George Dewar was born on 28 October 1749 as the son of Alexander Dewar and Margaret Livingston.
Scottish:
from Gaelic Mac an Deoraidh, ‘son of the pilgrim or sojourner’. Perhaps also an occupational name for a custodian of holy relics (which was normally a hereditary office), from Gaelic deoradh ‘pilgrim, stranger’.
habitational name from Dewar, a place near Dalkeith, of uncertain origin.
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