Pickford

Pickford is an English family name. As a name of origin or residence , it refers either to the place Pickforde (now part of Ticehurst ) in Sussex , or to the village of Pitchford in Shropshire . In the former case it would ultimately go back to Old English picga , " pig " and ford , " ford ", in the case of Pitchford, however, to Old English pic , " bad luck " and ford , "ford". Pickford (or Picford, Pykeford or similar) has been traceable as a family name since the 13th century.

Name bearer

• Eduard Pickford (1823–1866), German economist and politician, member of the Baden Estates Assembly
• Edward alias Daniel Pickford (1601-1657), English Catholic theologian
• Grace E. Pickford (1902-1986), Anglo-American biologist
• Jack Pickford (1896–1933), Canadian-American actor
• Jordan Pickford (* 1994), English football player
• Joseph Pickford (1734–1782), English builder and architect
• Kevin Pickford (1975–), American baseball player
• Lottie Pickford , actually Charlotte Smith , (1893–1936), American actress
• Martin Pickford (1943–), British-French paleontologist
• Mary Ada Pickford (1884–1934), British politician
• Mary Pickford (1892–1979), Canadian-American actress of the silent and early talkies era
• Olive Thomas Pickford (1894–1920), American actress
• William Pickford, 1st Baron Sterndale (1848–1923), British lawyer

Individual evidence

1. ^ PH Reaney and RM Wilson: A Dictionary of English Last Names . 3rd revised edition, Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York 1997. p. 350, sv Pickford .
2. ↑ Pickford in the Surname Database , accessed March 30, 2015.