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bardwell Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from Bardwell in Suffolk, so named with an unattested Old English byname Bearda, a derivative of beard (see Beard) + Old English well(a) ‘spring’, ‘stream’. Alternatively, the first element may be from a dissimilated form of Old English bre(o)rd ‘brim’, ‘bank’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of bardwell Families in the US in 1920
Number of bardwell families
 43-84
 15-42		 1-14
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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