Twitchen Family History
Twitchen Name Meaning
from Middle English twichen(e) ‘crossroads; place where two or more roads meet’ (Old English twicen(e)). The surname may be topographic for someone who lived in such a place or toponymic for someone from one of various places so named such as Touchen End in Bray (Berks) recorded as Twychene in 1274–75 Bonsey's Farm in Horsell (Surrey) recorded as Twichen in 1615 and home to the 1317 early bearer below and Twitchen (Devon). There are at least seven minor places in Devon named with the element six called Twitchen and one called Tutchenor. See also Titchener .
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016