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)

1. A village and civil parish in West Lancashire district, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD4404).
2. A habitational surname from Old English.

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Bickerstaffe is the 9798^th 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