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Pickering Whaddon, help please
« on: Thursday 22 January 09 09:55 UTC (UK) »
I am trying to bottom out a family tale. My GM b1873-d1940 told the story that my mother was named after a Margaret Pickering, an ancestor and daughter of a Peer who eloped with a manservant and was cut off from the family. No idea of the date but guessing about 1750s. There was paperwork to support all this but it  got lost when my GM died. The only reference to Peer Pickerings I can find is Whaddon. Can any one tell me more? Thanks Pete
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Mason ( Leics, Lincs)  Packer( Berks, Middx) Bearne Vining
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Re: Pickering Whaddon, help please
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 27 January 09 19:27 UTC (UK) »
Half the aristocracy seem to have had daughters who ran off with the groom/gardener/manservant or someone distinctly beneath them, and were thereafter ostracised, or at least so far as family tales go.

If she was an ancestor I would just go back generation by generation and possibly you may then come across a Pickering. It will then be interesting to see if she was the daughter of a peer

The online Oxford DNB has a biography of Sir Gilbert Pickering, first baronet, of Titchmarsh Northants, 1611-68

'Parishes: Whaddon', A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 8 (1982), pp. 142-151. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=66750
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The estate was, however, sold to Sir Henry Pickering (cr. bt. 1661), a colonel in the New Model Army and M.P. for Cambridgeshire, who died in 1668, leaving a son, also Henry, a minor. The younger Sir Henry also sat for the county; c. 1693 he went to Barbados, dying there in 1705 with no male issue. His second wife, Grace, sold Whaddon in 1716 to Edward Harley, earl of Oxford, with whose Wimpole estate it thereafter descended.

David
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Re: Pickering Whaddon, help please
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday 28 January 09 08:53 UTC (UK) »
Thanks David, I have tried going back but have hit walls on both sides at about 1820. Not knowing a date or location doesn't help either. My mother always thought it was Picering Yorks but that doesn't fit with the title or family name. Pete
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