Elwert is used as a family name or surname in Ireland, England. It is 6 characters long in length.

Family Name / Last Name: Elwert
No. of characters: 6
Origin: Ireland, England
Meaning:

The variant form of Hallward. The keeper of a hall.

Elwert is variation of Ellard. Elard, an Anglo-Saxon personal name.

The variant form of Ellard. Descendant of Alward or Elward meaning "elf guardian," or of Eliard meaning "little Elias".

The is form of Aylward. Descendant of Aylward meaning noble, guardian.

Elwert is the variation of Alward. Variant of Alford meaning one who came from a place named Alford which means the alder ford, or the ford of Ealdgyth.

Elwert is the form of Aylward. Ælward and Ailward were personal names before 1086.

Lastname Elwert is the variant form of the Ellwood. See Elwood - Several tenants in chief in Domesday are called Alwoldus or Aldwold, a contraction of the Anglo-Saxon Æthelwald. A border clan of Elwood existed temp. Elizabeth. In a MS. tract copied in Archäologia, XXII., 168, it is stated in reference to Liddesdale, that "the strength of this country consisteth two surnames of Armestronges and Elwoodes."

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Immigrants to US

From Germany

Johann Elwert worked as tailor and hailed from Germany. 25 years old embarked for USA from Bremen on Hermann and arrived on July 10, 1886. Hr. Elwert, aged 24, Franz Elwert, aged 23, Farmer Gustav Elwert, 20 years old Gustaw Elwert, Otto Elwert (21), Charlotte Elwert, David Elwert (28) Laborer, Edward Elwert, aged 29, and 6 other Elwert around 36.36% of whom were farmer while others worked as laborer migrated to US from Hamburg, Bremen and Liverpool.

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