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Contemporary Notables Historic Events Related Stories Citations

Pick History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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Early Origins of the Pick family

The surname Pick was first found in Kent where they held a family seat in the 13th century.

The Pixley variant hails from Pixley, Herefordshire 1 where Hugo de Pikesle was recorded in 1242. 2

Early History of the Pick family

This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Pick research. Another 142 words (10 lines of text) covering the years 1106, 1432, 1455, 1487, 1510, 1600, 1666, 1684 and 1709 are included under the topic Early Pick History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.

Pick Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Pix, Picks, Pixt, Piex, Piext, Pex, Pext, Pixe and others.

Early Notables of the Pick family

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Pick Ranking

In the United States, the name Pick is the 12,751^st most popular surname with an estimated 2,487 people with that name. 3

Pick migration to the United States +

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Pick Settlers in United States in the 19th Century

Johann Jakob Pick, who landed in North America in 1843 4
Wolfgang Pick, aged 24, who arrived in New Orleans, La in 1845 4
Theodor Pick, who landed in New York, NY in 1850 4
Wilhelmine Pick, who arrived in New York, NY in 1850 4
Maria Pick, who landed in New York, NY in 1850 4
... (More are available in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.)

Pick migration to Canada +

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Pick Settlers in Canada in the 18th Century

Richard Pick, who landed in Nova Scotia in 1774

Pick migration to Australia +

Emigration to Australia followed the First Fleets of convicts, tradespeople and early settlers. Early immigrants include:

Pick Settlers in Australia in the 19th Century

Mr. Richard Pick, (b. 1822), aged 19, Cornish shepherd, from St. Germans, Cornwall, UK travelling aboard the ship "Pearl" arriving in New South Wales, Australia on 1841 5
Mr. William Pick, British Convict who was convicted in Leicester, Leicestershire, England for life, transported aboard the "Eden" on 12th March 1842, arriving in Tasmania (Van Diemen's Island) 6
Maria Pick, aged 25, a servant, who arrived in South Australia in 1855 aboard the ship "Victoria Regia"

Contemporary Notables of the name Pick (post 1700) +

Lieutenant-General Lewis Andrew Pick (1890-1956), American Chief of Engineers, Department of the Army (1949-1953) 7
Muriel Hirsh Pick, American Republican politician, Delegate to Republican National Convention from Florida, 1960
Gracia Molina Pick, American Democratic Party politician, Delegate to Democratic National Convention from California, 1996 (alternate), 2004
Frank Pick (1878-1941), English administrator
Hella Henrietta Pick CBE (1929-2024), Austrian-born British journalist
Lewis A. Pick (1890-1956), United States Army Chief of Engineers
Thomas Pickering Pick (1841-1919), British surgeon and author
Ludwig Pick (1868-1944), German pathologist, eponym of Niemann-Pick disease
Georg Alexander Pick (1859-1942), Austrian mathematician
Albert Pick (b. 1922), German numismatist

Historic Events for the Pick family +

SS Caribou

Mr. James Pick (b. 1887), Newfoundland crew member from St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador was travelling aboard the railway ferry "SS Caribou" when it was struck by a German submarine torpedo on 14th October 1942, the most significant sinking in Canadian waters at that time, he died in the sinking
Mr. George Pick, Newfoundland passenger from Channel-Port aux Basques, Newfoundland and Labrador was travelling aboard the railway ferry "SS Caribou" when it was struck by a German submarine torpedo on 14th October 1942, the most significant sinking in Canadian waters at that time, he died in the sinking

Citations +

Barber, Henry, British Family Names London: Elliot Stock, 62 Paternoster Row, 1894. Print.
Reaney, P.H and R.M. Wilson, A Dictionary of English Surnames. London: Routledge, 1991. Print. (ISBN 0-415-05737-X)
"What are the 5,000 Most Common Last Names in the U.S.?". NameCensus.com, https://namecensus.com/last-names/
Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)
Cornwall Online Parish Clerks. (Retrieved 3rd May 2018). Retrieved from http://www.opc-cornwall.org/Resc/pdfs/emigration_bounty_nsw.pdf
Convict Records Voyages to Australia (Retrieved 15th December 2021). Retrieved from https://convictrecords.com.au/ships/eden
Generals of World War II. (Retrieved 2014, March 26) Lewis Pick. Retrieved from http://generals.dk/general/Pick/Lewis_Andrew/USA.html