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Question: Where does these last names come from!?
Wright my birth name and my mother's name
Elswick my name changed to after I was brought to West Virginia to be raised

Are these last names common!? Does Elswick come from Europe, if so what part!? Thanks!.

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Elswick Name Meaning and History
English: habitational name from a place in Lancashire, so named from the Old English personal name ?{dh}elsige (see Elston) + wic ‘dairy farm’!.

Wright Name Meaning and History
English, Scottish, and northern Irish: occupational name for a maker of machinery, mostly in wood, of any of a wide range of kinds, from Old English wyrhta, wryhta ‘craftsman’ (a derivative of wyrcan ‘to work or make’)!. The term is found in various combinations (for example, Cartwright and Wainwright), but when used in isolation it generally referred to a builder of windmills or watermills!.
Common New England Americanized form of French Le Droit, a nickname for an upright person, a man of probity, from Old French droit ‘right’, in which there has been confusion between the homophones right and wright!.

Zion Name Meaning and History
Jewish: ornamental name from Hebrew tsion ‘(Mount) Zion’, the hill in Jerusalem on which the city of David was built, or from the male personal name derived from the name of the mount!.

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Elswick:
English: habitational name from a place in Lancashire, so named from the Old English personal name ?{dh}elsige (see Elston) + wic ‘dairy farm’!.

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It comes from Lankashire England!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Wright- English, shortened form of Wainwright
Elswick not in my book, but sounds English as wellWww@QuestionHome@Com

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