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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : possibly a habitational name from Eridge in East Sussex, so named from Old English earn ‘eagle’ + hrycg ‘ridge’ or an altered form of Harwich, a habitational name from Old English here ‘army’ + wīc ‘dwelling’, ‘camp’

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