Bickerstaffe
English
Alternative forms
- Bickerstaff, Bickersteth, Biggerstaff
Etymology
From Old English bīcere (“beekeeper”) + stæþ (“bank, shore; landing place”).
Proper noun
Bickerstaffe (countable and uncountable, plural Bickerstaffes)
- A village and civil parish in West Lancashire district, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD4404).
- A habitational surname from Old English.
Statistics
- According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Bickerstaffe is the 9798th most common surname in England, belonging to 613 individuals.
Further reading
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Bickerstaffe”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 155.
- Forebears