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 ATWATER



Origin: English

Coat of Arms: Green with two silver lions. Each has two bodies and one head.Atwater coat of arms English

Crest: A red rose.

Origin: English

Spelling variations include:
Attwater, Atwater, Attewater and others.

First found in Lincolnshire, where they held a family seat from ancient times, long before the Norman Conquest in 1066.

Some of the first settlers of this name or some of its variants were: Joshua Attwater who settled in New Haven, Conn. in 1620; Margaret Attwater who settled in New York State in 1725; Matthew Attwater, who arrived in Pennsylvania in 1852.
Atwater
English: topographic name for someone whose dwelling was by a river or lake, Middle English atte water ‘at the water’.

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