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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish : habitational name from the lands of Work in the parish of St. Ola, Orkney.
  • English : from Old English (ge)weorc ‘work’, ‘fortification’, hence probably a topographic name or an occupational name for someone who worked on fortifications or at a fort.
  • Danish : habitational name from a place so called.

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