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The BICKNELL Family
of Early-Mid C19th Aston & Greater Birmingham
with origins in the Hull area of East Riding, Yorkshire (as BRICKNALL)

Surname Background

Spelling variants can include:
BICKNALL, BACKNALL, BACKNELL, BACKNULL, BECHNEL, BECKNELL, BEUCKNELL, BICKENELL, BICKNAL, BICKNALL, BICKNEL, BICKNELD, BICKNELL, BICKNELS, (BICKNET), (BICKNETT), BICKNIL, BICKNILL, BICKNOL, BICKNOLD, BICKNOLL, BIGNELL, BIGNOLD, BRICKNALL, BUCKNALL, BYCKENELL

Reaney's "The Origin of English Surnames" discusses these name variants. Four modern surnames appear to be derived from Bagnall in Staffordshire (BAGENAL, BAGNALL, BAGNELL, BAGNOLD) and were alternative names in the Calendar of Patent Rolls (1561). The surname has origins from holt, meaning "wood", such as in William de BAGENHOLT (Assize Roll, Staffordshire; 1299) whereas the BICKNELL variants are more associated with -hill and -hall. Currently, the BICKNELL surname is believed to be derived from the following three places:

• Thomas de BIKENHULL in the Curia Regis Rolls of Warwickshire (1214). Later found as BIGENHULL in 1354 and was pronounced "Bignell". Until the recent Yorkshire reference, this was thought to be the likely origins of my particular family name.
• William de BIGENHULL in the Rotuli Hundredorum of Oxfordshire (1279). This is likely to been associated with Bignell House (Bicester, Oxon) which occurs as Bigenhull (1220), Bickenhulle (1285) and Bygenhall (c1377). The surname is also found as de BIGEHILLE (1247).
• Bickenhall in Somerset: Bichehalle (1086) & Bikehilla (1186) leading to the surname of John de BIKENHILL in the Subsidy Rolls of Somerset (1327).

Evidence is difficult to come by to prove one particular origin above another. The surname variants are quite widely distributed in later centuries, however for my Birmingham family, the majority spelling is BICKNELL. There is a NRY village called Brignall. The Yorkshire family seem to be recorded as BRICKNALL and were resident for a time in the west part of Hull, near Sculcoates, that has a modern day council ward called BRICKNELL.

Distribution of the BICKNALL (left) and BICKNELL (right) family names in 1881, noting that there is little evidence of a significant Yorkshire cluster with this spelling.

My Quest

I am seeking family & descendants of sequential C19th Daniels in Birmingham & also the Kingston Upon Hull area of East Yorkshire where the current head of family has been located.

Download My BICKNELL Data   /   Download Warks BICKNALL Data

These files are made available on the understanding that any additions, corrections and new links will be reported back to help future research.

Daniel BRICKNALL (I) (my 4xGGF):

Cordwainer of Yorkshire origins.
Daniel BRICKNALL (n. by 1788) appears to have married Thirza or Theresa COUPLAND in Sculcoates, Yorkshire in 1806. Sculcoates is now a part of western Kingston Upon Hull (aka Hull city). The wife was given as Thirza according to marriage record, as Thasa at daughter Elizabeth BRICKNALL's baptism (in 1810 at Foston-on-the-Wolds, just north of Hull) and as Theresa at son Daniel's baptism in 1816 at Foston. No other children known or found.
Seeking any family references to expand tree which may be in the Sculcoates area and perhaps associated with the area of Hull currently known as Bricknell..

Daniel BICKNALL (II) (my 3xGGF):

Son of the above, Daniel BICKNELL (c. July 1816 at Foston-in-the-Wolds, East Riding) m. Fanny Eliza BURTON or BOURTON, d/o Thomas in 1840, St Martin, B'ham, both of Moseley Street. Daniel died in 1876 in Aston. Their children, with descendant families in Birmingham & the Aston area include:

• George BICKNELL (c1843), m. Caroline MARSHALL in 1860. Their children (to 1901) were:

  • Clara BICKNELL (c1862), m. poss. GRADY or GRANTHAM in 1881;

  • Fanny Elizabeth BICKNELL (1864);

  • Caroline BICKNELL (c1868) m. Richard Marcus STAHL in 1885;

  • George BICKNELL (1871), m. Charlotte KERBY in 1896 Children (to 1901):;

    • George BICKNELL (c1898) - History unknown;

    • Charlotte Rose BICKNELL (c1900);

  • Daniel BICKNELL (c1873), m. Caroline EVANS in 1897. Their children (to 1901) were:

    • Caroline BICKNELL (c1898);

    • Daniel Levi BICKNELL (1899) - History unknown;

  • Joseph BICKNELL (c1875)  - History unknown;

  • Albert BICKNELL (1876), m. Clara HYDE in 1896. Children to 1901:

    • Nellie M. BICKNELL (1901);

  • Ann BICKNELL (1878), poss. m. BARKER or SYNER in 1909;

  • Frederick BICKNELL (1880)  - History unknown;

  • John BICKNELL (c1882)  - History unknown;

  • Emma BICKNELL (c1883);

• Ann BICKNELL (1846);

• Daniel BICKNELL (III) (1849), m. Elizabeth VINES in 1868. Children prior to Daniel's death in 1877:

  • Agnes BICKNELL (c1869-<1871);

  • Daniel BICKNELL (1870-75);

  • Selina BICKNALL (1873), my GGM, m. Arthur Frederick SANDERS in 1893;

• Caroline BICKNELL (c1850-52);

• Fanny Eliza BICKNELL (1853), m. William WATSON in 1880;

• John Alfred BICKNELL (1856)  - History unknown;

• Selina BICKNELL (1859), m. William GRINDLEY in 1876;

• Albert BICKNELL (1860), poss m. Elizabeth KENNEY or Selina MILLS in 1882  - History unknown;

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