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English : habitational name from any of various places called Ashurst, from Old English æsc ‘ash tree’ + hyrst ‘wooded hill’. The most significant of these places are in Kent and West Sussex, but in England the surname is now found chiefly in south Lancashire, where it probably derives from Ashurst Beacon near Wigan.
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English (Lancashire) : habitational name from a lost place in the parish of Leigh, near Wigan, probably so named from the genitive case of the Old English personal name Ecgheard (see Eckert) or Ecghere + Old English lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
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Short form of Polish Jadwiga, WIGA means "contending battle."
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English : habitational name from a place in Greater Manchester called Pemberton, from Celtic penn ‘hill’, ‘head’ + Old English bere ‘barley’ + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.There seem to have been several families called de Pemberton in the Wigan area of Manchester, England, as early as the beginning of the 13th century, notably that of Adam de Pemberton, a substantial landowner Three Quaker brothers named Pemberton were born in Philadelphia: Israel (b. 1715), James (b. 1723), and John (b. 1727); Israel and James became wealthy merchants and philanthropists.
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English : perhaps a variant of Wingham, a habitational name from Wingham, a place in Kent named from an unattested Old English personal name Wiga or Old English wÄ«g ‘heathen temple’ + -inga- ‘of the family or followers of’ + hÄm ‘homestead’, i.e. ‘homestead of Wiga’s people’.
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English : variant of Wiggin.German : variant of Weigand (see Wiegand).
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English (Lancashire)
English (Lancashire) : habitational name from a hamlet near Parbold, not far from Wigan, so named from Old English fæger ‘beautiful’ + hyrst ‘wooded hill’.
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English (Lancashire) : habitational name from a place in the parish of Wigan (now in Greater Manchester), so called from Old English mearc ‘boundary’ + lanu ‘lane’.English (Lancashire) : topographic name for someone who lived by a stretch of border or boundary land (see Mark) or a status name for someone who held land with an annual value of one mark.
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A kind of canvaslike cotton fabric, used to stiffen and protect the lower part of trousers and of the skirts of women's dresses, etc.; -- so called from Wigan, the name of a town in Lancashire, England.