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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from Bardwell in Suffolk, so named with an unattested Old English byname Bearda, a derivative of beard (see Beard) + Old English well(a) ‘spring’, ‘stream’. Alternatively, the first element may be from a dissimilated form of Old English bre(o)rd ‘brim’, ‘bank’.

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