Last name

Pickett

English

The surname 'Pickett' is of English origin. It is a variant of the name 'Piggott', derived from the Middle English, Old Flemish given name 'Picot', 'Pigot', a diminutive of 'Pic', meaning 'Pike'. In Middle English the form 'Piket', (Old Flemish 'Picquet') was also very common. Public and Civil registry archive's confirm that the surname 'Pickett' and or it's variant's, date as far back as the reign of King Edward III, were a 'Godfrey Piket', from Somerset, England, is recorded. A family by the name of 'Pigot' trace their descent from 'Richard Pigot', who was justiciar of Chester in fourteen hundred and thirty-one. They were established for eight generations in Buckley, Cheshire, from 1189. Information extracted from Historical, Public and Civil registry archive's has not definitely determined the exact period of settlement in North America but it is believed that the forefather's of the name 'Pickett' were immigrant's from the British Isles, who arrived, soon after the beginning of the great migration in the Seventeenth Century. Today, 'Pickett' is the 'Nine Hundred and Seventy Eighth' most common surname in North America.

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