Dickensheets Family History
Dickensheets Name Meaning
Americanized form of German Dickenschied a habitational name from a place called Dickenschied in the Hunsrück region. The placename is from Middle High German dicke ‘thicket woods’ + -scheid (often schied) ‘border area’ (i.e. ridge watershed) ‘settler's piece of cleared (wood)land’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022