The earliest spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Reginald de Pichering, which was dated 1165, in the "Pipe Rolls of Yorkshire.
Iterations of the Pickering name have been found to be:
Pickerin
Pickin
Puckrin(g)
Piceringas
Picoringas
Picheringa" in the Domesday Book of 1086
Pikering in the Close Rolls of Yorkshire
Earliest recorded Pickerings:
Henry de Pikeringes (1246), in the Feet of Fines of Oxfordshire John Pykeryng (1327), recorded in the Subsidy Rolls of Somerset.
Christening of Anne, daughter of William Pikering, (March 4th 1551), in Aberford, Yorkshire
Marriage of Richard Pickering and Anne Swynerton on February 10th 1562, at St. Andrew by the first recorded
Photo of early Pickering records by Connie Pickering Stover,
Chester Studies Library, England, April 2011.