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Bicknell Family Reunion 1977
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Bicknell Family Reunion 1977

March 6, 2021March 6, 20211 min read

Lani Pettit, a member of our Facebook group Bicknell – The Family since 17 September 2020, posted an interesting newspaper article there this week. “I

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Bicknell family in the Merveilles 1988
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Bicknell family in the Merveilles 1988

March 5, 2021March 5, 20212 min read

1988 was the year when I, Marcus, first organised a trip for family members to the Vallée des Merveilles, on the Italian-French border looking over

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Where is the Bicknell family from?
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Where is the Bicknell family from?

February 23, 2021February 23, 20212 min read

Marcus Bicknell writes… “Since I have been keeping an eye on Bicknell history since the 1970s, it has been clear that there were three principal

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Origins of the Bicknell name
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Origins of the Bicknell name

February 23, 2021February 23, 20214 min read

The unusual and interesting name of Bicknell is of Anglo-Saxon origin, and is a locational surname that derives from a contracted form of either of

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Sabrina Bicknell – the perfect wife?
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Sabrina Bicknell – the perfect wife?

February 21, 2021February 24, 20211 min read

Sabrina Bicknell (1757 – 1843), better known as Sabrina Sidney, was a British woman abandoned at the Foundling Hospital in London as a baby, and

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Maria Bicknell Constable 1795-1828
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Maria Bicknell Constable 1795-1828

February 18, 2021February 18, 20212 min read

Maria Bicknell was a daughter of the Solicitor to the Admiralty. Her grandfather was the rector of East Bergholt, where Constable first met her in

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Drat. How DO you spell Bicknell?
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Drat. How DO you spell Bicknell?

February 15, 2021February 23, 20212 min read

One of the topics which came up in our inaugural Zoom conference call on Valentine’s Day 2021 was the spelling of the name Bicknell. What

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Writers in the Bicknell family
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Writers in the Bicknell family

February 9, 2021February 9, 20213 min read

Writing runs in the Bicknell blood line, across several generations. Do please write to us if you yourself have published works or you know of

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Alf Bicknell 1928-2004. Chauffeur to the Beatles
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Alf Bicknell 1928-2004. Chauffeur to the Beatles

February 7, 2021February 7, 20211 min read

Check out our article about the Bicknell chauffeur to the superstars… Alf Bicknell

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Hands across the ocean
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Hands across the ocean

February 7, 2021February 7, 20212 min read

We are so excited to be making stronger links between Bicknells in the USA, many of them descended from the famous Zachary Bicknell (below) and

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