The spotswood Surname
spotswood Name Meaning and History
Scottish: habitational name from a place in the parish of Gordon,
Berwickshire, first recorded in 1249 as Spottiswode. The second
element is Middle English wode ‘wood’; the first appears to
derive from a personal name.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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