Anyone ever heard the surname medlicott? where does it come from?

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Anyone ever heard the surname medlicott? where does it come from?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Hey Centipede,

The first URL below is a YAHOO Search for MEDLICOTT FAMILY, you can just click it, and see that there are many others on the internet.

There are no less than 167 entries of Medlicott in the LDS Family Search site. It looks like England is the origination.

There are too many found in ZABASEARCH for all of the USA, try the site and narrow it down to a state in the USA.

And Swyrich.com has the following entry:
Origin: Welsh

Spelling variations of this family name include: Medlicot, Medlicott, Medlycot, Medlycott, Medlicote, Medleycot, Medleycott, Medleycote, Modlicot, Modlicote and many more.

First found in Shropshire where they held a family seat from very ancient times, some say long before the Norman Conquest in 1066 A.D.

Some of the first settlers of this family name or some of its variants were: Daniel Medlicott who landed in Philadelphia Pa. in 1683.