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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish : habitational name from a place near Hawick in southern Scotland, where a family of this name held Borthwick Castle since the 14th century. The place name is from Old English bord ‘board’, ‘table’ + wīc ‘outlying village’, ‘dairy farm’.

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