Mothershead, Mothershed Surname

English: variant of Mottershead or Mottishead, a habitational name from a lost place in the parish of Mottram, Cheshire, recorded in the 13th century as Mottresheved, from the genitive case of the Old English byname Motere ‘speaker’ + Middle English heved ‘head(land)’, ‘hill’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4