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ArchivesHowever, BtS doesn't have "Wharton" (more)
in reply to a message by Diana
But, Ancestry.com does:
Wharton:
1.English: habitational name from any of various places called Wharton. Examples in Cheshire and Herefordshire are from an Old English river name Wæfer (derived from wæfre ‘wandering’, ‘winding’) + Old English tūn ‘settlement’; another in Lincolnshire has as its first element Old English wearde ‘beacon’ or waroð ‘shore’, ‘bank’; one in the former county of Westmorland (now part of Cumbria) is from Old English hwearf ‘wharf’, ‘embankment’ + tūn.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press.
Link: http://snipurl.com/csb4.
Miranda
"Multiple exclamation marks are a sure sign of diseased mind" -- Terry Pratchett
Wharton:
1.English: habitational name from any of various places called Wharton. Examples in Cheshire and Herefordshire are from an Old English river name Wæfer (derived from wæfre ‘wandering’, ‘winding’) + Old English tūn ‘settlement’; another in Lincolnshire has as its first element Old English wearde ‘beacon’ or waroð ‘shore’, ‘bank’; one in the former county of Westmorland (now part of Cumbria) is from Old English hwearf ‘wharf’, ‘embankment’ + tūn.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press.
Link: http://snipurl.com/csb4.
Miranda
"Multiple exclamation marks are a sure sign of diseased mind" -- Terry Pratchett
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