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