| 168 | Finkill | 7 | 1:648 | 50.00% | 11,617 |
| 168 | Radsdale | 7 | 1:648 | 100.00% | 18,720 |
| 194 | Williams | 6 | 1:756 | 0.16% | 98 |
| 194 | Green | 6 | 1:756 | 0.07% | 26 |
| 194 | Holmes | 6 | 1:756 | 0.07% | 25 |
| 194 | Barnes | 6 | 1:756 | 0.26% | 202 |
| 194 | Elliott | 6 | 1:756 | 0.24% | 173 |
| 194 | Gregory | 6 | 1:756 | 0.35% | 297 |
| 194 | Middleton | 6 | 1:756 | 0.24% | 169 |
| 194 | Park | 6 | 1:756 | 0.84% | 676 |
| 194 | Benson | 6 | 1:756 | 0.30% | 244 |
| 194 | Hubbard | 6 | 1:756 | 2.60% | 1,861 |
| 194 | Richmond | 6 | 1:756 | 0.51% | 431 |
| 194 | Waite | 6 | 1:756 | 0.35% | 290 |
| 194 | Craven | 6 | 1:756 | 0.18% | 117 |
| 194 | Coulson | 6 | 1:756 | 0.61% | 504 |
| 194 | Hind | 6 | 1:756 | 1.25% | 1,010 |
| 194 | Sellers | 6 | 1:756 | 0.69% | 561 |
| 194 | Boddy | 6 | 1:756 | 1.08% | 885 |
| 194 | Bartram | 6 | 1:756 | 3.02% | 2,084 |
| 194 | Piercy | 6 | 1:756 | 2.34% | 1,700 |
| 194 | Ruddock | 6 | 1:756 | 2.50% | 1,795 |
| 194 | Keast | 6 | 1:756 | 40.00% | 11,145 |
| 194 | Ruston | 6 | 1:756 | 2.21% | 1,642 |
| 194 | Botham | 6 | 1:756 | 3.39% | 2,255 |
| 194 | Farmery | 6 | 1:756 | 2.60% | 1,861 |
| 194 | Evers | 6 | 1:756 | 3.28% | 2,203 |
| 194 | Hoggard | 6 | 1:756 | 2.78% | 1,961 |
| 194 | Caisley | 6 | 1:756 | 31.58% | 9,581 |
| 194 | Hartnoll | 6 | 1:756 | 85.71% | 18,720 |
| 194 | Colly | 6 | 1:756 | 15.79% | 6,158 |
| 194 | Lumbard | 6 | 1:756 | 20.00% | 7,151 |
| 194 | Dursley | 6 | 1:756 | 46.15% | 12,159 |
| 194 | Nesfield | 6 | 1:756 | 5.83% | 3,257 |
| 194 | Marflitt | 6 | 1:756 | 9.38% | 4,379 |
| 194 | Nawton | 6 | 1:756 | 14.29% | 5,769 |
| 194 | Lownsborough | 6 | 1:756 | 18.75% | 6,859 |
| 194 | Masshedar | 6 | 1:756 | 66.67% | 15,484 |
| 194 | Gascogne | 6 | 1:756 | 100.00% | 21,121 |
| 194 | Tause | 6 | 1:756 | 46.15% | 12,159 |
| 194 | Whyvill | 6 | 1:756 | 85.71% | 18,720 |