Last name: DEWAR
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DEWAR : This last name is indexed 52,146 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
DEWAR : Scottish:: 1: from Gaelic Mac an Deoraidh ‘son of the pilgrim or sojourner’. Perhaps also an occupational name for a custodian of holy relics (which was normally a hereditary office) from Gaelic deoradh ‘pilgrim stranger’.2: habitational name from Dewar a place near Dalkeith of uncertain origin.
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