Maxwell (surname)

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Maxwell  is a Scottish family name from Maccuswell, or Maxwell, a salmon pond on the River Tweed near Kelso bridge1 in Roxburghshire. The family had migrated there from England around a.d. 1100.2 The name means "the pond / stream [Old English well(a)] of Mack [a form of Magnus]."3 The name was first recorded around a.d. 1144 in the form Mackeswell.4


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1P.H. Reaney and R.M. Wilson.A Dictionary of English Surnames. (1991) p. 304.
2”Maxwell (family)” Encyclopaedia Britannica, (1911) p. 928.
3Patrick Hanks. A Dictionary of American Family Names vol 2. p.538.

4"Maxwell" A Dictionary of First Names. Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges. (Oxford University Press, 1996) [Accessed 25 May 2006.] <http://www.oxfordreference.com/views/ENTRY.html?subview=Main&entry=t41.e3179>


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