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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from Wickwar in Gloucestershire (Avon), originally called simply Wick, from Old English wīc ‘outlying settlement’. The war element is from the name of the de la Warr family (see Warr), who held the manor in the 13th century.
  • John Wickware moved from England to New London, CT, in 1675.

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