The name Byckarstom is of
Anglo-Saxon origin and came from when a family lived in one of several places named Bickerton. Bickerton is the name of various townships in the parish of Malpas in
Cheshire in the parish of Rothburg in
Northumberland, and in the parish of Bilton, in the West Riding of
Yorkshire. The toponym
Bickerton is derived from the Old English
beocere, which means
bee-keeper, and tun, which originally denoted a fence or enclosure. However this came to mean
enclosure round a house, homestead, village or town at an early date. Thus the name can be understood to mean
village of the bee-keeper.Early Origins of the Byckarstom family
The surname Byckarstom was first found in
Cheshire, where they held a
family seat from ancient times, long before the
Norman Conquest in 1066.
Early History of the Byckarstom family
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Byckarstom Spelling Variations
Sound was what guided spelling in the essentially pre-literate Middle Ages, so one person's name was often recorded under several variations during a single lifetime. Also, before the advent of the printing press and the first dictionaries, the English language was not standardized. Therefore,
spelling variations were common, even among the names of the most literate people. Known variations of the Byckarstom family name include Bickerton, Bickertown, Beckertoun, Bikerton, Bikarton and many more.
Early Notables of the Byckarstom family (pre 1700)
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Migration of the Byckarstom family to the New World and Oceana
For political, religious, and economic reasons, thousands of English families boarded ships for
Ireland, the Canadas, the America colonies, and many of smaller tropical colonies in the hope of finding better lives abroad. Although the passage on the cramped, dank ships caused many to arrive in the New World diseased and starving, those families that survived the trip often went on to make valuable contributions to those new societies to which they arrived. Early immigrants bearing the Byckarstom surname or a spelling variation of the name include : Joan Bickerton who settled in Barbados in 1675; George Bickerton settled in Pennsylvania in 1772; John in Philadelphia in 1773; Thomas settled in New
England in 1753..