Släkthistoria för Tiverton
Tiverton Vad efternamn betyder
from Tiverton (Devon) which is recorded as (æt) Twyfyrde in 880–85 (in a copy of about 1000) and Tuiverton in 1141–55. The place-name derives from Old English *twī-fyrde ‘double ford two fords close together’ (twī- ‘double two’ + fyrde ford ‘ford shallow place by which water can be crossed’) + tūn ‘farmstead estate’.
Källa: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
