Last name: WADHAMS
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WADHAMS : This last name is indexed 6,682 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
WADHAMS : English: variant of Wadham with post-medieval excrescent -s a habitational name from Wadham in Knowstone (Devon). The placename derives from the Old English personal name Wada or Old English wād ‘woad’ + hām ‘village homestead’ or hamm ‘water meadow’. Wadham College Oxford was founded in 1610 by Dorothy Wadham widow of Nicholas Wadham (died 1609) a wealthy Somerset landowner.
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