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2nd Generation
George Pickingill ( 1816 – 1909 )
2. GEORGE PICKINGILL was born in Hockley, Essex and was christened May 26, 1816 at the church in Hockley.
The entry from the Hockley parish register:
Baptisms 1816 Page No. 12. No. 92.
When Baptized. – Child’s Christian Name. – Parents Names, Christian & Surname – Abode. – Profession. – By whom the ceremony was performed.
1816 May 26th / George Son of / Charles & Hannah / Pickingill / Hockley / Labouer / J. Smith Curate
Father: Charles Pickingill (No.1)
Mother: Susannah Cudmore (also known as Hannah)
Concerning George Pickingill’s age and the spelling of his last name, it varies widely as you can see from the censuses below and the last one from his burial record
1851 – age 26 – born ca. 1825 George Pickengill
1861 – age 46 – born ca. 1815 George Pickengale
1871 – age 55 – born ca. 1816 George Pitengale
1881 – age 60 – born ca. 1821 George Pickingale
1891 – age 80 – born ca. 1811 George Pickingill
1901 – age 95 – born ca. 1806 George Pickengal
1909 - age 103 - born ca. 1806 George Pettingale
One theory of why the age inflated in later years was to make it easier to collect parish assistance from the church in his old age.
Since most of the articles concerning George uses his name with the spelling of PICKINGILL. We will use that spelling except when we discuss the actual records below. In the records, it appears that the spelling of Pickingale is used many times.
George Pickingill lived with his parents in Hockley from the time of his birth in 1816 until the 1830’s.
It is not known where George was at the time of the 1841 census.
In 1851, George Pickengill was a Lodger in in the household of David Chinens in Little Wakering, Essex. George was a Farm Laborer.
From the 1851 Census of Little Wakering, we find the following:
Name - Relationship – Married or Single – Age – Sex – Profession – Birthplace
New England Island Farm House
David
Chinens
Head Mar 57 M Farmers
Baliff Esx
Tolesbury
Judah Ditto
Wife Mar 58 F
Baliffs Wife
Esx Sutton
James Liliy
Lodger U 49 M
Farm Labr Do
Engrave
Robert Ward Do
U 46 M
Do
Do Gt.
Stainbridge
William Page Do
U 38 M Do
Do Prittlewell
William Curley Do
U
26 M
Do
Do Barling
William Truss
Do U 22 M
Do
Do Barling
George Pickengill Do U
26 M
Do
Do Hockley
Jerimiah Harrington Do U 20 M
Do
Do St
Plasnbridge
William Wood
Do
U 13 M Farmers Boy
Do N Shoebury
George Pickingill married SARAH ANN BATEMAN on May 19, 1856 at Saint George, Gravesend, Kent, England.
From the marriage certificate, we have the following information:
Registration District: Gravesend
and Milton
1856. Marriage solemnized at the Parish Church
in the Parish of Gravesend in the County of Kent
No. 473
When Married.: 19th May 1856
Name and Surname:
George Pickingill
Sarah Ann Bateman
Age:
Full
Full
Condition:
Bachelor
Spinster
Rank or Profession:
Labourer
Residence at the time of Marriage.: Gravesend
Gravesend
Father’s Name and Surname.:
Charles
Pickingill Joseph
Bateman
Rank or Profession of Father.:
Blacksmith
Labourer
Married in the Parish Church according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Established Church after Banns by me, Robt. Joynes Rector
This Marriage was solemnized between us,
The
X of George Pickingill
The X of Sarah Ann Bateman
In the Presence of us,
Catharine Cocks Martha
Smith
Catherine Cocks and Martha Smith who were present at the marriage, were George Pickingill’s sisters. Catherine who married George Cocks and Martha who married William Smith.
According to the marriage certificate, George Pickingill and Sarah Ann Bateman were living in Gravesend, Kent.
Sarah Ann Bateman was born ca. 1831 in Tillingham, Essex and was a daughter of Joseph Bateman and his wife Mary Ann Aggus. (See the Bateman family)
Throughout her married life, Sarah Ann Pickingill is recorded as “Mary Ann Pickingill” and then in her burial record in Canewdon, she was “Sarah Ann Pittengale”.
As with George Pickingill, Sarah Ann’s age varies depending on which census you look at. According to the age in the censuses, it would put her birth at 1827, 1828, or 1831. And then looking at her age in the burial record, she would be born 1824!
But the ca. 1831 birth is probably the right one.
In 1858, base on the birth of George and Mary’s daughter, Martha Ann, the Pickingill family were living in Hawkwell, Essex.
Between 1858 and 1861, the Pickingill family moved from Hawkwell to Eastwood, Essex.
In 1861, George and Mary Pickengale were living in Eastwood, Essex. George was an Agricultural Laborer.
From the 1861 Census of Eastwood, we find the following:
Name - Relationship – Married or Single – Age – Sex – Profession – Birthplace
Tinkers Lane
George Pickengale Head Mar 46
M
Ag Lab
Essex
Hockley
Mary A do
Wife Mar 33
F
do Wife
do Tillingham
Martha A do Daur
2 F
do Hawkwell
Between 1864 and 1868, base on the birth locations of George and Mary Pickingill’s children, the family moved from Eastwood to Canewdon, Essex. Daughter Mary was born in Eastwood in 1864 and son George was born in Canewdon in 1868.
In 1871, George and Mary Ann Pitengale were living in Canewdon, Essex. George was an Agricultural Laborer.
From the 1871 Census of Canewdon, we find the following:
Name - Relationship – Married or Single – Age – Sex – Profession – Birthplace
George
Pitengale Head Mar 55 M
Ag. Lab Essex
Hockley
Mary Ann do Wife Mar 44 F
Essex Tillingham
Martha do Daur
12 F
Scholar
Essex Hatfield
Charles F. do Son 9
M
Scholar Essex
Eastwood
Mary A. do Daur 7
F
Scholar Essex Eastwood
George do Son 3
M
Essex Canewdon
In 1881, George and Mary Pickingale were living in Canewdon, Essex. George was a Laborer.
From the 1881 Census of Canewdon, we find the following:
Name - Relationship – Married or Single – Age – Sex – Profession – Birthplace
Cottage
George Pickingale Head
Mar 60
M Laborer
Hockley Essex
Mary A Pickingale Wife Mar 50
F
Tillingham Do
Mary A Pickingale Daut
17 F
Eastwood Do
George Pickingale Son
13
M
Scholar Canewdon Do
Sarah Ann Pittingale died at the age of 63 years on September 13, 1887 in Canewdon, Essex.
The following is from the death certificate:
Registration District: Rochford
1887 Death in the Sub-district of Rochford in the County of Essex
No. 276
When and where died:
Thirteenth September 1887 Canewdon R. S. D.
Name and surname:
Sarah Ann Pittingale
Sex:
Female
Age:
63 Years
Occupation:
wife
of George Pittingale Farm Laborer
Cause of death:
Disease of Liver Dropsy Certified by Thos.. King M.D.
Signature, description and residence of informant:
M.
A. Pittingale Daughter Present at the Death Canewdon
When registered:
Thirteenth September 1887
Signature of registrar:
Thomas
King Registrar
The informant was her daughter Mary Ann Pittingale. Which could suggest that George Pickingill may have not been home at the time of her death.
Then Sarah Ann Pittengale was buried September 17, 1887 at the church at Canewdon, Essex.
The following is the burial entry from the Canewdon parish register:
Burials 1887 - Page 39 No. 309
Name. – Abode. – When Buried. – Age. – By whom the ceremony was performed.
Sarah Ann Pittengale / Canewdon / Sep 17 / 63 / T. A. Maning
According to the register, she was 63 years old.
In 1891, George Pickingill, a widower, was living in Canewdon, Essex and his married daughter, Mary Ann Wood, and granddaughter, Emily Wood, were with him. George was an employed Agricultural Labourer.
From the 1891 Census of Canewdon, we find the following:
Name - Relationship – Married or Single – Age – Sex – Profession – Birthplace
Canewdon 4 - Number of rooms occupied if less than 5
George Pickingill Head Widower 80 M Agricultural Labourer Employed
Essex Hockly
Mary ann Wood Dau M
27 F
Essex Eastwood
Emily Wood
Grandaughter 1 F
Essex Canewdon
In 1899 there was some sale of properties in Canewdon in which George Pittingale was one of the tenants. From the advertisements, we find the following:
“Valuable Freehold cottage Properties situate at Canewdon…. Which will be sold by Auction by Mr. T. W. Offin at the “Old Ship” Hotel Rochford, on Thursday, July 27th, 1899, precisely at 4 o’clock.
Particulars.
Lot 1. A Timber Built and Tiled Range of Six Freehold Cottages. Abutting on the High Street, Canewdon, having back Gardens, and in the occupation of
Rent Per Annum.
Edward Lockwood A
monthly Tenant
3-18-0
George Pittingale
ditto
3-5-0
Mrs. Jobson
Weekly ditto
2-12-0
Robert Warner
Quarterly ditto
3-5-0
Thomas Bines
ditto
3-18-0
Mrs. Cottee
Weekly ditto
2-12-0
Lot 2. A Plot of Freehold Building Land
Adjoining Lot One and having a frontage of about 37 feet to the High Street, Canewdon, with a back boundary of about 58 feet by a depth of about 70 feet, now used as a Garden by George Pittingale, a tenant on sufferance. Possession will be given on completion of the purchase. There are Five Elm Trees on this Lot, which will be included in the purchase.”
“The Title to the several Lots shall commence as to Lots 1 and 2, with an Indenture of Conveyance on Sale dated the 31st day of May, 1878, made between Jeremiah Bingham Kersteman and Freeland Burrard Kersteman of the one part and Henry Prior of the other part, which said deed contains a recital of the seisin of the said J. B. Kersteman and F. B. Kersteman free from incumbrances.”
In the beginning of the 20th century, we find in 1901, George Pickengal, a widower, living in Canewdon, Essex. His two sons, Frederick and George, are back living with their aged father. George is listed as on Parish Relief.
From the 1901 Census of Canewdon, we find the following:
Name - Relationship – Married or Single – Age – Sex – Profession – Birthplace
3 High St. 4 - Number of Rooms occupied
George
Pickengal Head Widr 95
M Parish
relief Z
Essex Hockley
Frederick do Son
S 40 M Labourer
on farm Worker
do
Eastwood
George
do
Son S 28 M
do
do Worker do Canewdon
George Pettingale died on April 10, 1909 in Canewdon, Essex.
The following is from the death certificate:
Registration District: Rochford
1909 Death in the Sub-district of Rochford in the County of Essex
No. 332
When
and where died:
Tenth April 1909 Village Canewdon R. D.
Name and surname:
George Pettingale
Sex:
Male
Age:
103 Years
Occupation:
Farm Laborer
Cause of death:
Senile
Decay Cardiac failure Certified by Allan Dixon M. R. C. J.
Signature,
description and residence of informant:
X The mark of Frederick Pettingale Son
present at the Death Village Canewdon
When registered:
Tenth April 1909
Signature of registrar:
Henry P. Topsfield Registrar
The informant was the son Charles Frederick Pettingale.
Then George Pickingill was buried on April 14, 1909 at the church at Canewdon, Essex.
The following is the burial entry from the Canewdon parish register:
Burials 1909 - Page 61 No. 484
Name. – Abode. – When Buried. – Age. – By whom the ceremony was performed.
George Pettingale / Canewdon / April 14 1909 / 103 yrs / C R W Hardy Vicar
Then on the left side margin of the page next to the entry was a note saying “see below”
Then on the bottom margin of the page it says “[symbol]. No. 484 born at Hockley 1816 was only in his 93rd year”.
In the burial entry, George Pickingill’s age was at first mentioned as 103 years old. But then later the vicar added notations at the side of the entry and then at the bottom of the page stating that George Pickingill was born at Hockley in 1816 and that he was only 93 years old.
Comments about George Pickingill from the magazines, books and the internet:
From the book - Modern Wicca: a History from Gerald Gardner to the Present - By Michael Howard, 2010
Page 47 - in the chapter of “The Pickingill Connection”
“Eric Maple had first visited the Essex witch village of Canewdon in 1959 while staying in the area to recover from an illness. Having an interest in the local folklore he heard tales from the older villagers about the witches who lived there fifty or sixty years before.”
“When Eric Maple investigated the folk traditions of Canewdon in the winter of 1959-1960 he found stories about the witches living in and around the village in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries had survived among the local farming community.”
From the magazine - Folklore Vol. 71 December 1960
The Witches of Canewdon - By Eric Maple
Page 247-248
“The master of the Canewdon witches was always said to be a wizard. Cunning Murrell of Hadleigh was supposed to have been a Master of Witches, but George Pickingale was the last and perhaps the greatest of the wizards. He was a farm-labourer, a widower with two sons, who lived in a cottage near the Anchor hotel. In common with other members of his family, he possessed eyes of peculiar intensity. He was a tall, unkempt man, solitary and uncommunicative. He had very long finger-nails, and kept his money in a purse of sacking.
Pickingale practised (practiced) quite openly as a Cunning Man, restoring lost property, and curing warts and minor ailments by muttered charms and mysterious passes. One woman was said to have been cured by him of rheumatism, but he did this by ‘transferring the disease to her father’. He made no charge for his services.
Unlike Murrell or (of) Hadleigh, he was not above the use of ‘black magic’ when it suited his purpose. He coerced local people into fetching his water from the village pump by subtle hints regarding the use of white mice. He could stop farm machinery when he wished to do so by the power of his eyes, and because of this, he was often bribed by farmers to remove himself.
He was visited by people from great distances. Once the men of Dengie sought the advice of the Wise Man of Canewdon in a wages dispute. His power over animals, both domestic and wild, was a byword. He could halt farm-horses, and he could also draw game from the hedgerows. To do this, he would strike the hedge with his stick and the game would rush out….”
“Pickingale died in 1909 at the age of ninety-three. In his old age he was regarded as something like a ‘grand old man of the village’. Visitors would give him money ….. as a parting shot, he announced that he would demonstrate, by a symbolic act at his funeral, that his magical powers remained unimpaired. He did this, for as the hearse drew up at the churchyard, the horses stepped from the shafts.”
From the magazine - The Essex Countyside, November 1961
Last Legends of Essex Witches - Witch lore of Canewdon by Eric Maple (Part 2)
“The Master of Witches was George Pickingill, who kept not only the witches but the villagers as well in a state of sheer terror. Mr. Whitwell, whose family has lived in Canewdon for centuries, remembered the fear which this man inspired. When George Pickingill wanted water drawn for him from the pump he did not have to ask twice, for the penalty for disobedience was a curse. The victim was often taken seriously ill as a result, and would remain in that condition until Pickingill lifted the spell.
Old Picky, as he was called, died in 1909 at the age of ninety-three. His last and greatest act of magic was performed at his own funeral. As he lay dying he had declared that he would demonstrate his powers in a way that Canewdon would never forget.
On the day of his funeral the hearse drew up to the churchyard and suddenly the horse stepped out of the shafts and trotted off down the road, to the great alarm of the mourners. Old Picky was having the last word, as usual.”
From the magazine - Folklore Vol. 73 Autumn 1962
The Witches of Dengie - By Eric Maple
Page 183
“The people of Dengie Hundred greatly feared the witches of Canewdon on the far side of the river, yet there were occasions when they actually consulted them. Mr M. Burton of Dengie village remembered how two labourers decided to consult the ‘Old Man Witch’, George Pickingill of Canewdon over a wages dispute. As they set forth, one said to the other, ‘I wonder if the old b … is at home.’ On arriving at the wizard’s cottage they knocked at the door and suddenly the window flew open and the wizard thrust his head out and hissed at them, ‘Yes, the old b … is at home’.”
From the book - The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft - by Ronald Hutton, 1999
Page 297
“….. Such Data certainly existed in the 1960s, when people still survived who had lived in Canewdon at the opening of the century and known Pickingill. One was ‘Granny’ Lillian Garner, who had been one of Maple’s chief informants. Another was Jack Taylor, then in a retirement home at Rayleigh. In April 1967 I spent some time in the district myself, inspired by Maple’s book to collect further information. What I found exactly supported his original body of material, which is hardly surprising as it was gained from the same sources …… It confirmed the impression given by Maple, that Pickingill’s clients, though numerous, were drawn mainly from rural south-east Essex. My only significantly new quantity of testimony was provided by Jack Taylor, whom Maple seems to have missed, and it was wholly in harmony with the latter’s other evidence. I print one story here, as it so dramatically illustrates the powers of a traditional cunning man:
When my sister and I were children, we wanted to ride our pony and trap to Rochford Fair; but that day the beast just wouldn’t move, no matter what we did with it. Then we suddenly saw George Pickingill staring at us with those terrible eyes of his. He came over and told us to put down the reins and not to interfere with the pony at all. Then he whispered in its ear for a few minutes and stood back and hit it; and it started off, and found its own way done to the lanes to Rochford, without our needing to touch it.
… Jack was born in 1888 and became a labourer alongside the Pickingills; George took an especial liking to him.”
From the book - Modern Wicca: a History from Gerald Gardner to the Present - By Michael Howard, 2010
Page 51 in the chapter of “The Pickingill Connection”
“Sybil Webster told me that [George Pickingill] was supposed to have traveled to Norfolk regularly in a pony and trap. This was probably to see his relatives in Castle Rising, a village that, like Canewdon, has a reputation for witchcraft”.
Page 57 and 58 in the chapter of “The Pickingill Connection”
“In October 1977, a few days before Hallowe’en, I decided to visit Canewdon in the hope of finding out more about Pickingill……. I called at the vicarage and asked the aged minister if he could help me in my quest…. he kindly suggested that an elderly lady called Granny Garner might be able to help me, and he directed me to her cottage in the lane leading up to the church. Apparently she had been Eric Maple’s chief informant in the village and he had described her as the last white witch in Canewdon.
Lillian Garner was eighty-seven years old when I met her, but her mind was, as they say, “as bright as a button.” She invited me in for tea, and told me that she remembered George Pickingill from her childhood as a village character and eccentric old gentleman. She recollected when the first car came to the village that he had his photograph taken beside it. She revealed that her own mother had told her that Mr. Pickingill was the leader of a local coven of witches. Apparently her mother was actually a member of the coven and said that the witch master had “many visitors” from outside the village who came seeking his occult knowledge. Before I left, Lillian gave me the original of the photograph of George Pickingill that was published in Eric Maple’s book Dark World of the Witches. A photograph of Granny Garner herself standing at the door of her cottage was reproduced with Maple’s article on the Canewdon witches published in the encyclopedic work Man, Myth and Magic in the 1970s.”
Page 44
“… E. W. “Bill” Liddell, living in Auckland, New Zealand. He said he had been born in Essex, England, and had emigrated in 1959 or 1960. Liddell added that as a young man he had been inducted into his family’s traditional form of witchcraft on May Eve, 1950. This Craft tradition had allegedly been founded by “Old George” Pickingill (1816-1909), who lived his last years in the remote Essex village of Canewdon.”
From
a website constructed by Scott Bisseker for Bill Liddell, 2006, www.pickingill.com
Old George Pickingill and the History of Modern Witchcraft
"I was investigating George Pickingill a good twelve years before Maple visited Canewdon. 'Old George' was the first-cousin of my paternal great-great grandfather, who adopted the surname of one of his employers. This was standard practice for many members of the widespread Pickingill stock. They sought refuge with Romany families and imbibed much Rom magic. There are some 30 to 40 Pickingill siblings by last count and most bear different surnames. However, only 5 or 6 are remotely interested in the silly superstitions of their ignorant forebears. Such is progress!" (Bill Liddell, 1999)
"George Pickingill was an itinerant horse dealer who accompanied his Rom kinsmen to Horse Fairs. He was renowned as a Gypsy sorcerer and met a number of his nine female leaders when travelling with the Rom. The Gypsies have always known the favoured haunts of the traditional witches. They had no trouble locating Pickingill covens. Mike Howard advised me in personal correspondence dated 27th March 1997 : "Your comments about the gypsies and Pickingill covens has reminded me of an encounter I had in 1976 with a Romany called George Wells who lived in South London. He claimed to know of Pickingill people on the Suffolk-Essex border at Brandon, and others still in the New Forest area. "Mike was not impressed and gave little heed to Wells at the time. In hindsight this was a pity. It may have been possible to corroborate some of the claims in the Lugh material.
George Pickingill was apprenticed to a Cunning Man named Shewell. His education was completed by Rom sorcerers and the leaders of Old Style covens. His reputation preceded him and landowners and influential 'Rosicrucians' were impressed with Pickingill's magical prowess. He was granted access to the archives of several 'Cunning' Lodges. It was not long before Pickingill was exhibiting his gifts at Masonic Temples and private houses. He confined the bulk of his demonstrations to a country house in Hertfordshire." (Bill Liddell, 1999)
"The strong possibility exists that George Pickingill, the famous Rom horse whisperer, is the 'George Pettingale' who was buried on the 14th April 1909. This George Pickingill was born on the 23rd December 1803 in either Suffolk or Norfolk. He would have been 105 in April 1909. This George Pickingill had retired to the Hundred of Dengie, which adjoins the Hundred of Rochford in which Canewdon is situated. Pickingill sons were named for English kings; George, William and Charles were the most common forenames. There is nothing improbable in having three George Pickingills living just a few miles apart. The church wardens and the parishioners of St. Nicholas' church in Canewdon would never have permitted their vicar to bury the George Pickingill in their churchyard. This was the satanist who allegedly conducted sex orgies in their churchyard. It seems more plausible to suggest that the son, or the innocuous Rom horse-whisperer, is the George Pettingale buried at Canewdon. The recorded age of 103 suggests it could have been the ancient horse-whisperer rather than George Jnr. 'Pettingale' may have been substituted for Pickingill as a sop to the sensitivities of the parishioners and the other villagers.
It seems eminently feasible that 'Old George' Pickingill lies in an unmarked and unhallowed grave. However, his input into the pagan revival is his epitaph." (Bill Liddell, 1999)
CHILDREN OF GEORGE AND SARAH ANN (BATEMAN) PICKINGILL:
14. + MARTHA ANN PICKINGILL was born June 22, 1858 in Hawkwell, Essex, England.
Martha married William Punt.
15. x CHARLES FREDERICK PICKINGILL was born in the second quarter of 1861 in Eastwood, Essex, England.
Charles has no known children, but his history is on a separate page.
16. + MARY ANN PICKINGILL was born in the third quarter of 1863 in Eastwood, Essex, England.
Mary married William Wood.
17. x GEORGE PICKINGILL was born in the second quarter of 1867 in Canewdon, Essex, England.
George has no known children, but his history is on a separate page.
Sources:
1. Parish registers for Hockley, Essex, England. FHL British Film 1593600 Items 14 - 31. Christenings: 1816 George Pickingill. Searched and extracted starting March 18, 2008 Tuesday.
2. 1851 Census of England, Essex, Little Wakering, District 6, Image No. 2, Ancestry.com. Public Record Office reference: H.O. 107 / 1777, Original Page No. 4, Stamped Page No. 538, No. of Householder’s Schedule 6, George Pickengill in the household of David Chinens. February 21, 2008 Thursday 12:21PM.
3. Saint George, Gravesend, Kent, England. 1856 marriage of George Pickingill and Sarah Ann Bateman. Batch No. M131332 Source Film No. 0992464, 0992467. IGI Individual Record. FamilySearch IGI v5.0. March 2, 2008 Sunday.
4. Civil Registration Index, Marriage of George Pickingill and Sarah Ann Bateman, 2nd Quarter (Apr-May-Jun), Year 1856, District Gravesend, County Kent, Volume 2a, Page 389. Searched March 3, 2008 Monday.
5. 1856 Marriage Certificate of George Pickingill and Sarah Ann Bateman. From the General Register Office, Southport, Merseyside, England. Ordered March 13, 2008 8:45 PM.
6. Civil Registration Index, Birth of Martha Ann Pickengale, 3rd Quarter (Jul-Aug-Sep), Year 1858, District Rochford, County Essex, Volume 4a, Page 149. Searched March 3, 2008 Monday.
7. 1858 Birth Certificate of Martha Ann Pickengale. From the General Register Office, Southport, Merseyside, England. Ordered March 13, 2008 8:45 PM.
8. 1861 Census of England, Essex, Eastwood, District 10, Image No. 3, Ancestry.com. Public Record Office reference: R.G. 9 1083, Original Page No. 3, Stamped Page No. 137, No. of Schedule 15, Household of George Pickengale. February 8, 2008 Friday 7:21PM.
9. Civil Registration Index, Birth of Charles Frederick Pickingale, 2nd Quarter (Apr-May-Jun), Year 1861, District Rochford, County Essex, Volume 4a, Page 169. Searched March 3, 2008 Monday.
10. Civil Registration Index, Birth of Mary Ann Pickingale, 3rd Quarter (Jul-Aug-Sep), Year 1863, District Rochford, County Essex, Volume 4a, Page 178. Searched March 3, 2008 Monday.
11. Civil Registration Index, Birth of George Pickingale, 2nd Quarter (Apr-May-Jun), Year 1867, District Rochford, County Essex, Volume 4a, Page 208. Searched March 3, 2008 Monday.
12. 1871 Census of England, Essex, Canewdon, District 6, Image No. 21, Ancestry.com. Public Record Office reference: R.G. 10 16[ ]9, Original Page No. 21, Stamped Page No. 86, No. of Schedule 103, Household of George Pitengale. February 8, 2008 Friday 6:59 PM.
13. 1881 Census of England, Essex, Canewdon, District 6, Image No. 2, Ancestry.com. Public Record Office reference: RG 11/1771, Original Page No. 2, No. of Schedule 7, Household of George Pickingale. February 21, 2008 Thursday 11:53 AM.
14. 1887 Death Certificate of Sarah Ann Pittingale. From the General Register Office, Southport, Merseyside, England. Received May 16, 2009 Saturday Morning.
15. 1891 Census of England, Essex, Canewdon, District 6, Image No. 2, Ancestry.com. Public Record Office reference: RG 12 / 1393, Original Page No. 2, No. of Schedule 11, Household of George Pickingill. February 21, 2008 Thursday 12:06 PM.
16. 1899 Sale advertisements of some properties in Canewdon, Essex. George Pittingale was one of the tenants in those properties. Essex Record Office, Document Reference: TS 286/1. Received in 2009.
17. 1901 Census of England, Essex, Canewdon, District 5, Image No. 4, Ancestry.com. Public Record Office reference: R.G. 13 / 1684, Original Page No. 4, No. of Schedule 23, Household of George Pickengal. February 8, 2008 Friday 3:31 PM.
18. Parish Registers of Canewdon, Essex, England. Burials: Page 39 No. 309, 1887 Sarah Ann Pittengale; Page 61 No. 484, 1909 George Pettingale. Searched and extracted November 11, 2008 Tuesday.
19. Civil Registration Index, Death of George Pettingale, age 103, 2nd Quarter (Apr-May-Jun), Year 1909, District Rochford, County Essex, Volume 4a, Page 311. Searched March 3, 2008 Monday.
20. 1909 Death Certificate of George Pettingale. From the General Register Office, Southport, Merseyside, England. Received May 16, 2009 Saturday Morning.
21. Magazine - Folklore, Vol. 71, December 1960 - “The Witches of Canewdon” by Eric Maple. Pages 247-248 about George Pickingill. Received from a friend in Australia December 2009.
22. Magazine - The Essex Countryside, November 1961 - “Last Legends of Essex Witches - Witch lore of Canewdon” by Eric Maple (Part 2). From scan copy of article sent to me by a friend in Australia. Received ?February ?12, ?2009, ??Thursday 2:08:43 PM.
23. Magazine - Folklore Vol. 73 Autumn 1962 - “The Witches of Dengie” by Eric Maple. Page 183 George Pickingill mentioned. From my own copy of the magazine purchased December 5, 2009 Saturday.
24. Book - “The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft” by Ronald Hutton, 1999. Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 978-0-19-285449-0. Page 297, About Jack Taylor’s recollection about George Pickingill. From my copy of the book that I purchased in the Spring of 2009.
25. Book - “Modern Wicca: a History from Gerald Gardner to the Present” by Michael Howard, 2010. Llewellyn Worldwide, ISBN 0738715883, 9780738715889. Chapter Three The Pickingill Connection, pages: 44 about E. W. “Bill” Liddell, 47 about Eric Maple in Canewdon, 51 about George Pickingill in Norfolk, 57-58 about Michael Howard’s visit to Canewdon in 1977, Lilian Garner, and George Pickingill. Book on Google Books, December 2009.
26. Website - “Old George Pickingill and the History of Modern Witchcraft” from a website constructed by Scott Bisseker for Bill Liddell, 2006, www.pickingill.com. Article about George Pickingill. January 31, 2010 Sunday 7:30 PM.
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