Peter Henry "Henry" "Harry" Picken

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• Name: Henry Picken
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-81855
• Occupation: 1897, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Labourer
• Occupation: 1901, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Woolen Mill
• Occupation: 1911, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Laborer, Saw Mill
• Residence: 1911, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Baptist
• Occupation: 1925, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Laborer

Peter married Mary Ringler 14 Aug 1897, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Mary (daughter of Daniel Ringler and Annie "Nancy" Schmidt) was born 2 Sep 1879, Petersburg, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

1. Harold Picken was born 18 Mar 1899, , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died Yes, date unknown.

Peter married Annie Millar Blain 8 May 1925, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Annie (daughter of John Blain and Janet Millar) was born 1885, , Scotland; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-26730
• Residence: 1856, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Occupation: 1861, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Shoemaker
• Residence: 1861, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; United Presbyterian
• Occupation: 1871, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Shoemaker

Notes:

John Picken, Native of Scotland, a shoemaker, appears to have plied his trade here from June 2nd, 1855, until the year 1864. When he came he brought along two sons. Alex, who in 1858 was Secretary of the Hespeler Fire Brigade at the age of 21, and Peter C., borne in 1832. Both boys learned the shoemaking from their father.

Alex worked at it here only a short time, while Peter C. continued on till 1874. He married a daughter of Henry and Ellen Fields who lived where the new Baptist Church stands. Peter C. lived next place south on Bergey Street in a house sometimes spoken of as "The Hadfield House". His two sons, Alex. and Henry, were born in this house, the former on November 14th, 1857. "Sandy" as we called him was the father of William and Arthur; Arthur's eldest boy, Jack, clerks in Mark Kohli's Grocery Store which fact presents the unusual spectacle of two boys, both fifth generation Hespelerites, working daily side by side and even though the Grocery and the Shoemaking trades are in no wise related, it may be pardoned if I set down that David W. Panabaker is of the fifth generation here, Robert Scott certainly of the fourth and possibly of the fifth and that both these men are grocers.


Le Rue De Commerce, Other Times Other Customs Other Days Other Ways, Winfield Brewster 1954

Peter married Catherine Fields 8 Dec 1856, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Catherine (daughter of Henry Fields and Ellen Hunter McKersie) was born 3 Feb 1836, , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 26 Mar 1873; was buried , New Hope Cemetery, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Catherine Picken
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-119362
• Residence: 1856, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1861, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-252839
• Occupation: 1861, , Germany; Shoemaker
• Residence: 1861, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; United Presbyterian

John — Agnes. Agnes was born 1816, , Scotland; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Agnes Picken
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-252851
• Residence: 1861, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; United Presbyterian

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• Interesting: story
• Public Service: Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; constable
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-25243
• Occupation: 1861, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Laborer
• Residence: 1861, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist
• Occupation: 1871, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Labourer

Notes:

Our community did not have a Police Constable in its early days. The settlement of Bergeytown, and later the hamlet of New Hope, was basically unprotected and relied on the honesty and goodwill of its citizens to be law abiding. With the incorporation of the Village of Hespeler, on January 19, 1859 the first Council meeting passed a motion by David Rife, seconded by C. Nahrgang that Henry Fields be appointed constable and "receive such fees as the law provides and only when on actual duty". The motion was carried and Henry Fields became the first police officer in Hespeler.

There was no lockup at the time, and the nearest goal was in Guelph, so anyone unfortunate enough to be incarcerated in the evening had to spend the night locked in a bedroom at the constable's house. There is a report of one such individual who woke Mr. Fields by making too much noise while trying to escape and was dragged back through the bedroom window by his ankles! The window was subsequently nailed shut. Mr. Fields continued as constable until 1873 and passed away one year later at age 63.


Hespeler Happenings Summer 2008 - HESPELER POLICE by Lary Turner

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In Hespeler, on the 31st ult., Henry Fields, aged 63 years and 5 months.

Galt Reporter Feb 6 1874 pg 3

Henry — Ellen Hunter McKersie. Ellen (daughter of David McKersie and Catherine Hunter) was born CALC 1 Jul 1812, Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland; died 12 Feb 1892, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , New Hope Cemetery, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Ellen Hunter Fields
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-25244
• Residence: 1861, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist

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Daughter of David McKersie and Catherine Hunter of Eramosa, Wellington, Ontario, Canada

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-203751

David — Catherine Hunter. Catherine was born 1790, , Scotland; died , , Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Catherine McKersie
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-203752