Släkthistoria för Gatward
Gatward Vad efternamn betyder
for a goatherd Middle English gate-werde (Old English gātweard). See also Gathard with which the name was sometimes confused. The final element -ward sometimes developed in modern times to -wood and -worth and perhaps also to -forth and -ford though the reverse changes also occur.for a gate keeper Middle English gateward Old English ʒeatweard dialect *gātward.
Källa: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
