Heathcote (surname)
Heathcote is a surname rooted in English topography which literally means "Heath Cottage". The location in Derbyshire was first recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as "Hedcote", and as "Hethcote" in 1244. The location in Warwickshire appears is written "Hethcot" in the 1196 Feet of Fines for the county. The Anglo-Saxon surname "Heathcote" originates from a hamlet that stands high on the barren hills above Dovedale and Hartington. The place-name refers to a cottage on a heath or wasteland where was found an outlying farm or grange of Grendon Abbey. The said Grendon Abbey was  founded in 1133. Some of the earliest references to the grange at Heathcote are found in records of the 1300 and 15th century. Some variations of the name are "Heathcoat" and "Heathcote". North America. Immigration records shows that some of the earliest North American immigrants had the surname Heathcote in one of its various forms. These included: