Släkthistoria för Butterwick
Butterwick Vad efternamn betyder
English (mainly Yorkshire): habitational name from any of several places in northern England called Butterwick for example in County Durham Lincolnshire North Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire named in Old English as ‘the outlying farm where butter was made’ (from butere ‘butter’ + wīc ‘farmstead’). Compare Butterick and Buttrick. Americanized form of German Butterweck: metonymic occupational name for a baker of fine (white) breads etc. from Middle High German buter ‘butter’ + wecke ‘roll biscuit’.
Källa: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
