Buckroyd Family History

for someone who lived ‘(at the) clearing frequented by deer’ or at a place so named (Old English bucca ‘buck male deer’ + *rodu ‘clearing’).Redmonds Dictionary of Yorks Surnames

citing John Butteroids Bucroyd or Bukroyds 1681–91 and Robert Butroyd or Buckroyds 1717–9 in Parish Registers (Leeds WR Yorks) suggests that Buckroyd is a late variant of Boothroyd

but the 1379 form seems to support the etymology proposed above.