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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from places in Lancashire and East Yorkshire named Beswick. The second element is clearly Old English wīc ‘outlying (dairy) farm’ (see Wick). The first element of the Lancashire name may be an Old English personal name Bēac; that of the Yorkshire name is possibly an Old Norse personal name Bōsi or Besi.

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