Frank PICKUP = Miriam HERBERTS

Married Saturday 20 October 1928, St. Peter's, Blackburn¹

Frank PICKUP:

Born Tuesday 19 April 1898, 153 Audley Range, Blackburn²
Died Tuesday 26 April 1966, Blackburn Royal Infirmary³
Buried cremated Pleasington Cemetery

Lived at 98 Walter Street 1901 Census. Lived at 68 Queens Park Road Blackburn from age 13
Age 16 at outbreak of WW1, Military service K.O.Yorkshire Light Infantry, WW1, 37287 Pte F Pickup. Medal Index Victory and British War 0/2/103 B16 1941. Medal Roll (WO329/1461) shows 9th Battalion KOYLI. War Diary 9th Bn KOYLI WO95/2162. 9th KOYLI arrived Western Front with 64th Brigade, 21st Division. Sailed 11th Sept 1915 Southhampton to Boulogne. Action at Loos Sept-Oct 1915, First Battle Somme 1st July 1916 9th KOYLI at Fricourt, Passchendaele July-Nov 1917. Contracted TB in trenches, time in Wrightington Hospital.
Became a Power Loom Overlooker, Audley Hall Mills , Eli Heyworth's and othe mills

Died of undiagnosed peritonitis after perf ulcer. Cremated at Pleasington Cemetery and ashes scattered on grave of brother Fred.
Rumour of female cousin who married a Pickup also other cousins not living in area.
mil service cert
Medal Roll

Research need: 9th Bn KOYLI esp july -Nov 1917 war diary


Frank Pickup 1930


Frank Pickup c 1918


Frank Pickup c 1930


Miriam HERBERTS:

Alias Miriam PICKUP
Born Sunday 1 December 1907, 3 Morton Street, Blackburn
Died November 1988, 68 Queens Park Road, Blackburn, Lancashire
Buried cremated Pleasington Cemetery, Blackburn
see Herberts tree for details


Miriam Pickup nee Herberts 1982

Fred PICKUP⁴ = Constance Margaret COOPER > Family

Married Saturday 6 June 1953, St. Matthews, Blackburn, Lancashire

Fred PICKUP:

Born Friday 20 September 1929
National Service, Malaya as 22426583 Cpl. F Pickup REME

Lived at 68 Queens Park Rd as child, 18 Randolf Street following National Service, then 4 Sunny Bower Close, Blackburn



Fred Pickup 1930


Fred Pickup 1931


Fred Pickup 1953


Constance Margaret COOPER:

Alias Constance Margaret PICKUP
Born Wednesday 25 June 1930, 36 Kenyon Street, Blackburn, Lancashire
Christened Monday 28 July 1930, St. Judes, Blackburn, Lancashire
see Cooper tree for details


Constance Cooper 1946

Frank PICKUP = Brenda GEELING > Family

Married Saturday 30 September 1972, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Frank PICKUP:

Born Thursday 13 July 1933, Blackburn
Frank attended Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School in Blackburn during the late 1940's and in the early 1950's  worked as an aircraft engineering draughtsman at Samlesbury, Lancashire. After a period of National Service with REME in Hong Kong, Frank moved away from Lancashire to work for Ford at Dagenham, Essex.  With first wife, Jane, Frank emigrated to Ontario, Canada in the late 1960's. Following a divorce, Frank married Brenda Geeling, an expatriate nurse from Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 30th September 1972. A son, Neil, was born in Scarborough, Ontario, 28th September 1975. Frank worked as a salesman for an illuminated advertising sign company until retirement in 1998.


Frank Pickup, Hong Kong 1955


Brenda GEELING:

Alias Brenda PICKUP
Born Friday 20 September 1940, Wallsend, Northumbria
Reference number: P18
education: North Heaton Secondary Modern Girls School
worked as: Nurse/Midwife Durham,Derby,Banbury,Leeds 1958-1963, Nurse Practitioner Scarboro,Ontario 1964-
lived at Toronto, Pickering Ontario
emigrated to Canada 1964

Fred Pickup and Minnie Aspden witnesses. Alice and Herbert Laycock attended 1928 wedding

1 :
mar cert
2 :
b cert
3 :
d cert
4 :
named after uncle Fred