Ewart Family History
Ewart Name Meaning
from the personal name Ewart, an Anglo-Norman French form of Edward. occupational name for a shepherd, from Middle English ewehirde, from Old English eowu ‘ewe’ + hierde ‘herdsman’. habitational name from a place in Northumbria named Ewart, from Old English ea ‘river’ + wor{dh} ‘enclosure’; it is enclosed on three sides by the rivers Glen and Till.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press