Släkthistoria för Wardhaugh
Wardhaugh Vad efternamn betyder
from a lost or unidentified place in NE England or SE Scotland. Where Scottish the place-name is from Scots ward waird ‘an enclosed piece of land chiefly for pasture’ or possibly from wardland referring to land held in ward i.e. held of a superior by military service; the second element is haugh ‘water-meadow low land by water’. In N England the first element might instead be ward ‘watch watching’ usually found in hill-names.
Källa: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
