Researching Percival Pickering
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 10805 people with the Pickering surname? In that year Pickering was ranked number 381 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Percival means "Piercing the Valley" and is of French origin.
Records of Percival Pickering on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Percival Pickering and the Pickering Genealogy
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Pickering Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources below you will be able to find a birth record and, from that, a birth certificate can be ordered which lists the names of the mother and father, taking you back another generation in your tree. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Pickering family tree.
Look at Parish Records for Percival Pickering at Find My Past.
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| Did you know that there are currently 13324 people with the Pickering surname in the UK? Pickering is now ranked number 431 for popularity in the UK. |
Pickering Family History Databases
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Miscellaneous Pickering Databases
Search the Ellis Island Database for information on Percival Pickering. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called Percival Pickering
Percival Spencer Umfreville Pickering
Percival Spencer Umfreville (Spencer) Pickering (6 March 1858 – 5 December 1920) was a British chemist and horticulturist.
Born to Anne Maria Spencer-Stanhope and her husband Percival Pickering, Pickering grew up in a wealthy family, and was able to start a career in science by building his own laboratory in his private house. In 1881, he took up a position as lecturer at Bedford College, where he stayed until 1887. After losing an eye in a serious accident in his lab, his health waned and he moved to the countryside to the village of Harpenden. Among the residents of the village were already four fellows of the Royal Society, and Pickering was to become the fifth by 1890.
From 1894 on, he was director of the Woburn Experimental Fruit Farm, a private establishment by Pickering and the Duke of Bedford, where he worked to improve horticultural techniques.
In 1907, he discovered the phenomenon that emulsions can be stabilised by small particles instead of emulsifiers, nowadays referred to as Pickering stabilization, although the effect was already recognized by Walter Ramsden in 1903.
Source: Percival Spencer Umfreville Pickering, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Pickering
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