My brother and I have been researching a Pickering family with limited success. William Pickering (our GGG Grandfather) married Ann Bettley in Paris in 1830 in the British Embassy Chapel. William's marriage information indicates that he was from Bolton. William, and his brother John, worked as iron moulders in Rouen during the 1830's. Information gleaned from the Rouen birth records of their children indicate that William was born in 1807 and John in 1803. Another John Pickering (age 66 in 1837) was a witness at the birth of one of the children and we suspect that he was the grandfather. In reviewing the Lancashire OPR we cannot find records for John and William with the correct birth dates and a father, John, who was born about 1771. We are interested in establishing who their parents and grandparents were. Can anyone offer any information that would be helpful? Thanks, Bob Houston, Texas