First name origins & meanings:
- Middle English: A ford
- English: Home-body
First name variations: Wadley, Waide, Wayde, Wade, Waddsworth, Wadswurth Last name origins & meanings:
- English: habitational name from Wadsworth near Halifax, West
Yorkshire, named with the Old English personal name Wæddi +
worð ‘enclosure’.
- William Wadsworth came from England to Cambridge, MA, in 1632, and
in 1636 accompanied Thomas Hooker as one of the founders of Hartford,
CT.
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