Släkthistoria för Hawkesford
Hawkesford Vad efternamn betyder
perhaps from Hawksworth (Notts) which is recorded as Hokiswurth' in 1203 and Hawksforth in 1535. The place-name probably derives from the Old English personal name Hōc (genitive Hōces) + Old English worð ‘enclosure’; the form of the name appears to have been altered under influence from Middle English hauk ‘hawk’. Some examples may belong under (2). from a lost or as yet unidentified place of this name probably in Warwicks or Staffs. It is clearly originally Hawkford with an excrescent medial -s- and may be from Halford (Warwicks) which is recorded as Halgford Halchford in 1232 and derives from Old English halh ‘nook corner of land’ + ford ‘shallow place by which water can be crossed ford’.
Källa: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
