Släkthistoria för Prickard
Prickard Vad efternamn betyder
occasionally perhaps from Middle English priken ‘to stab pierce’ + hert hurt ‘hart deer’ (Old English prician + heorot) probably denoting a hunter. Compare Pretlove and note also John Prikehering 1279 in Hundred Rolls (Hunts) ‘prick herring’ (probably for a fisherman); William Prikeavant 1279 in Hundred Rolls (Beds) ‘spur in front’; Nicholas Prikhors 1327 in Subsidy Rolls (Yorks) ‘prick horse’ (presumably for a hard rider who used his spurs). variant of Pritchard (compare Rickard).
Källa: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
