As the Pidcock Family Association begins planning for its 100th anniversary in 2013, the organization has launched a campaign to locate local cemeteries where family members were buried before 1900.
”We want to compile a comprehensive list of all the cemeteries where early Pidcocks were buried in Bucks and Hunterdon counties,” said Lawrence Smith, association president. “We’re asking family members, as well as local history and genealogy buffs to contribute information.”
Members of the Pidcock family have lived in the Delaware River Valley since the late 1600s, according to John L. Moore, the association’s historian.
”We know where many early Pidcocks are buried on the Pennsylvania side of the Delaware in Bucks County, and in Hunterdon County on the New Jersey side, but we suspect we don’t know the locations of the final resting places of many family members,” Mr. Moore said.
Anyone with information may send it to Mr. Moore at a special email address: [email protected].
The Pidcock association was founded in 1913, and has been meeting annually ever since.
This year’s reunion is set for noon on Aug. 18, at the Captain Moore picnic pavilion across from the Thompson-Neely House at Washington Crossing Historic Park. Much of this year’s reunion will be devoted to planning for the centennial reunion in 2013.
Association members trace their descent from Jonathan Pidcock, who was born in Amwell (New Jersey) in 1729, and who owned a store and gristmill in Lambertville, as well as Durham boats that he and his sons used to ship farm goods and merchandise up and down the Delaware.
An earlier ancestor, John Pidcock, settled along Pidcock Creek in present-day Solebury Township as early as 1684.

