Släkthistoria för Petherick
Petherick Vad efternamn betyder
from the Cornish personal name Pedrek a saint’s name which is often met in the learned form Petrock. Pedrek is patron saint of Padstow (‘parish of Saint Pethericke alias Padistow’ 1596 in Ancient Deeds V A.12950) and Little Petherick (Pedrok minor 1535 in Valor Ecclesiasticus ) but examples of the surname are more likely to be relationship names than derived directly from the place-name. Petherick shows the English dialect change of [d] to [ð] before [r]. It has sometimes via the rare variant Petterick been confused with Patrick.
Källa: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
