Släkthistoria för Thickett
Thickett Vad efternamn betyder
sometimes perhaps from Thicket in Thorganby (ER Yorks) which is recorded as Thicked in 1180–1203 and Thikeheved in the 13th century. The place-name derives from Old English þicce ‘thicket’ + hēafod ‘head headland round which a river flows’.alternatively Redmonds Dictionary of Yorks Surnames suggests that the WR Yorks name derives from an unidentified locality in Methley named with the plural of Middle English *thikket(te) (Old English þiccet(t)) ‘thicket’ and cites Adam de Thiketts of Methley (1340) William Thekaytes or Thekayt of York (1499) and Thomas Theket of Methley (1597).
Källa: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
