Släkthistoria för Whaddon
Whaddon Vad efternamn betyder
from Whaddon (Bucks Cambs Gloucs) Whaddon in Alderbury (Wilts) or Whaddon in Semington (Wilts). The Bucks Cambs and Gloucs place-names derive from Old English hwǣte ‘wheat’ + dūn ‘hill’. Whaddon in Alderbury derives from Old English hwǣte + denu ‘valley’. Whaddon in Semington derives from Old English wād ‘woad’ + dūn. There may have been some confusion with Waddon.
Källa: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
