The Picketts are connected to our families by marriage to the Wrights and to the Hattins. They were thought of as a Sandford family for many generations, though it is likely that the Picketts did not originate in Devonshire. The name is common in Wiltshire and Somerset. Early appearances in Devon are around Plymouth. There are suggestions that our Sandford Picketts were in nearby West Anstey prior to moving to Sandford, but there is no evidence for that. We can be certain that some time between 1793 and 1800 William Pickett, his wife Deborah, née Clapp and their children William, John, Richard, Deborah and Mary had taken up residence in the Lamb Inn, Sandford. The Rev. George Bent's local census in 1793 has no mention of the Picketts, but they appear in his next one in 1800. Over the coming centuries they played an active role in parish life.  I know of only one Pickett descendant living in the parish now. 

We have over 170 pictures here illustrating the Picketts, their in-laws and their family history.
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elizabeth pickett   grave richard pickett   john pickett   elizabeyth pickett nee hookway    
Elizabeth Pickett née Greenslade 1793-1850   Grave of Richard Pickett c.1771-1831   John Pickett 1818 - 1879   Elizabeth Pickett née Hookway 1812-1894   John Hookway 1774-1847
                 
      matilda stanbridge   arthur or edmund attenbrow   wilfred attenbrow
George Attenbrow 1817-1878     Matilda Attenbrow née Stanbridge 1831 - 1898.Wife of George Attenbrow   Matilda Attenbrow,née Stanbridge, wife of George Attenbrow 1831 - 1898   Capt.Edmund George Attenbrow, 1861-1913    Wilfred Bernard Attenbrow , 1869-1935
                 
 
May Attenbrow née Pickett 1873 - 1953. Wife of Wilfred Attenbrow     George Alfred Attenbrow 1896-1918   Audrey May Attenbrow, 1898-1971    Audrey May Attenbrow, 1898-1971   William Baylis Attenbrow 1905-1967
                 
         
William Baylis Attenbrow 1905-1967    Frank Aubrey Attenbrow, 1911-1985    Frank Aubrey Attenbrow, 1911-1985 and  wife Mary Emily Winby 1913-2010 on their wedding day in1936   Aubrey Edward Attenbrow 1873-1925      Mary Ann Pickett née Howard, 1874-1945. Wife of  baker Walter Pickett
                 
       
Lillian Mary Pickett, 1904-1989
Daughter of Walter and Mary Ann Pickett		   Henry Frederick Pickett, 1909-1990. Son of Walter and Mary Ann Pickett   Winifred Mary Pickett née Roberts, wife of Henry Pickett   Alfred Pickett, 1912 - 1969. Son of Walter and Mary Ann Pickett. Twin to Albert.   Margaret Georgina Pickett  née Dudley 1883-1945 with three grandchildren   
                 
alice pickett 1904           jelley family  
 Alice Tandy née Pickett 1904-1939    Albert Jelley,1907-1953, and Menti Jelley née Pickett,1908-1986,  in June 1930   Albert Jelley and Menty Jelley née Pickett   Albert and Menti Jelley and children    Elizabeth Pickett on the left
                 
    charles pow   charles pow   charles wedding
Elizabeth Williams née Pickett, 1916-1993 and George Williams, 1915-1999   Charles Pickett 1918-1975   Charles Pickett in POW camp   Charles Pickett in POW camp   Marriage of Charles Pickett (1918-1975) to Gertrude Durran (1921-1988) in 1945
                 
albert pickett     albert pickett      
Albert Pickett 1921-1988   Albert Pickett 1921-1988 and Margaret Pickett née Hamilton 1927-2003. Wedding day 1946   Albert Pickett 1921-1988   Albert Pickett 1921-1988   Albert Pickett 1921-1988 and Margaret Pickett née Hamilton 1927-2003
                 
         margaret pickett    margaret pickett    
Albert Pickett  and Margaret Pickett née Hamilton Margaret Stirling Hamilton 1927-2003 Margaret Stirling Hamilton 1927-2003  Margaret Pickett née Hamilton 1927-2003   Pickett family on the beach
                 
 Picketts in London                
Picketts in Trafalgar Square, London.   Wedding of Jean Jelley to Tim Freed in 1950  Rodney Charles Pickett, 1946-2019  David John Pickett, 1947-1993  David John Pickett, 1947 - 1993   
                 
     jameswright  grave of jas wright and  james blackburn pickett
 Stephen Albert Pickett, 1952 - 2006   Stephen Albert Pickett, 1952 - 2006    James Wright 1851-1909     .Grave of James Wright 1851-1909 and Eliza Hookway Wright née Pickett 1847-1917 in Sandford    James Blackburn Pickett 1885-1931
                 
 mabel florence pickett            harry and lillian marriage    harry pickett
 Mabel Florence Pickett née Vaughan 1885-1965     Marriage of James and Mabel Pickett née Vaughan in 1908    Harry John Blackburn Pickett 1911-2010 & James Blackburn Pickett 1909-1983    Marriage of Harry Pickett to Lilian Farquhar in 1936    Harry John Blackburn Pickett 1911-2010  
                 
 harry and lilian anniversary   harry and lillian pickett   lewis and jane snow at lamb   lewisandjanesnowgrave
 Harry John Blackburn Pickett 1911-2010 and Lilian Pickett née Farquhar 1913-2009    Harry John Blackburn Pickett 1911-2010 and Lilian Pickett née Farquhar 1913-2009     Sarah Snow née Wreford,
1831 -1916. "Mother Snow"		    Lewis Snow 1845-1937 and Jane Snow née Pickett 1850-1936 outside the Lamb, Sandford.    Grave of Lewis and Jane Snow, in Sandford churchyard
                 
             john pickett    john picke and ellen smee
 Grave of twins Alice, 1884-1965, and Annie Snow, 1884-1972, in Sandford St Swithin's churchyard  Alfred Snow at Sandford School in 1887  Grave of Alfred Snow and Dorothy Snow née Churchill, in Sandford    John Pickett 1852-1921   John Pickett 1852-1921 and Ellen Pickett née Smee 1857-1931 
 ellen smee  John and ellenpickett and children  arthur pickett and fiance  john pickett alice dot spearpoimt 
 Ellen Pickett née Smee 1857-1931   John and Ellen Pickett née Smee with their children  Arthur Frederick Hookway Pickett 1878-1912 and fiancée. Arthur died before the wedding.   John Pickett 1880-1915  Alice Pickett née Spearpoint 1881-1960
 
 robert pickett  ernest pickett      
 Robert Pickett 1911-1960     Ernest Pickett 1883-1959    Herbert Stanley and Kate Helena Pickett     Herbert Pickett 1885-1968    Kate Pickett 1886-1971
                 
        harmer and mum         
 Kate Pickett 1886-1971,
in 1908   		 .  Will Harmer 1882-1960   Kate Harmer, 1886-1971, née Pickett, with baby Stanley Harmer  Stanley Harmer 1913-2009  Stanley Harmer in Battersea
                 
             molly burnes    stan harmer with wifeetc
 Stanley Harmer 1913-2009    Stanley Harmer 1913-2009  Stanley Harmer 1913-2009   Winifred Hilda (Molly) Burnes 1912-2003   l to r: Winifred (Molly) Harmer née Burnes, Stanley Harmer, Kathleen Flaum née Harmer
                 
     kate harmer    kathleen harmers wedding   elsie pickett    Joycepameladorisradcliffe 
 Stanley Harmer 1913-2009    Kate Harmer 1922-2003      Wedding of Kate Harmer to Conrad Flaum in 1943    Elsie Pickett, 1896-1987. Daughter of John and Ellen Pickett    Joyce, Pamela and Doris Radcliffe, children of Elsie Radcliffe née Pickett and Albert Radcliffe 
                 
  john greenslade and lucy hatting    harriet hatting greenslade         
 Albert Radcliffe and Elsie Radcliffe née Pickett, at the wedding of Joyce Radcliffe to Reginald Butler      John Greenslade 1832-1892 and Lucy Greenslade née Hatting 1835-1922    Harriet Hatting Pickett née Greenslade 1864-1941      Thomas Pickett 1855-1913    Harriet Hatting Pickett née Greenslade 1864-1941 with son Fred Pickett 1889-1951
                 
 fred pic           pickett letter head    fred pickett
 Fred Pickett 1889 - 1951     Corporal Fred Pickett in Peshawar, 1916     Herbert Pickett 1891-1949    Pickett business stationery    Fred Pickett, 1889 - 1951, seated on the right  
                 
 fred and wrights man                fred piper and emily nee greenslade
 Left: Fred Pickett 1889 - 1951      (Ida) Mary Wright 1896-1967      Mary Pickett with her mother, and daughter Mildred in Sandford     Standing: Fred & Mary Pickett Seated: Harriet Hatting Pickett with baby Mildred Pickett    Fred Piper 1872-1953 and Emily Eliza Greenslade 1880-1943  
                 
     charles barber   ada and charles barber         
 Grave of Frederick and Emily Piper at Marystow.    (Walter) Charles Barber 1890-1972      Charles Barber 1890-1972 and Ada Barber née Davy 1896-1974       Norman Barber and Mary Barber née Williams     Fred and Mary Pickett with their children, Mildred and John
                 
 fred and mildred        fred john theo        mary wright
 Fred Pickett with daughter Mildred     Fred and Mary with their son, John, and a Wright sister-in-law, Lil    Picketts and Willings    Fred and Mary Pickett , with son John   Mary Pickett née Wright 1896-1967   
                 
               
 Mary Martha Wright with Mary Pickett and young Mildred Pickett      Mildred Pickett 1929-1991     Mildred Pickett 1929-1991   Mary Pickett with daughter Mildred in Sandford       Mary Pickett with son John  
                 
 mary mildred john     mildred pickett an jimmy    
Mary Pickett with daughter Mildred and son John    John Pickett at Loddiswell     Mildred Glass née Pickett, 1929-1991, with cousin Richard Lewsi "Jimmy" Wright,1923-2013     Elizabeth Glass, née Burrows 1868 -1969     Percy John Glass, 1910-1991 
                 
       
Reginald Glass and Elsie Glass née Pruce with baby Donald Glass         Elsie Glass née Pruce, 1893-1975   Donald Glass, Mildred Pickett and Margaret Hatten at Sandford School    Donald Glass 1931-2023, and Mildred Glass née Pickett 1929-1991      Wedding reception of Donald Glass and Mildred Pickett,1954  
                 
mildred pickett       mildred  
Mildred Glass née Pickett     Donald Glass      Family assembled for a Glass baptism, with Heards, Wrights, Picketts, Glasses, Hattens   Grave of Mildred Glass née Pickett 1929-1991    Marriage of Donald Glass to his second wife, Diana Hole née Champion in Crediton  
                 
       
Edith Rowe with children Phyllis and Derek Rowe    Sam Rowe,1902-1943,  with Edith Rowe née Madge,1905-1998, and children Derek, 1932-2017, and Phyllis1938-2024    Sam Rowe, with Edith Rowe née Madge, and son Derek   Private Sam Rowe, Pioneer Corps, 1902-1943     Phyllis Pickett and Derek Rowe at the grave of their father, Sam Rowe, at Salerno war cemetery 
                 
       
John Pickett in the RAF, doing his National Service       John Pickett, 1937-2024, with Phyllis Rowe, 1938-2024, in Sandford in 1956   John Pickett's marriage to Phyllis Rowe in 1960 at Church of the Holy Cross, Crediton    John and Phyll Picketts' wedding with bridesmaids and page     John Pickett , 1937-2024, with wife Phyllis Pickett née Rowe, 1938-2024, at Land's End
                 
      charles causley   charles causley
Phyllis and John Pickett at Exmouth    John Pickett , 1937-2024, and Phyllis Pickett née Rowe, 1938-2024, in 1975, with family members   John Pickett, 1937-2024 and Phyllis Pickett née Rowe, 1938-2024   . Charles Causley 1917-2003 the poet    Charles Causley
                 
Charles HeadJane hatten     George McClements   Albert hatten marriage to partridge  
Charles Head marriage to Jane Hatten, the aunt of Margaret Hatten    John Louis Head 1919-1992    George McClements, 1894-1979, husband of Amy Hatten, 1896-1966         Albert Hatten marriage to Louisa Partridge in 1917      Albert Hatten and Louisa Partridge wedding party
                 
       
Centre: Louisa Nellie Hatten née Partridge, 1893 - 1973   Wedding of Edith Partridge to Edward Chanter with Muriel and Margaret Hatten as bridesmaids Percy John Partridge, 1899-1918     Percy Partridge's grave in  Adanac military cemetery, Miraumont, France   Frank Partridge, 1902-1977
                 
             
 Herbert Charles Partridge wedding to Violet Clarke in Crediton in 1938   Fred Ashplant and Ellen Leach with their children    Grave of Fred Ashplant and Ellen Ashplant née Leach in Crediton cemetery    L to r:back, Arthur Ashplant and Jack Ashplant, front, Edith Ashplant, Bessie Ashplant      Leslie Ashplant, 1923-2005 and Margaret Ashplant née Hatten 1923-2001
                 
 roger johns        grave of mary ann pickett        
 Roger Johns, b.1954    Roger Johns, b.1954     Grave of Mary Ann Pickett née Johns in Sandford churchyard. Wife of William Pickett    Grave of Emily Achard née Pickett    Memorial to Louis Achard 
                 
         eliza pickett and mary ann kerslake    john and eliz coles and family    daisy curtice
 Achard's pub, Queen's Arms, Knightsbridge, now demolished    Grave of Cornelius Kerslake, in Exeter. Father of Charles.    Grave of Eliza Pickett 1860-1890 and sister Mary Ann Kerslake née Pickett 1862-1898 at St Swithun's, Sandford     John and Elizabeth Coles and family    Daisy Curtice née Coles
1905-1995
                 
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I am particularly grateful to John Pickett, Nigel Ashplant, and Stuart and Pat Pickett for their help with this photo album