English: habitational
name from any of various places called Chadwick, In Merseyside (formerly in
Lancashire), Warwickshire, and two in Worcestershire. One of the places in
Worcestershire and the one in Warwickshire are named as “the dairy farm (Old
English wic) of Ceadel.” The other in Worchestershire and the one in Merseyside
are named as “Ceadda’s dairy farm”. Ceadda was the name of a famous Anglo-Saxon
bishop, St. Chad.
[The Latin de means
of. The Ceadda’s wic would be Ceadda’s dairy farm. If there was a man connected
to the dairy named Bob he would be called Bob deCeaddawick except early English
used y for I so it would be Bob deCeaddawyck (Bob of Ceadda’s dairy) so it easy
to see how you could take the changed spelling of Ceadda to Chad and wic to
wyck then combine the changed spelling to Chadwyck. Alvin Kenneth Chadwick’s
Speculation]
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