Durdent meaning | Last name Durdent origin

Surname is variation of Durden. 1. See Dearden - Evidently local, perhaps from a place so called near Edenfield in Bury, county of Lancaster. "The ancient and modern pronunciation of the name by the natives of Lancashire is Du-er-den," which Cowell, with fanciful ingenuity, interprets "a thicket of wood in a valley." The Deardens of Rochdale Manor claim descent from Elias de Duerden, temp. Henry VI., but so early as the thirteenth century the name of Durden, Durdent, or Duredent is variously applied to a certain knight who may have been a progenitor of the family

2. An Anglo-Norman sobriquet–Duredent, "hard tooth".

Durdent is form of Dearden. Evidently local, perhaps from a place so called near Edenfield in Bury, county of Lancaster. "The ancient and modern pronunciation of the name by the natives of Lancashire is Du-er-den," which Cowell, with fanciful ingenuity, interprets "a thicket of wood in a valley." The Deardens of Rochdale Manor claim descent from Elias de Duerden, temp. Henry VI., but so early as the thirteenth century the name of Durden, Durdent, or Duredent is variously applied to a certain knight who may have been a progenitor of the family.