The wetmore Surname
wetmore Name Meaning and History
English: habitational name from any of various minor places called
Wetmore, for example in Staffordshire, Shropshire, and Hereford and
Worcester, Wet Moor in Somerset, or Wetmoor Hall Farm in
Staffordshire, mostly named with Old English wet ‘wet’,
‘damp’ + mor ‘moor’, ‘mashland’, although the first element
of Wetmore in Staffordshire is Old English wiht ‘river bend’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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