English: habitational name, perhaps from Pickforde (‘pig ford’) in
Ticehurst, Sussex. The surname is now most common in the Manchester
region, but it does not seem to have reached there before the 17th
century.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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