Pickles Family

PICKLES FAMILY.
History of the surname Pickles.
This interesting name is of early medieval English origin. It is topographical for someone who lived by a small field or paddock. The name derives from the Middle English word “pightel”, meaning a small enclosure.
Topographical names were among the earliest group of surnames to be created in England and other countries in Europe, as they became necessary, since both natural and man-made features in the landscape provided instant and easily recognisable identifying names for the inhabitants of the small communities of the Middle Ages.
The modern surname can be found as Pickles, Pickless, Pickle and Pighills, and is recorded mainly in Yorkshire. Early examples of the name recording include the marriage of Thomas Pickles and Sarah Tennard at Bingley, in Yorkshire, on January 28th 1649. whilst Ronald Pickles, a famine emigrant, sailed from Liverpool aboard the ship “New World” bound for New York on June 7th 1847.
The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Richard de Righkeleys. This was dated 1379, in the Poll Tax Returns of Yorkshire. during the reign of King Richard 11nd, known as “Richard of Bordeaux”, 1377 – 1399.
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The following information relevant to the Pickles families from the Grewelthorpe area has been taken from Parish Registers, Census & school records, Memorials in churchyard etc.
Last updated Feb 2010.
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AMELIA ANN PICKLES. Born 11.3.1901 Grewelthorpe. Dau of Joseph & Lucy. Started G/T school 23.4.1906.
CHARLES PICKLES. Born C. 1805 Hampsthwaite. Buried 26.4.1893. Gamekeeper & Workman for Lord Ripon. Husband of Esther of Grewelthorpe.
CHARLES PICKLES. Born C. 1840 Grewelthorpe. Died 1914. Son of Charles & Esther. Married Matilda Baul. in 1872. Moved to Southport in 1891. Farm Manager.
CHARLES H. PICKLES. Born 10.9.1899 Grewelthorpe. Son of Joseph & Lucy. Lived Chapel Row, Grewelthorpe. Started Grewelthorpe school 30.4.1904.
EASTER [ESTHER] PICKLES. Born C. 1812. Buried 16.3.1892. Wife of Charles.
EASTER ELIZABETH PICKLES. Born 20.5.1896. Manchester. Dau of Joseph & Lucy. Started Grewelthorpe school 7.5.1900.
ELIZA PICKLES. Born C. 1851 Ripon. Dau of Robert [Farmer] & Hannah.
ELIZABETH PICKLES. Born C. 1843 Grewelthorpe. Dau of Charles & Esther.
ELIZABETH PICKLES. Bap. 5.11.1871. Dau of Esther. Grand dau of Charles & Esther. Started Grewelthorpe school 22.10.1877.Left 1884.
ELIZABETH IRENE PICKLES. Only Dau. of J.Pickles of Crosshills Grewelthorpe. Married Cyril J. Clarkson. of Camp Farm, Grewelthorpe in October 1949. Had a brother J.R.Pickles. Elizabeth served 4yrs in the land army and was a confectioner in Masham. Report of wedding in Ripon Gazette 13.10.1949.
ESTHER PICKLES. Bap. 20.4.1856 Kirkby Malzeard. Dau of Charles & Esther of Grewelthorpe. Married George Park Kirkby. in 1877 from Bishop Thornton. George died 1909 in Durham.
ESTHER JANE PICKLES. Born C. 1860 Crakehall. Dau of Jonathan [Blacksmith] & Mary Ann.
ETHEL MAY PICKLES. Born 11.9.1905. Dau of Joseph & Lucy. Started school 1.4.1913. Left 1915.
FLORENCE PICKLES. Bap. 10.9.1916 Dallowgill. Dau of Leonard Shaw & Maggie of Skelding, Grantley.
FREDERICK PICKLES. Born C. 1877 Haworth. Head Teacher at Grewelthorpe school from 18.2.1901 to approx. 1914/15. Started at £90 per annum.
GEORGE PICKLES. Bap.31.10.1852 Kirkby Malzeard. Son of Charles & Esther of Grewethorpe. Farm servant for James Beckwith Spring Hall Grewelthorpe in 1871.
HANNAH PICKLES. Wife of Robert the Farmer.
HILDA MAY PICKLES. Born 8.9.1903. Dau of Joseph & Lucy. Started G/T school 3.4.1911.
JANE PICKLES. Bap.19.9.1847 Grewelthorpe. Dau of Charles & Esther. Possibly married John Sly. [b.1849].
JANE PICKLES. Born C. 1853 Ripon. Dau of Robert [Farmer] & Hannah.
JAMES PICKLES. Born C.1838 Sharow. Son of Robert [Farmer] & Hannah. Lived Glen Cottage. Married MARY GRAHAM. of Grewelthorpe on 31.2.1863 at Wesleyan Chapel Ripon.
JOHN ROBERT PICKLES. Born C.1847 Markington. Son of Robert {Farmer} & Hannah.
JONATHAN PICKLES. Born C. 1838. Grewelthorpe. Died 2.2.1871. Buried 5.2.1871. M.I.Grewelthorpe. Blacksmith. Son of Charles & Esther. Husband of Mary Ann.
JONATHAN PICKLES. Born C. 1856 Ripon. Son of Robert [Farmer] & Hannah.
JONATHAN PICKLES. Bap. 6.6.1869. Son of Jonathan [Blacksmith] & Mary Ann. Started Grewelthorpe school 13.11.1876. Left in 1881.
JOSEPH PICKLES. Bap. 10.6.1860 Grewelthorpe. Died 20.1.1932. M.I. Grewelthorpe. Served in WW1. Son of Charles[Gamewatcher] & Esther.
JOSEPH PICKLES. Born 6.11.1907. Bap.8.12.1907. Son of Joseph & Lucy. Started school 1.4.1914.
LUCY PICKLES. Born C. 1873 Dallowgill. Died 1.7.1914.M.I. [Grewelthorpe churchyard] Wife of Joseph.
MARY PICKLES Nee GRAHAM. Wife of James of Glen Cottage. Married 31.2.1863 Ripon.
MARY ANN PICKLES. Born C.1839 Sharow. Dau of Robert {Farmer] & Hannah. . Wife of Jonathan the Blacksmith
MARY ELLEN PICKLES. Born C. 1863 Leeds. Dau of Jonathan [Blacksmith] & Mary Ann.
MARY PICKLES. Born C. 1845 Grewelthorpe. Dau of Charles & Esther. Married [1] ? Aveyard. She was widowed by 6.2.1871 when she married George Thirkill. [b.1841] see Thirkill page.
MARY JANE PICKLES. Born 12.3.1898. Bap. 10.5.1898. Dau of Joseph & Lucy. Started G/T school 7.4.1902 left 1906. In July 1906 she got 6 months leave of absence from school because of her delicate health. A leaning towards consumption. In Sept. 1906 she returned to school much better.
MATILDA PICKLES [nee Baul]. Born 1854 Died 1909.Dau of John Baul & Mary Jane Thackray. Wife of Charles Pickles. Married in 1872
POLLY PICKLES. Born 1872 Grewelthorpe. Bap 1.12.1872 Kirkby Malzeard. Dau of Charles & Matilda Baul. Married David Bruce. jeweller. Living Southport in 1901.
ROBERT PICKLES. Born C.1811 Grewelthorpe. Farmer. Husband of Hannah of Ripon.
ROBERT PICKLES. Born C. 1851. Son of Charles & Esther.
ROBERT PICKLES. Born C. 1886 Laverton. Died Feb. 1940. Lived at The Laurels Laverton all his life. Church and PCC member.
WIDOW PICKLES. Married George Thirkill. his second wife. In mid 1800’s.

Researched by Barbara Bradley. Last update July 2008.

Below. Chapel Row, Grewelthorpe. Where Joseph & Lucy Pickles lived in late 1890’s.

Jonathan Pickles. Blacksmith died 1871. Grave in Grewelthorpe Churchyard.