Scottish and northern Irish: habitational name from Rerrick or
Rerwick in Kirkcudbrightshire, named with an unknown first element +
wic ‘outlying settlement’. It is also possible that the
first element was originally Old Norse rauðr ‘red’.
English: habitational name from Redwick in Gloucestershire, named
in Old English with hreod ‘reeds’ + wic ‘outlying
settlement’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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