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The Pickingill Family Life and Death in an Essex England Laborer Family The Pickingill Family Life and Death in an Essex England Laborer Family A genealogy and history of the Pickingill family in the 18th to 20th centuries William Wallworth The Exile's Publications ~ July 13, 2018 ~ W-003 partial edition C Contents Page 3 Ramblings (Introductory and comments) Part I -- The family history of Thomas Pickingill and his descendants Page 8 1st generation Page 9 Thomas Pickingill the gravedigger - Martha Chilver 2nd generation Page 47 Sarah Pickingill - Robert Bowell the laborer 59 Samuel Pickingill the blacksmith - Mary Ellison 63 Thomas Pickingill of the Royal Navy - Mary Ann Linzey - Rachel Fackerell 85 Mary Pickingill - Job Taylor - Richard Bowton the blacksmith 94 Martha Pickingill - James Scott the butcher 3rd generation Page 106 James Pickman - Elizabeth ---?--- 114 Catherine Pickingill - John Cuthill - William Watkins 118 Mary Pickingill - John Hughes 124 Elizabeth Martha Pickingill - John Hill 129 Mary Scott - John Hart 137 Sarah Ann Scott - James George Rice Allerton 153 Martha Scott 156 Elizabeth Scott - Golden Allen Part II -- The family history of Charles Pickingill and his descendants Page 172 1st generation Page 173 Charles Pickingill the laborer and blacksmith - Hannah Cudmore 1 2nd generation Page 188 George Pickingill (1816-1909), the man described as a Witch and/or a Cunning man of Canewdon, Essex, England - he married Sarah Ann Bateman Page 212 Mary Anne Pickingill - James Wells 224 Peter Pickingill - Jane Allen 234 Martha Pickingill - Edward Miller - William Smith 258 Catherine Pickingill - Gieorge Cock Part III -- Allied family histories and other articles of interest Page 290 Page 291 The Wells family, 3 generations. 304 Jane Allen and her five husbands. Researched and compiled by William Wallworth First worked on in December 18, 2008 Previous update - March 7, 2016 Monday 8:25 PM Previous update - December 24, 2016 Saturday 8:08 PM This version dated - July 13, 2018 Friday the 13th, 9:35 PM W-003 partial edition C © All rights reserved 2 Ramblings In the year 2008, while looking for information on the internet for some other topic of the "other world", I came across a website that had articles about people in the occult world. Then my eyes came to the name and picture of GEORGE PICKINGILL and I stared at it for a while. I was intrigued by him already. Something about him drawn me in to know more about him. Only my friends that are also into the spiritual or occult world would know the feeling of knowing that a person is special or different from the mundane. And as a genealogist, I was surprised that there was only a few stuff written about his background. Since George Pickingill was living in the 19th century to the early 20th century, there would be more records of him to check. So it became my quest to find out more about his family. I then (also in 2008) was checking for more about George Pickingill on the internet. There were some references pointing to a online forum. I went there and it was like I came into the middle of a big debate on George Pickingill. On one side was Bill Liddell of the Pickingill group in Australia and a person named Scott among others. Then there was the other side, the naysayers with the total support of the moderators of the forum. Sometimes it seems that they were very rude. [Looking back (from 2018) it was like I saw early on the way young people are starting to don't know how to have a civil debate, they want to shut you down or chase you off and it has spread] Later, Jeremy Dixon also of Australia, came onto the forum and they weren't friendly with him either. And soon I was also one that they didn't like because I was always posting new stuff about George Pickingill and about others like James Murrell and Lillian May Garner. I always liked Bill Liddell's way of being friendly and calm and presenting his cases in an informative way. I respected him for that. And I did not like the manners of the naysayers and the forum moderators. It was like the forum had a great moderating failure and it drove away many people. They did went down in number of people visiting it. I have left that forum and came to another forum (by 2011?) where Bill Liddell, Scott, and Jeremy came to before I did. There I got to know some very intelligent people that were knowledgeable in witchcraft and magical history and practice, and more so in the field of traditional witchcraft. They also were interested in my research works. 3 The Pickingill family was one of the most difficult genealogical research I have done. Many many brick walls to overcome along the way. Been working on and off since 2008. Mainly doing surveys to see if new records came online to check every few months. Spent lots of time searching images of parish registers for certain time period hoping to catch where the Pickingill family may have lived before Canewdon. Then having some breakthroughs on finding out what happened to some of the members of the family. And then also took a lot of time researching other projects such as James Murrell, the Cunning man of Hadleigh, Lillian May Garner, Monica English, Ruth Marshman, and so on . Sometimes expanding the search to the other members of the family brings more supporting evidence to the main person, in this case George Pickingill. It is said that he was a witch and/or a cunning man. In the wider search, I found that other family members were a butcher, and blacksmiths and some that were in the Freemasons. Which give more support that George Pickingill may had ways of coming in contact with people that may have been in the Horseman's Word or the Society of the Horsemen, etc. The butcher connection was that there was a legend mentioning that one of the witches of Canewdon was the butcher's wife. That would be the wife of James Scott who was the butcher of Canewdon and that would be Martha Pickingill. This current work covers in detail the 1st to 3rd generation of the family. The children of the 3rd generation's names are listed but will be covered in detail in the next revision. As I collect info for the 4th and 5th generation, I see "in the distant horizon" more than several descendants that I now know are part of this family. They are family researchers that have their family trees on Ancestry.com. But they are stuck on their great- grandparents for example and haven't gone far back enough to pick up on the Pickingill family. However, from my research, I already proven that they are descendants. Soon they may find my PDF history on the Pickingill family online and make the connection. But I need to eventually get the 4th and 5th generation added to aid even more so the descendants. It is like I been breaking all the brick walls coming down from Thomas Pickingill of the 1st generation down to the 3rd and eventually the 4th and 5th generations, while the descendants are advancing going back in time from their immediate ancestors. Then there will be more people in the future that will be witches and magicians and be able to claim descendancy from the Pickingill family. Which is the lasting goal of this work. Even today there is still major brick walls to overcome. It is still not known where Thomas Pickingill and his wife Martha Chilver of the 1st generation came from before 4 they came to Canewdon, Essex. It would be interesting to know more about their roots, perhaps they may have some French Huguenots among them. Still haven't found out what happened to George Pickingill's daughter, Mary Ann, who married William Wood. They disappeared after the 1891 census, they could of left England? Got to solve this one. I have the feeling there is some interesting story there. One of George Pickingill's direct descendant, a woman who married just before World War I started and her husband was killed in action in France, they had a child. She married again and then they went to Canada in the 1920's. Need to get the 4th and 5th generation done to document them in the history. By just this first few pages, by now you probably already know that my writing is not the best and that I am an easy target for the grammar Nazis. I was about to have a friend to write the history correctly for me, but then later I felt that I was erasing the way I am and so for the research works I will leave it that way. Perhaps in the future if the material is needed to be written in a flowing book way without grammar errors, I will have someone do it. But for now my main goal is to get this work in book form. All the old works are on scattered about on several web pages. Most of my later works on other witches are done in PDF format, which I find is more professional looking. I'm writing this "in progress book" in PDF format so that some of my work will be out there. I'm afraid to wait till the whole book is finish and before finishing it, I suddenly keel over on the keyboard and have gone to the other side. Therefore the whole thing is lost as I don't have family members that would be interested in this stuff.
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