Roycroft Family History
Roycroft Name Meaning
English (Cheshire and Lancashire): from Middle English rie ‘rye’ + croft ‘croft small plot of land’ (Old English ryge + croft). The surname may be topographic for someone who lived by a croft where rye was grown or habitational for someone from any of the minor places so named including five examples of Ryecroft in Yorkshire (in Bingley Ossett Rawmarsh Tong and Wooldale) Ryecroft in Warmingham (Cheshire) Ryecroft Farm in Whittlesford (Cambridgeshire) and Ryecroft in Warslow (Staffordshire). This form of the surname is now rare in Britain.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022