Last name: BORTHWICK
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BORTHWICK : This last name is indexed 37,337 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
BORTHWICK : Scottish: habitational name from the old barony of Borthwick formerly Loquhariot (Midlothian) and possibly also from Borthwick (Roxburghshire). The placenames are from Old English bord ‘board table’ + wīc ‘outlying dairy farm’.
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