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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish : occupational name for a custodian of holy relics (which was normally a hereditary office), from Gaelic deoradh ‘pilgrim’, ‘stranger’.
  • Scottish : habitational name from Dewar, a place near Dalkeith, of uncertain origin.

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