Släkthistoria för Witherby
Witherby Vad efternamn betyder
variant of Weatherby (1) but some early bearers in SE England could alternatively belong at (2). in E Anglia perhaps an altered form of the Middle English surname Witherpin attested in Norfolk since the 13th century and later re-interpreted as a locative name ending in -by. Witherpin appears to consist of Middle English witheren ‘to resist’ wither ‘hostility violence; adversity combat battle’ or wither ‘opposite adverse fierce hostile contrary’ + Middle English pin ‘pin peg (of wood or metal) nail bolt spike’. The sense of the compound is unclear but compare Witherspoon which apparently originated as a name for a quarrelsome person.
Källa: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
