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Welcome to the "Picken" family website. Our Picken roots can be traced here as far back as Stewarton, Scotland, from which Peter Picken came back in the mid 1800's, when he arrived in what was than known as New Hope, now called Hespeler, Ontario.
 
If your last name is Fields or Huether, and can trace your family heritage to Hespeler, you may find some interesting facts about your family here as well.
 
I am always seeking new information, so please do not hesitate to contact me with any!

CREDITS :

 

Albert Stanley Picken, Brenda Crawford, Jill Allen, Dorothy Maidment, Lisa Maidment, Gladys Mclean, John Picken

Govt. of Scotland, Cambridge Archives, L.D. Saints,

Jim Quantrell-archivist…Cambridge Archives

New Hope Cemetery, Ayrshire Archives

Marjorie Clark

Lorine McGinnis Schulze Olive Tree Genealogy

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The Pickens Coat of Arms (above) is registered and officially documented in Burkes General Armory. There are a few variations of earlier Clans registered elsewhere but this is the most reliable.

Burkes General Armory describes it as such:

 

 

"GU. A SALTIRE ENGR. BETW. FOUR MULLETS OR, PIERCED OF THE FIELD."

  

When translated the Blazon also describes the original colors of the Pickens Arms as,

"Red; a gold, engrailed St. Andrews cross between four gold stars pierced Red." "The crest is an armored Helm with visor and breaths" "The motto spells PICKENS"

 

 Meanings of the symbols are as follows:

 

 

Red = Fortitude and Creative Power

Gold and Dots = Generosity, Valor and Perseverance

Saltire or St.  Andrews Cross = One of the Honorable Ordinaries

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