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Pilcher Surname Origin
A maker of pilches, a kind of great coat or upper garment, in use in the fourteenth century. 'After gret heat cometh cold, No man cast his pylch away.'--Chaucer.
Source: An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names With an Essay on their Derivation and Import; Arthur, William, M.A.; New York, NY: Sheldon, Blake, Bleeker & CO., 1857.
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'People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.' --Edmund Burke