Hawkyard

English

Etymology

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Proper noun

Hawkyard (plural Hawkyards)

1. A surname.
   • 1941 August, D. L. Frank, “The Peak Forest Tramroad”, in Railway Magazine, page 338:

     Next evidence is a map dated 1815 of "Proposed Railway, by Joel Hawkyard, Surveyor, Ashton Underderline" (Hawkyard's spelling).

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Hawkyard is the 21171^st most common surname in England, belonging to 208 individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Hawkyard”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 145.