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BURCHARD Family History

This unusual name is of Anglo-Saxon origin, from the personal name "Burgheard", which is composed of the Olde English pre 7th Century elements "burh" or "burg", meaning fort, fortress and "heard", hardy, brave, strong. This ancient name is recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as "Burchardus", "Burkart" and "Burchart". The Normans reintroduced the name into England after the Conquest of 1066 in the forms "Bou(r)chart" and "Bocard", from the popular Germanic medieval name "Burkhard". There are a great many variants of the modern surname, deriving from a combination of the Olde English and Olde French forms ranging from "Buckett, Burchard, Butchart and Budgett.