Welcome to our website!
The Rundell Biddick Association desires to carry on the effort of our ancestors to preserve and maintain our family history. Their dedication to recording family information has been a gift to our generation, a gift we want to give to future generations.
We hope to reach members of our family who have ventured to the many corners of the world and who would like to discover more about their ancestors as well as connect with us and others in our collective family. It is to these purposes that we dedicate our efforts.
We would like to hear from you.

About the Association
The Rundell and Biddick families’ relationship first developed in the 1840’s when the James and Betsy Rundell family met the Matthew and Mary Biddick family while picnicking on the beaches of Padstow, Cornwall, England. A close friendship between the two families developed.

Members of each of these two families emigrated to the United States in the late 1840’s and early 1850’s, individuals of each family sometimes traveling together on the same ship. In some cases there were marriages between a Rundell and a Biddick shortly before their ocean voyages began.

Upon reaching the United States, their journeys eventually took them to Southwest Wisconsin, more specifically, the Platteville, Wisconsin area. After a brief settling in period, most of the family members took up farming in the Platteville and Livingston, Wisconsin area. Additional marriages between the two families (four altogether) took place in the years that followed, bringing the two families even closer.

In 1909 the first Rundell Biddick family picnic in the U.S. took place on the Arch Rundell farm southwest of Livingston, WI. It was at this time the Rundell Biddick Picnic Association was formed and there have been annual picnics ever since with the 100th picnic being held in 2008.