Peter Cairns Picken^[1]

1834 - 1877  (43 years)

• Name	Peter Cairns Picken
  Born	1834	, Scotland   [2, 3, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Residence	1856	Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [5]
  Occupation	1861	Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [4]
  	Shoemaker
  Residence	1861	Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [4]
  	United Presbyterian
  Occupation	1871	Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [3]
  	Shoemaker
  Eby ID Number	Waterloo-26730
  Died	7 Aug 1877	Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
  Person ID	I26730	Generations
  Last Modified	12 May 2024

  
  

  Father	John Picken,   b. 1813, , Scotland ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Mother	Agnes,   b. 1816, , Scotland ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F228607	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Catherine Fields,   b. 3 Feb 1836, , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 26 Mar 1873  (Age 37 years)
  Married	8 Dec 1856	Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [5]
  Children	1. Alexander "Sandy" Picken,   b. 14 Nov 1857, , Ontario, Canada ,   d. 6 Dec 1929  (Age 72 years)   2. Ellen Picken,   b. CALC 21 Jan 1860, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 10 Mar 1876, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age ~ 16 years)   3. Agnes Picken,   b. 1862, , Ontario, Canada ,   d. Yes, date unknown   4. Janett Picken,   b. 1864, , Ontario, Canada ,   d. Yes, date unknown   5. Mary Picken,   b. CALC 12 Aug 1867, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 17 Sep 1882, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age ~ 15 years)   6. John Picken,   b. Jan 1871, , Ontario, Canada ,   d. Yes, date unknown   7. Peter Henry "Henry" "Harry" Picken,   b. 3 Feb 1873, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Last Modified	13 May 2024
  Family ID	F29917	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• 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

  
  

• Sources

  [S3002] Vit - ON - Marriage Registration, 014600-97. Harry Picken, 24, occ. Labourer, b. Hespeler, res. same, s/o Peter Picken & Kate Picken, married Mary Ringler, 18, b. Petersburg Ont., res. Hespeler, d/o Daniel Ringler & Nancy Ringler, wtn: Andrew Tennant & Sarah Duckworth both of Hespeler, on Aug 14, 1897, at Hespeler [S131] Census - ON, Waterloo, Waterloo Twp. - 1851, Div 1 pg 1. [S508] Census - ON, Waterloo, Hespeler - 1871, Page 37. [S1837] Census - ON, Waterloo, Hespeler - 1861, Div. 1 Page 1. [S29] Church Records - ON, Waterloo, Galt - St. Andrews Presbyterian. Peter Cairns Picken of New Hope and Catherine Fields of the same place, by Licence

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 1834 - , Scotland Residence - 1856 - Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Married - 8 Dec 1856 - Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Occupation - Shoemaker - 1861 - Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - United Presbyterian - 1861 - Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Occupation - Shoemaker - 1871 - Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Died - 7 Aug 1877 - Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  = Link to Google Earth