Släkthistoria för Wroughton
Wroughton Vad efternamn betyder
variant of Roughton; compare Henry Roughton 1782 Henry Wroughton 1784 in IGI (New Sleaford Lincs); Henry Roughton 1794 Henry Wroughton 1796 in IGI (Repton Derbys). from Wroughton (Wilts) which is recorded as Werveton in 1086 and Worfton in 1196. The place takes its name from the river Worf (the old name for the river Ray probably from the British root *uerb ‘wind turn’) + Old English tūn ‘farmstead estate’.
Källa: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain, 2021
