Brief Life History of William
When William Warwick was born about 1780, in Farnham, Essex, England, his father, James Warwick, was 25 and his mother, Elizabeth Reed, was 25. He was buried in Farnham, Essex, England, United Kingdom.
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- William Warwick, "England, Essex Parish Registers, 1538-1997"
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Name Meaning
English:
habitational name from Warwick, the county seat of Warwickshire, or from the county itself. The placename derives from Old English wering, wæring ‘dam’ (a derivative of wer, wær ‘weir’) + wīc ‘dwelling, specialized farmstead’ (dative plural wīcum).
habitational name from a much smaller place of the same name in Cumbria. This placename probably derives from Old English waroth ‘bank, shore’ + wīc.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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