The fenwick Surname
fenwick Name Meaning and History
Northern English and Scottish: habitational name from either of two
places in Northumberland or from one in West Yorkshire, all of which
are so named from Old English fenn ‘marsh’, ‘fen’ +
wic ‘outlying dairy farm’. There is also a place in
Ayrshire, Scotland, which has the same name and origin. This last is
the source of at least some early examples of the surname: Nicholaus
Fynwyk was provost of Ayr in 1313, and Reginald de Fynwyk or Fynvyk
appears as bailie and alderman of the same burgh in 1387 and 1401. The
name is usually pronounced ‘Fennick’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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