Släkthistoria för Horwell
Horwell Vad efternamn betyder
in SW England either from Horrells in Dunchideock or Horwell in Colebrook both in Devon. The place-name derives from Old English horh ‘mud dirt’ + wella ‘well spring stream’. in the W Midlands from Horwell (now lost in Coventry Warwicks) probably named either with Old English horh ‘mud dirt’ or with Old English hār ‘boundary’ + wella ‘well spring stream’; or perhaps from a lost Horwell in Severn Stoke (Worcs). variant of Orwell (from the place so named in Cambs) with prosthetic H-.
Källa: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
