English: reduced form of Tid(e)swell, a habitational name
from Tideswell in Derbyshire, so named from the Old English personal
name Tidi + Old English wella ‘spring’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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