The hartwell Surname
hartwell Name Meaning and History
English: habitational name from places in Buckinghamshire,
Northamptonshire, and Staffordshire called Hartwell, from Old English
heorot ‘stag’, ‘hart’ + wella ‘spring’, ‘stream’. In
some cases the surname may have arisen from Hartwell in Hartfield,
Sussex or Hartwell in Lamerton, Devon.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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