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Churchward en · PROPN

Etymology

An occupational family name, a contraction of churchwarden, in turn from Old English cyrce weard a "churchwarden" or "sacristan".

Meanings

  1. A surname originating as an occupation.
    • In the present writer's opinion there was no greater and more successful locomotive engineer in the country, during the first quarter-century, than George Jackson Churchward of the Great Western Railway. This statement is made without prejudice, for I was brought up on the other line extending from Waterloo to Padstow, and between Swindon and Eastleigh there was a great gulf fixed. 1957 July 14, C. Hamilton Ellis, “Six Decades of Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 471:

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