English (Lancashire): habitational name from a place in the parish
of Prestwich, Lancashire, so named from Old English
Pilecingtun ‘settlement (Old English tun)
associated with Pileca’. The surname is established in
Ireland, where its presence was first recorded in the early 15th
century.
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