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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from a place named Butterwick, for example in County Durham, Lincolnshire, North Yorkshire, and North Lincolnshire. The place name is from Old English butere ‘butter’ + wīc ‘farmstead’.
  • William Buttrick came from Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey, England, to Concord, MA, in 1640.

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